Setting + Chuck Johnson / Cole Pulice

Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
$17 advance / $20 door / free or discounted for members
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Setting is Nathan Bowles (solo/trio, Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) on strings, keys, tapes, and percussion; Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors, Peeesseye) on harmoniums, synthesizers, and piano zither; and Joe Westerlund (solo, Califone, Sylvan Esso, Jake Xerxes Fussell) on drums, percussion, and metallophones. Setting established its own setting and found its footing in regularly scheduled improvisational sessions outside Westerlund’s home in Durham, North Carolina, beginning in 2021.
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Claire Rousay + Maria BC

Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
$23 advance / $25 door / free or discounted for members
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claire rousay is a singular artist, known for challenging conventions in experimental and ambient music forms. rousay masterfully incorporates textural found sounds, sumptuous drones and candid field recordings into music that celebrates the beauty in life’s banalities. Her music is curatorial and granular in detail, deftly shaped into emotionally affecting pieces. sentiment is a meditation of the poignant emotional terrains of loneliness, nostalgia, sentimentality, guilt, and sex. The album’s narrative arc is guided by delicate musical gestures and artistic vulnerability, audaciously synthesizing disparate and unexpected influences. rousay crafted the songs in various homes, bedrooms, hotels, and other private places, the feeling of time and energy spent alone radiating from each passage. The album is a collection of heart-rending, incisive pop songs that explore universal feelings with subtlety and remarkable vision.
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FUJI||||||||||TA + Normal

FUJI||||||||||TA is a sound artist living in Japan. His unique practice utilizes various natural phenomena that respond to his interest in wanting to hear unheard sounds and unknown sounds. Instead of playing a composed piece of music, he aims to go as far as possible towards his own unknown state of being, with an emphasis on observing the sound closely.

Normal is Fred Frith and Sudhu Tewari, playing manually & electronically manipulated home-made instruments. Not really instruments in the sense of beautifully crafted art objects requiring Extended Techniques, so much as de-constructions and re- constructions using the simplest of means, and requiring only minimal exertion to produce sound.
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Anna Friz + Gretchen Jude Ensemble

Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
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The Lab presents two works exploring sometimes-invisible articulations of landscape. Anna Friz’s “Salar: Adaptation” considers the audible sonic textures of desert field recordings alongside a electro-magnetic and radio signals, with video in collaboration with Rodrigo Rios Zunino. Gretchen Jude’s “Divide” consists of graphic scores outlining the silhouettes of mountains from an artist residency in Montana, performed by John Bischoff, Kevin Corcoran, Suki O'Kane, and Shanna Sordahl, alongside’s Jude’s field recordings from the site.
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Carlos Giffoni / Alex Pelly + Sholeh Asgary + RM Francis

Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
$23 advance / $25 door / free or discounted for members

Venezualan experimental musician Carlos Giffoni came up on the scene as a noise guitar player in the late 90s, but quickly pivoted into electronic music composition in the early 00s with milestone releases on Important Records and his label No Fun Productions. He performs at The Lab with live visuals from Dub Lab's Alex Pelly on analog video synthesis, on the heels of his latest record Dream Walker.

Sholeh Asgary is an interdisciplinary sound artist who researches how the auditory characteristics of a location reveal its underlying conditions and our relationship to place—echoing the near-perpetual movement across borders that characterized Asgary’s formative years. Her performances have been presented by such institutions as Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Gray Area, Stanford University, and Cone Shape Top.

RM Francis is an artist from Seattle working with computer-generated sound and language via recording, performance, and installation. His practice foregrounds computation-based compositional strategies, with a current emphasis on methods that exploit discrepancies between human and artificial auditory systems.
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