SOUP & SOUND HOUSE CONCERT SERIES 
135+ concerts in Andrew Drury’s house (with excellent homemade soup) since 2009. Adventurous music, poetry and literature, film, dance, and humanities discussions with well-known and emerging greats including Matthew Shipp, Kris Davis, Guillermo Gregorio, Tomeka Reid, Jason Kao Hwang, Isabelle Dutoit, Howard Johnson, Sarah Hughes, Mark Dresser, Satoko Fuji, Agustí Fernandez, Fay Victor, Joseph Daley, Ingrid Laubrock, Angelica Sanchez, Uri Caine, and many more.

SOUP & SOUND AROUND BROOKLYN 
In 2019 to celebrate the 10th year of Soup & Sound we presented a dozen performances with music, film, visual art, performance art, and West African dance in five Brooklyn neighborhoods. Artists include the Aruán Ortiz Trio, Warren Smith, Sameer Gupta, Bonita Oliver, Jay Rodriguez, Pheeroan AkLaff, Gerry Hemingway, royal hartigan’s blood drum spirit with Kwabena Boateng, the Dance Clarinets playing the music of Machito directed by J. D. Parran, and a multi-media, LGBTQ+ parallel prom featuring teenage musicians and visual artists.

PROGRAMS for the HOMELESS
We have brought live music and participatory workshops, led by world-class artists, to children and adults in homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and kindred programs in Brooklyn, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Nashua, New Hampshire.

LINCOLN CENTER/CONTINUUM PARTNERSHIP
Continuum has partnered with Lincoln Center on co-produced performances by 1032K, KARUNA, Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones, We Free Strings, and on a Festival of New York performance featuring The Forest with guests Warren Smith and J. D. Parran.

INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE
Continuum has collaborated with artists, students, schools, and organizations from 40 countries, using music as an international language to bring people together.

THE FOREST
Continuum provided structure and funding to initiate a new, multi-cultural quintet that is stretching the boundaries of the percussion ensemble tradition. In 2022 The Forest performed on the West and East Coasts, gave workshops at universities (including Bennington, Cal Arts, UC San Diego, U. of Washington), gave workshops with community organizations in five cities, performed at Lincoln Center, and made a studio recording.

DRUM/BRIDGE 
Continuum brought Andrew Drury’s Tentet into five schools and communities in Brooklyn for performances, workshops, and direct informal interactions in 2016 and 2018.

ARTIST RETREAT PROGRAM IN BROOKLYN
On over 30 occasions Continuum has given artists from abroad access to the rich and unique cultural milieu of New York City by providing lodging, rehearsal space and time, performance opportunities, recording services, shared meals, and a base from which to explore, network, and pursue career development

CONTINUUM ORCHARD HILL ARTIST RETREAT
Continuum partnered with Orchard Hill to create a new artist retreat in a rural setting in southern New Hampshire.

FISCAL SPONSORSHIP
Continuum provided 501(C)(3) fiscal sponsorship to individual artists, organizations, and the 2017 & 2018 Red Hook Jazz Festival

DIFFERENT TRACK RECORDINGS
Continuum runs a non-profit record label–-Different Track Recordings–-that  has put out over 20 cds, cassettes, and digital recordings. DTR has also partnered on the production on 7 other recordings with labels from Argentina, Colombia, and Finland. DTR has received several “Best of” honors and rave reviews.

VIDEO
Continuum produces video through its production arm, Different Track Productions. Most of the work can be viewed at the Soup & Sound Online Vimeo page, a free online resource which currently comprises over 20 videos featuring music, visual art, dance,  interviews with musicians and other artists including Sarah Hughes, royal hartigan and blood drum spirit, Joseph Daley, Andrew Drury, Dana Jessen, Warren Smith, Fay Victor, and Andrea Wolper, to name a few. In addition, DTP has produced video of Bread & Puppet Theater and a video of Oliver Lake’s music performed by the Dance Clarinets.

CONTINUUM IN THE PRESS
Numerous highlights in the New York Times and jazz publications. Articles about Soup & Sound have appeared in Razorcake magazine, Howard Mandel’s Jazz Beyond Jazz, a book by Mike Faloon, and publications in France, Mexico, and Germany.

