Clavius Productions and Sonic Circuits DC 2005 present The 202804 Noisefest, a preliminary celebration of the 804 Noisefest in Richmond (
http://www.804noise.org/events.html).
Friday, October 14
611 Florida Ave NW WDC
http://www.claviusproductions.org http://scdc.alkem.org/about.html 9pm, $5 suggested donation
BYOB!
Nautical Almanac (Heresee/Load Records, Baltimore noise mavericks)
psi (NYC electro-acoustic improv noise)
Life Partners (Twisted Village duo, mem. of Major Stars)
The Trust Riots (Scarcelight, mem. of Accelera Deck)
Lust Ionics (NYC free jazz/noise/metal)
Nautical Almanac http://www.heresee.com/nauticallink.htm "Spliced from the same mutant gene pool as soundscrape engineers Wolf Eyes and even sharing the occasional member in James "Twig" Harper, Nautical Almanac traffic a weirder psychedelic extremity via even more abstract gadgets. Transplanted from the midwest to Baltimore, Harper and partner Carly Ptak have set up their own private alternate dimension in the city where Poe died. From their base at the self-named Tarantula Hill, the pair helms the HereSee record label, hosts gigs by fellow traveling fuzzniks and, of course, commits their own cracked frequencies to tape." (Dusted)
"The future is a vast apoorcalyspe turning the earth into a beautiful wasteland of rewired ideolgys, hacked and reconstituted technologys tword a nomadic existance. Either your with us or against us. Don't fight with the reformers, it just prolongs the cycle of human evolution, you are here+now for a reason, feed the flames so the melting pots will boil and the shit will rise to the top. Now scrape the scum off and look at it closely, shove wires in it and listen to how it sounds. This is what Nautical Alamanac brings to the table at the mostly blindfolded bofoon dinner party called 'modern culture'. Armed, with, piles, of, wires, cables,
homemade,electronixs, 1,000, filtering, oscillators, runing, thru, metal, detectors, pumped, fists, of, pure, psychic, abilty.... they are crawling into your crummy city and connecting those cultural dots and then smashign them in one herky-jerky swoop."
psi http://www.evolvingear.com/ psi is Jaime Fennelly (electronics), Chris Forsyth (guitar), and Fritz Welch (drums, cymbals & objects). Brooklyn, New York based. Cathartic, hermetic, meditative noise that slowly evolves into nothing.
Jaime Fennelly is an electronicist from Brooklyn, New York whose ongoing practice includes working with psi, Pee In My Face with Surgery, Nicolas Field, Miguel Gutierrez, Shawn Hansen, Chris Heenan, Sean Meehan, and Chris Peck. During his recent summers, he has traveled to the mountains to mentor with the Ancient Ones Frozen in Eternal Fire.
Guitarist Chris Forsyth lives in Brooklyn, NY, USA. His work is mainly concerned with exploring the limits and usage of sound as music and the guitar as a sound-generating device. He is a founding member of psi. Other activities include the "small speakers" project Wrasses; a long-running collaboration with Ernesto Diaz-Infante; the mysterious and rarely spotted quartet Phantom Limb & Bison; duo with Chris Heenan; and the civil twilight cover band Dirty Pool. He has performed in many corners of the US and Europe in all manner of venue.
Fritz Welch is an artist whose practice is equally divided between the sonic and visual realms. These concerns have been manifested in sound/sculpture/drawing installations, live improvisation, performance art, and studio recordings. He has exhibited in galleries and kunsthalles in the United States and Europe and has toured widely with groups including nihilistic improvisers psi and comedy/noise actionist Crank Sturgeon. His approach to non-specialization allows a cross-pollination feedback loop that heightens each creative act with clarity and immediacy. A nightmare contains the tools to sing the fields of focused chaos. Each individual work or gesture contains the sparse remnants of ruination that coexists within the rebuilt substructures of everyday life.
