Gate is a free noise project of New Zealander Michael Morley, which began in the mid-'90s. Morley, who has also played in Dead C. and Precious Metal Inc., performed the thick, sonic improvisations that are characteristic of Gate on a tour with Keiji Haino and Thurston Moore in 1994. One of Gate's more widely available recordings, Live in Boston/NYC 1994 (Poon Village), comes from that year and features Lee Ranaldo and Zeena Parkins. Ranaldo and Morley also recorded in the studio, although this material has yet to be released. Gate has several subsequent releases on the Table of the Elements label, including Monolake (1997) and The Wisher Table (1999), as well as other releases on smaller independent labels such as Go For It and Siltbreeze.
Grouper is the solo project of musician and artist Liz Harris. After releasing material independently beginning in 2005, Harris released the critically acclaimed Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (2008), followed by four more records, including a two-part concept album, A I A. Her tenth studio album, Ruins, was released on October 31, 2014. Harris' music, described as "ethereal" and "hazy," often consists of guitar layered with vocals and tape loops. She has collaborated with a number of other artists, including Xiu Xiu, Tiny Vipers, Lawrence English, and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. She resides on the Oregon Coast.
Gabie Strong is a California artist and musician exploring spatial constructions of degeneration, drone and decay as a means to improvise new arrangements of self-reflexive meaning. Strong uses sound performance, radio broadcasting, environmental installation, photography and video as a mediums for experimentation. Her work has been presented on Kchung TV at the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2014 biennial exhibition, Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, Knowledges at Mount Wilson Observatory, Pitzer Art Galleries, University Art Gallery UC Irvine, and LAXArt amongst others. Strong has performed at MOCA, the wulf, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Human Resources, SASSAS, LACE, High Desert Test Sites, LACMA, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, and Jabberjaw. In 2010 Strong founded the all-female free-psych group Lady Noise, concluding with a series of durational performances for Dawn Kasper’s installation in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Currently she is performing solo, free-noise music under her own name. She is releasing two eps this summer.
Christopher Reid Martin is a multidisciplinary artist, currently residing in Los Angeles. He first began working with sound in Orange County in 2004, layering sounds from various field recordings of daily life which convey living truths and over processed instrumentation as the reactionary expression. These expressions came to birth the solo project known as of Shelter Death, as it has evolved into numerous projects in which performance and sound interplay to make for a personal reactionary dramatization.
18+, $8 door
ADA Accessible
~Free entry for $10 members http://s1portland.com/membership
Named from a phrase in a Shakespeare sonnet, Those Pretty Wrongs is a collaboration between Big Star founding member and drummer Jody Stephens and Luther Russell of roots rockers the Freewheelers. The duo got together when Stephens asked Russell to join him in performances of his former band's songs at screenings of the 2012 documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me. They soon began writing songs together, signed with Burger Records, and released a 7" in the spring of 2015; the nostalgic jangle ballad "Lucky Guy" was recorded in Memphis using late Big Star co-leader Chris Bell's guitars from the band's 1972 debut album. It was accompanied by B-side "Fool of Myself." ~ Marcy Donelson, Rovi
Women's Beat League Presents:
Lena Willikens
https://soundcloud.com/lenawillikens
"Nothing trains a DJ more than a long lasting residency. A truism that the Cologne based musician and DJ Lena Willikens always proves when she spins her vinyl. Since more then five years, she has been in charge of long and sweaty Friday night parties at Düsseldorf’s free-spirited club/bar Salon Des Amateurs. She is also a dedicated member of the Cómeme records tribe and all its missions: her name is frequently on the label’s party bills and she runs globally famed the monthly radio show “Sentimental Flashback” for Radio Cómeme, that UK-based Juno records elected to the best podcast/mix of 2014. As a DJ, radio broadcaster and producer, Lena is never committed to one style, all is welcome as long as it is twisted the in a one-of-a-kind way. As a producer she arranged a very special ghost wave track “High Holes“, that was released by the Düsseldorf based label Slowboy Records via the vinyl only sampler "Kingii” in 2012. Early 2015 she released her first solo EP “Phantom Delia” on Cómeme. Therefore she produced six mystique tracks between droning EBM, ghost-house and no-wavish outernational grooves.
