Kevin Greenspon’s history as a mindful and concise composer of graceful ambient compositions for guitar, synthesizer and cassette tape reach for new horizons on his newest release. “To Leave A Mark” stitches the ethereal atmosphere of previous work with rhythmic elements of techno, noise and pop music. On his 2016 tour, each song’s performance is synchronized to rapid-cut video projections that melt into abstract pools, coaxing the viewer into a state of self-reflection. http://kevingreenspon.info/
Sage Elaine Fisher aka dolphin midwives began composing at age 5 and explored guitar, sound healing, raga, and opera, before developing her polyrhythmic harp style with an african drumming circle while on hiatus on Maui. She began performing her effected harp pieces in 2013, and her latest release, Orchid Milk, took place at the Kenton Masonic Temple with the VSB Gamelan Orchestra this spring. http://www.dolphinmidwives.us/
Don Gero (Zach D'Agostino) uses live drums to control modular synthesizers. His new cassette is out on Ewe of Now Recordings: https://dongero1.bandcamp.com/album/weirding
All Ages, $8 suggested
LOSE YR MIND FEST presents:
Naomi Punk (OLY)
DIY, psychedelic, primitive, lo-fi, art punks from Olympia.
http://www.capturedtracks.com/naomi-punk
Talkative
Space punk, psycho pop, shoegaze dudes
https://talkative.bandcamp.com/
Adult Swim wants you to come cuddle up with us under the stars. Prepare your lil' hearts to spend a magical night at the Adult Swim Drive-In and take a look at what's on the horizon for the network. The evening will be filled with unaired [as] episodes, never before seen pilots & specials, and a load of other Williams Street favorites. It's going to be a fantastical night full of Adult Swim, food trucks, trivia, prizes, and friendship.
Vouchers for a free meal from one of the food trucks on-site will be handed out, while supplies last.
Blankets, pillows, slankets, blillows, and chairs welcome.
CAR LINEUP BEGINS AT 5PM | 6:15PM DOORS | 7:45PM SHOW
18+ | Free with RSVP through adultswimpresents.com
Spend The Night & Sure Thing Present:
Randomer (NW Debut)
Clone, L.I.E.S, Hemlock - UK
https://soundcloud.com/randomer
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/randomer
https://www.facebook.com/rohanrandomer/
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1057742-Randomer
+ Spend The Night & Sure Thing residents:
Aaron J, Graintable & Ben Tactic
21+,
About Randomer:
Few have a recent back catalogue as rich and diverse as Randomer. His discography reads like a who’s who of modern techno: across a six year career, he’s produced four EPs for Untold’s Hemlock Recordings; released records for Hessle Audio, Numbers and Clone; and most recently, been cherrypicked for Ron Morelli’s L.I.E.S.
As a DJ, he's one of the UK’s finest, capable of effortlessly stitching together modern bass with classic techno and less esoteric 4/4 rhythms.
Back by popular demand, Boyz II Men joins the Oregon Symphony for favorites like “End of the Road,” “I’ll Make Love to You,” “One Sweet Day,” “Motownphilly,” and many others.
Moor Mother https://moormothergoddess.bandcamp.com/
Camae Ayewa is an interdisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia. A musician performing under the name Moor Mother Goddess, she has toured in Europe and the U.S., and has performed at numerous festivals, colleges and universities sharing the stage with King Britt, Islam Chipsy, and Claudia Rankine. A soundscape artist with work featured at Samek Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art Chicago, and Everson Museum of Art, Camae is also a singer in punk band The Mighty Paradocs. Camae is co-founder and organizer of Rockers! Philly, a 10-year long running event series and festival focused on marginalized artists. As a workshop facilitator she works with youth centered programs, non profits and shelters. As a curator of fundraising events, Camae has worked with and serves on the board of Girls Rock Philly, and is assistant coordinator of The Afrofuturist Affair, Philadelphia's premiere afrofuturism organization. Camae is also a poet and author of the forthcoming poetry book Fetish Bones and is an avid zinemaker and collector. She is a member of Black Quantum Futurism Collective, which released its first book, Black Quantum Futurism theory and practice Vol. 1. and has been featured at the Schomburg Center, as well as presented installations at the Rebuild Foundation and Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art.
Supported by:
Astral Tempest https://soundcloud.com/astraltempest
&
Daniela Karina http://soundcloud.com/danielakarina
This event is co-presented by Women's Beat League
Open to All, $8 suggested
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Camae will be doing a workshop the following evening. More information here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1077312152304681/
TR/ST
Formed in 2009 along with collaborator Maya Postepski, Trust released its first singles, "Candy Walls" and "Bulbform," on Brooklyn-based Sacred Bones Records in 2011 before signing with Arts & Crafts for the 2012 release of debut full length, TRST.
Since 2011, Trust has performed with DFA1979, Crystal Castles, Austra, Balam Acab, Glass Candy and Hercules and Love Affair and garnered glowing praise from top international critics at Pitchfork, VICE, The Guardian UK and many more.
