A Benefit Show for the Middle East Children's Alliance.
doors 6:30pm, sound 7:30pm.
$15-20 suggested.
What happens when we invite the space between bodies to participate as collaborator? Join us for a night of ambient and experimental noise featuring hard electronics, handmade instruments, and an electro-acoustic feedback séance to benefit the Middle East Children’s Alliance, featuring performances by:
String Thing: Made by Fae Ordaz (Santa Fe/Oberlin) and Penina Biddle-Gottesman, the first String Thing was born from a bucket of discarded piano bass strings. Fastened with nails to two blocks of scrap wood, at their best they produced a low resounding thud. A year later the second String Thing came to fruition, this time made of harpsichord strings and a cigar box, fashioned with guitar pegs, heart-shaped holes, and bridges. These strings are strong and thin, bending and stretching with the bodies that animate them. String Thing #2 exists in the space between the two bodies that wear it, and the bonded trust. They are its backbone. Without them it makes no sound.
Red Worm:
Oneiric hard electronics
Oakland, CA
Collaboration between Domi, K. Francis Messer, and Kaitlin McSweeney: a trio welcoming sonic feedback as a fourth collaborator in an experimental performance with elements of ritualistic repetition, deep listening echoing the tradition of Pauline Oliveros, and prepared drums, cello, voice, and resonant objects. Out of a receptive summoning, distinct voices emerge and impress upon each other, moving with and in contrast, inter-penetrating and gravitating towards a common orbit of evolving conditions. In this space we ask: what is the role of witness and how does it move? What occurs in the transition from an act of witnessing to an act of surveillance?