JAZZTOPAD/CONTINUUM EXCHANGE 
Since 2018 Continuum has partnered with Jazztopad–a jazz festival based in Wrocław, Poland–to present Polish and US musicians in each other’s countries. Presentations have included four Soup & Sound house concerts in Brooklyn, six house concerts in Wrocław, and online activities including musicians such as Wacław Zimpel, Uri Caine, James Brandon Lewis, Sylvie Courvoisier, Piotr Orzchekowski, and Ned Rothenberg.

UNIVERSITIES
Workshops and masterclasses in twenty universities in Colombia, Germany, and the US

RECORDING SERVICES
Continuum provided studio space and time, recording equipment, engineering, a grand piano, and more for 20+ projects

ARTISTS & ENSEMBLES 
We have provided fiscal services, publicity, strategic planning, booking, web presence, etc. to Andrew Drury’s ensembles, the Dance Clarinets directed by J. D. Parran, Ben Bennett, Jason Mears, and others

HUMANITIES
Continuum is creating an oral history archive of video interviews with members of our community. We have presented discussions with three feminist poet/activist/writers-- Shahana Hanif (now a NYC city councilperson), Helen Klonaris, and Alissa Schwartz—and a discussion on Argentina’s musica movimiento y más with key participant/clarinetist Guillermo Gregorio and musician researcher Luís Conde.

REHEARSAL SPACE 
We have provided rehearsal space for many creative projects for artists such as Jason Kao Hwang, Alan Braufman, James Ilgenfritz’ Anagram Ensemble, Jason Mears, Ursel Schlicht, Robert Dick, Sonic Exchange, and others.

SONIC EXCHANGE
Continuum has partnered with the German based Sonic Exchange project on recordings and performances in the US as well as residencies in 2017, 2019, and at the Documenta festival in 2022 that brought artists from Ireland, the US, and Germany to Kassel for performances and workshops with local audiences, university students, Kurdish refugees, amateur and professional musicians, and others.

BOGOTÁ
Continuum has hosted and presented many musicians from Bogotá at Soup & Sound numerous times. In 2017 Continuum partnered with two universities (Universidad de los Andes and Javeriana Pontifical Universidad), the LaDistritofónica musicians collective, and the seminal multi-cultural music venue Matik Matik, to present Andrew Drury in performances and workshops during a two-week residency in 2017.  

ARGENTINA 
Continuum has partnered with the organizations Magma Centro de Artes and creatividad en movimiento, hosting Argentinian musicians Paula Shocron and Pablo Díaz in our Artist Retreat in Brooklyn program for four years. Continuum has recorded and produced new work, sent Andrew Drury to Buenos Aires and Rosario for three weeks to collaborate with dozens of musicians and dancers. This led to relationships and projects with Paula Shocron, Pablo Diaz, Guillermo Gregorio, Luis Conde, Fabiana Galante, Jorge Chikiar, Javier Areal Velez, and many more others.

FINLAND 
Continuum partnered with the Finnish musicians’ collective, Äänen Lumo, to co-produced two recordings in 2019 and to bring Andrew Drury to Finland for performances, workshops at an elementary school, recordings, etc. Continuum has also advised other US musicians travelling to Finland.

GRANTS and SUPPORT 
Continuum has received support from the Brooklyn Arts Council, South Arts, New Music USA, Chamber Music America, and the Jubilation Foundation.

PARTNERSHIPS 
Continuum has partnered with a long list of organizations including the Low Income Housing Institute (Seattle), Stay Strange (San Diego), Project [BLANK], Urban Voices (Los Angeles), Boundless Progress (NYC), Arts & Education Continuum (NYC), Lincoln Center (NYC), LaDistritofonica (Bogotá), Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter, Creatividad en Movimiento (Bueno Aires), Sonic Exchange (Kassel), Universidad de los Andes (Bogota), Jazztopad (Wrocław), Greenwich House Music School (NYC), Haitian-Americans United for Progress (Brooklyn), the Goethe Institute (Germany), the Center for Family Life (Brooklyn), Outward Visions (Tucson), the Red Hook Jazz Festival (Brooklyn), Happy Lucky No. 1, FONCA (Mexico), The Polish Cultural Institute of New York, Harbor Homes/Partnership for Successful Living (New Hampshire), Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association (Brooklyn), PLG Arts (Brooklyn), 8 Ball (NYC), Nendo Dango (Buenos Aires), Rypistellyt Levyt (Helsinki), Kerrytown Concert House (Ann Arbor), Common Tone Arts (Seattle), Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church (Brooklyn), Jazztopad (Wrocław), the French Cultural Institute, Boxwood Labs, etc.