Shigeto
On Intermission, Saginaw places all of those disparate sounds side by side, offering a snapshot both of where he has been as an artist, as well as where he is going. “Intermission grew out of the idea that I have all of these places I want to go; even though I’m not there yet, these are six little signposts along the way.” In the years since No Better Time Than Now, Shigeto’s experience as a musician has only deepened. He recorded tracks for the Detroit rapper ZelooperZ, and performed with jazz legend Dave Douglass’ High Risk
Project. “I couldn’t accept the fact that I was hanging,” he laughs. “I was like, wait, I dropped out of jazz school, how does this work?” “But what it did was make me realize that music is music—you don’t have to be a certain type of musician or trained in a certain way in order to contribute to something. It was very liberating.”
That sense of liberation comes through in every track on Intermission. It’s not electronic music, it’s not jazz, it’s not hip-hop—it’s all of those; “Pulse” blends glacial electronics with plinking vibraphones (“That song is kind of a dancefloor-type song, which is different for me,” Saginaw says). On the other end of the spectrum entirely are “Gently” and “Deep Breathing,” two moody, spacious, beat-less songs that spin soft strands of synth over empty air. Taken together, the songs tell the story of an artist with a broad musical background stretching out and exploring his influences. “When I’m having a lot of fun, that’s how I know when I’m on to something,” he says. “Like the first time you ever realized you could plug a microphone into your interface and record your own sounds, and your whole world was changed. Intermission is like that for me—its about getting that feeling again.”
Groundislava
Philip Grass
Hans, a relief waiter in an upscale Berlin night club, rents a room by night. Grete, a manicurist, rents the same room by day. Though they have never met in person, the two have forged a lasting enmity toward each other. They also unwittingly strike up a romance without realizing that they share a room.
I BY DAY, YOU BY NIGHT is one of the Weimar era's most artfully crafted musical comedies, winking and taunting the conservative order about to sweep over Germany. Its also a salty satire on the unrealistic and frothy musical genre in the wake of the hardships of the working class in the 30s. Starring Willy Fritsch.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/PxdK6Xzpy6w
$5 suggested donation
Squirrel Butter, husband and wife duo of Charlie Beck & Charmaine Slaven share a deep love of traditional music, they explore the genres of old-time, early bluegrass, blues, country, & cajun. Multi-instrumentalists, they play banjo, guitar, fiddle, steel guitar, step-dance, and sing harmonies. They are also both members of the venerable stringband, The Tallboys, as well as honky tonk project, The Tallboys Country Band. They are anchors of the old-time music & square dance communities in the Pacific NW and beyond.
Hoot and Holler are Amy Alvey (fiddle, vocals) and Mark Kilianski (guitar, vocals). Based out of Boston share a love for traditional mountain music and have entertained audiences with that passion from Europe to California.
Jack Dwyer is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, and teacher based in Portland, OR. He performs and teaches around the country with various musical projects and works on the Adjunct Music Faculty of Lewis and Clark College.
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Cost :: Suggested donation $15-20 or what you can. All proceeds go to the artists!
Contact :: Abbie Weisenbloom, (503) : 233-4945 / abbiew@froggie.com /www.froggie.com
Live streaming the show on Concert Window - https://www.concertwindow.com/abbiewpresents.
Silent Reading Party is back! Come on in out of the rain and join fellow readers to read silently in good company at our third SRP in January 2016. Bring your own print or digital book and enjoy two hours of undistracted time to read whatever you want. Expect happy hour prices, special cocktails, and ambient music.
An audiovisual night of Latin American and global experimental electronic dance music.
>> DJ NOMBRE APELLIDO
Moises Horta is a visual artist and producer from Tijuana based in Mexico City. He is part of the futuristic Mexican band “Los Macuanos” who created “Ruidoson” a hybrid genre of traditional Mexican regional music that defined a generation of artists in the north of the country. Los Macuanos developed their musical sound during the transitional period of change of presidency between Felipe Calderon and Enrique Peña Nieto - The beginning of one of Mexico’s most brutal periods - Their music is heavily influenced by politics, narco-violence, corruption and urban decay. Los Macuanos are scheduled to release new material on December 2015.
DJ Nombre Apellido ( DJ Name Last name) is a satire on DJ acts that use their name and last name as their artist name as well as a criticism on the state of electronic dance music. “I feel that the EDM category conspicuously took out any sort of need for experimentation within a very ample genre of music, at least commercially, and pretty much set various formulas for producing it (i.e. “the drop”).” DJ Nombre Apellido arises from a need to go “back to basics” and takes root in early examples of electronic dance music, ranging from early Chicago house and Detroit techno experiments to more contemporary club music deconstructions. Moises also experiments with visual arts. “I’m from a generation immersed in video games and the Internet. Having been raised looking at a screen a great part of my life made me have a keen sense for graphic design, RGB colors and the kind of visual experiments that emerged from the now (infamously) dubbed “post-Internet” aesthetic. With DJ Nombre Apellido I keep the visuals to match the environment in which I produce music, that is, stuff made with a prosumer laptop and tablet using apps that only do one thing, such as glitch a picture, making it reminiscent of dadaist readymades.
