In the Round: Discovery Zone

Discovery Zone is the experimental pop project of New York musician and multimedia artist JJ Weihl. After the slow-building but undeniable fervor around her debut album Remote Control, Discovery Zone released her second album Quantum Web on RVNG Intl. and Mansions and Millions in 2024, followed by an expanded version in 2025. On Quantum Web, Discovery Zone plunged into an uncanny valley, where the distinctions between the earnest and the ironic blur in tandem with the human and the post-human.

On her new album Library Copy Do Not Remove, Weihl presents a digital enchantment of reality, braiding together the material and non-material to reveal that they are, in fact, two aspects of one and the same thing. In Weihl’s world, Nature and technology are not enemies, but instead create each other in an infinite dance of meaning and reflection.

On stage, Discovery Zone explores a widescreen pop sound speckled with luminous vocal performances and baroque instrumental flourishes. She utilizes a laboratory of instruments and 3D visuals to explore the universe as a source of information.

Photo Credit: Neelam Khan Vela

Presented by Bird on the Wire. Supported by d&b audiotechnik.