Not only in her productions, also when she spins records Lena likes to let her self go in the name of dance and free thought. Her unforeseeable selections are pooling obscure proto-techno, jacking spirits, industrial boogie, synthesized disco, raw house and other outernational rhythms. So far she cheered clubs like Golden Pudel/Hamburg, Corsica Studios/London, Panoramabar/ Berlin, festivals like Nachtdigital or Nuits Sonores and toured through UK, Spain, East Europe, South and recently North America. Wherever she performed she surprised the folks and left them amazed about how expanded a crowd can let go and how far a DJ can move a dancefloor into unknown and bizarre spheres that stay catchy, while being edgy." RA
Isabella Live Hardware (Boston - Börft/Jacktone)
http://soundcloud.com/networkerror
Natural Magic (Portland)
https://soundcloud.com/thenaturalmagic
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21+, $10adv/$15 door
~Free entry for $10 members http://s1portland.com/membership
ADA Accessible, Cash Bar
TRAP PARADISE a multi-experiential art installation by Chris Dxwsxn. The showcase includes a collection of large canvas paintings, sculpture work, interactive art displays and other mediums. With sounds for evening provided by VirtousVice, Timothy Bee, & QUAZ. Koi Fusion food trucks more.
Old Grape God will be repping new EP Calmanac with right hand Skelli Skel https://droppinggems.bandcamp.com/album/calmanac
Daniel Rafn single release for new song Shalom, the first single off forthcoming album due later this fall http://danielrafn.com/
Sustentacula is a soul-crunk trio, which includes multi-instrumentalists David Rafn & Ryan Stuewe, and dancer Alyssa Reed-Stuewe https://sustentacula.bandcamp.com/
Eric Fury will be the disc jockey for the night, holding it down on the decks & providing strictly the funkiest of vibrations.
hq is proud to present Slip Cast, a new video work by Portland dance collective sub.set with original score by Maddy Villano.
In reference to the molding of persons and behavior, both conscious and unconscious. The manufacture and slippage of self dependent on biological, environmental, and interpersonal factors.
We are in the space. Now that we are here we try to figure out what we are composed of and how we compose the room. The site specific video installation is an incomplete catalog of the things we are made of, including our hereditary biology, interpersonal relationships, media consumption, and the room.
Reception: July 3rd 6:30PM - 10PM
Exhibition: July 3 - August 14
A night of live music organized by Freeform Portland, with:
Opals // soundcloud.com/opalsmusic
Bobbi Wasabi // soundcloud.com/bobbiwasabi
Tig Bitty // https://tigbitty.bandcamp.com/
$5-10 sliding scale cover / 21+.
Proceeds will benefit Freeform Portland, a local, independent and freeform radio station. For more information about the station, visitfreeformportland.org!
Bugs is the first feature-length film by Canadian artist duo Life of a Craphead. (aka Amy Lam and Jon McCurley).
“Bugs is a satire about a bug society and its most successful family. The Bug Prime Minister, Shay (Gerry Campbell), has ruled the Bug Garden for many years and is finally, reluctantly, retiring. He’s chosen his niece, Gaston (Liz Peterson), to take over -- but Gaston, who is plagued with ambitions to be the Bug Garden’s most respected politician-architect-filmmaker -- is folding under the pressure. Dan is his other niece, but she’s a dreamer and can’t be trusted; she’s full of conflicting ideals and tries to act on all of them."
Bugs is premiering in the U.S. at Night Gallery in June, with a subsequent U.S. tour to S1 in Portland, Spectacle in Brooklyn, The Crown (with Wham City) in Baltimore, and PhilaMOCA in Philadelphia.
www.bugs.world
The screening will include a live Bugs intro and Q&A.
