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FRIDAY JUNE 17
Hollow Deck
Eames Armstrong, Renée Regan, and Rex Delafkara
Pony Moon
Hollow Deck
“The debut LP by this Western Mass duo is a masterpiece of fractured air. The two performers are ANDY ALLEN (from the original line-up of GUERILLA TOSS,...

FRIDAY JUNE 17
Hollow Deck
Eames Armstrong, Renée Regan, and Rex Delafkara
Pony Moon

Hollow Deck
“The debut LP by this Western Mass duo is a masterpiece of fractured air. The two performers are ANDY ALLEN (from the original line-up of GUERILLA TOSS, among many other places) and MIA FRIEDMAN (whose collaborations apart from this include Lichen and appearances with Lauri McNamara’s Carbuncles). Previously issued as a cassette, Hobson’s Choice is a blend of traditional and experimental approaches that alternately puts us in mind of several units inhabiting the landscape of Strange Maine over the last decade, and the animated ‘30s cartoons of Max Fleischer. And HOLLOW DECK have a unique way of quivering between their two main style poles guaranteed to put hair on anyone’s chest. From its first song, the album is a bridge between beauty (as personified by Mia’s singing voice) and odd instrumental work that moves from clutter to clack to clam in the space of a blink. A few of the tracks are so sweetly arranged—rural voice and flute gliding above warm fields—that it almost feels like insanity is on the wind when the musical proceedings turn dark and unruly. But, as in life, they always do eventually, if only for the nonce. Before you know it, the scene turns into a nursery room theatrical with mice in white gloves capering while the cat naps. Other gorgeous bits recall Joanne Robertson at her most elegiac, singing along to a broken record. Then flutes join the fun, as though representing a pack of wolves mourning the death of the moon. Hobson’s Choice is filled with many other such seemingly contradictory juxtapositions. Letting them flow through your head will free you—if only for a moment—from the world around us, delivering you somewhere new before snatching you back to reality. Enjoy the trip."—Byron Coley, 2016
https://friendshiptapes.bandcamp.com/album/hollow-deck-hobsons-choice

Eames, Renée, and Rex
http://www.eamesarmstrong.com/
http://www.reneeregan.com/
Your search - Rex Delafkara - did not match any documents.

Pony Moon
multiple choice:
a) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-VLfFiBob4
b) https://www.facebook.com/awillingway/posts/1036639489764743
c) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2AV3M7dRR8

DOORS at 730 SHOW at 8
$10 suggested donation
BACK ALLEY THEATER 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1784309425121222/

feb.14 2016
Alec K Redfearn & the Eyesores
Susan Alcorn
Chester Hawkins
7pm
$10 suggested
https://www.facebook.com/events/459848384210416/
ALEC K REDFEARN & THE EYESORES: Providence excellence for over 15 years. Accordion, combo organ, double bass,...

feb.14 2016
Alec K Redfearn & the Eyesores
Susan Alcorn
Chester Hawkins
7pm
$10 suggested
https://www.facebook.com/events/459848384210416/

ALEC K REDFEARN & THE EYESORES: Providence excellence for over 15 years. Accordion, combo organ, double bass, French horn and drums.Fresh from a trip to R.I.O. 

“From harsh nightmare riddles, to sweetly swooning tranced-out droning somnambulant reveries, psychedelic folk, prog-rock, old-time country, acidic cabaret, dark circus music, and sinister dream fragments … well worth investigating.” –Dream Magazine
http://aleckredfearn.com/

Baltimore-based SUSAN ALCORN has taken the pedal steel guitar far beyond its traditional role in country and western swing music. Known among steel guitarists for her virtuosity and authenticity in a traditional context, Alcorn first paid her dues in Texas country & western bands.   Soon she began to expand the vocabulary of her instrument through her study of modern classical music (Messiaen, Varèse, Penderecki), the deep listening of Pauline Oliveros, Astor Piazzolla’s nuevo tango, free jazz, and world musics (Indian ragas, South American songs, and gamelan orchestra). Her pieces reveal the complexity of her instrument and her musical experience while never straying from a very direct, intense, and personal musical expression.   The UK Guardian describes her music as “beautiful, glassy and liquid, however far she strays from pulse and conventional harmony.”
http://www.susanalcorn.net/

CHESTER HAWKINS (Washington DC) has recorded and performed a wide range of experimental music since 1985. The best-known project was Blue Sausage Infant, which began as an exercise in modern audio Dadaism (via musique concrete and tape-collage) and later expanded to embrace drone, krautrock, electronic psychedelia, brutal noise, and cinematic sound design.

After 28 years, Blue Sausage Infant was retired and new works continue under the human name. Using an arsenal of electronics, tapes, acoustics, and modified objects, the goal remains the creation of deep and elegant trance states with a glaze of paranoid tension. Past collaborators in recordings and performances include Richard Pinhas (Heldon), J. Surak (Violet), Dave Newhouse (The Muffins), Insect Factory, Thee Maximalists, Pilesar, and many others.

valerie kuehne - from nyc, guaranteed to make you squirm - http://www.valeriekuehne.com/ - “Not your ordinary lady with a cello.”
radiator greys - dc’s josh levi, exquisite noise -
https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/denying-the-other -...

valerie kuehne - from nyc, guaranteed to make you squirm - http://www.valeriekuehne.com/ - “Not your ordinary lady with a cello.”

radiator greys - dc’s josh levi, exquisite noise -
https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/denying-the-other - Ritualistic Ecstasy Lurks Behind The Masque

36 - longtime dc fixture on the drum throne sam lohman, minus the drums, directing the electron flow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z44n7cck9c - waking up from a long and fruitful slumber, seriously he played a couple weeks ago at union arts and it was transcendental

*******PRE-SHOW WORKSHOP WITH VALERIE AT 6PM*****
***Can life be improvised?  breaking down the life/art divide through spontaneous song and performance***
free and open to all

friday jan.29
back alley theater
5501 colorado ave nw dc
doors at 730 music at 8 sharp
all ages
$10 suggested donation

RhizomeDC presents the next in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring pre-show workshops with world-class improvising musicians.
Sunday December 13 at Back Alley Theater
Workshop with Bonnie Jones at 530 pm - email...

