WVE 12 now a Zoom event, August 15, 2020 Starts at Noon!

Here is the line up for WVE 12. It will be a zoom event. We are starting at Noon for our European, and East Coast friends. Still Fun and Free! Come spend the afternoon with us!

Happy New Years! On to 2020!

As we roll into 2020 we wish you all a happy NYE and mirth and merriment in the new year!
Dig the cool new flyer for WVE12 with Joe Alvarez art and William Almas Layout. It will be here before you know it. Mark the calendar!

Ten days to Phogust!

We are ten days away from a festive night of Bent Broken and Appropriated sound!
Enjoy the coolness of the Coastal Layer in San Pedro and revel in the million dollar view from the parking area! It must be seen to be believed!

Next up: The Orange County Fair!
7-22-18 at 11:45 AM, On the Plaza Pacifica Stage phog masheeen returns for a third time to bring experimental music to the OC Fair. I never thought I would see it to be honest with you.
If you happen to want an early start to your fair day come by and check us out!

The countdown is on to WVE10!

Yes, it is true that some people wait till the last minute to make plans.
This is the last minute, make plans and come out to Wonder Valley for WVE10!
Don't plan ahead! Have immediate gratification! It is here! We will see you the last day of March!

Phog Masheeen Returns to the OC Fair July 15th, 12:45 Plaza Stage. New video from William Almas!

Phog Masheeen Returns to the OC Fair July 15th, 12:45 Plaza Stage. Mark your calendar. It will be fun!

Here is the event page for our Fair day!

https://www.facebook.com/events/249089738926804


Here is the new Video from William Almas! It is epic! Soundtrack recorded by Ann De Jarnett, Christine Tasche, Tom Holland and produced by yours truely. It is Titled "Samson."

Coming this Saturday! Soundpedro!

 

Soundpedro drops Saturday June 3rd at 5:00 pm. Fun and Free! A great line up! All your friends will be there...

My trip to the Circus, or trippin' on the circus...

The Get-Up, Silver Hat & Gloves, Lester Bowie influenced Lab Coat, 

 

 

 

The Work Station

There is a great thing in Joshua Tree, it is the Zircon & Wish Circus! I was honored to be part of the Ted Quinn Ensemble that closed the show on 12-26-16. Other performers in the Quinn ensemble were, Jeff Boaz, Leslie Mariah Andrews, Kip Powell, Lisa Mednick Powell and Sage Quinn-Blair.
We performed three of Ted's songs and Little Drummer Boy featuring Sage on drums.

The hosts of the event were the Aerial performing artists  Jim Zircon Oliver and Wish PoolOxte. They ended the second set of aerial performances with an amazing duet!  

Aydra and Emvy Performed as BELLSTARR. Aydra singing while spinning in the air hanging from a hula-hoop shaped trapeze.

BELLSTARR, Dishing up healthy servings of Electro-pop. Literally, raising the bar for vocal performance.

Instant interview with East Coast Guitar Legend Tim Mungenast....

Tim Mungenast Photo by Glenn Kulbako.

Here is an instant interview with Tim Mungenast, an experimental guitarist currently residing in Albany, New York.

Today 9-15-2016

2:57pm
Tim Mungenast ...and HELLO again! :D

2:58pm
Mark A. Soden Jr. Interviews: that sounds like fun what are you up to right now

3:02pm
Tim M about to eat dinner but that's not a big obstacle. we can do this. wheee!

3:05pm
Mark S OK will make this short and sweet. I will ask three questions, what is the most important musical piece to you? what are your musical plans? What is the most fun you have had playing music?

3:06pm
Tim M typing with my mouth full is not nearly as rude as speaking that way, yes?

3:06pm
Mark S We can do this with typing that way you can eat freely and it won't sound like anything.

3:06pm
Tim M I will put a chunk of dry ice on my keyboard...
Okay, question 1...
do you mean one of my tunes or someone else's
i'll assume someone else's music, in which case, my choice is...
at this moment in time? i'd say "freedom" by jimi hendrix

3:09pm
Mark S It can't be either yours or someone else's

3:09pm
Tim M okay, then! we can put a checkmark next to #1

3:09pm
Mark S What about freedom hooked you?