Bio:
Life of a Craphead is the collaboration of Amy Lam and Jon McCurley since 2006. Their work spans performance art, film, and curation. Projects include The Life of a Craphead Fifty Year Retrospective, 2006-2056 (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2013), an fake career retrospective of all the work they will ever make; Double Double Land Land (Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2009), a play interrupted by a staged wedding; and Free Lunch (2007), a public, anonymously-advertised free lunch serving everything on the menu of a restaurant. Life of a Craphead also run and host the monthly performance art show Doored, which recently toured to Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam; Flux Factory in NYC; and the Lodge at LACA, Los Angeles. They performed frequently on live comedy shows including at Laugh Sabbath (Toronto) and UCB Theatre (L.A. & NYC) between 2006-09. Life of a Craphead have been artists-in-residence at the Macdowell Colony, U.S.; the Banff Centre, Canada; and Wunderbar, U.K.; and their work has been featured in Canadian Art, C Magazine, and Art in America. They are Chinese and Vietnamese and live and work in Toronto, Canada.
www.lifeofacraphead.com
Co-presented with Stand Up Comedy
All Ages, $5-8 Suggested - no one will be turned away for lack of funds
All proceeds go to performers and S1's future programming. Become a member for free entry to events http://s1portland.com/membership
ADA Accessible
chill ambient evening with friends. quad sound, quiet room.
w/
neglect
mike jedlicka
dennis childers
wndfrm
bring a pillow or two, and ears for contemplative listening. bring some cash for merch.
5-10 sliding scale at the door. all ages, no drinks.
The last session of home school's first semester: an artist talk by Jasmine Nyende! There will be beer and snacks for everyone, and the talk will be streamed for those who can't be there IRL!
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"Art in relation to earthquakes
Find a new pedestal for the vase
Destruction and shared information surrounding damage
Carbon dating
Chronology of damage, craftsmanship
Impulses and repression
Distressed and damaged and put back together for authenticity
I've been making work about this vase destroyed from an earthquake and want to do the talk about that."
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Jasmine Nyende is a new media and performance artist based out of South Central Los Angeles.
Celebrate 2 years with:
Coast2c https://soundcloud.com/coast2c
DJ Rafael https://soundcloud.com/deejayrafael
Golden Donna (LIVE) https://soundcloud.com/goldendonna
Nishkosheh https://soundcloud.com/nishkosheh
Orthographic Figure (LIVE) https://soundcloud.com/orthographicfigure
Sebastian Ruslan (Vancouver BC, LIVE/DJ) https://soundcloud.com/immunitybug/sebastian-ruslan-folding-earth
21+, $10
Cash Bar, ADA Accessible
Free Entry For Members http://s1portland.com/membership
All proceeds go directly to the performers and S1's future programming. If you cannot afford ticket costs, please contact S1 for volunteer opportunities.
LETS CELEBRATE 10 AWESOME B-SIDE YEARS!! WE'RE BLOCKING OFF 7TH AVE.
B~SIDE BLOCK PARTY!! OUTDOOR STAGE, AND BARS.
GET HERE EARLY. THIS WILL SELL OUT!
SAT. JUNE 25TH NOON-10PM
RED FANG
BIG BUSINESS
HELMS ALEE
RABBITS
GAYTHIEST
COUGAR
THORNES
SUICIDE NOTES
FRUIT OF THE LEGION OF LOOM
FULL CREATURE
Sponsors
PBR
POINT BLANK
XRAY FM
Important info:
21 and over. Bring ID.
Doors at noon.
Music ends at 10.
Tickets at the door day of event only, no pre-sale.
GET HERE EARLY.
Cash only. (we have an ATM)
This is a block party on 7th ave, enter through the bar.
B-Side Tavern
632 E Burnside St
This is going to be fun, y'all.
The 2016 Playground Park Party is celebrating 10 years of the best free summer park party in Portland.
Many of us hold a special place in our hearts for this gathering. In many ways, it is an expression of our unique community, our love for dance music, sunshine, family, friends, and beautiful vibes. We look forward to gathering once again, all of us under the same bridge, to laugh, play, dance, soak up some sun, and celebrate life together.
Music will be House, Disco, Dub, Boogie, Balearic, Tribal, Techno, Electro, and all things groovy, provided by Portland's finest, and some very special out of town guests.