RhizomeDC presents the next in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring pre-show workshops with world-class improvising musicians.

Sunday December 13 at Back Alley Theater

Workshop with Bonnie Jones at 530 pm - email laynegarrett at yahoo dot com to RSVP - free and open to all - (workshop details below)

Doors for the concert open at 730pm, performances start at 8 sharp - $10 suggested donation - featuring:

Bonnie Jones
Lab Mice
Meredith Bove / Layne Garrett / Sarah Schaffer / Nate Scheible

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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
Bonnie will lead participants in an exploration of resonance via sine tones: their relationships to the performance experience, and also a more intuitive/iimprovisational approach to considering sine tones with text.

Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American writer, improvising musician, and performer working primarily with electronic music and text. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised on a dairy farm in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland. Bonnie creates improvised and composed text-sound performances that explore the fluidity and function of electronic noise (field recordings, circuit bending) and text (poetry, found, spoken, visual). She is interested in how people perceive, “read” and interact with these sounds and texts given our current technological moment. Bonnie has received commissions from the London ICA and has presented her work in the US, Europe, and Asia and collaborates frequently with writers and musicians. She received her MFA at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.

Lab Mice (Gary Rouzer on amplified objects and tapes and Chris Videll on electronics and objects) was conceived back in November 2012 and went through several stages before our first performance in April 2013. We wanted to create something new, not just a combination of our usual sounds and tendencies. Chris usually pays heavy drone electronics, while Gary tends towards amplified objects with quickly changing textures. Gary decided to slow down his playing using circular motions and amplified motors. Chris chose to speed up his reaction time with his electronics and also used bowed cardboard and wood. The results sound machine-like yet warm and unpredictable. We both employ electronic and acoustic sound sources. The dynamics vary from silence to near silence to quiet.

Meredith Bove / Layne Garrett / Sarah Schaffer / Nate Scheible will improvise together within the realms of sound and movement…

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Back Alley Theater is at the corner of 14th / Kennedy / Colorado Streets NW - go down the stairs at the corner into the basement

RhizomeDC presents the next in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring pre-show workshops with world-class improvisers. The workshop is open to all; participants will be invited to perform together as an ensemble during...

RhizomeDC presents the next in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring pre-show workshops with world-class improvisers. The workshop is open to all; participants will be invited to perform together as an ensemble during the concert.

Ben Bennett (percussion/performance)
Ancestral Duo (Luke Stewart - bass, electronics / Jamal Moore - reeds, electronics)

Friday November 6 at Back Alley Theater

Workshop with Ben Bennett at 6pm - “HOW TO PLAY THE BEST MUSIC POSSIBLE” - email laynegarrett at yahoo dot com to RSVP

Doors open at 8pm, performances start at 830 sharp - $10 suggested donation

Back Alley Theater is at the corner of 14th / Kennedy / Colorado Streets NW - go down the stairs at the corner into the basement

http://www.rhizomedc.org/

Ben Bennett    
http://milmin.nixsyspaus.org/
http://milmin.bandcamp.com/

Ancestral Duo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI60ZVzJS3o

RhizomeDC presents the first in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring pre-show workshops with world-class improvisers. The workshop is open to all; participants will be invited to perform together as an ensemble...

RhizomeDC presents the first in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring pre-show workshops with world-class improvisers. The workshop is open to all; participants will be invited to perform together as an ensemble following the workshop.

Featuring:
Sarah Hennies (vibraphone) / Dave Gross (saxophone) / Morgan Evans-Weiler (violin)

Weed Tree (Amanda Huron - drums / Layne Garrett - guitar)

Dr. Thomas Stanley (reading/invocation based on his book The Execution of Sun Ra)

Saturday October 24 at Back Alley Theater

Improvisation workshop at 5pm - Email laynegarrett at yahoo dot com to RSVP
Doors open at 7:30, Performances start at 8  - $10 suggested donation

fb event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1690322331201245/

rhizomedc.org

Andrea Parkins/Ayman Fanous duo and solos
J.Surak
Doors open at 730 and music will start at 8 o'clock sharp.
$10 at the door
1365 Kennedy St NW DC
April 10 2015
Andrea Parkins is a New York-based composer, sound/installation artist and...

Andrea Parkins/Ayman Fanous duo and solos
J.Surak

Doors open at 730 and music will start at 8 o'clock sharp.
$10 at the door
1365 Kennedy St NW DC

April 10 2015


Andrea Parkins is a New York-based composer, sound/installation artist and electro-multi-instrumentalist who performs using electronically-processed accordion, laptop electronics, and amplified objects. According to Time Out/NY: “Parkins, a master manipulator of electronically processed accordion and laptop is one of the city’s most unbounded …well, what’s the word for her? Musician seems too simple, artist too vague; perhaps ‘sound-ist’ is best.”