Trust's Tales of lust, wax, and erotomania carry along on a dense black vapor of speed, space and tears.
Trust is a pop hit factory buried deep in the mud.
According to the Guardian, "Wesley Eisold is an absolutely new, young god of nihilism and despair – he brilliantly captures Cold Cave's aesthetic: the Morrissey of How Soon Is Now wailing over Nitzer Ebb beats and New Order melodies."
According to Eisold, if anything, his music reflects what it feels like to live in the present. Eisold, whose baritone is as rich and resonating as that of Phil Oakey, Nick Cave or Iggy Pop, says "Of course we love the lineage of the genre, early experiments with machines to convey human emotion; the marriage between pop and industrial music. At the time it was documenting the early stages of a new world, and we are recording what it feels like to be alive in that world."
All Ages, $18.00 - $20.00
On display: Friday, September 9 (12 –4 pm)
Reception: Friday, September 9 (6 –8 pm)
Reading with Carrie Hunter: 7 pm
Ing Ing (Variation 3) is an experiential tonal composition that merges time and space, proprioception and movement. Utilizing open-ended drones and acoustic beating, its installation space becomes an interactive 3D album; the choice of movement and composition are in the hands and minds of each individual listener, as they sculpt their own experience in space.
Ben Glas is an interdisciplinary artist and composer based in Portland, Oregon. Glas' work focuses intently on egalitarian proprioception, stasis/rush within digital systems, and notions of spacetime. Working extensively with sine-waves and unconventional softwares, Glas engages physical spaces and their ephemeral inhabitants to remind participants of a momentary sonic awareness within space and time.
Carrie Hunter received her MFA/MA in the Poetics program at New College of California, edits the chapbook press, ypolita press, and is on the editorial board of Black Radish Books. Her latest chapbook Vice/Versa recently came out with Dancing Girl Press. Her full-length collection, The Incompossible, was published in 2011 by Black Radish Books, and another, Orphan Machines, came out in 2015. She lives in San Francisco and teaches ESL.
1st Annual SUPERFAB YARD SALE
Featuring 15 designers/ XRAY.fm DJs/ Food Trucks & Beer!
Saturday, Sept 3rd
10am - 7pm
2524 SE Division St
Superfab is a design lab and fabrication house driven by craftsmen who think fluently in the languages of Architecture and Design. Wielding tools both new and old, we produce exceptional custom work in production level scales and orders of one, alike.
Over the last 30 months, we’ve produced both an exceptional amount of good work and a considerable lot of off-cuts, rejects and goof-ups in the process - materials which most of the time end up at a landfill somewhere far, far off-camera. Not being big fans of waste, we’ve saved piles and piles of these materials and this summer, the time has come to turn them into good things instead.
With the help of a select group of our favorite designers and makers we’re going to do just that and sell these good things at a late-summer Saturday parking lot party at our shop on SE 26th & Division Street. Proceeds from all sales will be split between the makers and our chosen charity, the one and only XRAY.FM. So come Saturday, Sept. 3rd, join us to collect a cool thing or two and take in some tasty food, cold drinks and good vibes from XRAY DJs in the process.
Featuring Designers: Nicholas Musso, Jason Rens, OMFGco, Mike McCoy, Brian Pietrowski, Nate Shapiro, Travis Edgar, Liam Drain; upstarts Conor Davidson, Sam Tucker & Cole Lendrum; plus Andy Powell, Dave Collins and the rest of team Superfab..
More info at www.SuperfabYardSale.org
Uchenna Ikonne is a Nigerian writer and DJ currently based in Boston. As one of the foremost authorities on Nigerian music and popular culture, he has curated and produced critically acclaimed music compilations such as Brand New Wayo: Funk, Fast Times & Nigerian Boogie Badness, 1979-1983 (released on his own Comb & Razor Sound label), Who Is William Onyeabor? (Luaka Bop), and Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, 1972-1977 (Now-Again). His music commentary has appeared on various outlets including NPR, BBC, VH1 and Red Bull Music Academy Radio. He is currently at work on a four-volume history of Nigerian popular music.
The final act in Mississippi Records’ 2016 Music & Film Series, Uchenna Ikonne brings to the Hollywood Theater a multimedia presentation focusing on the previous half-century in Nigerian popular culture. From psychedelic rock to highlife, boogie and soukos, he examines the country’s endemic music movements and pop products which have remained largely unseen in the West. An after-party of all vinyl Nigerian dj sets will be held at Dig A Pony immediately following the event (see poster below).
$9
The monthy Hiphop beat hangout, bringing you fresh sounds from local and touring headz-Live music from 8:45p-11:00p, Dj sets 11:00p-close, Doors 8:30p- $5- 21+
This month Portland collective is pulling together a vast array of styles from the droning to the danceable. Show up early to catch live ambient performances.
