March 26 - 29, 2020
Big Ears Music Festival 
(Postponed)

March 24 + 25
Natural Information Society / Xylouris White
24th - The Bell House, Brooklyn, NY
25th - Ruba Club, Philadelphia
(Postponed)


Feburary 28 - March 2
Natural Information Society Tour
Switzerland
28-Feb    Luzern    A Race in Space Festival
29-Feb    St Gallen    Palace
1-Mar    Geneva    Cave 12
2-Mar    Zurich    Church


December 15, 2019
MANDATORY REALITY
Joshua Abrams and Natural information Society
Eremite Records

#2 Washington Post best songs of 2019
#9 Wire Magazine best records 2019
#4 Wire Magazine best jazz/improv records 2019
#1 Magnet Magazine best of 2019
#1 Mojo’s John Mulvey best albums 2019
ARTnews the year in sound 2019
Aquarium Drunkard 2019 year in review
Downbeat top-rated albums of 2019  
Stranded Records 10 favorite records 2019
Dusted best records of the decade

December 30, 2019
NIS + SLEEP
Thalia Hall, Chicago


October 5, 2019
Natural Information Society
Mandatory Reality
Moon Viewing Platform, Philadelphia



October 3 & 4, 2019
Natural Information Society
Union Pool, BK, New York
Brooklyn Rail



September 13, 2019
Carl Stone
+
Natural Information Society
Constellation, Chicago



Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz Festival
Sardinia, Italy
9/ 7, 2019
Natural Information Society
&
9/6 + 8, 2019
Exploding Star Orchestra




September 1, 2019  
Les Siestes Electroniques Festival
Coimbra, Portugal



September 12 - 15, 2019
Lisa Alvarado
Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey
LC Queisser gallery booth



Natural Information Society 
Summer 2019 shows

6/7 - Union Pool, New York, (w/ Sachiko Kanenobu)
6/25 - Natural Information Society + Bitchin Bajas, New Music Circle, St. Louis
6/28 - MANDATORY REALITY record release show, Constellation, Chicago (NIS octet)
7/1 - Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn (w/ 75 dollar bill)
7/4 - Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Norway (joined by Hamid Drake & Helge Sten)
7/7 - Arkaoda, Berlin (joined by Tony Buck, Magda Mayas, Theaster Gates)
7/8 - Cafe Oto, London (joined by Alexander Hawkins)
7/9 - Cafe Oto, London (joined by Evan Parker)
7/10 - Copenhagen Jazz Festival
7/13 - Ok La Festival, Montreal
7/21 - Hideout, Chicago, (w/ Marisa Anderson & Jim White)
8/24 - Transfiguration III Festival, Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, Asheville, (w/ Bonnie Prince Billy)
8/30 - Festival Baignade Interdite, Toulouse, France
8/31 - Rendez-vous de l'Erdre Festival, Nantes, France
7/1 - Les Siestes Electroniques Festival, Coimbra, Portugal
7/2 - Pardon Tu Tu, Warsaw, Poland
7/7 - Sant’Anna Arresi Jazz Festival, Sardinia, Italy



May 2–May 5, 2019
Lisa Alvarado: Frieze New York
w/ Natural Information Society sound installation
Solo Booth, C02
Bridget Donahue, New York  &  LC Queisser, Tbilisi

The New York Times
Art News
Ante Magazine
Frieze Magazine
Mandatory Reality
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
eremite records, 2019
2XLP, 2XCD, silkscreened covers

New York Times
Pitchfork
Washington Post
Aquarium Drunkard
The Wire
Tiny Mixtapes
Chicago Reader
Artnews
Bomb Magazine


Natural Information Society
March 2019 EU tour dates
9 - Trafo,  Budapest, Hungary
12 - Cankerjev Dom,  Ljubljana, Slovenia
13 - Bad Bonn,  Dudingen, Switzerland
14 - Taklos Festival,  Zurich, Switzerland
15 - Le Bourg,  Lausanne, Switzerland
16 - TBA,  Siena, Itay
17 - Caos,  Terni, Italy
18 - Santeria Social Club,  Milano, Italy
19 - Dobia Lab,  Staranzano, Italy
20 - A4, Bratislava, Slovakia
23 - Beyond the Gate, Bohemian National Cemetery, Chicago


