Aphonia Recordings 2008 Performance Series #6:
Friday, June 6th
Gallery 1412 (1412 18th ave – Seattle)
8:00pm
$5-15 suggested donation
-Paintings for Animals
-Penny & Her Lowercase Kindred (Olympia/Reno)
-The Precambrian
PAINTINGS FOR ANIMALS
Heavy drones, overtone melodies, and the sound of the land – Paintings for Animals performs with field recordings, bowed metals, mixer feedback, throat singing, vocal blips, clicks and the buzz of electronics. Started 2001, in Seattle by Pearson Wallace-Hoyt, the project is maintained to provide a platform for the proliferation of spiritually charged noise and a revival of ritualized sound. With members dispersing to Bali, Kolozberg, New York and San Francisco, Paintings continues to craft a truly Cascadian music of chants, esoterica and the sounds of urban & natural environments.
paintingsforanimals.com
PENNY & HER LOWER CASE KINDRED
Penny and Her Lower Case Kindred is a medley of shadow puppets, an adjustable stage, a variety of keyboards and organs, a synth, a loop station, a head mic, vacuums, strobe lights, fake blood, real blood, some drums,internal dialogue exposed… Unicorn: “We began hosting on-stage forums a couple of years ago once we realized that it was unfair to monopolize Penny’s brain.” Cher: “I wouldn’t really call it a forum…more like the sound of 15 minute recesses from the other side of the chain-link fence. Lots of piercing noises and academic purging.”
www.myspace.com/pennyandherlowercasekindred
THE PRECAMBRIAN
Aphonia Recordings’ founders, Ben L. Robertson & Andrew Senna, team up to explore the spectral transfiguration of minute sounds & vocalizations. In concept, The Precambrian is a sequence of interactive synthesis environments, engineered by Robertson using the graphical programming language; Max/MSP. Often drawing from his background in sound design for film & theatre, Senna utilizes a handful of homemade piezoelectric transducers, microphones, & field recordings to interact within each of these unique synthetic environments. The result of this interaction is a performance which resembles a series of absurd, one-act narratives.
www.aphoniarecordings.com
Jun 05 – 9:00P Desolation Wilderness @ Le Voyeur (Seattle, WA)
Jun 06 – 8:00P Aphonia Rec. Series 6 @ Gallery 1412 (Seattle, WA)
Jun 08 – 8:00P The Precambrian @ The Blue Moon (Seattle, WA)
Jun 14 – 8:00P Agnes Szelag @ 21 grand (Oakland, CA)
Jun 18 – 8:00P Old Number Sevens (Phonon) @ the Tractor (Seattle, WA)
Jun 20 – 8:00P Benefit Show for the Oly Exp Music Fest @ Gallery 1412 (Seattle, WA)
Jun 24 – 6:00P Paintings for Animals @ Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA)
Jun 27 – 7:00P Ben Robertson + Gabe Will @ Olympia Experimental Music Festival
Jun 28 – 2:00P Paintings for Animals @ Artopia film show (Seattle, WA)
Jun 28 – 6:00P Darwinsbitch @ Olympia Experimental Music Fest (Olympia, wa)
Jun 29 – 7:00P Paintings for Animals @ Olympia Experimental Music Fest (olympia, wa)
While the Spring weather is definitely a welcome feature of the recent days, we would like to go back in time for a tiny bit and revisit some past shows on the podcast. Aphonia Recordings has reached its first full year of continuous operation with the year anniversary of the launch show, way back on May 17th of 2007 at the Midnight Sun in Olympia. While we will be revisiting that particular show, to kick of this extravaganza, we bring you a show performed by Darwinsbitch on November 11th, 2007.