Over the last 25 years, Ayman Fanous has forged a singular synthesis of classical and flamenco guitar technique with contemporary free improvisation. His music has been described as a “stylistic amalgam of Derek Bailey and Paco de Lucia” (Signal to Noise). Fanous also reaches back into his Egyptian ancestry in improvisations on the bouzouki. He has collaborated with an array of leading improvising musicians, including William Parker, Ikue Mori, Jason Hwang, and Susan Alcorn, among many others.

Parkins and Fanous first performed together as part of Fanous’ residency at The Firehouse Space in Brooklyn in 2014.

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Jeff Surak started in the early 80s participating in the international hometaper network. He released his music under the name -1348- on his own Watergate Tapes imprint along with other artists such as Controlled Bleeding, Kapotte Musik, Odal, F.A.R. and collaborations with John Hudak, Crawling With Tarts, Zan Hoffman and others. Surak also performed and toured with his live unit New Carrollton creating improvised post industrial soundscapes. During the early 1990s Surak spent most of his time living in Russia, where he formed the noise group Sovmestnoye Predpriyatiye (Joint Venture), which did site specific performances. In the late 90s, Surak returned to recording and live performance with the free music duo V. After releasing numerous recordings and touring the USA, V. disbanded and Surak focused on solo works under the name of Violet, creating organic irrational compositions, using electro-acoustic instruments and tape/cd/vinyl manipulations.

Currently Surak performs under his own name, operating in the netherworld between composed and improvised music, moving between musique concrete, drone, noise, & free improvisation using whatever sound implements at hand. He has collaborated with such artists as Alexei Borisov, Zan Hoffman, Rinus Van Alebeek, Frans De Waard, and Michael Gendreau. Surak runs the Zeromoon label and directs the annual Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music in Washington DC, presenting performances by a wide range of artists from Phil Niblock, Magma, Univers Zero, Merzbow, Faust, Odal, Andrea Parkins, David Behrman, and hundreds of others.

“Very much like watching a giant wildfire consuming nature or the eruptions of a volcanoe or seeing an avalanche go down, strikes you both with fear and awe, makes you stare straight into the eye of danger without being able to move a limb.” ~ Cracked

“Dark and mysterious, mixing in bits of Philip Jeck and Tim Hecker, Wolf Eyes, blending them into Violet’s ominous world of sound.” ~ Aquarius Records


We are excited to inform you that Fox Cried will return to the stage this January.
The groundbreaking work that shocked audiences at its premier at the 2013 Source Festival is back in full-length form, expanded from the original production in light...

We are excited to inform you that Fox Cried will return to the stage this January.

The groundbreaking work that shocked audiences at its premier at the 2013 Source Festival is back in full-length form, expanded from the original production in light of new research into the work’s mytho-poetical origins. Ever replete with masks, music, dance, and scholarly oration, the new performance is not to be missed.

We hope you’ll join Jack Novak, Jane Claire Remick, and Ethan Foote at DC’s Back Alley Theater from January 30th through February 1st as their contemporary vision of mythic passion unfolds once again. Tickets are available online or at the door on the evening of each performance.

www.centerforunearthedstories.org

www.facebook.com/foxcried

Thursday December 18
Tatsuya Nakatani
solo and in collaboration with local improvisers:
Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion)
Jaimie Branch (trumpet)
Gary Rouzer (cello/amplified objects)
Luke Stewart (bass)
Ken Manheimer (movement)
Meredith Bove...

Thursday December 18

Tatsuya Nakatani

solo and in collaboration with local improvisers:

Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion)
Jaimie Branch (trumpet)
Gary Rouzer (cello/amplified objects)
Luke Stewart (bass)
Ken Manheimer (movement)
Meredith Bove (movement)
Lynne Price (movement)

Additional performance by Jane Claire Remick

Doors at 730 music at 8 sharp

Quicksails
Khaki Blazer
Audrey Chen / Flandrew Fleisenberg
Ora Iso
November 13 2014
doors at 730 music at 8 sharp!

Quicksails

Khaki Blazer

Audrey Chen / Flandrew Fleisenberg

Ora Iso

November 13 2014

doors at 730 music at 8 sharp!

1st installment of JUNK (jazz/punk) series
Ross Hammond / Luke Stewart / Nate Scheible
Peoples Drug
Black Saturn
October 16 2014
Announcing JUNK – a new jazz/punk series at the Back Alley Theater! This is an experiment in musical combination – we...

1st installment of JUNK (jazz/punk) series

Ross Hammond / Luke Stewart / Nate Scheible

Peoples Drug

Black Saturn

October 16 2014

Announcing JUNK – a new jazz/punk series at the Back Alley Theater! This is an experiment in musical combination – we hope you’ll come join us, and hang out, and see what happens and what it sounds like.

Peoples Drug (feat. members of Neonates, Foul Swoops, Mary Christ) is a spiky rad funny new D.C. punk band. You will love them.

Ross Hammond is a fantastic jazz guitarist on tour from Sacramento – listen/read more here: http://www.rosshammond.com/]]. He’ll be playing with D.C.’s own experimental innovators Luke Stewart and Nate Scheible.

Just added! The abstract/experimental hip-hop sonics of Black Saturn!
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=136279903058718]

Mecca Normal
Laughing Man
Cigarette
Sneaks
october 4 2014

Mecca Normal

Laughing Man

Cigarette

Sneaks

october 4 2014

Andrea Pensado
Morgan Evans-Weiler
Jane Claire Remick
Meredith Bove / Layne Garrett
september 24 2014
Andrea Pensado and Morgan Evans-Weiler are coming down from Boston for the utterly high brow and utterly wacky festival that is High Zero in...