>> SPF666
Zack offers a peculiar way of decontextualizing music of different genres presenting percussive interpretations of UK grime, ballroom, dembow, techno, jungle and jersey club. His music encompasses a very global and hybrid perspective of the dance floor.
>> 2TABS
2TABS is the new music project of Coast2c and Michael Bruce. They have been throwing parties and DJing as individuals for Gran Ritmos for over a year and now they are starting to work on conceptualizing their sound as 2TABS. While they continue to work on defining that sound, they are kicking things off with their first DJ set together.
DJ NOMBRE APELLIDO (Los Macuanos, Tijuana)
https://soundcloud.com/dj-nombre-apellido
https://soundcloud.com/losmacuanos
SPF666 (Club Chemtrail)
https://soundcloud.com/spf666
2TABS (Michael Bruce + Coast2c, Gran Ritmos)
https://soundcloud.com/coast2c
https://soundcloud.com/soniclozenge
Visuals by Michael Bruce + Moises Horta
Flyer Design by Pecco www.thepeccoway.wordpress.com
An exhibition and a book release, opening reception on Saturday, January 16, 12-6.
We the audience are facing conundrums:
Marc says there is a tennis match going, but there is no victory and the rules are somewhat fictive. Jabari gave us instructions on how to build a folded object out of copper, yet its final form is impossible. Given these circumstances we may feel irresolute. These selected objects, companions in our small space for a time, are gently voicing concern about our expectations of fairness and order in our world.
Jabari Jordan-Walker (b. 1988 Chicago, IL) is a writer, artist, and occasional curator currently based in Portland, OR. Jordan-Walker is driven by a critique on the pervasive within commodity, wealth, art history, and visual culture. By taking the form of poetry, temporary sculpture, and short-form critical texts Jordan-Walker’s work looks to create conversations surrounding the urban and hinterland. He has most recently been included in a group exhibition at Surplus Space in Portland, OR. Jordan-Walker's writing has been featured in PIN-UP Magazine for Architectural Entertainment, Bartleby Review, and Pythagoras Records.
Marc Matchak is an artist currently living in San Francisco, California. Recent past work has been shown through Pamela’s in Kula, HI and the Time Based Arts Festival in Portland. Writing has been published through The Volta, GaussPDF, Split/Fountain, Muscle Beach, and Amur-Initiatives. Marc is interested in comedy and love as interruptions or abstractions of the world around us.
FORTUNE
2235 W Burnside St
Office/Gallery hours:
Sat-Sun 12-6, or by Appt.
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DJ Paypal - (TEKLIFE// MALL MUSIC// BRAINFEEDER, LUCKY ME)
https://soundcloud.com/djpaypal
DJ Mastercard - (MALL MUSIC)
https://soundcloud.com/dj-mastercard
Bukkha- (Moonshine Recordings, Dubs Alive Records, Foundation Channel)
https://soundcloud.com/bukkhaspace
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Local Support:
AlbinoGorilla - (Tenth Degree)
Dan Halen - (Amiti Group, Tenth Degree)
Skelli Skel - (PDX Mandem, Tenth Degree)
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Visuals by Ritzy Sheens
Sound by One Wub
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☞As capacity is very small, we recommend showing up early to guarantee entry. ☜
Check out what the Willamette Week says:
XRAY DJ Dave Cantrell's 60th Birthday Party
Friday, January 15, 2016
8:00 pm - 11:30 pm
Black Water Bar
Portland, OR
Price: $8.00
Note: All Ages.
XRAY DJ Dave Cantrell, host of post-punk/darkwave show Songs From Under the Floorboard, celebrates his 60th birthday by hosting a show at Black Water with four bands that have played a crucial role in the Portland post-punk scene: Vice Device, Spirit Host, LUNCH, and Shadowhouse. The all-ages event is a benefit to help pay traveling costs of out-of-state bands appearing at the 2-night XRAY-sponsored Out From The Shadows II festival happening April 1-2, 2016.
Deep Under Ground will be presenting its first annual celebration at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center.
