presented by ArsVitha & meakusma

First Meakusma & arsVitha event of 2026, we are happy to feature two concerts at the Stille Post in Sankt Vith. The legendary David Grubbs and the incredible Ava Rasti will perform at the height of winter in one of the cosiest venues in East Belgium. Still tangled up in Christmas lights? Perhaps covered in forgetful snow? One month on from Christmas Eve, this night is the perfect antidote to the pitfalls of the season.
 
Brooklyn-based guitarist/pianist/vocalist David Grubbs needs no introduction. He has released fourteen solo albums and appeared on more than 200 releases. He was a member of Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait and has performed with Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Luc Ferrari, Will Oldham, Loren Connors, the Red Krayola, Royal Trux, and many others. He is also an acclaimed author and critic and is a professor of music at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York. For his 2025 Whistle From Above album, released on Drag City, David developed new works for guitar, as well as a piano piece and an exceptionally eerie bit of musique concrète, opening up his deeply personal solo pieces for engaging conversational gambits with modern masters Rhodri Davies, Andrea Belfi, Nikos Veliotis, Nate Wooley, and Cleek Schrey.
 
Ava Rasti is an Iranian-born artist, creating and composing out of the country’s capital, Tehran. As a pianist and bass guitarist, in her late teens, Rasti founded a post-punk girl group in Tehran. Since 2020, she has worked solo, experimenting at the intersection of ambient, modern classical, and drone. Her interest in storytelling has led her to compose for film, with soundtracks including The Great Yawn of History and 1001 Frames. Following a series of sonically evolving singles, sheself-released the long-players Ginestra and The Living Room. FatCat Records’ 130701 post-classicalimprint has since signed Rasti’s 2024 album The River, a contemplative dive into abstracted emotion, beauty and eternal movement.
 

David Grubbs (Drag City, Room40 – USA)
 
David Grubbs is Distinguished Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of Good night the pleasure was ours, The Voice in the Headphones, Now that the audience is assembled, and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (all published by Duke University Press) as well as the collaborative artists’ books Simultaneous Soloists (with Anthony McCall, Pioneer Works Press) and Projectile (with Reto Geiser and John Sparagana, Drag City). Records Ruin the Landscape has appeared in French, Italian, and Japanese translations.
 
Grubbs has released sixteen solo albums and appeared on more than 200 releases. In 2000, his The Spectrum Between (Drag City) was named “Album of the Year” in the London Sunday Times. He is known for his cross-disciplinary collaborations with poet Susan Howe and visual artists Anthony McCall, Angela Bulloch, and Josiah McElheny, and his work has been presented at, among other venues, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou. Grubbs was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Luc Ferrari, Will Oldham, Loren Connors, Jan St. Werner, the Red Krayola, and many others. He is a recipient of the Berlin Prize and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts award in Music/Sound, a member of the board of directors of Blank Forms, and director of the Blue Chopsticks record label.
 
https://davidgrubbs.bandcamp.com/
 
 
Ava Rasti (130701 / Fat Cat Records – IRN )
 
Ava Rasti is an Iranian-born artist, creating and composing out of the country’s capital, Tehran. Both a pianist and bass guitarist, in her late teens Rasti founded a post-punk girl group in Tehran. Since 2020, she has worked solo, experimenting at the intersection of ambient, modern classical, and drone. Her interest in storytelling has led her to compose for film, with soundtracks including The Great Yawn of History and 1001 Frames (presented at Berlinale). Following a series of sonically evolving singles, she self-released the long-players Ginestra and The Living Room. FatCat Records’ 130701 post-classical imprint has since signed Rasti’s latest set, The River.
 
https://avarasti.bandcamp.com

 

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