Life Partners (aka Crystal Cock Over Canada)
"There are some stories where every girl has a movie star face and a dirty book body. There are some stories where every guy can be God if he has the balls to stand there with 30 friends and strut around. The lives of the Life Partners are as lurid and unwitting as their music is gaudy and crude. Two boys, one blond and one brunette, went on a road trip to Texas with 250 dollars all in ones. They listened to the same Marty Robbins record over and over all the way across the state. They saw a pig get shot. They visited a hall covered in mirrors and commemorating the fame of Oral Roberts. By the time they came home they knew their American experience had made them partners for life, so they called themselves the Life Partners. The first thing they decided to do was start a fake band that would pass its recordings off as improvisations by 1970s Jamaican teen punks whose dads all worked at an army base. They recruited a girl who was obsessed with classical pianist Glenn Gould and wanted the brunette to marry her. Then they met a fantastic Canadian metal guitarist who was also the champ of his roller-hockey team, even though his dream was to play ice-hockey. The boys asked him to play drums, and the band was complete. An instant hit among the happening music scenesters around town, they play in the basements, the record stores, the abandoned warehouses, and the dive bars all over Boston. Their fans include dope-fiends who sell stolen VCRs out of the backs of cars, record collectors with restraining orders against then, art-school dropouts with misgivings about hygiene, and more. The Life Partners now have a record which conjures the ghosts of James Chance, the Collins Kids, and the Electric Eels, but ultimately sounds not quite like anyone else."
The Trust Riots http://www.scarcelight.org/ Mike Karadimos - bass/guitar/feedback/tapes
Chris Jeely - guitar/feedback/drums/tapes
The musical partnership of Chris Jeely and Mike Karadimos began in 1994 in the basement of Mike's parents' house, when Chris asked Mike to learn how to play bass. Over the last eleven years their individual paths have seen Mike play in a handful of bands (Trading Shirts, The Ashley Tremolo, [both w/ Chris] and Cherry Valence), while Chris later went on to record solo guitar work as Accelera Deck. A few attempts over the last five years have been made to record some of Mike's solo work, and recently Mike began engineering and producing the forthcoming Skulllike album,
Wide Awake.
From this fertile background has sprung The Trust Riots, which is a meeting point for both artists based on a mutual love of guitar feedback, and a desire to capture the spirit of early punk rock. Their sound revolves around the use of live processed guitars, laptop, and multiple tape players creating an atmosphere that is equal parts drone, noise, and found sound.
Lust Ionics http://vorg.net/csr/artistssonsoffire.htm LUST IONICS is Adam Kriney, Ed Chang, and Motoko Shimizu.
Here's what everyone does:
Adam Kriney: drums, percussion
Ed Chang: alto sax, electric guitar, homemade instruments
Motoko Shimizu: voice, toys, percussion, electric guitar
We play super destroying improvised music that ranges from grind-punk to improv-garage-rock to free-jazz to harsh-noise to free-metal.
"Live Singles In Providence aka Bloody-Fucking-Gore-Improv-No-Wave-Skronk-Meltdown presents a limited to 49 copies 3" of ecstatic-free-metal blowouts from these liberated-to-the-point-of-psychosis New York heads, featuring drummer Adam Kriney of Owl Sounds et al, Ed Chang on homemade reed instruments, â??demonizedâ?? alto sax, toolbox percussion, and ferocious noise guitar, and Motoko Shimzu on post-Patty Waters/Junko-styled high/death vocals. 9 short blasts of primitive Hijokaidan/Abe-Takayanagi attack strategies played by punks that donâ??t know any better. This is as crude as all hell."
Upcoming 611 Florida events:
11/5: Max Ochs (MD fingerpicker on Takoma's first compilation!)/Glenn Jones (of Cul De Sac, Strange Attractors)/Sean Smith (West Coast fingerpicker)
11/25: Mikroknytes/Mountains (NYC electro-acoustic instrumentalists)/Sharks With Wings (Philly psychedelic no-wavers)
January: Arthur Doyle!