3:09pm
Tim M question #2... my plans?
ah, "freedom" had maybe the most propulsive hook ever created
...and a very positive message of human potential

3:10pm
Mark S Hooks are a great thing. It speaks to the lizard brain.

3:10pm
Tim M...killer solos, and vocals, too
for sure, the lizard brain isn't all bad. :D
it gets a bad rap.

3:11pm
Mark S I would say in general people spend more time using the lizard brain then they would like to admit

3:11pm
Tim M hahahaha! I'd put money on it, yes.

3:11pm
Mark S Especially when they're operating heavy equipment like cars

3:12pm
Tim M Yeah, you need ALL your brain for that, at least if you want to do it right and not drive like a New Englander.
...or a denizen of NYC and environs.

3:13pmMark S Well, you guys have weather. Bad drivers in Los Angeles have no excuse...

3:13pm
Tim M hahahahaha! Agreed.
3:14pm
Mark S So back to plans what have you got going?

3:16pm
Tim M Last summer I recorded an album as guest axeman for my friends' band Astro Al (a husband/wife band specializing in weird poetry soundscapes), and a week or so ago we recorded the followup, which is so far sounding even better and more fun.
...and I am on 6 of 18 songs on Eric Dahlman's "Glacier" album.

3:17pm
Mark S Outstanding! Is that on Bandcamp or sound cloud where can one get to this?

3:17pm

Tim M let me check my emails 
i have the URL somewhere

3:18pm
Mark S Eric Dahlman is brilliant he turned a great set at wonder Valley experimental last year.

3:19pm
Tim M Yes, he is a great friend and collaborator, an excellent musician with a very strong sense of melody

3:19pm
Tim M   https://ericdahlman1.bandcamp.com/album/glacier

3:19pm
Mark S Most definitely the sense of melody and his ability to like take a melody for a walk is amazing.

3:20pm
Tim M yessir! we also are planning a new album

3:20pm
Mark S Cool!

3:20pm
Tim M we recorded it 2 years ago in an abandoned railway tunnel in clinto, mass.
 clinton

3:20pm
Mark SAnd the ever popular topic of fun!

3:21pm
Tim M it sounds really good
ah, i saw whatcha did there

3:21pm
Mark S Our third and final question the most fun you've had musically?

3:21pm
Tim M we are very close to tying up all the loose ends. the acoustics in that tunnel were amazing!
oh, that's a good one!
 lemme cogitate a minute...

3:22pm
Mark S We might be able to do something like at that in a storm drain out here. What with the ongoing drought we don't have much use for them.

3:22pm
Tim M yes! good sound is truly where you find it.
most fun, eh?

3:22pmMark S Sometimes where you least expect it.

3:24pm
Tim M yes! regarding musical fun, a strong contender would be the aforementioned session in the train tunnel and the associated road trips (we went back a year later for the photo shoot)
Eric is great to work with partly because he is great to hang out with

3:24pm
Mark S How did you find this tunnel?

3:26pm
Tim M Eric and I are both railroad geeks as well as avanguardians... railroad sounds really feed into the idea of beautiful noise, accidental sonic beauty... and Eric knows his trivia as far as routes and tunnels and which train runs where, while I'm mostly about the locomotives and the associated lore.

3:26pm
Tim M It was Eric's idea and I instantly knew it was a good one. He'd recorded in there before.

3:26pm
Mark S Wow that's so cool.

3:27pm
Tim M Yeah!

3:27pmMark S Is there anything else you'd like to add?

3:27pm
Tim M (something resembling a thought skitters around Tim's brain, like subatomic particles in a cloud chamber.)
...processing...

3:29pm
Mark S I love those cloud chamber 16 mm films they used to show in science class.

3:29pm
Tim M for someone who loves to be interviewed, i'm sure coming up dry right now...

3:29pm
Mark S Then I guess were done…

3:29pm
Tim M oh yeah, anything related to olde-tyme school science education is great.

3:30pm
Mark S What I loved about those science films was there was no hint of insincerity or irony.

3:30pm
Tim M I have a lot of the fifties/sixties science books from grade school
they are cheap on ebay for those of us hell-bent on recapturing the great moments of our childhoods.
even the worst childhhod has SOME happy memories unless you grew up in a war zone (God protect those who do!)

3:31pm
Mark SAnd there are many of us who are hellbent on doing just that.