Andrea Pensado

Morgan Evans-Weiler

Jane Claire Remick

Meredith Bove / Layne Garrett

september 24 2014

Andrea Pensado and Morgan Evans-Weiler are coming down from Boston for the utterly high brow and utterly wacky festival that is High Zero in Baltimore. We are real glad they will be paying us a visit beforehand. Both employ extremes of dynamics and mood in the service of full mind and body immersion. Plus a brand new collaboration between Meredith Bove (movement) and Layne Garrett (sound), a sure-to-be-beguiling performance by DC’s Jane Claire Remick, and a Back Alley Bitter (that’s right a keg of fresh homebrew) by Unkie Dru Edmonson.

Andrea Pensado uses MaxMSP as her main programming tool. The approach to programming and performance is highly intuitive. Occasionally, the combination of the performance situation, the often abrasive sounds, the irrational use of the voice and the inherent uncertainty of improvisations contributes to discoveries of unknown places in her mind.

Presently, Pensado has been performing solos and has played with, among others: Walter Wright, Jules Vasylenko, I’d M Thfft Able, Forbes Graham, Ben Miller, Luther Gray, Junko Fujiwara, Todd Brunel, Audrey Chen, Lou Cohen, Dave Ross, Adriana de los Santos, Glynis Lomon, Dave Bryant, Emilie Mouchous, Gustavo Aguilar, Chris Lavery, Mark Miller, Ava Mendoza, Borah Bergman, Davindar Singh, Zavoloka, Alexei Borisov, Mimi Rabson, Angela Sawyer, Jack Wright, Bob Falesch, Ben Bennett, Mark Johnson, Mike Dailey, Jill Burton, Stephanie Lak, Shayna Dulberger and Chris Welcome.

Morgan Evans-Weiler is a Boston based musician, artist and educator who uses violin, electronics and other media to explore the dichotomy of stasis and activity. His current solo work involves a deconstructed violin and an array of natural overtones against a counterpoint of sine waves and subtle noise to create rich environments that convey both a motion and stillness in their perpetual variation.

He releases tapes by Boston artists on his Individual Li
nes label and produces shows at Washington St. Art in Somerville, MA. His current projects include the large Boston ensemble Deleuzer, duos with Jed Speare and Noell Dorsey (Katze), his solo work and the HMQ.

http://www.me-w.org/

Jane Claire Remick’s interdisciplinary investigations look for truth in fiction and fiction in reality. Her mediums are project-based and often collaborative, spanning and combining video, new media, performance, and scenography/installation.

http://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/tag/jane-claire-remick/

Meredith Bove hails from a small town in Vermont. From 2008-2011 she lived and worked in Berlin, where she presented work at adastudio, Salon Bruit, K77, Die Kunst Apotheke, and with the Gruntwork collective. Within the US her work has been seen at the Theater Project (Baltimore, MD), the American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), the Cultivate Festival (Bethlehem, NH), and the Remix Festival (Philadelphia, PA). She has performed in the work of Luis Lara Malvacías, Jérôme Bel, Zinzi Buchanan, Jillian Peña, Sarah Dahnke, Erica Rebollar, Sarah Beth Oppenheim, Sharon Mansur, and has enjoyed collaborations with dancer/choreographer Andrea Jenni and conceptual artist Luke Munn. She holds a BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and an MFA from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA.

http://meredithbove.wordpress.com/

Layne Garrett is celebrating the release of a brand new cassette of collage’d sounds on the Individual Lines label out of Boston. He’s also assembling materials for a large-scale parking lot installation at this year’s Sonic Circuits festival. Yes, assembling materials, always…..

http://www.questionthetruth.com/noise/

School of Hard Equinox
Saturday, September 20
Doors 8 pm; Show 9 pm
A series of vignettes featuring interviews with siblings of dictators, little white liars and others
Musical accompaniment by Luke Stewart and guests
Written by Rosetta &...

School of Hard Equinox

Saturday, September 20

Doors 8 pm; Show 9 pm

A series of vignettes featuring interviews with siblings of dictators, little white liars and others

Musical accompaniment by Luke Stewart and guests

Written by Rosetta & Gutstein*

Starring
Raj Kapoor as a lonesome teamster with a sore left arm
Beth Krausse as Ms. Anne, a little white (White?) liar
Patrick Slevin as a Jew who brunches on Easter
and
Emily Cohen as Kim Jong Il’s sister

*Emily Cohen and Dan Gutstein

saturday august 30 2014
uncle woody sullender
eames armstrong
bushmeat
nate scheible / patrick cain
—
Sullender’s recent work examines the social construction of the performance space and how it reinforces specific rituals and modernist ideologies of...

saturday august 30 2014

uncle woody sullender

eames armstrong

bushmeat

nate scheible / patrick cain

Sullender’s recent work examines the social construction of the performance space and how it reinforces specific rituals and modernist ideologies of listening.  By minor interventions and reconfigurations in existing spaces, not only can these rituals of listening be exploded, but larger notions of social relations can be explored.
Most recently this has manifested in performances/installations that utilize modular forms to divide and shape the space, primarily with cardboard outfitted with audio transducers, turning each object into a resonating ‘speaker’.  These 'concerts’ incorporate gestures such as walls becoming tables, a stage platform becoming a table, stage curtains becoming a rug, etc. that imply shifts in roles as 'listeners’.  
video from Issue Project Room with Sergei Tcherepnin:
website:
FRIDAY JUNE 17
Hollow Deck
Eames Armstrong, Renée Regan, and Rex Delafkara
Pony Moon
Hollow Deck
“The debut LP by this Western Mass duo is a masterpiece of fractured air. The two performers are ANDY ALLEN (from the original line-up of GUERILLA TOSS,...

