Video Love (Paris)
french electro pop+live video sampling
myspace.com/wearevideolove
Dead Violets (DC)
vocal sound art+video
deadviolets.org
DVD+CD+CDR+CASSETTE RELEASE PARTY
Sunday Nov 23, 2025
doors: 6:30pm
music: 7:00pm SHARP
$5!
PYRAMID ATLANTIC
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20910
301.608.9101
located three blocks south of the silver spring metro station (red line)
INFO: www.dc-soniccircuits.org
DIRECTIONS: www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org
Celebrate the release of the lofi+scifi feature film 1,2,3 Whiteout (The End of the Light Age) DVD+CD on zeromoon. James June Schneider’s (aka Matterlink) recent film is a ‘tone poem for darkness’ and mixes amazing original vignettes with diverse archive found footage, an exceptional sci-fi sensibility and incredible soundscapes to form a blissfully imaginative and retro-futuristic creation. Set in ‘an
old-fashioned kind of future’, Veronique and an inventor (the legendary Lou Castel) are trying to bring back a ‘positive’ darkness to offset the glaring, bright, technological man-made light and ‘make
the night night again’. The film and audio were constructed to operate as independent forces which work in counterpoint. The soundtrack is composed of found, sampled, and synthesized sound as well music/songs composed for the film. The latter were created by Elmapi and AE and the soundscapes were recorded and composed by Richard Harrison and Michael Schumacher amongst others. The dvd includes 2 short experimental films created using x-rays that feature music performed by Violet.
Video Love
Hailing from Paris, Elmapi has joined up with DC filmmaker and video artist Matterlink to create a raw and hypnotizing mix- “alternating between Elmapi’s wildly original driving ‘pop-concrete’ compositions
and the sampled sounds & voices of Matterlink’s live-cinema.” The sound lays somewhere between Stereolab, Judy Nylon, and Laurie Anderson. Her last album “Arcane Electronique” was mixed by Andy Moor of legendary The Ex.
Dead Violets
They say opposites attract. In the case of Dead Violets the opposite is even truer. After years of virtual fraternization Thomas Ekelund (Sweden) and Jeff Surak (USA) realized that it was only logical to
join forces and meld their common interests in drones, surface noise, and 60s girl group pop, therefore Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words plus Violet gave birth to Dead Violets.
After producing several online and cassette tape appearances with their trademark intense low frequency dirges and bleak harmonic flourishes, Dead Violets is reemerging once again with the recent
addition of poetess/priestess Bethany Moore on vocals and incantations. As a trio the group goes even further into uncharted audio realms within their collective souls producing a hybrid of drone
pop exorcisms and sound art rituals. Tonight’s performance will include live video accompaniment.