Lineup and schedule:
Yo Yo Yoga led by Datza, with music by Recess (Shameless,
Seattle) - Noon-1pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/1414686618545374/
Ginkgo - 1-2pm
Daniela Karina - 2-3pm
El Residente - 3-4pm
Audioelectronic - 4-5pm
Natural Magic - 5-6:30pm
Ben Tactic - 6:30-7:30
Laura Lynn b2b The Perfect Cyn - 7:30-9pm
Sound by Kraken Audio
Please remember Portland City Park laws: No alcohol, no smoking, dogs on leashes, no stakes driven into the ground. Please respect the rules. Everyone's behavior in the park reflects on the event as a whole, and we want to keep doing this.
Playground Phenomenon is supported entirely by the community, and has always been a free event. Please show your support by contributing whatever you can on the GoFundMe page.
Online Donations: https://www.gofundme.com/2016playground
What to bring: Blankets, sunscreen, picnic food, snacks, water, hula hoops, frisbees, games, toys, bubbles, fun stuff. Bring the kids. Bring mom and dad. Grandma & grandpa. Carpool. Clean up your own mess. Recycle.
Blankstairs ALL NIGHT in PDX
06.24.16 / 11:00pm (PST)
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with
Carly Barton [Blankstairs / PDX]
Scott Murakami [Blankstairs / Lost Soul Enterprises / NYC]
Kristen Dalen [Blankstairs / TUF / SEA]
Archivist [Blankstairs / secondnature / SEA]
+ www.blnkstrs.com/carly-barton
+ www.blnkstrs.com/scott-murakami
+ www.blnkstrs.com/kristen-dalen
+ www.blnkstrs.com/archivist
$15early / $20adv. / $25door
Tickets: https://goo.gl/md4UoK
(Includes digital copy of BST014)
RSVP for address: blnkstrs@gmail.com
Complimentary Tangerines
www.blnkstrs.com
The 6th Ever Quiet Music Festival of Portland
On June 24th and 25th, 2015, Chris Johanson’s sixth annual Quiet Music Festival of Portland will
once again transform contemporary art space Disjecta into a tranquil cave of sonic serenity. Tuning
in and zonking out are equally encouraged as this year’s line-up takes you through soft sets
tailored to the festival’s ethos while you float on a sea of plush surfaces.
Celebrating the power of turning the dial down, the lowest-key festival in the land spans two
nights in Portland. Valet, Larry Yes, Sun Foot and Bouquet will all perform and Mary Gaitskill will do
a reading. The full list of artists will be released in April.
Mississippi Records’ Eric I returns to helm the festival’s DJ booth and spin copious amounts of medicinal vinyl.
The festival will be recorded by Seth Lorinczi (2-Track Mind Studio) using a vintage 2-track 1/4” tape
deck. Past recordings can be found at quietmusicfestivalofportland.bandcamp.com. The technology is
old, clunky and obsolete, but the recordings capture the special hush and tranquility of the QMF.
About Chris Johanson
Chris Johanson established the Quiet Music Festival of Portland in 2011 as a community listening
experience. His recent exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Malmo
Museum, SFMOMA, and UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Johanson’s work has been included
in the Whitney Biennial, the 8th Istanbul Biennial, and the 4th Berlin Biennial. In 2013 publishing
house Phaidon released his monograph as part of its Contemporary Artists Series. Johanson created
the record label Awesome Vistas which produces limited edition vinyl records and publications, and
the creative enterprise J and C Arts in collaboration with his partner, Johanna Jackson.
About Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
Founded in 2000, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center builds ambitious programs that promote artists
and engage communities. These dynamic programs showcase new work and fuel collaborations
between artists, curators and viewers that impact and intervene in the larger contemporary arts
dialogue. Disjecta’s reach extends far beyond the arts and encompasses the true essence of a cultural
facility: a place where ideas, dialogue, creativity, and diversity flourish.
Images are here https://www.flickr.com/photos/disjectapdx the first section is last year— Photo credit is Sean Ongley/THRU Magazine.