FRIDAY JUNE 17
Hollow Deck
Eames Armstrong, Renée Regan, and Rex Delafkara
Pony Moon

Hollow Deck
“The debut LP by this Western Mass duo is a masterpiece of fractured air. The two performers are ANDY ALLEN (from the original line-up of GUERILLA TOSS, among many other places) and MIA FRIEDMAN (whose collaborations apart from this include Lichen and appearances with Lauri McNamara’s Carbuncles). Previously issued as a cassette, Hobson’s Choice is a blend of traditional and experimental approaches that alternately puts us in mind of several units inhabiting the landscape of Strange Maine over the last decade, and the animated ‘30s cartoons of Max Fleischer. And HOLLOW DECK have a unique way of quivering between their two main style poles guaranteed to put hair on anyone’s chest. From its first song, the album is a bridge between beauty (as personified by Mia’s singing voice) and odd instrumental work that moves from clutter to clack to clam in the space of a blink. A few of the tracks are so sweetly arranged—rural voice and flute gliding above warm fields—that it almost feels like insanity is on the wind when the musical proceedings turn dark and unruly. But, as in life, they always do eventually, if only for the nonce. Before you know it, the scene turns into a nursery room theatrical with mice in white gloves capering while the cat naps. Other gorgeous bits recall Joanne Robertson at her most elegiac, singing along to a broken record. Then flutes join the fun, as though representing a pack of wolves mourning the death of the moon. Hobson’s Choice is filled with many other such seemingly contradictory juxtapositions. Letting them flow through your head will free you—if only for a moment—from the world around us, delivering you somewhere new before snatching you back to reality. Enjoy the trip."—Byron Coley, 2016
https://friendshiptapes.bandcamp.com/album/hollow-deck-hobsons-choice

Eames, Renée, and Rex
http://www.eamesarmstrong.com/
http://www.reneeregan.com/
Your search - Rex Delafkara - did not match any documents.

Pony Moon
multiple choice:
a) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-VLfFiBob4
b) https://www.facebook.com/awillingway/posts/1036639489764743
c) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2AV3M7dRR8

DOORS at 730 SHOW at 8
$10 suggested donation
BACK ALLEY THEATER 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1784309425121222/

feb.14 2016
Alec K Redfearn & the Eyesores
Susan Alcorn
Chester Hawkins
7pm
$10 suggested
https://www.facebook.com/events/459848384210416/
ALEC K REDFEARN & THE EYESORES: Providence excellence for over 15 years. Accordion, combo organ, double bass,...

feb.14 2016
Alec K Redfearn & the Eyesores
Susan Alcorn
Chester Hawkins
7pm
$10 suggested
https://www.facebook.com/events/459848384210416/

ALEC K REDFEARN & THE EYESORES: Providence excellence for over 15 years. Accordion, combo organ, double bass, French horn and drums.Fresh from a trip to R.I.O. 

“From harsh nightmare riddles, to sweetly swooning tranced-out droning somnambulant reveries, psychedelic folk, prog-rock, old-time country, acidic cabaret, dark circus music, and sinister dream fragments … well worth investigating.” –Dream Magazine
http://aleckredfearn.com/

Baltimore-based SUSAN ALCORN has taken the pedal steel guitar far beyond its traditional role in country and western swing music. Known among steel guitarists for her virtuosity and authenticity in a traditional context, Alcorn first paid her dues in Texas country & western bands.   Soon she began to expand the vocabulary of her instrument through her study of modern classical music (Messiaen, Varèse, Penderecki), the deep listening of Pauline Oliveros, Astor Piazzolla’s nuevo tango, free jazz, and world musics (Indian ragas, South American songs, and gamelan orchestra). Her pieces reveal the complexity of her instrument and her musical experience while never straying from a very direct, intense, and personal musical expression.   The UK Guardian describes her music as “beautiful, glassy and liquid, however far she strays from pulse and conventional harmony.”
http://www.susanalcorn.net/

CHESTER HAWKINS (Washington DC) has recorded and performed a wide range of experimental music since 1985. The best-known project was Blue Sausage Infant, which began as an exercise in modern audio Dadaism (via musique concrete and tape-collage) and later expanded to embrace drone, krautrock, electronic psychedelia, brutal noise, and cinematic sound design.

After 28 years, Blue Sausage Infant was retired and new works continue under the human name. Using an arsenal of electronics, tapes, acoustics, and modified objects, the goal remains the creation of deep and elegant trance states with a glaze of paranoid tension. Past collaborators in recordings and performances include Richard Pinhas (Heldon), J. Surak (Violet), Dave Newhouse (The Muffins), Insect Factory, Thee Maximalists, Pilesar, and many others.

valerie kuehne - from nyc, guaranteed to make you squirm - http://www.valeriekuehne.com/ - “Not your ordinary lady with a cello.”
radiator greys - dc’s josh levi, exquisite noise -
https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/denying-the-other -...

valerie kuehne - from nyc, guaranteed to make you squirm - http://www.valeriekuehne.com/ - “Not your ordinary lady with a cello.”

radiator greys - dc’s josh levi, exquisite noise -
https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/denying-the-other - Ritualistic Ecstasy Lurks Behind The Masque

36 - longtime dc fixture on the drum throne sam lohman, minus the drums, directing the electron flow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z44n7cck9c - waking up from a long and fruitful slumber, seriously he played a couple weeks ago at union arts and it was transcendental

*******PRE-SHOW WORKSHOP WITH VALERIE AT 6PM*****
***Can life be improvised?  breaking down the life/art divide through spontaneous song and performance***
free and open to all

friday jan.29
back alley theater
5501 colorado ave nw dc
doors at 730 music at 8 sharp
all ages
$10 suggested donation

RhizomeDC presents the next in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring pre-show workshops with world-class improvising musicians.
Sunday December 13 at Back Alley Theater
Workshop with Bonnie Jones at 530 pm - email...

