New upload: https://youtu.be/eJdZibneh08
https://www.discogs.com/Tabea-Blumenschein-Frieder-Butzmann-Gudrun-Gut-Bettina-K%C3%B6ster-White-Christmas/release/1107635
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Saturday, December 13, 2014
PHARMAKON w/ MUTWAWA and COTERIES Live at Sediment January 30th 2015
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| Poster by Claire Zitzow |
Friday, January 30, 2015 at 8 PM
Sediment Arts
208 E Grace St, Richmond, Virginia 23219
RVA Noise and Sediment Arts Present:
PHARMAKON
(NYC/Sacred Bones/Chondritic Sound/Bloodlust!)
http://
MUTWAWA
(RVA/Ormolycka/Chaotic Noise Productions/
COTERIES
(RVA) http://
18+
Doors 8PM Sounds 9PM
SEDIMENT
208 E Grace St Richmond VA 23219
http://sedimentarts.org/
"Margaret Chardiet was born and raised in New York City. She has been making power electronics/ death industrial music under the name Pharmakon for five years. As a founding member of the Red Light District collective in Far Rockaway, NY she has been a figurehead in the underground experimental scene since the age of seventeen. Several projects emerged from the Red Light home/ venue during the four years Chardiet lived there including Yellow Tears, and Halflings amongst others. She points out that the environment there amongst so many other experimental artists inspired her to keep pushing herself and making increasingly challenging work. She describes her drive to make noise music as something akin to an exorcism where she is able to express, her "deep-seated need/drive/urge/
Four days before New York noise musician Margaret Chardiet was supposed leave for her first European tour as Pharmakon, she had a medical emergency which resulted in a major surgery. Suddenly, instead of getting on a plane, she was bedridden for three weeks, missing an organ. "After seeing internal photographs taken during the surgery, I became hyperaware of the complex network of systems just beneath the skin, any of which were liable to fail or falter at any time," Chardiet said. "It all happened so fast and unexpectedly that my mind took a while to catch up to the reality of my recovery. I felt a widening divide between my physical and mental self. It was as though my body had betrayed me, acting as a separate entity from my consciousness. I thought of my corporeal body anthropomorphically, with a will or intent of its own, outside of my will's control, and seeking to sabotage. I began to explore the idea of the conscious mind as a stranger inside an autonomous vessel, and the tension that exists between these two versions of the self." Consumed by these ideas, and unable to leave her bed, Chardiet occupied herself by writing the lyrics and music that would become Bestial Burden, the second Pharmakon LP for Sacred Bones Records.
The record is a harrowing collection of deeply personal industrial noise tracks, each one brimming with struggle and weighted with the intensity of Chardiet's internal conflict. Bestial Burden was recorded at Heaven Street Records in Brooklyn, N.Y. with Sean Ragon (Cult of Youth, Venerence), who also recorded 2013's critically acclaimed Abandon. That album led to extensive touring with Swans, Godflesh, and The Haxan Cloak, as well as a litany of glowing press from the likes of Pitchfork (8.0 review), The New Yorker (full-page print feature), The New York Times, The Fader, The Wire, and more. As an avid listener of noise, industrial, and power electronics, Ragon understood that the usual rules of recording sometimes need to be thrown out the window to capture the best possible performance. He allowed Chardiet to experiment with a mix of live recording and tracking, and some of the vocals were recorded live with a small group of people packed into the studio so she could feed off their energy. The result of those sessions is the bar-raising follow-up to Abandon, and an invitation to go even deeper into the sometimes terrifying, always fascinating labyrinth that is Margaret Chardiet's mind."
RVA Noise and Sediment Arts Present:
PHARMAKON
(NYC/Sacred Bones/Chondritic Sound/Bloodlust!)
http://
MUTWAWA
(RVA/Ormolycka/Chaotic Noise Productions/
COTERIES
(RVA) http://
18+
Doors 8PM Sounds 9PM
SEDIMENT
208 E Grace St Richmond VA 23219
http://sedimentarts.org/
"Margaret Chardiet was born and raised in New York City. She has been making power electronics/ death industrial music under the name Pharmakon for five years. As a founding member of the Red Light District collective in Far Rockaway, NY she has been a figurehead in the underground experimental scene since the age of seventeen. Several projects emerged from the Red Light home/ venue during the four years Chardiet lived there including Yellow Tears, and Halflings amongst others. She points out that the environment there amongst so many other experimental artists inspired her to keep pushing herself and making increasingly challenging work. She describes her drive to make noise music as something akin to an exorcism where she is able to express, her "deep-seated need/drive/urge/
Four days before New York noise musician Margaret Chardiet was supposed leave for her first European tour as Pharmakon, she had a medical emergency which resulted in a major surgery. Suddenly, instead of getting on a plane, she was bedridden for three weeks, missing an organ. "After seeing internal photographs taken during the surgery, I became hyperaware of the complex network of systems just beneath the skin, any of which were liable to fail or falter at any time," Chardiet said. "It all happened so fast and unexpectedly that my mind took a while to catch up to the reality of my recovery. I felt a widening divide between my physical and mental self. It was as though my body had betrayed me, acting as a separate entity from my consciousness. I thought of my corporeal body anthropomorphically, with a will or intent of its own, outside of my will's control, and seeking to sabotage. I began to explore the idea of the conscious mind as a stranger inside an autonomous vessel, and the tension that exists between these two versions of the self." Consumed by these ideas, and unable to leave her bed, Chardiet occupied herself by writing the lyrics and music that would become Bestial Burden, the second Pharmakon LP for Sacred Bones Records.