7pm A jam from a surprise band TBA
Spins by Soopah Eype
8pm Open Mic
9pm Ripley Snell
(www.ripleysnell.com)
10pm Open Mic ||| Cypher
11pm Jonny Cool and The Moons
https://www.reverbnation.com/jonnycoolsg
12am celebration
All Ages (bar w/ID) + Food
Blog: deepundergroundpdx.tumblr.com
Instagram: @deep_under_ground
disjecta.org
Welcome to our 33rd annual edition of Reel Music. We’ve been on the lookout all year for new works—and timely classics—to feature in our annual celebration of sound, music, and image. Whether your passion is jazz, blues, rock, soul, opera, classical, avant-garde—or anything in between—we hope you find something to discover and inspire you in this eclectic mix of the familiar and unknown.
As always, our special thanks go to Music Millennium, Willamette Week, Walker, Kink.fm, MusicFestNW, All Classical Portland, PDX Jazz and Portland Jazz Festival, XRAY.FM, KMHD Jazz Radio, KBOO Community Radio, PDX PIPELINE, Oregon Music News, and Marmoset.
Mike Bray
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January 15 - March 5, 2016
Opening Reception
Friday, January 15
6 - 8 PM
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⇉ ⇉ Falcons
[Athletixx • Fool's Gold]
Los Angeles, CA
https://soundcloud.com/oaklandfalcons
https://www.facebook.com/falconsmusic
http://twitter.com/falconsbeats
⇉ ⇉ Promnite
[Athletixxx • Team Supreme]
https://soundcloud.com/promnitebeats
https://www.facebook.com/Promniteqt
http://twitter.com/promniteQT
With support from:
⇉ ⇉ GANGSIGNS
[STYLSS • VERIFIED]
Portland, OR
https://soundcloud.com/gangsignsmusic
https://facebook.com/gangsignsmusic
https://twitter.com/gangsignspdx
⇉ ⇉ QUARRY
[STYLSS • VERIFIED]
Portland, OR
https://soundcloud.com/quarry
https://facebook.com/quarrymusic
https://twitter.com/quarryxo
⇉ ⇉ PHOTON!
[STYLSS]
Portland, OR
https://soundcloud.com/photon-space
https://www.facebook.com/Photon.space
https://twitter.com/Yung_Photon
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21+ • $13 Advance • $15 Door
Tix: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1002081
www.VERIFIEDPDX.com
www.STYLSS.com
www.HOLOCENE.org
Celebrate the publication of Avalon Kalin's One Hundred and Four Digitally Printed Color Photographs of Graffiti Removal and a screening of the seminal film The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal by Matt McCormick at Ampersand!
About the book:
The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, a film produced by Matt McCormick and based on the work of Avalon Kalin, won Grand Prize for Short Film at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2002. Narrated by Miranda July, it was heralded by Matthew Higgs of White Columns as one of the best artworks of the year in ARTFORUM magazine. For the first time, Kalin’s original research and photographs of what he calls “graffiti-masking”, and his writings on the aesthetics and context of this ever expanding art-form, are available to the general public. It includes his original zine of photographs as well as 104 more of his recent images in full color – giving us an invaluable glimpse into one of the most important “subconscious-art” movements of our time.
About the artist:
Avalon Kalin is an interdisciplinary artist who makes documentary and social art connected to everyday life. He was the coauthor of The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal film produced by Matt McCormick and he studied under the first Social Practice MFA program with Harrell Fletcher at Portland State University. His work has shown in large institutions and perhaps more importantly between friends. Recently, he has begun collaborating with his wife Posie Kalin designing installations and products. He lives and works in the Portland, OR Cascadia.
Black Lives Matter Portland presents the Black Radical Film Series. Once every month, it will be hosted a screening and group discussion of a film exploring the Black Radical tradition.
The first film is The Murder of Fred Hampton, a two part documentary which describes the life and political assasination of iconic Black Panther Party Illinois Chapter Chairman and founding member of the Rainbow Coalition, Fred Hampton.
Light food and beverages will be provided. This space will center the voices of Black and Indigenous folks. Allies are welcome.
A sliding scale donation of $5-10 to support the work of Black Lives Matter Portland and In Other Words is appreciated but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Wendy Given and Ryan Pierce present Eyeshine, at PSU’s Autzen Gallery from January 7 through January 29th. In Eyeshine, the first of a series of two-person shows, the Portland artists present new sculptures, paintings, and photographs drawn from the intersection of their creative visions: the nocturnal, the nonhuman, and the wildness that resides in each of us.
For this exhibition, Given has produced vivid, uncanny photographs and sculptures that resonate in the dark, unstable ground between consciousness and collective memory. Her practice stems from a profound interest guided by the natural world, folklore, myth and magic—magic as a term meant to conjure the notion of the interconnectedness of all life forces. Nature is prescribed as a foundation of verity, power, and mystery in the work—both intelligible and arcane. While Given’s subject matter dwells on primeval belief systems, the resulting work is distinctively contemporary—reflective of modern culture’s mode of assimilating and processing myth.
