The Helen Scarsdale Agency and Elevator Bath present a night of drone, noise, and unsettled sound
Jim Haynes
Colin Sheffield
Adam Pacione
Andrew Anderson
Thomas Carnacki
Friday, July 22, 2022 . 8pm sharp
Temescal Art Center
Oakland, California
Corrosion and decay are central themes to the work of Californian artist Jim Haynes. He works with a recombinant crucible of shortwave radio, convulsive motors, electro-magnetic disturbances, and electronics in variable states of disrepair, with publications through Editions Mego, Sige Records, Elevator Bath, Monorail Trespassing, The Helen Scarsdale Agency, and many others. His latest album "Insomnia" has been published in 2022 in the face of many difficulties by the Ukranian imprint Sentimental Produictions.
Adam Pacione
Adam Pacione is a composer from Fort Worth TX. Pacione’s music contains elements of ambient textures, drones, field recordings, processed radio transmissions and modular synthesis. His works have been released by Elevator Bath, Infraction Records, Kesh, Bee Eater Recordings, and 23five, among other labels. Stand out releases include "Sisyphus," "Dobranoc," and "Any Way, Shape, or Form" (Elevator Bath), as well as "From Stills to Motion" (Infraction), "With Wakened Eyes" and "Mâché" (self released). He has provided remixes for the likes of Simon Scott (Slowdive) and Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt).
Colin Andrew Sheffield
Colin Andrew Sheffield's was born in El Paso TX and makes his home in Austin. His work focuses on the re-contextualization of pre-existing recordings, mostly drawing from his personal music collection. His aim is to distill the essential qualities of these works and to then utilize that essence for new compositions. The resultant music is an atmospheric soundscape, gradually shifting and unfolding, offering subtle juxtaposition and nuance. His recordings often seem to have much in common with ambient electronic music, though are equally akin to "plunderphonic" audio collage. Sheffield has released a number of solo recordings over the years, including, among others, "Signatures" (Invisible Birds), "Slowly" (Mystery Sea), and "Repair Me Now" (Glistening Examples). Sheffield's new album, "Don't Ever Let Me Know" will be released as a vinyl LP by the Auf Abwegen label in 2022.
In 1998, Sheffield founded the Elevator Bath recording label which has continually issued experimental works from a variety of artists from the United States and abroad.
Andrew Anderson
Andrew Anderson, based in Austin TX, creates sound pieces out of carefully curated field recordings, hidden samples, destroyed tape, and various instruments, both electronic and analog, with a focus on quiet repetition, drone, and patient change. After dabbling in sound for many years, he finally started self-releasing solo work, starting with his first full length in 2014, "The Red Dream." In 2020, he teamed with Thor Harris (Swans, Thor & Friends, Shearwater, Angels of Light, etc.) to form the project THAA, and released "Against Permanence." In 2022, his latest solo release, "Vagrancies" was issued by Elevator Bath.
Thomas Carnacki
Thomas Carnacki is a Bay Area entity, primarily functioning as the performance and recording outlet for Gregory Scharpen. Carnacki recordings and performances tend towards the textural, the subtle, the disquieting and unsettling. Thomas Carnacki music has been featured in numerous dance and theatrical productions, HBO and PBS documentaries, and avant-garde experimental short films; and Carnacki has performed on both sides of the continent and as part of such festivals and entities as 23five’s Activating The Medium, MEDIATE’s Soundwave, the Whitney Biennial, and the Illuminated Corridor.
Cost: 10.00