The Silent Barn is an artist’s space in Ridgewood, Queens just over the border from Bushwick, Brooklyn. Once an abandoned sweatshirt factory, the building was renovated years ago and passed down to the recent tenants, who have continued the minimal tradition of space and material to make a home and art space that is vibrant, inviting and mysterious.

G. Lucas Crane is one of the four residents at the space. A musician with the nature-psych band Woods, and under his solo moniker Non-Horse, Crane creates haunting landscapes out of found sounds, tape loops, countless pedals.

The exterior of Silent Barn is an ambiguous brick facade that doesn’t give the slightest hint of what lies inside. Crane huddled in a tiny curtained area, where a large soundboard, laptop, and Sega Genesis alludes to the comfort of the traditional living room space. But the tradition ends there.

After entering a zig-zagged hallway, where the semi-domesticated “rooms” are housed, the space opens up to an largely empty kitchen, laundry and couch area. A speaker system and microphones sit abandoned, waiting for the bands that perform about two to three times a week to lay siege on the potential crowd.

The entire space has been rigged with microphones so Crane can transcribe aural landscapes out of the hundreds of people who come in and out each week. Silent Barn has had success booking underground noise artists like Dan Deacon, shredder guitarist Marnie Stern, and local favs Death Set.

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