3:31pm
Tim M Final idea...
YES!
Not my idea, but I live by it: It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

3:32pm
Mark S Have a great evening I need to run along now.

3:32pm
Tim M Good evening to you too, Mark! Thanks! This was fun!

3:33pm
Mark S Fun and painless!











See phog masheeen at Hyperion Tavern next Wednesday 8-24-16

Phog masheeen is coming to Hyperion Tavern Wednesday 8-24-16 for Don Bolles Hushe Club. We will be rolling out a new approach for this show. Come down and check it out!  Also on the bill, Justice Yeldham.

Next up is the San Francisco pre-show for the NorCal Noisefest at the Luggage Store in San Francisco!  This is Thursday Sept. 29th at 8:00 pm. The Luggage Store Gallery

1007 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94103. We don't come to San Francisco often, come on down and check out the new setup!

Thanks to eveyone who came to the OC Fair

Thanks to everyone that came to the OC Fair to see us! Thanks to the crew at the Plaza Pacifica Stage for making it so easy to sound so good! It was great fun. 

Next up Norcal Noisefest!

"We Are Phog Masheeen" Ad for the Orange County Fair!

Here is another helpful reminder that YOU need to mark your calendar to be at the OC Fair at 11:45 Saturday July 16th at the Plaza Pacifica Stage for the Phog Masheeen Brunch Set! Not to be missed!

The Silent movie remake of a Sci-Fi epic, The OC Fair!

Upcoming for phog masheeen is a video/live performance event in Joshua Tree promoted by Space Cowboy Books. www.spacecowboybooks.com
For those of you who know my facebook rants, you are undoubtedly aware of a certain movie that I have watched repeatedly over a number of years. Think Howard Hughes and Ice Station Zebra...
The film in question was not a blockbuster or a cult film and these days has settled into light rotation on Spanish language channels.
What I saw in the film was what could have been an experimental film, was instead a poorly cut bloated event that featured all the bankable stars from the early '90's.
What if, that film was re-cut to one hour, moved like lightning and returned to its edgy experimental roots....as a silent film....with phog masheeen providing the soundtrack.

YOU can experience this at the Sun Alley Shops stage, For FREE on Friday June 17th at 8:00 PM.
There will also be a reading by Mari Collier at 7:00 pm.
The address is 61871 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree, CA 92252

Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/495445393974743/

Here is the short map link:
https://goo.gl/maps/GBha5EhEATs



Don't forget! Phog Masheeen is coming to the OC Fair Saturday July 16th at 11:45 AM on the Plaza Pacifica Stage! Mark your calendar and come on down!

The line up is out for Santa Ana Noise Fest! Here it is:

/// SANF7 11-21-15 LINE UP ///

10:20 PM:: Endometruim Cuntplow
10:00 PM:: Diclonius
[9:40 to 10:00 Set up]

9:40 PM:: X-Bax
9:20 PM:: Phog Masheeen
9:00 PM:: Colony Collapse
[8:40 to 9:00 Set up]

8:20 PM:: Cold Grey Eye
8:00 PM:: see through buildings
7:40 PM:: Sean Saraf
[7:20 to 7:40 Set up]

7:00 PM:: Virons
6:40 PM:: George Bates
6:20 PM:: Charles Sharp
[6:00 to 6:20 Set up]

5:40 PM:: Small Drone Orchestra
5:20 PM:: Jesus is Dead
5:00 PM::Justin Scheid
[4:00 Load in]

Here is the link to the event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1440963149562823/

Here is the link to RSVP at Eventbrite:
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sanf7-santa-ana-noisefest-7-tickets-18659206188?aff=eac2

Phog masheeen tracks on Ass Jazz Vol. 3

It is with great pleasure that we remind you that phog masheeen has been included in Pet Goat Records release Ass Jazz Vol. 3
The Ass Jazz series features the cutting edge of Noise with a Jazz lilt to it.
The phog masheeen track "Hard Liquor and Reruns" features some fine dry ice work.
So if you are a fan of the phog masheeen affectation for dry ice this is a fine sample of that work in a "quasi-tonal" noir setting. It is an excellent soundtrack for a stifling afternoon in a lowrise hollywood tenament, with the mood enhancers wearing off and nothing to replace the void...
Dig it here:
http://www.thepetgoatrecords.com/AssJazz3.html

Phog masheeen performing this Sunday 4-19-15 5:30 PM at CALB 729 Pine Ave. Long Beach, CA 90802.
Performing with Andrea Pensado and Isolde Tough. These Performers are ending their tour in Long Beach and are not to be missed! They killed it big time at Wonder Valley Experimental last weekend and you will forever live in regret if you miss their Long Beach show!

