MPBEs 16 + 17
Cloaca
soon - this week! The other is the usual Last Wednesday Night at the
Rendezvous. Come to BOTH and get a RIBBON! or something.
MPBE #16
- special show - Saturday, April 18,
- special time - 8pm Five Bucks!
- special place -
National Spiritual Alliance
2 Montague Street
Lake Pleasant, Montague, MA
Jessica Pavone & Mary Halvorson Duo
Horse Boys
The RICE Ensemble
slideshow / lecture by pi
cassette DJs Tumblecat & Cloaca
AND
MPBE #17 Wednesday, April 29th, 9pm Five Bucks!
at the Rendezvous
78 3rd St
Turners Falls, MA 01376
QFWFQ Duo
K Olive McKeon
films by Kate Rainey
lecture by Gerald Clark III
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April is a ROBUST month, the poppies in our garden are freaking out.
everyone wants to play. psychic energies are let loose in churned
mud. the river is overflowing. My partner Fafnir is frantically
rubbing wet wool in preparation for the TWIST Craft Throwdown, the
first weekend in May (1 & 2). I think there is a show in wmass every
night of the week until then. Check the
<http://happyninvalley.blogspot.com/> blog to keep track of it all.
also! the MPBE Paper Program has proven to be a successful
collaboration & continues. keep sending stuff, whatever doesn't get
in one issue, shows up in the next. Your participation makes this
worthwhile for me & so we continue - a PP for every show. witness the
bounty, peep previous ones here:
<http://phantombrainexchange.suchfun.net/archive/pparchive.html>
and now, as i've promised, only one email a month from me, so here is
the onslaught of descriptive material for both MPBE's 16 + 17 . . .
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MPBE 16 @ the National Spiritual Alliance (earlier time: 8PM!)
As stated above, this event is at a very special & unusual venue, The
National Spiritual Alliance, which is nested in the clandestine jewel
of the five Montague villages, Lake Pleasant. The sweet folks at TNSA
are renting their cozy gathering place for us to hold our special deep
listening session, so pile into a car or ride your bike down these
mysterious paths that lead to the heart of the Montague Plain. It is
literally a mile & a half northeast of the Bookmill, only on roads &
trails that many of you never knew existed. Learn about TNSA/Lake
Pleasant & PLEASE follow the directions that they have on their
website (or look at map attached, either way, Google has the address
all wrong!):
http://www.thenationalspiritualallianceinc.org/
Mary Halvorson (guitar) & Jessica Pavone (viola) are "a
Brooklyn-based collaborative duo that have been working together for
over four years composing and performing a unique body of music,
drawing from classical, jazz and folk traditions while experimenting
with new forms. Their music explores improvisation and composition
while utilizing amplification and electronic effects as well as
acoustic presentation. The compositions in their current repertoire
generally range in length from two to six minutes, with each of them
composing separate pieces for the project." A long impressive list of
collaborations trail behind them & both have worked in
composer/reedsman Anthony Braxton's various ensembles. They're on the
cover of this month's Signal To Noise mag & they have been getting mad
press attention for their new record :"Thin Air.'
http://www.myspace.com/maryandjess
http://www.signaltonoisemagazine.org/currentissue.html
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4869
Horse Boys is the singular creation of new hampshirean
poet/noisian/collagist Zach Phillips. With the Horse Boys, his focus
has been on the basic western childhood musical apparatus the
keyboard/piano. Channeling the idiot savant, he clobbers the keys
with joyful melody & and squeezes out Cecil Taylorian tonal
permutations. Under this moniker he has one tape out (to my
knowledge) & a million others under different names/approaches like
Heat Wilson, Sord, & Nals Goring.
http://myspace.com/horseboys
The RICE Ensemble is a multi-dimensional sound unit dedicated to
expressing musical vibrations as a perceptual substance to be shaped
into unique artifacts for each performance. Led by composer
/improviser J Starpoli (a.k.a. Phloyd RICE), the Ensemble exists to
actualize original musical concepts across a wide range of styles.
Drawing on fringe traditions of world-wide experimental music,
unorthodox theory, and quack science, the RICE Ensemble creates sonic
textures and materials that exist within themselves to be actively
reinterpreted by the listener. Follow the sound. J Starpoli (aka
Phloyd RICE) is an experimental musician based in Western
Massachusetts. As a composer and improviser, Starpoli's work explores
the multiple dimensions of musical sounds and multiple styles of
organizing the sounds into music. Focusing on original music,
Starpoli has over fifteen years history performing on trombone and
bass strings. He has collaborated with other musicians in bands such
as Correspondence Quartet, Squidlaunch, Resistance Blue duo, and the
Middletown Creative Orchestra.
http://www.myspace.com/jaystarsound
We are thrilled to have pi (aka Pat Ireton) share with us slides & a
talk about her 'energy photos' - tracing a trajectory from
performances in the Boston punk scene in the 80's through vermont
psychfolks of the past 20 years.
Mellow boombox cassette jockeying will go on thru the night with
Tumblecat & Cloaca trading tapes on the ones & twos..
byob/snax, as there's no public food/drink hole in Lake Pleasant -
it's that cool!
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MPBE #17 @ the Rendezvous
Back to our usual unusualness, QFWFQ Duo will be treating our eyes &
ears to a serious scrambling with their interactive sound & video
performance. "Composer and sound artist Andrea Pensado teamed up with
digital artist Greg Kowalski in Krakow, Poland, in 1997 to form Qfwfq
duo. The duo's main concern has been live sound-image interaction and
the use of movement to articulate complex sounds and digital visual
material. Their work is highly performative and often involves the use
of sensors and/or motion tracking devices."
http://www.qfwfqduo.com/
K Olive Mckeon (+ Lily Gold) will present their choreographic piece
"The microphone check one two." Olive mckeon makes dances and
writes/reads on radical aesthetics, political economy, and theories of
spectatorship. She had a bunny rabbit named Rogée who was lost in the
woods. She is currently a graduate student at NYU where she studies
with marxist dance scholar Randy Martin. Lily Gold is a dancer,
choreographer, collagist, installation artist, analog photographer,
costume designer, welder, sculptor, and up-for-barter maker of
wearable art and things out of other things. She may be associated
with such groups as the royal frog ballet and bottomheavy productions.
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~kom220/
Ithaca, NY filmmaker Kate Rainey will be presenting a couple short
works from a series of videos reediting classic hollywood scenes of
psychological collapse in disorienting swirls of color & meaning.
Springfield Scholar in residence at the New Haven School of Esoterics,
Gerald Clark III will present his talk "Sodom, Gomorrah, Northampton:
Every Tongue Shall Tell," a cursory look into the ancient ethereal
(occult) mind sciences, and history of hyper-dimensional light beings
of Western Massachusetts. Born with the sun in gemini, and moon in
pisces, Mister Clark has spent significant time fermenting various
foods, living on the Great Plains, & skulking around the hidden
corridors of ivy league schools.
Dj for this event will be a surprise! Don't you hate surprises?
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