RhizomeDC presents the next in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring pre-show workshops with world-class improvising musicians.

Sunday December 13 at Back Alley Theater

Workshop with Bonnie Jones at 530 pm - email laynegarrett at yahoo dot com to RSVP - free and open to all - (workshop details below)

Doors for the concert open at 730pm, performances start at 8 sharp - $10 suggested donation - featuring:

Bonnie Jones
Lab Mice
Meredith Bove / Layne Garrett / Sarah Schaffer / Nate Scheible

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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
Bonnie will lead participants in an exploration of resonance via sine tones: their relationships to the performance experience, and also a more intuitive/iimprovisational approach to considering sine tones with text.

Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American writer, improvising musician, and performer working primarily with electronic music and text. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised on a dairy farm in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland. Bonnie creates improvised and composed text-sound performances that explore the fluidity and function of electronic noise (field recordings, circuit bending) and text (poetry, found, spoken, visual). She is interested in how people perceive, “read” and interact with these sounds and texts given our current technological moment. Bonnie has received commissions from the London ICA and has presented her work in the US, Europe, and Asia and collaborates frequently with writers and musicians. She received her MFA at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.

Lab Mice (Gary Rouzer on amplified objects and tapes and Chris Videll on electronics and objects) was conceived back in November 2012 and went through several stages before our first performance in April 2013. We wanted to create something new, not just a combination of our usual sounds and tendencies. Chris usually pays heavy drone electronics, while Gary tends towards amplified objects with quickly changing textures. Gary decided to slow down his playing using circular motions and amplified motors. Chris chose to speed up his reaction time with his electronics and also used bowed cardboard and wood. The results sound machine-like yet warm and unpredictable. We both employ electronic and acoustic sound sources. The dynamics vary from silence to near silence to quiet.

Meredith Bove / Layne Garrett / Sarah Schaffer / Nate Scheible will improvise together within the realms of sound and movement…

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Back Alley Theater is at the corner of 14th / Kennedy / Colorado Streets NW - go down the stairs at the corner into the basement

RhizomeDC presents the next in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring pre-show workshops with world-class improvisers. The workshop is open to all; participants will be invited to perform together as an ensemble during...

RhizomeDC presents the next in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring pre-show workshops with world-class improvisers. The workshop is open to all; participants will be invited to perform together as an ensemble during the concert.

Ben Bennett (percussion/performance)
Ancestral Duo (Luke Stewart - bass, electronics / Jamal Moore - reeds, electronics)

Friday November 6 at Back Alley Theater

Workshop with Ben Bennett at 6pm - “HOW TO PLAY THE BEST MUSIC POSSIBLE” - email laynegarrett at yahoo dot com to RSVP

Doors open at 8pm, performances start at 830 sharp - $10 suggested donation

Back Alley Theater is at the corner of 14th / Kennedy / Colorado Streets NW - go down the stairs at the corner into the basement

http://www.rhizomedc.org/

Ben Bennett    
http://milmin.nixsyspaus.org/
http://milmin.bandcamp.com/

Ancestral Duo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI60ZVzJS3o

RhizomeDC presents the first in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring pre-show workshops with world-class improvisers. The workshop is open to all; participants will be invited to perform together as an ensemble...

RhizomeDC presents the first in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring pre-show workshops with world-class improvisers. The workshop is open to all; participants will be invited to perform together as an ensemble following the workshop.

Featuring:
Sarah Hennies (vibraphone) / Dave Gross (saxophone) / Morgan Evans-Weiler (violin)

Weed Tree (Amanda Huron - drums / Layne Garrett - guitar)

Dr. Thomas Stanley (reading/invocation based on his book The Execution of Sun Ra)

Saturday October 24 at Back Alley Theater

Improvisation workshop at 5pm - Email laynegarrett at yahoo dot com to RSVP
Doors open at 7:30, Performances start at 8  - $10 suggested donation

fb event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1690322331201245/

rhizomedc.org

Andrea Parkins/Ayman Fanous duo and solos
J.Surak
Doors open at 730 and music will start at 8 o'clock sharp.
$10 at the door
1365 Kennedy St NW DC
April 10 2015
Andrea Parkins is a New York-based composer, sound/installation artist and...

Andrea Parkins/Ayman Fanous duo and solos
J.Surak

Doors open at 730 and music will start at 8 o'clock sharp.
$10 at the door
1365 Kennedy St NW DC

April 10 2015


Andrea Parkins is a New York-based composer, sound/installation artist and electro-multi-instrumentalist who performs using electronically-processed accordion, laptop electronics, and amplified objects. According to Time Out/NY: “Parkins, a master manipulator of electronically processed accordion and laptop is one of the city’s most unbounded …well, what’s the word for her? Musician seems too simple, artist too vague; perhaps ‘sound-ist’ is best.”