And these are from previous years https://www.flickr.com/photos/disjectapdx/collections/72157651361195357/
JESSY LANZA
Made in her hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, with production partner Jeremy Greenspan from Junior Boys, the plaintive, reverb drizzled mood of the first album has all but given away to a more direct, self-assured and joyful album. As with many artists whose hometown lie off the usual network of cultural hotspots, 'Oh No' is driven positively by the idea of making music that isn't inspired by where she lives. Instead, the album resonates more with the philosophy of experimental pop of Japanese 80s electro outfit Yellow Magic Orchestra and Jessy's breathless, pitched vocals are reminiscent of YMO collaborator Miharu Koshi. Playfully laced with cascading arpeggios, crispy drum machines and breezy songs, 'Oh No' has an infectious energy that has been brewing in her live shows since her first album. As Jessy says 'I want to make people feel good and I want to make myself feel good'.
The album oscillates between the languid, coiled, arpeggiated slow jams of 'New Ogi', 'GoingSomewhere', 'Begins', 'Could be u', 'I Talk BB' and the low slung 808 groove of 'Vivaca', where Jessy's vocal gymnastics run wild over minimal drums and synths, and the catchy upbeat boogie of 'VV Violence', 'Never Enough', 'OhNo' and the high point of 'It Means I Love You" which has a sparse addictive bounce with a pitched up vocal refrain and a nod to Shangaan electro.
The trials of dealing with nervousness are also encrypted into the artwork, such as the plants that recur in the sleeve and videos.As Jessy remarked, "I became obsessed with surrounding myself with tropical plants. I've been convinced that the air quality in our house is slowly killing us. It might sound crazy but the plants have made a huge difference."
Anxiety and botanical remedies or not, 'Oh No' is a bold second album from Jessy and a marked step forward for her sound. Catch her as shetours with Junior Boys in February, plays EU headline shows from May to June, and in July has a North American Tour.
DJ TAYE
LEAD BY LORENE BOUBOUSHIAN
As an interdisciplinary, improvisational performer and workshop facilitator, I am captivated by the underlying motives for any action. In workshops and lab-based environments, often it is assumed that we should follow our “interests” or “intentions,” when in fact our in-the-moment actions are a result not of clear-cut decisions but our relationship to the organism of bodies, room and objects around us colliding with what’s inside us. What do we want and why? What if we derailed ourselves, worked with our own insincerity, faked ourselves out, played tricks? Is it possible to create a realm where all is valid and nothing is right? For anyone interested in performing, from any discipline. Bring objects you are interested in.
here is a more general description and some video of past classes. this refers to more sonic based stuff i've been doing with matthew gantt, but it's still nice to watch i think:
https://lorenebouboushian.org/teaching/
SUGGESTED DONATION (snackz provided!)
photo credit ying liu
its our 1 year annniversary so come thru ~~~
~w special guests~
MAGIC FADES (dj set)
https://soundcloud.com/magicfades
& sets from ur hosts
MISS CLEO
https://soundcloud.com/i-am-miss-cleo
187 MOOCHIE
https://soundcloud.com/187moochie
PHRSLN
https://soundcloud.com/prhsln
~WITCH HOUSE/TRAP/EXPERIMENTAL~
visuals by champagne bukkake
ERIN TOBEY (BLOOMINGTON, IN)
http://erintobey.bandcamp.com
STEPHEN STEINBRINK (WESTERN US)
http://stephensteinbrink.bandcamp.com
WEIRD CACTUS (PORTLAND, OR)
http://katydavidsonandfriends.com/
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killingsworth St
8PM
$6
"They've got the far-off, dreamy vocal wash of the shoegazers, but their guitars and hooks are anything but subtle, invoking the tone of early Kinks or Nuggets acts on 'Psychological Thriller'." - Pitchfork
"Austin-based act Holy Wave blends garage and surf rock with heavy reverb and echo to create a sound that is dreamy and hazy." - Nylon
"Freaks of Nurture is an intimate piece of pastoral psychedelia which replaces oddball freak-outs with gorgeous melody." - Line of Best Fit