It was a particularly cacophonous performance of “Auld Lang Syne.” But for the Knitting Factory’s last night in Manhattan, it was appropriate, as the shaggy avant-folk group Akron/Family led a version of the Scots New Year’s hymn on Wednesday night that mutated from a simple singalong to screeching feedback to a meditative one-note drone.

The Knitting Factory has been celebrating noise and eclecticism since it opened on East Houston Street in 1987, and in its earlier days the club gained a wide reputation as a defining stage of downtown music, that clamorous and unclassifiable New York amalgam of jazz, punk, art-rock and experimental new music.

Image A drum set in the basement performance space after closing. Credit... Josh Haner/The New York Times

But eventually, gentrification came to claim the arty Manhattan outpost, and on Wednesday the Knitting Factory had the last show in the TriBeCa building that has been its home for the last 14 years. In May it is to reopen in a considerably smaller and less expensive space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.