Air Space is the sonic dialogue between keyboardist Mike Effenberger and percussionist Brian Shankar Adler. Described as "an atmospheric soundtrack to the somnambulist’s night in the deep woods," the duo uses minimalist structures and analogue textures to develop site specific, new music that takes listeners on an interactive journey through meditative and turbulent terrain.

Their expansive, genre-defying sound comes from Effenberger's use of analog keyboards, tape delays, and geological specimens pitted against Adler's use of percussion from South America, South Asia and the sewers of Brooklyn. Blending Indian raga, post-Cageian minimalism, and lo-fi nostalgia with the occasional field recording of crickets, tiny sparks fly while the music retains a deceptively serene appearance.

 Air Space made its debut in 2022, performing in a casemate at Fort Gorges (Casco Bay, Maine). In 2024, the group released Cricket Cipher (Adhyaropa Records) and toured the Northeast, US.

"A brilliant collaboration and release..." ~Recording Artists Guild

"Sound art... meditative and ecstatic." ~Goosebumps

Previous Performances

7.25 Air Space & Jane Ira Bloom. Space. Portland, ME

3.3.24 WSCA. Portsmouth, NH 

2.4.24 Barbès. Brooklyn, NY

1.5.24 Center For Maine Contemporary Art. Rockland, ME

1.23.23 Washington Baths. Portland, ME

8.15.22 Fort Gorges. Casco Bay, Maine