Over the last 25 years, Ayman Fanous has forged a singular synthesis of classical and flamenco guitar technique with contemporary free improvisation. His music has been described as a “stylistic amalgam of Derek Bailey and Paco de Lucia” (Signal to Noise). Fanous also reaches back into his Egyptian ancestry in improvisations on the bouzouki. He has collaborated with an array of leading improvising musicians, including William Parker, Ikue Mori, Jason Hwang, and Susan Alcorn, among many others.

Parkins and Fanous first performed together as part of Fanous’ residency at The Firehouse Space in Brooklyn in 2014.

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Jeff Surak started in the early 80s participating in the international hometaper network. He released his music under the name -1348- on his own Watergate Tapes imprint along with other artists such as Controlled Bleeding, Kapotte Musik, Odal, F.A.R. and collaborations with John Hudak, Crawling With Tarts, Zan Hoffman and others. Surak also performed and toured with his live unit New Carrollton creating improvised post industrial soundscapes. During the early 1990s Surak spent most of his time living in Russia, where he formed the noise group Sovmestnoye Predpriyatiye (Joint Venture), which did site specific performances. In the late 90s, Surak returned to recording and live performance with the free music duo V. After releasing numerous recordings and touring the USA, V. disbanded and Surak focused on solo works under the name of Violet, creating organic irrational compositions, using electro-acoustic instruments and tape/cd/vinyl manipulations.

Currently Surak performs under his own name, operating in the netherworld between composed and improvised music, moving between musique concrete, drone, noise, & free improvisation using whatever sound implements at hand. He has collaborated with such artists as Alexei Borisov, Zan Hoffman, Rinus Van Alebeek, Frans De Waard, and Michael Gendreau. Surak runs the Zeromoon label and directs the annual Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music in Washington DC, presenting performances by a wide range of artists from Phil Niblock, Magma, Univers Zero, Merzbow, Faust, Odal, Andrea Parkins, David Behrman, and hundreds of others.

“Very much like watching a giant wildfire consuming nature or the eruptions of a volcanoe or seeing an avalanche go down, strikes you both with fear and awe, makes you stare straight into the eye of danger without being able to move a limb.” ~ Cracked

“Dark and mysterious, mixing in bits of Philip Jeck and Tim Hecker, Wolf Eyes, blending them into Violet’s ominous world of sound.” ~ Aquarius Records


We are excited to inform you that Fox Cried will return to the stage this January.
The groundbreaking work that shocked audiences at its premier at the 2013 Source Festival is back in full-length form, expanded from the original production in light...

We are excited to inform you that Fox Cried will return to the stage this January.

The groundbreaking work that shocked audiences at its premier at the 2013 Source Festival is back in full-length form, expanded from the original production in light of new research into the work’s mytho-poetical origins. Ever replete with masks, music, dance, and scholarly oration, the new performance is not to be missed.

We hope you’ll join Jack Novak, Jane Claire Remick, and Ethan Foote at DC’s Back Alley Theater from January 30th through February 1st as their contemporary vision of mythic passion unfolds once again. Tickets are available online or at the door on the evening of each performance.

www.centerforunearthedstories.org

www.facebook.com/foxcried

Thursday December 18
Tatsuya Nakatani
solo and in collaboration with local improvisers:
Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion)
Jaimie Branch (trumpet)
Gary Rouzer (cello/amplified objects)
Luke Stewart (bass)
Ken Manheimer (movement)
Meredith Bove...

Thursday December 18

Tatsuya Nakatani

solo and in collaboration with local improvisers:

Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion)
Jaimie Branch (trumpet)
Gary Rouzer (cello/amplified objects)
Luke Stewart (bass)
Ken Manheimer (movement)
Meredith Bove (movement)
Lynne Price (movement)

Additional performance by Jane Claire Remick

Doors at 730 music at 8 sharp

Quicksails
Khaki Blazer
Audrey Chen / Flandrew Fleisenberg
Ora Iso
November 13 2014
doors at 730 music at 8 sharp!

Quicksails

Khaki Blazer

Audrey Chen / Flandrew Fleisenberg

Ora Iso

November 13 2014

doors at 730 music at 8 sharp!

1st installment of JUNK (jazz/punk) series
Ross Hammond / Luke Stewart / Nate Scheible
Peoples Drug
Black Saturn
October 16 2014
Announcing JUNK – a new jazz/punk series at the Back Alley Theater! This is an experiment in musical combination – we...

1st installment of JUNK (jazz/punk) series

Ross Hammond / Luke Stewart / Nate Scheible

Peoples Drug

Black Saturn

October 16 2014

Announcing JUNK – a new jazz/punk series at the Back Alley Theater! This is an experiment in musical combination – we hope you’ll come join us, and hang out, and see what happens and what it sounds like.

Peoples Drug (feat. members of Neonates, Foul Swoops, Mary Christ) is a spiky rad funny new D.C. punk band. You will love them.

Ross Hammond is a fantastic jazz guitarist on tour from Sacramento – listen/read more here: http://www.rosshammond.com/]]. He’ll be playing with D.C.’s own experimental innovators Luke Stewart and Nate Scheible.

Just added! The abstract/experimental hip-hop sonics of Black Saturn!
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=136279903058718]

Mecca Normal
Laughing Man
Cigarette
Sneaks
october 4 2014

Mecca Normal

Laughing Man

Cigarette

Sneaks

october 4 2014

Andrea Pensado
Morgan Evans-Weiler
Jane Claire Remick
Meredith Bove / Layne Garrett
september 24 2014
Andrea Pensado and Morgan Evans-Weiler are coming down from Boston for the utterly high brow and utterly wacky festival that is High Zero in...