The record is a harrowing collection of deeply personal industrial noise tracks, each one brimming with struggle and weighted with the intensity of Chardiet's internal conflict. Bestial Burden was recorded at Heaven Street Records in Brooklyn, N.Y. with Sean Ragon (Cult of Youth, Venerence), who also recorded 2013's critically acclaimed Abandon. That album led to extensive touring with Swans, Godflesh, and The Haxan Cloak, as well as a litany of glowing press from the likes of Pitchfork (8.0 review), The New Yorker (full-page print feature), The New York Times, The Fader, The Wire, and more. As an avid listener of noise, industrial, and power electronics, Ragon understood that the usual rules of recording sometimes need to be thrown out the window to capture the best possible performance. He allowed Chardiet to experiment with a mix of live recording and tracking, and some of the vocals were recorded live with a small group of people packed into the studio so she could feed off their energy. The result of those sessions is the bar-raising follow-up to Abandon, and an invitation to go even deeper into the sometimes terrifying, always fascinating labyrinth that is Margaret Chardiet's mind."
Monday, December 1, 2014
AUXILIARY : ACTION #34
Thursday, December 18, 2014 at 8:30pm
Brought to you by RVA NOISE
Featuring:
GEL SET (Chicago)
http://gelset.bandcamp.com/
MATCHESS (Chicago)
http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/matchess-the-need-of-the-greatest-wealth-mp3
With Local Support by:
SB & C (Stephen and Claire collab)
ROTTED EAR (Mutwawa/Head Molt shit noise crasher)
DOORS 8:30PM MUSIC 9:30PM SHARP
$5 -$10 DONATION SUGGESTED
at AUXILIARY*
Schedule:
09:30 - SB & C
10:00 - MATCHESS
10:30 - GEL SET
*RVA project space for underground/experimental/electronic/noise performance.
Contact us for details.
auxiliaryrva@gmail.com
Friday, November 21, 2014
AUXILIARY : ACTION #33
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 7:30pm
Brought to you by RVA NOISE
Featuring:
SNAKEHOLE (Miami)
http://snakehole666.bandcamp.com/releases
RAT BASTARD (Miami/Laundryroom Squelchers/To Live And Shave In LA/Scrapping Teeth)
With Local Support by:
ONE DARK EYE + INKLING JUROR (AL/RVA/COLLAB)
CAVES CAVERNS
OVARIAN SKULLS
DOORS 7:30PM MUSIC 8:30PM SHARP
$5 -$10 DONATION SUGGESTED
at AUXILIARY*
Schedule:
08:30 - OVARIAN SKULLS
09:00 - CAVES CAVERNS
09:30 - SNAKEHOLE
10:00 - RAT BASTARD
10:30 - ONE DARK EYE + INKLING JUROR
*RVA project space for underground/experimental/electronic/noise performance.
Contact us for details.
auxiliaryrva@gmail.com
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| Flyer by Josh Russlle |
Bye Buys
Gary Stevens & Justin Waters free jam at Auxiliary Richmond VA sometime in the fall of 2014. Filmed by Justin Waters. https://youtu.be/s2gon9n-oMo
View Justin's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/muguguymen
View Justin's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/muguguymen
Thursday, November 20, 2014
AUXILIARY : ACTION #32
Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 7:30pm
Brought to you by RVA NOISE
Featuring:
TIMEGHOST (Providence RI/Load Records)
https://soundcloud.com/nexykl
TWILIGHT MEMORIES OF THE THREE SUNS (Outer Space)
http://vimeo.com/3245608
With local Support by:
STONE GARDEN JAM TEMPLE (Inner Space)
FLESH CONTROL (RVA)
https://soundcloud.com/flesh-control
HUMAN SERVICES (Hampton)
www.human-services.com
LACANTHROPE (RVA)
DOORS 7:30PM MUSIC 8:30PM SHARP
$5 -$10 DONATION SUGGESTED
at AUXILIARY*
Schedule:
08:00 - Lacanthrope
08:30 - Flesh Control
09:00 - S.G.J.T.
09:30 - Twilight Memories
10:00 - Timeghost
10:30 - Human Services
*RVA project space for underground/experimental/electronic/noise performance.
Contact us for details.
auxiliaryrva@gmail.com
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
AUXILIARY : ACTION #31
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 7:30pm
Brought to you by RVA NOISE
Featuring:
PUCE MARY (Denmark/Freak Animal/Posh Isolation/Ascetic House)
http://pucemary.blogspot.com/
"Puce Mary is the solo project of Copenhagen-based experimental musician Frederikke Hoffmeier. Closely affiliated with the punk scene that grew out of the danish capital and spawned labels like Posh Isolation and bands like Iceage, Vår and Lust for Youth, Hoffmeier has chosen a somewhat different path. As a solo project, Puce Mary is constantly evolving and never stays in the same place for very long. Where the early tapes and records on danish label Posh Isolation have been minimal with a dark edge, Hoffmeier has recently showcased her diversity through live performances and collaborations"
RODGER STELLA (AL/Member of Macronympha/Hollow Bush)
http://rodgerstellawithcats.tumblr.com/
SCANT + COTERIES (Baltimore/RVA)
http://scant.bandcamp.com/
http://coteries.bandcamp.com/
With local support by:
CRACK BYTCH
LIGHT OF THE CROSS L.V.X.
