The Wednesday, September 12 video contribution from DC-sound artist BLK w/ BEAR is created with the able assist of Takoma Park, Maryland videographer and live video mixer Nick Lopata [USA]. Lopata creates the projections for the popular monthly Blowoff dance party, hosted by musicians Bob Mould and Rich Morel at the 9:30 Club. Nick has […]
The video works of Lamathilde [Canada] investigate identity through sexuality and gender using low-grade video, stop-motion animation, super 8 and manipulated film footage. Her work has been shown in many galleries and international festivals, including Pink Screens - Brussels, Festival des films gais et lesbiens - Paris, London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Queering Sound […]
Andy Wilson [UK] has been making electronic and electro-acoustic music for over twenty years now. His current work as sunseastar, in collaboration with Simon Crab of Bourbonese Qualk, involves the manipulation and transformation of location recordings and found sounds to create spectral acousmatic music. A CD of these recordings will be released later this year. […]
Pat Gillis departs from his collaborations with Northern Machine and The Angus Brainpan for a solo exploration of atavistic sonic impulses. A dynamic alchemical universe of electronic antimusic is conjured using tape manipulation, digital sampling, analogue synthesizers and audio processing. Both HC3 Music and the Panic Research label will be releasing TL0741 recordings later this […]
Christoph Heemann has long been the name to tussle with when debating the existence of Krautrock’s avant rock legacy in Germany. His solo work has all the magical and evocative quality of the best imaginary soundtracks. Indeed, his album Aftersolstice was inspired by the films of Alain Resnais and Louis Malle, and the recent Days […]
1971 in Hennigsdorf / b. Berlin
1990-1995 Studied news and information technology at the University of Berlin;
1995-2002 Studied experimental media design at the University of Art (UdK) Berlin Prof. Heinz Emigholz & Prof. Maria Vedder;
2000 Nica-Stipendium at the Bezalel Academy of Fine Art, Jerusalem;
2002-2003 Lecturer for DVD-Production at the University of Art Berlin
since 2003 Artistic Collaborator […]
myspace.com/janelandanthony
Marianna Ellenberg is a video artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Her creative practice centers around research into the contemporary body-psyche, through an aesthetic investigation into the discourse of mental health culture and advertising semiotics. Ellenberg’s work spans from abstract Super8mm animations, to video installation, sound work and color photography. Her films and […]
Naila Borensztein, 21-year-old musician, guitarist, singer, composer and electronic artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Naila is currently finishing her studies at the Quilmes National University and is about to obtain her degree as a Musical Electro-Acoustic Composer.
As a singer and guitarist, Naila is also part of the ascending rock-pop female Argentinean trio No lo Soporto, in […]
Frans de Waard (1965) has been producing music since 1984. First as Kapotte Muziek, but throughout the years, he also worked as Beequeen (with Freek Kinkelaar), Goem (with Roel Meelkop & Peter Duimelinks, both of whom are also a member of Kapotte Muziek these days) and such solo projects as Freiband, Shifts as well as […]
is a giant in the American soundscape. Since the early 1960s, he has utilized intense amplification, long duration and precise pitch to forge an aggressively mesmerizing “Dream Music. “Conrad articulated the Big Bang of “minimalism” and played a pivotal role in the formation of the Velvet Underground. Conrad continues to exert a primal influence over […]
One man gospel-circus, cartoon-necessary schizo-rap New York hillbilly, aged and innocent provocateur, Alexis has emerged with the craziest music currently available, which is only to say it is the most familiar. Listen to him if you like it when a stranger composes movies in song about your secret life. From joy to mourning and back […]
Is it a noise band? A pop band? Or is it just People?
