The trailer for the upcoming phog masheeen CD The Eternal Battle of Heat and Cold is out now! Tell your friends! There is a narrative, three characters and lots of rage. Spread it around!
You dear reader, can catch a dry run of the !NEW!, MORE BRUTAL, MORE RUTHLESS phog masheeen assault on Aug. 10 atMeowmeowz Rock Shopin Pasadena. The name of the new show is "Tinnitus 2 GO!" You heard it here first! But you wont hear it for long if you don't use earplugs. Scathing, Cavernous and Transformative.
Phog masheeen is a sound art/video collective from Costa Mesa, California that focuses on using aerophones, idiophones and electronics for performance and sound design. Audio portions are accompanied by live mixed video.
William Almas and Mark Soden Jr. constitute the phog masheeen core performers.
Home-brew instruments, common objects and extended techniques involving dry ice are common features of phog masheeen performances.
The works of phog masheeen have been presented at the Boise Creative and Improvised Music Festival, Boise ID; Sonic Circuits, Washington DC; Electro-Music, Philadelphia, PA; Santa Ana Noise Festival, Santa Ana CA; Norcal Noisefest, Sacramento, CA; Wonder Valley Experimental Festival III, Wonder Valley, CA; Spring Reverb, San Diego, CA: Outsound New Music Summit, Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA, San Francisco, CA; 8 Bit noise art @ Leadway, Chicago, Il; Zoom 2, Torrance, CA; Jawbone Canyon IV, Mojave, CA, Dung Mummy VI, Apple Valley, CA, Los Angeles Downtown Film Festival, The Soundwalk, Long Beach, CA, The Orange County Fair, Costa Mesa, CA and the Long Beach Pump opening night party.