Calb Video Now up! WVE7 and Jawbone coming! We are promoting Andrea Pensado/Alien Ajenda @ the Beatnik Lounge in Joshua Tree

William Almas outstanding new video of the phog masheeen large ensemble is up on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/fiZdQEv_Ur0

It is a stunning work not to be missed! Click the title (phog masheeen live at the CALB) in the upper left to watch full screen on youtube. Some of the wide format is cut off on the blog page.



Upcoming Shows! WVE7

Jawbone Canyon...

And we are promoting Andrea Pensado and Cat Livingston (aka Alien Agenda) at the Beatnik Lounge in Joshua Tree. April 12, 2014 at 7:30PM. The Epic Flyer is by Rik Livingston. Truely a work of Genious!

Why you will be a better person when you purchase the SMUD Vs Sludge Oven cassette!

The SMUD Vs Sludge Oven cassette was spawned when Eric Strauss and I were walking to get coffee during this years NorCal Noisefest. We saw a short phrase written on diamond plate steel with an arc welder. SMUD was the term that caught our eye. We concluded that it was a great name. Eric recorded the SMUD side and I recorded the Sludge Oven side. A cassette seemed to be the proper form for such an endeavor, only four are available on EBay from a run of ten copies. If you want one, you can get it here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SMUD-Vs-Sludge-Oven-noise-power-electronics-2015-C-30-Limited-Edition-Mint-/321634020903?
Don't delay, buy today!
  

Both SMUD and Sludge Oven are individually the preeminent arbiters of the highest order of sonic experimentation and noise music. On this rare occasion they have come together to produce a cassette that is at once cleansing, therapeutic and brutal. Although initially SMUD Vs Sludge Oven may appear to the uninitiated to have much in common with the tools of sonic warfare used to extract unreliable information from non-state actors and enemy combatants. This cassette offers you and your family so much more.

First let me describe what you get!

The SMUD Vs Sludge Oven cassette is a limited run of ten. That’s right! There are only ten of these cassettes made and of that ten, only four are being offered on for sale on Ebay.

With the cassette you will receive two stickers and a button. A person can never have enough stickers and a button will offer new ways to accessorize whatever outfit you choose.

With the  stickers and a button you will receive a small plastic action figure locked in perpetual battle.

But that’s not all! In the decorative sealed plastic wrapper you will receive a copy of this ad to describe to your descendants the importance of the SMUD Vs Sludge Oven cassette and with create a lasting family heirloom to be handed from generation to generation in perpetuity. At family gatherings during the holidays, imagine the warmth of gathering by the antique boom box to experience the SMUD Vs Sludge Oven cassette together! These are priceless memories that can only be had with your purchase of the SMUD Vs Sludge Oven Cassette.

But wait! There’s more!

The therapeutic aspect of the SMUD Vs Sludge Oven cassette cannot be over stated. The audio program on the SMUD Vs Sludge Oven cassette is packed with uplifting subliminal messages that in some cases have cured constipation, flakey skin and over sensitive hearing. However, the subliminal messages are many and varied so there is no telling what it will cure for you!

Act now! There are only four SMUD Vs Sludge Oven cassettes available! Do not hesitate and miss this once in a lifetime opportunity! 

All Sales Final. 

No returns.

phog masheeen added to Santa Ana Noise Fest 6!

Phog Masheeen is in for Santa Ana Noise Fest #6.
Please RSVP for your free Tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/santa-ana-noise-fest-6-sanf6-tickets-14674328311

Should you show up without an rsvp it is $10.00 at the door. We don't want you to pay that when it is FREE with an RSVP.

Please share this with your friends!

Preparing for the road to Sacramento...

Off we go next Friday to the great city of Sacramento for the NorCal NoiseFest! To say we are excited is a major understatement! This is a major event for the West Coast Noise Tribe and beyond.
Here is the link to the line-up http://www.norcalnoisefest.com/NF14_lineup.html We play on Sunday. If you are in Sacramento This is the thing to do!