DOORS 7:30PM MUSIC 8:30PM SHARP
$5 -$10 DONATION SUGGESTED
at AUXILIARY*
Schedule:
08:30 - L.O.T.C. L.V.X.
09:00 - Crack Bytch
09:30 - Scant + Coteries
10:00 - Puce Mary
10:30 - Rodger Stella
*RVA project space for underground/experimental/electronic/noise performance.
Contact us for details.
auxiliaryrva@gmail.com
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| Flyer by Iona Hall |
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Photos from Auxiliary: Action #27 by Joey Fichete
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| Profligate |
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| Profligate |
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| Mutwawa |
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| VVAQRT |
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| Profligate |
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| Profligate |
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| VVAQRT |
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| Secret Boyfriend |
Thursday, November 13, 2014
AUXILIARY : ACTION #30
Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 7:30pm
Brought to you by RVA NOISE
Featuring:
FLEX 1000 (Baltimore)
https://soundcloud.com/flex1000
GURL CRUSH (Baltimore)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f52qv9NtgwY
J.R.H.N.B.R. (Baltimore)
https://soundcloud.com/piglit-angelino
With local support by:
RHYTHM BANDIT (Cville)
PREFIX
DOORS 7:30PM MUSIC 8:30PM SHARP
$5 -$10 DONATION SUGGESTED
at AUXILIARY*
Schedule:
08:30 - Prefix
09:00 - Nu Depth
09:30 - J.R.H.N.B.R.
10:00 - Gurl Crush
10:30 - Flex 1000
*RVA project space for underground/experimental/electronic/noise performance.
Contact us for details.
auxiliaryrva@gmail.com
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| Flyer by: Iona Hall |
Photos from CHEAP FEST V by Joey Fichete
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| Clang Quartet |
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| Gene Pick |
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| Flesh Control |
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| Civic TV |
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| Radiator Greys |
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| Pubic Relations |
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| Clang Quartet |
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| Breakdancing Ronald Reagan |
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| Crowd outside the club |
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| Breakdancing Ronald Reagan |
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| Tinnitustimulus |
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| Extended Release |
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| Daggering |
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| Good Show Steve and J. Russ |
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| C10 |
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| Radiator Greys |
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| Pony Moon |
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| Breakdancing Ronald Reagan |
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| 10-56 |
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
AUXILIARY : ACTION #29
Monday, December 1, 2014 at 700pm
Brought to you by RVA NOISE
Featuring
RICK WEAVER (Baltimore)
https://soundcloud.comodempressmore008-rick-weaver-black
SPIRITUAL RECESS (Providence)
http://freemusicarchive.orgmusicspiritual_recess
With local support by
DAVID MARIE GARLAND
https://myspace.comdavidmariegarland
CREEPING
https://www.facebook.comWeBeCreeping
ANCIENT BROWSER
https://soundcloud.comancient-browser
DOORS 730PM MUSIC 830PM SHARP
$5 -$10 DONATION SUGGESTED
at AUXILIARY
Schedule
0830 - Ancient Browser
0900 - Creeping
0930 - David Marie Garland
1000 - Spiritual Recess
1030 - Rick Weaver
RVA project space for underground / experimental / electronic / noise performance.
Contact us for details.
auxiliaryrva@gmail.com
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
AUXILIARY : ACTION #28
Monday, November 17, 2014 at 7:00pm
Brought to you by RVA NOISE
Featuring:
SHREDDED NERVE (NYC)
http://chondriticsound.bandcamp.com/album/hanging-in-the-balance
SCANT (Baltimore)
http://scant.bandcamp.com/album/not-guilty-by-reason-of-mental-disease-or-defect
With local support by
FOSFORUS (RVA/Subklinic Presents)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvPNIE2X6WI
RICHARD RIPPER
FAKE OBJECT
DOORS 7:00PM MUSIC 8:00PM SHARP
$5 -$10 DONATION SUGGESTED
at AUXILIARY*
08:00 - Richard Ripper
08:30 - Fake Object
09:00 - Fosforus
09:30 - Scant
10:00 - Shredded Nerve
*RVA project space for underground/experimental/electronic/noise performance.
Contact us for details.
auxiliaryrva@gmail.com
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Saturday, November 1, 2014
AUXILIARY : ACTION #27
Friday, November 14, 2014 at 7:00pm
Brought to you by RVA NOISE
Featuring:
PROFLIGATE (Philly/Not Not Fun Records)
http://profligate.bandcamp.com/
VVAQRT
https://soundcloud.com/vvaqrt
http://www.vvaqrt.org/
SECRET BOYFRIEND (NC/Blackest Ever Black/Hot Releases)
http://blackesteverblack.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-always-where-youve-lived
QUICKSAILS (Chicago/Spectrum Spools)
http://youtu.be/T19y9do9SDs
KHAKI BLAZER (Ohio)
https://soundcloud.com/khaki-blazer
MUTWAWA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UUjfpdFf0Q
DOORS 7:00PM MUSIC 8:00PM SHARP
$5 -$10 DONATION SUGGESTED
at AUXILIARY*
Schedule:
08:00 - Mutwawa
08:30 - Khaki Blazer
09:00 - Quicksails
09:30 - Secret Boyfriend
10:00 - VVAQRT
10:30 - Profligate
*RVA project space for underground/experimental/electronic/noise performance.