March 7, 2019
Natural Information Society
Art Institute of Chicago
W/ Body/Head (Kim Gordon and Bill Nace)

Magnet Magazine


Lisa Alvarado, The Inner Sleeve
The Wire Magazine UK
March 2019 issue


February 20, 2019
Theaster Gates’s Black Monks performance
Palais De Tokyo, Paris


January 11, 2019
Natural Information Society
NYC Winter Jazzfest 
(photo: Steve Gunn)

January 10, 2019
"America to Me"
10-part doc series by Steve James (Hoop Dreams)
w/ musical score by Joshua Abrams
Wins Cinema Eye Award

New York Times



October 13 - January 12th, 2019
Polyphonic Shadow Cloth
Lisa Alvarado solo exhibition
billboard + NIS soundtrack
LC Queisser, Tbilisi
   Frieze Magazine

MECA Art Fair
November 16 -19, 2018
Lisa Alvarado
Bridget Donahue booth
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Brooklyn Rail


90th Academy Awards nominated
“Abucus: Small Enough To Jail”
 by Steve James (Hoop Dreams)
w/ original score by Joshua Abrams
Wins Emmy Award

"America to Me"
10-part doc series by Steve James (Hoop Dreams)
w/ musical score by Joshua Abrams
airs on national tv this fall on Starz


Frieze London
October 4 - 7, 2018
Lisa Alvarado
Mary Mary Gallery booth
Art Mag UK


Vincent Chancey Quartet
8/26
Hungry Brain, Chicago

A Pride of Lions Tour
w/ Joe McPhee
 8/24
Meteo Music Festival
Mullhous, France
8/25
JazzFestival Saalfelden,
Austria
9/05
Sant’Anna Arressi Jazz Festival,
Sardinia, Italy

Pitchfork Music Festival
Natural Information Society
Friday July 20, 2018
Chicago Reader
New York Times
New York Times Fashion





Excavations 1
Joshua Abrams solo bass Album
Feeding Tube Records


May 26th, 2018
Cooper-Moore / Hamid Drake / Joshua Abrams (trio)
New Music Circle, St. Louis

Natural Information Society
Spring 2018 Shows & Europe Tour

18 March - Hideout, Chicago, w/ Tashi Dorji, Tyler Damon, & Liberty
27th March - Blow Out Series, Oslo
28th March - Folkteatern, Gotemborg
29th March - Inkonst, Malmo
30th March - Cortisone Festival, Ghent
31st March - MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
2nd April - Oslo, London
3 April - Cologne, Statgarten
4th April - Bim Huis, Amsterdam
5th April - Brdcst Festival, Brussels
6th April - Rewire Festival, Den Haag
7th April - Arkaoda, Berlin
9th April - La Dynamo, Paris
11th April - Alice, Copenhagen
12th April - Atlas, Aarhus
13th April - Danish Vaishyas, Alborg
14th April - Momentum, Odense
21 April - Hideout, Chicago, w/ Steve Gunn and John Truscinski
22 April - Storehouse, Michigan, w/ Steve Gunn and John Truscinski


February 20, 2018
Frequency Festival
Martin Arnold with Joshua Abrams and Friends
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Natural Information Society
February 5th
The Chapel, San Francisco
February, 7th
Zebulon, Los Angeles 



January 20, 2018
Joshua Abrams awarded with the 2018
Foundation For Contemporary Arts Award


“Abacus: Small Enough To Jail”
Nominationed for 90th Academy Awards®
Feature length Documentary by Steve James
with musical score by Joshua Abrams

January 18 - 28, 2018
"America to Me"
an epic 10-part series by Steve James (Hoop Dreams) with musical score by Joshua Abrams 
premieres at the Sundance Film Festival

&
“Crime + Punishment”
Feature Length Documentay by Stephen Maing
includes music by Joshua Abrams
premieres at the Sundance Film Festival



Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society Simultonality 
#7
The Wire Magazine 50 Best Albums of 2017
#15
Uncut Magazine 75 Best Albums of 2017
#2
John Mulvey’s 150 Best Albums 2017
#17
Rolling Stone Magazine Best Avant Albums of 2017

