Thursday, December 6
611 Florida Ave NW WDC
http://www.claviusproductions.org
8pm, $5 suggested donation
202-360-9739 for info
BYOW!
Insect Factory (DC improv fusion-crunk)
KILT (Los Angeles/Albuquerque improv noise trio)
Acre (solo electronic minimal drone)
Dark Sea Dream (ex-VOG, Northern VA heavy improv psych-rock trio, debut show!)
Insect Factory
http://www.insectfields.org
http://www.myspace.com/insectfactory
Insect Factory is the project of minimalist sounds from guitarist Jeff Barsky. His playing explores subtle and detailed textures with acute
attention to overall composition, creating hypnotic fields of dense sound. Barsky frequently adds additional minimal instrumentation to Insect Factory performances. In the mid '90s, Barsky studied classical guitar and composition for several years at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. Barsky also currently plays with the DC improv band Kohoutek, which combines elements of abtract noise, heavy rhythms, free jazz, and psychedelic rock. In addition to having collaborated onstage with avant-trumpeter Forbes Graham and bass player Joe Lally (FUGAZI), his various projects have performed on bills with acts as diverse as Kayo Dot, Mazen Kerbaj, Peter Wright, Bardo Pond, Double Leopards, Charalambides, and Carla Bozulich, and he has performed with Kohoutek at Suoni Il Per Popolo festival in Montreal. Barsky also co-runs Insect Fields cd-r, which serves as an outlet for musical projects he is involved with, as well as his contemporaries.
KILT
http://halfnormal.com
http://anarchymoon.com
http://myspace.com/redglaer
http://www.spiderwebsinthesky.com
KILT = Raven Chacon and Bob Bellerue (with help from Sandor Finta sometimes)
Originally from Chinle, AZ on the Navajo reservation, Raven Chacon is one of the few American Indian composers working in the world
today. His work ranges from quiet, almost silent music for classical chamber instruments and ensembles to solo noise performances involving devices created by Chacon himself. His pieces and installations have been performed and exhibited across the U.S. as well as Europe, Canada and New Zealand. He has also studied and worked with notable composers such as James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, Wadada Leo Smith and Glenn Branca and has received commissions from the University of Mary Washington and the ERGO
Ensemble. Recent projects of Chacon include performing in the West Coast noise trio KILT, and in the Albuquerque ensemble Cobra//group. Past projects have included the audio-recycling music of The Kleptones (U.S), founding the all-Native American experimental group
Modernativensemble, and playing in Los Angeles noise band, Dog Shit Taco, as well as numerous ensembles in the Southwest experimental scene. The recently released full-length disc, Overheard Songs is available on Innova Recordings. KILT has several recordings available, including the Snow White In Hell LP, and Sharp Dark Love 3" on EMR. Chacon has an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (2003), and is currently a faculty member at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. He lives anywhere between Los Angeles, California and Albuquerque, NM.
Bob Bellerue/halfnormal is a noise artist, theater designer, writer, composer and curator. My work utilizes electronics and custom programming for live performance, sound installation, and prepared ambient (public & private) field recordings. With a background in punk/acid rock, Balinese and Javanese gamelan, and Tibetan Buddhism, I'm interested in the various ways that extreme sonic experiences affect awareness and identity, and the supple techniques used to focus and modulate energy. Over the last 20 years I've played in various percussion/rock/improvised projects, created original sound scores for many performance art, dance, theater and film pieces, and released dozens of recordings. I have collaborated with many powerful members of the West Coast noise/improvisation community, including Smegma, Raven Chacon, Albert Ortega, David Kendall, Mitchell Brown, Joseph Hammer, Circuit Wound, Jarrett Silberman, Frozen Body, and Tullan Velte. My work has been presented in Indonesia, across Europe, and throughout the United States, including the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona, Beyond Music Sound Festival, CEAIT Festival, SASSAS, NorCal Noise Festival, Olympia Experimental Music Festival, PDX Noise Festival, Highways Performance Space, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Living Arts of Tulsa New Genre Festival, Dairy Center for the Arts, Machine Project, 7Hz, the Il Corral, the Smell, KXLU, KFJC, Kill Radio, Stanford University, UC San Diego, UC Los Angeles, Naropa University (BA 1995), and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA 2003). Visit halfnormal.com for more salience.
"Filling the booming structure with dark rumbles, antic squeedles and sheer blather,
Bellerue fully engages the cavernous sonics, creating chittering walls of echoed overtones
and hints of eternal combustion. He roars through the space like a giant robot, spluttering sparks and evil intent all the way." (The Wire, Dec 2006)
"A wicked ride through high force audio death wind." (Bull Tongue/Arthur, June 2007)
"The BEST DRONE to be made in the past few years...Will keep you OVER satisfied till
the next TNB/ORGANUM collab...HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!" (Hanson Records)
"A beautiful and serene crawl through some black sonic underworld, ambient, but subtly harsh, dreamlike, but ominous and mysteriously fucked up. The sound can be cavernous one second, machinelike the next." (Aquarius Records)
Acre
http://www.myspace.com/acreage
http://www.eyeofthe.com/acre/
Acre is extremely reduced, refined synesthesia-enducing and generally psychedelically affective minimal drone using a minimal amount of equipment (including mixer feedback, sampler/loop, various filters, phase-shifters, tremelos and the like).
Candyflipping is three tracks of sweet drone-gazed, tunnel-visioned, double-dipped DMT cloud-lift. The first track, "Moth," instantly breaks out into the upper chakra registers with thick drones that hit you like LaMonte's Dream-House. Second track "Together We Are Poison" is all glossy-eyed and drooling lower-level chill-out pillow room in the rave of LIFE. Once asleep there, the third track "Drifting" will slowly, slowly slowly bring you back up like some dred head trance DJ opening up the 303 filter ever so slightly until we are again filled with ecstatic psychedelic feel-good sunshine laser light and your head and the whole moving mass of people explode upward together into another level of collective consciousness.