Contact us for details.
auxiliaryrva@gmail.com
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
AUXILIARY : ACTION #26
Sunday, November 9, 2014 at 7:00pm
Brought to you by RVA NOISE
Featuring:
NOISE NOMADS (MA)
http://bonescraperrecordings.wordpress.com/
LE TRASH CAN (Mexico City)
http://godathletics.bandcamp.com/album/2
MJRICKIA (NYC)
https://soundcloud.com/mjrickia
With local support by:
FLOODBEAST
http://floodbeast.tumblr.com/
WARM WAR
http://m.soundcloud.com/joshua-rea-1/xxxxxx
DOORS 7:30PM MUSIC 8:30PM SHARP
$5 -$10 DONATION SUGGESTED
at AUXILIARY*
Schedule:
08:30 - Warm War
09:00 - Floodbeast
09:30 - Mjrickia
10:00 - Le Trash Can
10:30 - Noise Nomads
*RVA project space for underground/experimental/electronic/noise performance.
Contact us for details.
auxiliaryrva@gmail.com
AUXILIARY : ACTION #25
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 7:00pm
Brought to you by RVA NOISE
Featuring:
SCHWARZ (Baltimore)
https://soundcloud.com/schwarz420
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/schwarz-interview-profile-baltimore
ABDU ALI (Baltimore)
https://soundcloud.com/abduali
http://www.stereogum.com/1687300/abdu-ali-say-something-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
KILBOURNE (Baltimore)
https://soundcloud.com/kilbourne
http://schwarzabdualikilbournetour.tumblr.com/
With local support by:
MC NASDAQ
http://lordmcnasdaq.bandcamp.com/album/my-horse
LANGUAGE BOY
BUTTFINGER
http://soundcloud.com/toner/sets/buttfinger
http://buttfinger.bandcamp.com/
DOORS 7:00PM MUSIC 8:00PM SHARP
$5 -$10 DONATION SUGGESTED
at AUXILIARY*
Schedule:
08:00 - Buttfinger
08:30 - Language Boy
09:00 - Kilbourne
09:30 - Abdu Ali
10:00 - Schwarz
10:30 - Mc Nasdaq
*RVA project space for underground/experimental/electronic/noise performance.
Contact us for details.
auxiliaryrva@gmail.com
AUXILIARY : ACTION #24
Monday, November 3, 2014 at 7:00pm
Brought to you by RVA NOISE
Featuring:
MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED (Providence RI)
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Mincemeat_or_Tenspeed/
http://pitchfork.com/artists/28500-mincemeat-or-tenspeed
UNGUENT (Philly)
http://unguent.bandcamp.com/
SPIRITUAL RECESS (Providence RI)
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/spiritual_recess
BREATHING PROBLEM (Austin TX)
http://breathingproblem.bandcamp.com/
PUBLIC HEALTH (Austin TX)
With local support by:
COTERIES
FAKE OBJECT
DOORS 7:00PM MUSIC 8:00PM SHARP
$5 -$10 DONATION SUGGESTED
at AUXILIARY*
Schedule:
08:00 - Fake Object
08:30 - Coteries
09:00 - Public Health
09:30 - Breathing Problem
10:00 - Unguent
10:30 - Spiritual Recess
11:00 - Mincemeat or Tenspeed
*RVA project space for underground/experimental/electronic/noise performance.
Contact us for details.
auxiliaryrva@gmail.com
Monday, October 20, 2014
CHEAP FEST V Audio collage by Zobnoba Studios
"This is a sound collage of Cheapfest V. It occurred Oct 17+18 2014 in Richmond VA at Strange Matter. I recorded roughly 5 seconds of crowd banter and noise followed by roughly 30 seconds of each performer. Not all performers were recorded. I believe theres about 40 or so performers all together. This is the cheap version of Cheapfest V."
Check out their Soundcloud page here: https://soundcloud.com/zobnoba-studios
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
AUXILIARY : ACTION #23
Saturday, November 1, 2014 at 8:00pm
Brought to you by RVA NOISE
Featuring:
WORK/DEATH (Providence RI)
https://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/work-death-phone-about-to-ring
GORDON ASHWORTH (ex Oscillating Innards/Portland, OR) https://soundcloud.com/gordonashworth
With local support by:
BROWN PISS (Jason Hodges of Suppression/Mutwawa)
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Brown_Piss/
DYRT (Jonathan Citron of Daggering)
CREEPING (Jeff Plummer of Immaculate: Grotesque/Shallow Waters/Dreams & Death)
CRACK BYTCH
DOORS 7:00PM MUSIC 8:00PM SHARP
$5 -$10 DONATION SUGGESTED
at AUXILIARY*
08:00 - Crack Bytch
08:30 - Dyrt
09:00 - Creeping
09:30 - Brown Piss
10:00 - Gordon Ashworth
11:00 - Work/Death
*RVA project space for underground/experimental/electronic/noise performance.