Andrea Pensado

Morgan Evans-Weiler

Jane Claire Remick

Meredith Bove / Layne Garrett

september 24 2014

Andrea Pensado and Morgan Evans-Weiler are coming down from Boston for the utterly high brow and utterly wacky festival that is High Zero in Baltimore. We are real glad they will be paying us a visit beforehand. Both employ extremes of dynamics and mood in the service of full mind and body immersion. Plus a brand new collaboration between Meredith Bove (movement) and Layne Garrett (sound), a sure-to-be-beguiling performance by DC’s Jane Claire Remick, and a Back Alley Bitter (that’s right a keg of fresh homebrew) by Unkie Dru Edmonson.

Andrea Pensado uses MaxMSP as her main programming tool. The approach to programming and performance is highly intuitive. Occasionally, the combination of the performance situation, the often abrasive sounds, the irrational use of the voice and the inherent uncertainty of improvisations contributes to discoveries of unknown places in her mind.

Presently, Pensado has been performing solos and has played with, among others: Walter Wright, Jules Vasylenko, I’d M Thfft Able, Forbes Graham, Ben Miller, Luther Gray, Junko Fujiwara, Todd Brunel, Audrey Chen, Lou Cohen, Dave Ross, Adriana de los Santos, Glynis Lomon, Dave Bryant, Emilie Mouchous, Gustavo Aguilar, Chris Lavery, Mark Miller, Ava Mendoza, Borah Bergman, Davindar Singh, Zavoloka, Alexei Borisov, Mimi Rabson, Angela Sawyer, Jack Wright, Bob Falesch, Ben Bennett, Mark Johnson, Mike Dailey, Jill Burton, Stephanie Lak, Shayna Dulberger and Chris Welcome.

Morgan Evans-Weiler is a Boston based musician, artist and educator who uses violin, electronics and other media to explore the dichotomy of stasis and activity. His current solo work involves a deconstructed violin and an array of natural overtones against a counterpoint of sine waves and subtle noise to create rich environments that convey both a motion and stillness in their perpetual variation.

He releases tapes by Boston artists on his Individual Li
nes label and produces shows at Washington St. Art in Somerville, MA. His current projects include the large Boston ensemble Deleuzer, duos with Jed Speare and Noell Dorsey (Katze), his solo work and the HMQ.

http://www.me-w.org/

Jane Claire Remick’s interdisciplinary investigations look for truth in fiction and fiction in reality. Her mediums are project-based and often collaborative, spanning and combining video, new media, performance, and scenography/installation.

http://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/tag/jane-claire-remick/

Meredith Bove hails from a small town in Vermont. From 2008-2011 she lived and worked in Berlin, where she presented work at adastudio, Salon Bruit, K77, Die Kunst Apotheke, and with the Gruntwork collective. Within the US her work has been seen at the Theater Project (Baltimore, MD), the American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), the Cultivate Festival (Bethlehem, NH), and the Remix Festival (Philadelphia, PA). She has performed in the work of Luis Lara Malvacías, Jérôme Bel, Zinzi Buchanan, Jillian Peña, Sarah Dahnke, Erica Rebollar, Sarah Beth Oppenheim, Sharon Mansur, and has enjoyed collaborations with dancer/choreographer Andrea Jenni and conceptual artist Luke Munn. She holds a BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and an MFA from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA.

http://meredithbove.wordpress.com/

Layne Garrett is celebrating the release of a brand new cassette of collage’d sounds on the Individual Lines label out of Boston. He’s also assembling materials for a large-scale parking lot installation at this year’s Sonic Circuits festival. Yes, assembling materials, always…..

http://www.questionthetruth.com/noise/

School of Hard Equinox
Saturday, September 20
Doors 8 pm; Show 9 pm
A series of vignettes featuring interviews with siblings of dictators, little white liars and others
Musical accompaniment by Luke Stewart and guests
Written by Rosetta &...

School of Hard Equinox

Saturday, September 20

Doors 8 pm; Show 9 pm

A series of vignettes featuring interviews with siblings of dictators, little white liars and others

Musical accompaniment by Luke Stewart and guests

Written by Rosetta & Gutstein*

Starring
Raj Kapoor as a lonesome teamster with a sore left arm
Beth Krausse as Ms. Anne, a little white (White?) liar
Patrick Slevin as a Jew who brunches on Easter
and
Emily Cohen as Kim Jong Il’s sister

*Emily Cohen and Dan Gutstein

saturday august 30 2014
uncle woody sullender
eames armstrong
bushmeat
nate scheible / patrick cain
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Sullender’s recent work examines the social construction of the performance space and how it reinforces specific rituals and modernist ideologies of...

saturday august 30 2014

uncle woody sullender

eames armstrong

bushmeat

nate scheible / patrick cain

Sullender’s recent work examines the social construction of the performance space and how it reinforces specific rituals and modernist ideologies of listening.  By minor interventions and reconfigurations in existing spaces, not only can these rituals of listening be exploded, but larger notions of social relations can be explored.
Most recently this has manifested in performances/installations that utilize modular forms to divide and shape the space, primarily with cardboard outfitted with audio transducers, turning each object into a resonating ‘speaker’.  These 'concerts’ incorporate gestures such as walls becoming tables, a stage platform becoming a table, stage curtains becoming a rug, etc. that imply shifts in roles as 'listeners’.  
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