January 13, 2018
Renaissance Society presents
Natural Information Society  
Bond Chapel, Chicago

December 22, 2017
Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang’s 28th Annual Solstice Concerts
Hamid Drake: Music / Movement
Constellation, Chicago

(Hamid Drake w/ Moki Cherry Tapestry 1978)


November 30, 2017
Simon Starling lecture with Natural Information Society
Arts and the Nuclear Age lecture series
7pm, Logan Center, University of Chicago


September 22 – November 17, 2017
Rare Earth, Organized by Theaster Gates
Exhibition musical soundscape by
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Chicago Architecture Biennial



November 11, 2017  -  January 20, 2018
Lisa Alvarado, Alex Olson, Daniel Sinsel
Exhibition includes a Natural Information Society sound piece
Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow


Sunday, November 5th
Natural Information Society
May Chapel At Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago
and 
Subterranean, Chicago
with Lee Ranaldo




October 4, 2017
Natural Information Society
Hideout, Chicago
 
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Natural Information Society
Fred Anderson Park, Chicago

June 9, 2017
Natural Information Society
Record Release Show for Simultonality
Constellation, Chicago




May 11, 2017
Joshua Abrams musical retrospective on Polskie Public Radio Poland

May 6, 2017
Natural Information Society
Nogueira da Silva Museum/GNRation 
Braga, Portugal



May 5, 2017
Natural Information Society
Salão Brazil, Coimbra, Portugal

May 3, 2017
Natural Information Society
Teatro Maria Matos, Lisboa, Portugal


April 30, 2017
Natural Information Society
Kaleidophon Festival, Ulrichsberg, Austria


April 28, 2017
Natural Information Society
Centro D’Arte, Padua, Italy


April 26, 2017
Natural Information Society
Stanser Musitage Festival, Stans, Switzerland

April 7, 2017
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
Simultonality
Eremite Records (US) and Tak:til/Glitterbeat Records (EU)




Natural Information Society Tour
4/23
Bridget Donahue gallery, New York
4/26
Stanser Musitage Festival, Stans, Switzerland
4/28
Centro D’Arte, Padua, Italy
4/29
Pinelina Dneva Soba, Ljubljana, Slovenia
4/30
Kaleidophon Festival, Ulrichsberg, Austria
5/3
Teatro Maria Matos, Lisboa, Portugal
5/4
Teatro Municipal da Guarda, Guarda, Portugal
5/5
Salão Brazil, Coimbra, Portugal
5/6
Nogueira da Silva Museum/GNRation, Braga, Portugal


March 26 - May 21, 2017
Lisa Alvarado : Sound Talisman
solo exhibition and performance program
Bridget Donahue, New York

Performances by : Lisa Alvarado, Joshua Abrams, Chad Taylor + White Magic + William Parker + Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society + Carlos Blackburn + Angelica Sanchez, Gerald Cleaver, Joshua Abrams + Battle Trance

New York Times
Brooklyn Rail
Mousse Magazine
New York Magazine
New Yorker


March 19, 2017
Endless Shout
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia



January 10, 2017
Natural Information Society
A Reflection
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago



December 8, 2016
Tel Aviv Jazz Festival
Hamid Drake, Ari Brown, Joshua Abrams
Tel Aviv, Israel

November 1 - 29, 2016
Natural Information Society residency 
The Hideout, Chicago




October 14 - January 15, 2017
Simon Starling’s At Twilight: A Play for two actors, three musicians, one dancer, eight masks (and a donkey costume)
Natural Information Society collaboration
The Japan Society Gallery, New York


July 2 - September 4, 2016
Simon Starling’s At Twilight: A Play for two actors, three musicians, one dancer, eight masks (and a donkey costume)
Natural Information Society collaboration
The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK   




June 1 - June 5, 2016
Serralves em Festa, residency
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Natural Information Society joined by Angélica Salvi, Gustavo Costa, João Pais Filipe, Norberto Lobo and Yam Tembe



June 6, 2016
Natural Information Society with Norberto Lobo
Galeria ze Dos Bois, Lisboa, Portugal



June 17, 2016
Natural Information Society with Evan Parker, Cafe Oto, London



June 15, 2016
Natural Information Society
Het Bos, Antwerp, Belgium