Contact us for details.
auxiliaryrva@gmail.com
Friday, September 12, 2014
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Container, Timeghost, Mutwawa and Flesh Control at Sediment Arts - Style Weekly
Friday, Aug. 29. 7 p.m.
By Chris Bopst
Container
The problem I have with electronic music these days is that
most of what I hear sucks. It’s like sexless disco, lazy and inert, with
your proclivity for drug use in direct correlation to your appreciation
of the form. One notable exception is Container, the one-man,
Nintendo-techno freak-out of Ren Schofield. His is a brew of Krautrock
yearning, oppressive bass-booming propulsions and melodic noise.
“Adhesive,” the four-track EP that Schofield released this year on
Liberation Technologies, is my favorite electronic release since
Squarepusher’s 1997 EP “Big Loada,” and every time I put it on, I hear
something new. Container brings the noise to Sediment Arts on Friday,
Aug. 29. Timeghost from Providence, R.I., and Richmond’s own Mutwawa and
Flesh Control open. Doors open at 208 E. Grace St. at 7 p.m. Admission
is a suggested donation of $10-$15. sedimentarts.org.
Friday, August 22, 2014
Sediment Arts & RVA Noise Present Experimental Music & Sonic Art from Container & Jason Lescalleet - RVA MAG
From: http://rvamag.com/articles/full/23682/sediment-arts-rva-noise-present-experimental-music-sonic-art-from-container
Posted by: Necci – Aug 22, 2014
Over the next couple of weeks, Sediment Arts Gallery will be partnering with RVA Noise to bring two different performances featuring some of the leading creators of experimental noise currently working in the scene today. This will begin on Friday, August 29 with a performance from Providence, RI's Container, followed by an evening with Jason Lescalleet on Sunday, September 7.
Container has origins the basement noise ghetto, playing raw bare bones pulsing techno through a drum machine “groovebox” with spacefuckery feedback coming from a Tascam cassette 4-track recorder--the basement noise ghetto’s omnipresent consumer electronic home studio. Since his first 12”, Container tracks have resembled early Chicago acid house and Detroit techno dance cuts; think Ca$hmere’s “The Percolator”, melted down to Black Dice level.
Container’s “Acclimator” and “Perforate” are totally in the acid house zone, almost fitting into that Psychic TV fantasy--the “Jack the Tab” mirage, where warehouse industrial zone drowns in psychedelic techno repetition. Basic is brutal. Relentless disco drum machine beats, constant simple bass groove, and live feedback. Container is actually super danceable, much moreso than most of what circulates in the noise crowd these days. This is why Container has been able to transcend the warehouse/basement noise ghetto and make the festival circuit, playing actual European danceclubs, sealed with the approval of a set at Boiler Room, the UK based barometer of DJs worth partying with.
Last time he was in town, Container played the cramped Auxiliary basement space. This time, he’s getting the special event treatment in the clean, white-walled, high-ceilinged Sediment Gallery space at 208 E. Grace St in the Arts District. How many other downtown galleries will host Boiler Room-approved raw noise techno gigs?
Also coming down from Container’s hometown will be the freaky performance art/dark analog techno of Timeghost. Reason for anticipation of Timeghost’s performance aesthetic can be found in his quote to the Boston Hassle site: “I have new devices to run electrical current through my body and synthesizers. I had my face pierced to create port holes for a mouth-controlled voltage attenuator I built.” Container plays with the most appropriate local support, Mutwawa, who jam an even more melted down, bad-acid-trip, Chrome-ish take on noise dudes playing techno. Their recent Balliceaux gig included stretches of horror-movie-soundtrack synth lines and the metal-on-metal abuse of some sort of Stargate-y copper cymbal sphere. The show will have a proper sound system for sure; the vibe will be good. The whole thing starts on Friday, August 29 at 7 PM. There is a suggested donation of $10-15. For more info, click here.
Then, on September 7, Jason Lescalleet returns to Richmond for another performance of meticulous loops and electronic manipulation. This longtime New England experimental musician (his remix/collage skills were even on the closing track of Bane's 1999 LP It All Comes Down To This, for those who always need some reference to 90s hardcore) plays long, seemingly endless sets of ambient drone and field recordings. The sets also feature moments of harsh noise, and usually incorporate a joke where the maestro subtly (or not so subtly) sinks a pop song or hip hop hook into the layers.
Alongside vintage Walkmans and a laptop, the awesome centerpieces of Lescalleet’s sprawling table of gear are two reel-to-reel tape machines stretched across the table, with what looks like almost twenty feet of recording tape stretched into one loop between the machines. You’ll see Lescalleet expertly stretch and manipulate the tape’s length and speed, and hear it--not always instantly--play into the set’s loops and drones. Sometimes the magnetic tape abuse is like a loose thunderclap. At other times its an abrupt switch to DJ Screw tempo. Lescalleet is seriously into tape loops--his email address is tapeloops@hotmail and his Facebook name is Tape Loops.