On Misbegotten Man, guitarist and singer Mary Halvorson and drummer Kevin Shea return with the unconventional and startling sounds that characterized their 2005 self-titled debut while bringing a new intensity and subtlety to their catchy noise anthems. No matter how free-form these songs […]
Doug Poplin [cello + effects] performs regularly in the Nation’s Capital as a recitalist, chamber and orchestral musician and currently teaches at the Capital Hill Arts Workshop. He received his Bachelor of Music from the University of Minnesota and worked for two years with the Guarneri String Quartet at the University of Maryland. He also […]
Performing September 20 at Kennedy Center Millennium Stage
www.janelleppin.com
Renee Shaw aka VJ Poppins [live video mix] is an installation and performance artist who embraces the phenomenon of synaesthesia. Drawing from archival footage, VJ Poppins manipulates video output through live, spontaneous editing. Like a DJ, she scratches through multiple layers of moving images searching for that perfect mix to create visual juxtapositions and non-linear […]
BLK w/ BEAR [loops + turntables] is the audio-art pseudonym for Washington DC visual artist JS Adams. His audio performances and temporal turntable installations - staged in art spaces across the Metro DC area and in NYC’s Tribeca arts district - include forced physical and electronic looping of altered vinyl recordings, found sound, and media […]
xedh is the soundwork of the Basque Country based artist Miguel A. García
selected works & live
2007 - live at El Tanque exhibition centre, Santa Cruz (Tenerife, Spain)
2007 - released “Nacht & nebel” split with Fever Spoor at Anima Mal Nata (Holland)
2007 - sound installation at L´Mono (Bilbao, Spain)
2007 - released “Sex” LP at Smell the […]
All Violet is the live collaboration between Scott Allison (custom electronics & lloopp) and Violet (Jeff Surak - archival sonic debris & trash).
Performing Friday, September 21 at The Warehouse
Unbeknownst to Threat Williams, OhSlamma 36 ded Mazafaqaz, and Crealonious Funk, a strange set of cosmic yet real (CREAL) events would bring them together to finally give voice to THE CA$H $LAVE CLIQUE. Yet everyone is a CA$H $LAVE. Thus they are just a small arm of Le Clique that has been CREALLY chosen by […]
Drummer Sam Lohman displayed his talents with such bands as Sheer Terror, Nimrod and Maji, before taking on the numeric spelling of his name, Sa(3) Mu(6), while beginning his solo percussion project in Japan. After his initial show, April 1994 at Zokai Center in Osaka, 36 continued to play throughout the South Pacific and at […]
Buck Gooter is a two piece noise rock band that uses theremin, drum machine, acoustic guitar thru effects pedals, stylophone and other gadgets to make a pretty intense, freaked out sound.
Performing Friday, September 7 at La Casa
www.buckgooter.tk
Pinko Communiods is an improvisational trio based in Charlottesville, VA. We are affiliated with various experimental musicians, groups, and collectives on the East Coast of the US. Specifically, we are a part of 804 Noise experimental collective in Richmond, Virginia (804noise.org). We make abstract and restrained noises using circuit-bent and stock electronic gizmos, guitars, percussion, […]
Myo is Cory O’Brien, an improviser and experimenter who works with digitally processed voice and objects. Myo’s live manifestations have been described by Vital Weekly as “louder, dirtier, gritty and angular, but still with ingredients of microsound.” Previous collaborations have included Kenneth Yates (of Harm Stryker, Insects with Tits), and video artist Metaphreaq. He currently […]
Ironing is focused on manipulating and recontextualizing somewhat autobiographical sound sources, altering them through lo-fi analog processes. A pile of cast off equipment, hissy tapes and damaged records get worked into a collage of microcassette field recordings, blown out Miami beats, local radio and abused cassettes in a noise collage meets hyperactive dub frenzy.
Andrew Chadwick […]
Kuschty Rye Ergot is the latest project from long-time DC area multi-instrumentalist/vocalist John Stanton. A collective as opposed to a fixed lineup, performances range from drifty slowburn Popol Vuh-ish watercolour solo guitar/synth constructs, forays into musique concrete, to full blown ensemble sonic exhaust blasts, all sitting alongside occasional stripped down acoustic folk musings. Elements of […]