Pierce will exhibit mixed-media sculptures and paintings inspired by his visit to a mask museum in Zacatecas, Mexico. As a continuation of his series Terra Incognita, Pierce looks to the historical parallels between the search for knowledge and the conquest of land and people. In the styles of botanical illustration, surrealism, and folk art, his objects and images evoke the confluence of the Age of Discovery with present and near-future uncertainty about climate change, speaking to a simmering dread that we are desecrating the natural world just as we come to know it.
Eyeshine was devised while Given and Pierce spent two weeks camping together as hosts of Signal Fire’s Outpost Residency this past Summer. Given and Pierce both convey an intense yearning to honor and utilize our inherent awareness through their respective visual crafts—to regain unspoken understanding and to be conscientious of the fact that we are all, and always will be (as humans), integral to and dependent on the natural world.
About the artist:
Wendy Given studied fine art and was trained in painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture during her BFA undergraduate work at Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is represented by whitespace in Atlanta, Georgia where she and Ryan Pierce will showcase their second collaborative exhibition; Spellbinder, opening April 1st, 2016. Wendy is an Assistant Trip Leader with Signal Fire and works as a Studio Artist with Wieden + Kennedy in Portland. www.wendygiven.com
Ryan Pierce makes paintings, texts, and journeys inspired by the resilience of the natural world. He has exhibited internationally and his work has been recognized by grants from the Joan Mitchell and San Francisco Foundations, and by reviews in Art in America, Art Papers, and The Oregonian. Pierce has is currently Artist-in-Residence at Portland State University’s School of Art and Design. He is co-founder of Signal Fire, an organization that provides wilderness residencies and retreats for artists of all disciplines. He is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland. www.ryanpierce.net
Reception: Thursday January 7, 4-7pm
In the fall of 1975, Patti Smith gathered her band in Electric Lady Studios in New York City to record her debut album, Horses. Released on November 10 of that year by Arista Records, it has come to be regarded as a seminal and landmark recording that continues to have resonance and relevance for succeeding generations of musicians and artists.
Now, forty years later, Smith will honor the longevity and lasting influence of the album with a series of special shows centered around the album.
“It will be a true, proud celebration,” Patti says of her intent to perform Horses in its entirety. She will be accompanied by two members of the original group, Lenny Kaye and Jay Dee Daugherty, along with bassist / keyboardist Tony Shanahan, who has been a part of Her Band for twenty years.
The opening reception of "The Emotional Life Objects," featuring work by Silvia Levenson, Dante Marioni, and Heidi Schwegler.
Heidi Schwegler will discuss her 2015 residency at the Bullseye Studio and the ideas behind her work included in "The Emotional Life of Objects." on Saturday, February 27th at 1pm-3pm.
This 4 part series will introduce beginners to the process of creating an electronic based dance track. Students will gain insight into computer-based music production through the use of Ableton Live. Students will learn the basic principles behind synthesis, looping, sampling, and more. At the end of the 4 part series, participants will have gained the skills necessary to feel comfortable composing music in Ableton, and will leave the workshop having created their own song. SciFiSol (Christina Broussard) has been working in Ableton Live and Apple Logic for over 8 years producing complex song arrangements and live performance sets with attention to detail and sound design
Workshop Schedule - Tuesdays from 6:30-9:00pm:
January 5 I Ableton Basics and Beat-making
January 12 II Sound Design Basics: Creating Sound Palettes and Synth Lines
January 19 III Working with Effects, Loops, and Resampling in Session View
January 26 IV Arrangement and Composition
This course is open to female-identified students. Space is limited to 12 people and is offered on a first come, first served basis. Admission to the course is $35 – $45 sliding scale for all 4 nights.
For more information and to register: http://s1portland.com/workshops/
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Celebrate NYE with Wild Ones, brand of pop lives in humid nights in big cities on the coast. Set between youth and adulthood, their most recent Heatwave EP centers on young lust and isolation. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Wild Ones' music is both ethereal and R&B. Combining heavy synths, locking drums, and melancholy vocals, they build their singular style of dream pop.
Their EP "Heatwave" was released on Topshelf Records this past August, and have been touring the country with Pure Bathing Culture this fall. Today they're premiering the video for the warm, sweet track "They Said." The video follows four teenagers as they hide from grownups, drive toward the sunset, run through corn fields, eat peaches, and all sorts of other nice things. It's a song full of glimmering synths and keyboard, and singer Danielle Sullivan's vocals fill the track with a cinematic quality that matches this visually pleasing video.