Lescalleet even goes so far as to destroy parts of the tape, causing the sounds to deteriorate moreso with each cycle of the reel-to-reel machines. This gives the performance the same taste of unique impermanence that you might also get from a loose Christian Marclay record or a less tragic version of Disintegration Loops by William Basinski. Lescalleet’s last two performances in Richmond were seated shows, definitely not for those who lack patience, given the sprawl and often glacial pace of Lescalleet’s material. A seated audience can definitely meditate in the drifts of low-end drone and masterful layers of looping and heady primitive analog phasing.
Lescalleet will precede his performance with a screening of his film Trophy Tape, a collection of videos for songs from his 2012 album, Songs About Nothing. The film is curated by Lescalleet and includes contributions from a stable of Midwest noise big names like former Wolf Eyes madman Aaron Dilloway, Hair Police’s Robert Beatty, and No Fun Fest star C. Spencer Yeh, along with modern video artists Ellen Frances (NYC) and Heidi Alasuvanto (Finland).
The sole local support for Lescalleet’s acts will be Photoblaster, aka Broadcastatic, the multimedia/noise performance handle for Tommy Birchett, wherein audio and video inputs feedback into another, and walls of harsh tones interact with stacks of televisions and surveillance video monitors. The result is a meeting of no-input noise manipulation/confusion with the high concept cathode ray patterns Nam June Paik’s video installations. This event will start at 7 PM on Sunday, September 7. Suggested donation is $7-15. For more info, click here.
By J. Russell
Posted by: Necci – Aug 22, 2014
Over the next couple of weeks, Sediment Arts Gallery will be partnering with RVA Noise to bring two different performances featuring some of the leading creators of experimental noise currently working in the scene today. This will begin on Friday, August 29 with a performance from Providence, RI's Container, followed by an evening with Jason Lescalleet on Sunday, September 7.
Container has origins the basement noise ghetto, playing raw bare bones pulsing techno through a drum machine “groovebox” with spacefuckery feedback coming from a Tascam cassette 4-track recorder--the basement noise ghetto’s omnipresent consumer electronic home studio. Since his first 12”, Container tracks have resembled early Chicago acid house and Detroit techno dance cuts; think Ca$hmere’s “The Percolator”, melted down to Black Dice level.
Container’s “Acclimator” and “Perforate” are totally in the acid house zone, almost fitting into that Psychic TV fantasy--the “Jack the Tab” mirage, where warehouse industrial zone drowns in psychedelic techno repetition. Basic is brutal. Relentless disco drum machine beats, constant simple bass groove, and live feedback. Container is actually super danceable, much moreso than most of what circulates in the noise crowd these days. This is why Container has been able to transcend the warehouse/basement noise ghetto and make the festival circuit, playing actual European danceclubs, sealed with the approval of a set at Boiler Room, the UK based barometer of DJs worth partying with.
Last time he was in town, Container played the cramped Auxiliary basement space. This time, he’s getting the special event treatment in the clean, white-walled, high-ceilinged Sediment Gallery space at 208 E. Grace St in the Arts District. How many other downtown galleries will host Boiler Room-approved raw noise techno gigs?
Also coming down from Container’s hometown will be the freaky performance art/dark analog techno of Timeghost. Reason for anticipation of Timeghost’s performance aesthetic can be found in his quote to the Boston Hassle site: “I have new devices to run electrical current through my body and synthesizers. I had my face pierced to create port holes for a mouth-controlled voltage attenuator I built.” Container plays with the most appropriate local support, Mutwawa, who jam an even more melted down, bad-acid-trip, Chrome-ish take on noise dudes playing techno. Their recent Balliceaux gig included stretches of horror-movie-soundtrack synth lines and the metal-on-metal abuse of some sort of Stargate-y copper cymbal sphere. The show will have a proper sound system for sure; the vibe will be good. The whole thing starts on Friday, August 29 at 7 PM. There is a suggested donation of $10-15. For more info, click here.
Then, on September 7, Jason Lescalleet returns to Richmond for another performance of meticulous loops and electronic manipulation. This longtime New England experimental musician (his remix/collage skills were even on the closing track of Bane's 1999 LP It All Comes Down To This, for those who always need some reference to 90s hardcore) plays long, seemingly endless sets of ambient drone and field recordings. The sets also feature moments of harsh noise, and usually incorporate a joke where the maestro subtly (or not so subtly) sinks a pop song or hip hop hook into the layers.
Alongside vintage Walkmans and a laptop, the awesome centerpieces of Lescalleet’s sprawling table of gear are two reel-to-reel tape machines stretched across the table, with what looks like almost twenty feet of recording tape stretched into one loop between the machines. You’ll see Lescalleet expertly stretch and manipulate the tape’s length and speed, and hear it--not always instantly--play into the set’s loops and drones. Sometimes the magnetic tape abuse is like a loose thunderclap. At other times its an abrupt switch to DJ Screw tempo. Lescalleet is seriously into tape loops--his email address is tapeloops@hotmail and his Facebook name is Tape Loops.
Lescalleet even goes so far as to destroy parts of the tape, causing the sounds to deteriorate moreso with each cycle of the reel-to-reel machines. This gives the performance the same taste of unique impermanence that you might also get from a loose Christian Marclay record or a less tragic version of Disintegration Loops by William Basinski. Lescalleet’s last two performances in Richmond were seated shows, definitely not for those who lack patience, given the sprawl and often glacial pace of Lescalleet’s material. A seated audience can definitely meditate in the drifts of low-end drone and masterful layers of looping and heady primitive analog phasing.
