Fletcher Pratt, Type B, Foreskin Sashimi in Paradise, The Flayed Choirmaster, Fairlight Empress
Wed, May 18; doors 7:45pm, show 8-10:30pm
at Second Act, 1727 Haight St $5 21+
Fletcher Pratt
Darkitecture of the mind's inmost spaces, that is Fletcher Pratt's speciality. Boundless in abstraction yet never disjointed, his sounds stretch like skin continuous across an impossible skeleton, inexorable in motion, shifting lithe and unseen. On this night, an epidermal split leaks that bone darkness into the light, the predator vein tapped as video, harvested in both digital and analogue synthesis.
https://soundcloud.com/fletcher_pratt
Type B
Master crafter of atmosphere and light, Luka Romel's virtual visual work on so many famed video games paradoxically may be
her least visible work. It's her sound project, Type B, a Korg-based compulsion, that pulls us into a space unmistakably
her own. Romel knows illusions of sight, while precise and even striking, can't crawl to you across the room and infest
your heart, your guts, and grip your lungs. The flux of her micro modulations in sound, on a carrier-surge of pummeling
beats, will reach your eyes in time, just from the far side.
https://soundcloud.com/typ3-b
Foreskin Sashimi in Paradise
A sudden solo project featuring Prince’s ashes stirred in a migraine, convergence of concrete-core tape manipulations and total 80’s japan worship. No angst, mostly boogie woogie. No links. Links go to the past, this is the future.
The Flayed Choirmaster
One part postmodern improvisor, one part post-industrial hellraiser. The ditch-delivered babe of the avant-garde, with a grab-bag for a head and a "song" in his "heart." A troublemaker in a freakish amalgam of traditions spanning from Japanoise to abstract expressionism. Contents highly volatile. Handle at your own risk.
https://theflayedchoirmaster.bandcamp.com/
Fairlight Empress
Fairlight Empress is a duo comprised of Greh Holger (Hive Mind, Pure Ground) and Lee Landey (Oil Thief, Wand) focusing on medieval synthesizer compositions, incorporating rhythm, melody and field recordings. Like climbing a mountain at night.
https://soundcloud.com/soldiersdisease/fairlight-empress-another
Cost: $5