Collecting gear and packing for the trip to Boston.
It is a bit like herding cats and packaging them so the TSA wont kill them in transit.
Bill and I are heading out on a red-eye on Thursday to arrive early Friday.
Buy dry-ice and check the show at 119 Gallery on Friday night then we are on for two shows and a talk Sunday afternoon.
Here are the particulars. If you are in the Boston area and come to the show I would love to meet you, please hit me up for swag or something.
Saturday Show
119 Gallery, 119 Chelmsford St, Lowell MA 01851
978-452-8138 8PM
978-452-8138 8PM
Phog Masheen + Auddity
WhenSat, April 2, 8pm – 9pm
DescriptionPhog Masheen (from Los Angeles) investigates noise as post-millenial folk music, unusual uses of resonant chambers, and sound as an object that can be stretched, inverted and mutilated. Hear the otherworldly sounds of the Duodenum, an instrument made from the exhaust manifold of a motorcycle and played with dry ice and blowtorch. Auddity (from Massacusetts) combine drones, free improvisation and whirled music grooves creating soundscapes utilizing traditional and invented instruments. Erik Nugent (playing his invention The Nu, a chromatic didgeridoo, as well as slide bagpipes, slide clarinet, overtone singing), Eric Dahlman (trumpets, voice, pasta tin), and Michael Knoblach (percussion, voice) bring humor, amazing technical skills, and fearless experimentation to their improvised performances. Sponsored by Vanessa/Lunar Plexus.
Sunday 3 April @ Outpost, 1-3pm, $5 donation
The Changing Context of Improvisation:
Unplayable Instruments, Disaster Management and the Safe Handling of Dry Ice
A workshop with Mark Soden of Phog Masheen
Phog Masheen (from Los Angeles) investigates noise as post-millenial folk music, unusual uses of resonant chambers, and sound as an object that can be stretched, inverted, and manipulated like sculpture. In this discussion/hands-on workshop, explore topics such as:
· The vuvuzela: was the 2010 World Cup a defining public noise performance or an act of audio terrorism?
· Voted Off the Island: the rise of reality television and its effect on the perception of improvisation.
· Dwellers of the Land that Time Forgot: drum circle, sweat lodge, the trance dehydration vortex.
· The rise of dissonance: cognitive, auditory, economic and political. If noise is the soundtrack of our times, what of the future?
· Loosening the lug nuts on the wheels of orchestration.
· Is the audience part of the performance?
· High Art vs. roadside attraction: some thoughts on community action.
The Changing Context of Improvisation:
Unplayable Instruments, Disaster Management and the Safe Handling of Dry Ice
A workshop with Mark Soden of Phog Masheen
Phog Masheen (from Los Angeles) investigates noise as post-millenial folk music, unusual uses of resonant chambers, and sound as an object that can be stretched, inverted, and manipulated like sculpture. In this discussion/hands-on workshop, explore topics such as:
· The vuvuzela: was the 2010 World Cup a defining public noise performance or an act of audio terrorism?
· Voted Off the Island: the rise of reality television and its effect on the perception of improvisation.
· Dwellers of the Land that Time Forgot: drum circle, sweat lodge, the trance dehydration vortex.
· The rise of dissonance: cognitive, auditory, economic and political. If noise is the soundtrack of our times, what of the future?
· Loosening the lug nuts on the wheels of orchestration.
· Is the audience part of the performance?
· High Art vs. roadside attraction: some thoughts on community action.
Sunday Show
Phog Masheen Xiphoid Dementia Blac Bloc
Frkse
Trachypithecene Entity
It will be at Starlab, 32 Prospect St, Somerville, MA, Sunday April 3 at 8 PM
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