Lescalleet will precede his performance with a screening of his film Trophy Tape, a collection of videos for songs from his 2012 album, Songs About Nothing. The film is curated by Lescalleet and includes contributions from a stable of Midwest noise big names like former Wolf Eyes madman Aaron Dilloway, Hair Police’s Robert Beatty, and No Fun Fest star C. Spencer Yeh, along with modern video artists Ellen Frances (NYC) and Heidi Alasuvanto (Finland).
The sole local support for Lescalleet’s acts will be Photoblaster, aka Broadcastatic, the multimedia/noise performance handle for Tommy Birchett, wherein audio and video inputs feedback into another, and walls of harsh tones interact with stacks of televisions and surveillance video monitors. The result is a meeting of no-input noise manipulation/confusion with the high concept cathode ray patterns Nam June Paik’s video installations. This event will start at 7 PM on Sunday, September 7. Suggested donation is $7-15. For more info, click here.
By J. Russell
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Yezda Urfa - 3, Almost 4, 6, Yea - excerpt (1989)
New upload: https://youtu.be/UYHSdfC9WHA
An excerpt from the song "3, Almost 4, 6, Yea" by Yezda Urfa from the 1989 album "Sacred Baboon" http://www.discogs.com/Yezda-Urfa-Sacred-Baboon/master/245487
An excerpt from the song "3, Almost 4, 6, Yea" by Yezda Urfa from the 1989 album "Sacred Baboon" http://www.discogs.com/Yezda-Urfa-Sacred-Baboon/master/245487
Dün - L'Epice - excerpt (1981)
New upload: https://youtu.be/-TW8QOQYCmk
An excerpt from the song "L'Epice" by Dün from the 1981 album "Eros" http://www.discogs.com/D%C3%BCn-Eros/...
An excerpt from the song "L'Epice" by Dün from the 1981 album "Eros" http://www.discogs.com/D%C3%BCn-Eros/...
Weidorje - Vilna - excerpt (1978)
New upload: https://youtu.be/Jo__klVVQj8
An excerpt from the song "Vilna" by Weidorje from the 1978 album "Weidorje" http://www.discogs.com/Weidorje-Weido...
An excerpt from the song "Vilna" by Weidorje from the 1978 album "Weidorje" http://www.discogs.com/Weidorje-Weido...
Monday, August 18, 2014
AUXILIARY : ACTION #21
Monday, September 22, 2014 at 8:00pm
FATHER FINGER (Providence RI/Not Not Fun)
https://soundcloud.com/kylie-lance
CHICKLETTE (NYC/Hundebiss)
https://soundcloud.com/chicklette
With local support by:
NU DEPTH (CVille)
http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/articles/golden-blonde-travis-egedy-on-nu-depth/
FLOODBEAST
http://floodbeast.tumblr.com/
LIGHT OF THE CROSS LVX
Sounds provided by DJ Floodbeast
DOORS 8PM MUSIC 9PM SHARP
$5 -$10 DONATION SUGGESTED
at AUXILIARY*
Schedule:
09:00 - LOTC LVX
09:30 - Floodbest
10:00 - Chicklette
10:30 - Father Finger
11:00 - Nu Depth
*RVA NOISE project space for underground/experimental/electronic/noise performance.
Contact us for details.
auxiliaryrva@gmail.com
Landed - Untitled (1998)
New upload: https://youtu.be/RxEhpB2Bof4
Track 7 from Everything's Happening LP (Vermiform Records-1998)
http://www.discogs.com/Landed-Everyth...
Track 7 from Everything's Happening LP (Vermiform Records-1998)
http://www.discogs.com/Landed-Everyth...
Germain Hubert Ales - Chocolats Calins - excerpt (1982)
New upload: https://youtu.be/-3G5bMJ1icg
An excerpt from the song "Chocolats Calins" by Germain Hubert Ales from the 1982 7" EP "Mini 33 Tours" http://www.discogs.com/Germain-Hubert-Ales-Mini-33-Tours/release/719276
An excerpt from the song "Chocolats Calins" by Germain Hubert Ales from the 1982 7" EP "Mini 33 Tours" http://www.discogs.com/Germain-Hubert-Ales-Mini-33-Tours/release/719276
Ghédalia Tazartès - Tazartes Transports 2 (1980)
New upload: https://youtu.be/uSOPnjaW74s
Artist: Ghédalia Tazartès
Title: Tazartes Transports 2
Album: Tazartès' Transports
Label: Cobalt – CBL 05
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: France
Released: 1980
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental
http://www.discogs.com/Gh%C3%A9dalia-...
Additional Links:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gh%C3%A...
http://julietippex.com/roster/ghedali...
Artist: Ghédalia Tazartès
Title: Tazartes Transports 2
Album: Tazartès' Transports
Label: Cobalt – CBL 05
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: France
Released: 1980
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental
http://www.discogs.com/Gh%C3%A9dalia-...
Additional Links:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gh%C3%A...
http://julietippex.com/roster/ghedali...
