International Noise Fest * Emos Lounge * Austin, TX * 04/07/08 * 9:00 * $5
Rat Bastard brings the Laundry Room Squelchers to Austin for his annual International Noise Conference, which he is taking on the road all across the good ol' U S of A. Bobby Baker and Douglas Ferguson curate the Austin night. Here's the line-up..
9:00 - Low Red Center
http://www.myspace.com/lowredcenter
Minimal analog Synth-provisational troupe with tape/record voodoo-tronic collage
9:15 - Kosmodrome
http://www.myspace.com/kosmodrome
A Jet Engine filled with the ghosts of the Red Revolution attacking your appliances.
9:30 - Static Storm System
http://www.artificialmusicmachine.com/main.php?page=artists&artist=sss
Static Storm System is a project which explores noise. Utilizing found sound, field recordings, radio transmissions, and other non-traditional instrumentation, Static Storm System embraces an experimental style of sound composition.
9:45 - Nick Hennies/Josh Ronsen
http://www.nhennies.com / http://www.ronsen.org
Nick Hennies and Josh Ronsen will use a cymbal and aluminum foil to create a symphony of acoustic noise.
10:00 - Xathax
http://www.xathax.com
XathaX designs, manufactures, and markets analog and mixed signal noise enabling connectivity worldwide. XathaX offers mobile noise solutions, including noise, front-end noise, and integrated solutions for icosidodecahedron noise.
10:15 - Kirk Laktas/Sarah Norris
http://www.newmusiccoop.org/past/fc_Beyond_the_Past.php
"in a country fashion" a duet for 2 intonarumouri with live processing
10:30 - Amputee
http://www.myspace.com/asvghatsnk
HARSH COLD ALCOHOLIC DRUG SCAPES FOR SCUM BAGS. STARTED IN 2004
10:45 - Skillful Means
http://www.myspace.com/skillfulmeans
Greg Elliot & Kevin Searle fuse ambient and harsh noise to create something reminiscent of stormy water moving tons of sheet metal and wires
11:00 - Stinkadelic
http://www.myspace.com/stevemarshtx
Stinkadelic is Steve Marsh, longtime Austin and New York underground vision master, performing aggressively hacked analog electronic noise and ambience. The instrumentation may be anything from misused stomp boxes to circuit-bent drum machines to the electric 2x4 played with a vibrator.
Expect "something else".
11:15 - Young Clam
Young Clam is 3/5 of the band Rubble. We sound like like the band Flipper without any arms.
11:30 - Aurora Plastics Company
http://www.myspace.com/auroraplastics
Aurora Plastics Company is organic electronic improv music, featuring Anne Heller on guitar and theremin, Lars Nilsen on guitar, keys, vocals and effects and Blake Carlisle on percussion. We've been pushing the boundaries of experimental music since 1996.
12:00 - Plutonium Farmers
http://www.myspace.com/plutoniumfarmers
Plutonium Farmers care about their name. They love what happened musically, hated what it was reacting against, and now we are reacting against things we don't care for. It is done joyfully and with great skill. It features Aaron Dugan "baritone drumkit" and Matt Armistead "alto drum set" and Jonathan Horne "soprano tenor guitar".
12:15 - Douglas Ferguson
http://www.myspace.com/douglasferguson
A shamanistic journey from the physical world to the astral plane conducted via acoustic guitar and dance.
12:30 - Venison Whirled/Leslie Keffer
http://www.myspace.com/venisonwhirled
Venison Whirled is gyrating strings and snare drums
and cymbals being corralled by Lisa Cameron into big weird sounds. this will be a collaboration with Nashville TN. resident Leslie Keffer, a truly amazing noisestress who is also into making big weird sounds.
12:45 - Aunt's Analog
http://www.myspace.com/auntsanalog
Cat fight, dial-up internet sound, construction, malfunction, waterfall, siren, car crash, dental drill, orgasm, electricity, ouch, tinnitus.
1:00 - Air Traffic Controllers
http://www.myspace.com/airtrafficcontrollers
A duo of Gerard Cosloy (guitars) and King Coffey (drums)
1:15 - Black Ferveur
http://www.myspace.com/ferveurnoire
A combination of furious electronic shrieks and armor-coated plates of distortion is arguably some of the harshest stuff coming out of the Willamette Valley. One of the most fascinating aspects to his work is the contrast created through the juxtaposition of occasional moments of quiet and subtler electronic effects."
1:30 Laundry Room Squelchers
http://www.myspace.com/laundryroomsquelchers
An embodiment of obliterated rock and roll from Miami Beach. A disharmonic convergence is derived from traditional instruments, bizarre electronic gadgets, and anything else that might help create some of the most unusual junk sounds this side of a train wreck.
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