Can't - Crazy Cat (2004)
New upload: https://youtu.be/t1bHWpgSqic
Artist: Can't
Title: Crazy Cat
Album: Can't – Final Performance
Label: RRRecords – none
Format: CDr
Country: US
Released: 2004
Genre: Electronic
Style: Noise, Experimental
http://www.discogs.com/Cant-Final-Per...
Additional Links:
http://www.irfp.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica...
Artist: Can't
Title: Crazy Cat
Album: Can't – Final Performance
Label: RRRecords – none
Format: CDr
Country: US
Released: 2004
Genre: Electronic
Style: Noise, Experimental
http://www.discogs.com/Cant-Final-Per...
Additional Links:
http://www.irfp.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica...
The Screamin' Mee-Mees - Answer Me! (1996)
New upload: https://youtu.be/5e0VqWNIMT8
Artist: The Screamin' Mee-Mees
Title: Answer Me!
Album: The Screamin' Mee-Mees – Answer Me!
Label: Brinkman Records – BRS064
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1996
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Punk
Credits:
Drums, Vocals – Jon Ashline
Guitar – Bruce Cole
Producer – Miroslaw Fernandez
http://www.discogs.com/Screamin-Mee-M...
Additional Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screami...
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Screamin...
Artist: The Screamin' Mee-Mees
Title: Answer Me!
Album: The Screamin' Mee-Mees – Answer Me!
Label: Brinkman Records – BRS064
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1996
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Punk
Credits:
Drums, Vocals – Jon Ashline
Guitar – Bruce Cole
Producer – Miroslaw Fernandez
http://www.discogs.com/Screamin-Mee-M...
Additional Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screami...
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Screamin...
Vomit Launch - Life Sucks (1988)
New upload: https://youtu.be/C5ILuBEL88o
Artist: Vomit Launch
Title: Life Sucks
Album: Various – The Thing That Ate Floyd
Label: Lookout! Records – Lookout 011
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: Dec 1988
Genre: Rock
Style: Hardcore, Punk
Credits:
Bass, Keyboards [Casio], Jew's Harp – Lawrence Crane
Drums – Steve Bragg
Guitar – Lindsey Thrasher
Vocals, Viola – Patricia de Rowland
Engineer – Greg Freeman
http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Th...
Additional Links:
http://www.vomitlaunch.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomit_L...
Artist: Vomit Launch
Title: Life Sucks
Album: Various – The Thing That Ate Floyd
Label: Lookout! Records – Lookout 011
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: Dec 1988
Genre: Rock
Style: Hardcore, Punk
Credits:
Bass, Keyboards [Casio], Jew's Harp – Lawrence Crane
Drums – Steve Bragg
Guitar – Lindsey Thrasher
Vocals, Viola – Patricia de Rowland
Engineer – Greg Freeman
http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Th...
Additional Links:
http://www.vomitlaunch.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomit_L...
Violent Onsen Geisha - Like A Bob DYLAAAN (1998)
New upload: https://youtu.be/baS5bjpdzig
Artist: Violent Onsen Geisha
Title: Like A Bob DYLAAAN,
Album: Various – Angels Of Life In A Psychic Wasteland
Label: Eerie Materials – EerieSW 002
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1998
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Non-Music, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Experimental
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Angels...
Additional Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaya_...
Artist: Violent Onsen Geisha
Title: Like A Bob DYLAAAN,
Album: Various – Angels Of Life In A Psychic Wasteland
Label: Eerie Materials – EerieSW 002
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1998
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Non-Music, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Experimental
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Angels...
Additional Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaya_...
Christine Shields - Monkey Goes To The Moon (2001)
New upload: https://youtu.be/srDmbD-XPuI
Artist: Christine Shields
Title: Monkey Goes To The Moon
Album: Various – Leave Your Body Behind
Label: Tedium House Publications – BF15
Format: CD, Album, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2001
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Noise, Avantgarde, Experimental
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Leave-...
Additional Links:
http://www.orangezest.com/cs
https://myspace.com/christinephrisgne...
Artist: Christine Shields
Title: Monkey Goes To The Moon
Album: Various – Leave Your Body Behind
Label: Tedium House Publications – BF15
Format: CD, Album, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 2001
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Noise, Avantgarde, Experimental
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Leave-...
Additional Links:
http://www.orangezest.com/cs
https://myspace.com/christinephrisgne...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
RVA NOISE LOTTO - 2014
Sunday, October 5, 2014 at 8 PM
RVA NOISE Presents the First Annual RVA NOISE LOTTO!
A mini fundraiser for CHEAP FEST V
Participants were randomly selected and assigned into
four trios....each performing a special improvised set.
Trio 1: Van Ficken / Jeff Plummer / Joe Legzz aka MILEYCYRUS
Trio 2: Charlanne McCarthy / Gary Stevens / Eric Tomillon
Trio 3: Leo Heinzel / Peekaboo Icup Tasteater / Xylon Otterburn aka THOUGHTLESS SCRATCH
Trio 4: Kyle Flanagan / Jacob Bickers / Rachel Nicole Foley aka Areola 51
DOORS 8PM MUSIC 9PM SHARP
$5 -$10 DONATION SUGGESTED
at AUXILIARY*
*RVA project space for underground/experimental/
Contact us for details.
auxiliaryrva@gmail.com
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