WXRD CALIGULA:
https://oligopolistrecords.bandcamp.com/album/colorwheel-cloudcastle
DESERT OF HIATUS:
https://oligopolistrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-healing-instrument
ITALICS:
https://oligopolistrecords.bandcamp.com/album/piecewise
TWO MOONS:
https://thisistwomoons.bandcamp.com/album/1087
AUVIE SINCLAIR:
https://soundcloud.com/spacexgnome
MYSTERY GOONS:
https://soundcloud.com/mygoonspdx/
SEMI//DEMI imagines an alternative transmission vehicle. In it, the artist is a conduit - a singular vessel through which particular identity narratives, chthonic frequencies, and sociocultural platforms are conflated, decontextualized and re-imagined. The premise of one body situating many functions and therefor, multiple realities - can be seen as a tangent to many works. For example, Holly Go Lightly can be seen as a recent example of an avatar or simulation narrative as much as Prometheus can be or the monster of Frankenstein - when examined as the journey of one vessel to reach for an identity outside of its own imagined parameters. SEMI//DEMI is about the sympathetic vetruvian man, more or less, through which the artist posits transmission to and from his own reality. Similar to the central character of Jane Wagner’s “Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe,” a transient woman named Trudy, who transmits to different feminist narratives in the conflated experiences of second wave feminism and the early aids crisis via a collander on her head, the artist simulates a possession narrative through which particular experiences are indicated or more resonant.
Bashir Naim A.K.A Fine Artist is a movement artist and actor based primarily in Los Angeles. His family founded a dance and performance art community in The Berkshire mountains. Naim was early acquainted with artists like Michael Clark, Pina Bausch. Naim has collaborated or performed with Love Bailey, Peaches, Yoyo Ma, David Amram, the Kronos Quartet, Sia, Devendra Banhart, Rose McGowan, Our Lady J, Millie Brown, Ryan Heffington, Zackary Drucker, Ellen von Unwerth, Mykki Blanco, Zemmoa, Trvst, Ron Athey, Alberto Cortes, Boychild, Dia Dear, Paula Nacif, Mecca Vazie Andrews, and Sofia Moreno. Naim was recently an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research NYC and S & S Projects (Chicago). He can be seen opposite Anjelica Huston and Jeffrey Tambor on Amazon’s “Transparent," in Benjy Russell’s “Battlefield of Flowers," and the upcoming short film, “Raymond.” He has been featured in Bullet Magazine, Vice magazine - in print as well as on their docuseries with Ellen Page, “Gaycation." His solo performance work has been shown at the Hammer Museum, S & S Projects Chicago, the Tom of Finland House, Human Resources Gallery in LA, with Rhonda and Soho House International, Art Basel Miami and at dozens of nightclubs and warehouses across the world.
Eric Frye is a composer, artist, and curator, currently residing in Minneapolis. In his compositions for live performance and installation he uses a hybrid modular synthesizer and digital signal processing to explore the perceptual organization of sound objects. His latest recording, Some Consequences of Four Incapacities, which is centered around the concept of non-orientable sound surfaces, was released in November 2015 by Portland-based imprint, Salon.
His most recent curatorial endeavor, Exploring Compositional Epistemologies, was a series of performances and lectures focusing on philosophy, sound, and linguistics, in addition to a five week installation of Florian Hecker’s Chimerization / Hinge, that took place during January and February 2015 at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis. In April 2015, Frye recorded new pieces for multi-channel installation at Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition. During October and November 2015 Frye’s solo exhibition, a 12-channel electroacoustic diffusion, Zenzizenzizenzic, was installed at Rochester Art Center in Minnesota.. http://ericfrye.com/
RM Francis is a computer musician living in Seattle. Since 2011, he has offered a molecularized account of possibilities within digital synthesis through live performances and recorded output. Drawing upon contemporary techniques as well as strategies drawn from the history of computer music, his works interrogate the boundaries of musical form. His cassette release Hyperplastic Other is forthcoming on Nada. http://rmfrancis.tumblr.com/
Anon (Anna Sitko) started expressing her love for music as a DJ, as well as running record labels and importing music. She also co-founded the radio show Echolocation, which was picked up by Ninja Tune’s sister online hub, PirateTV. Simulteanously, her DJ career was expanding and she was playing with the likes of Richard Devine, Adam Freeland, L’Usine, Uberzone, Juan Atkins and more. Knowing that she was missing a vital element in her career, Anon turned her focus to writing her own material. Her first live performance took place in Los Angeles alongside Tipper.http://anon-music.com/
Chemtrails Jeff Host https://soundcloud.com/sequel-label/sq03-chemtrails-seismic-excerpt
9:30pm
All Ages, $8
CLAN OF XYMOX AFTER PARTY
With SPIRIT HOST
VOIGHT (Denver)
Post-punk http://voight.bandcamp.com/
JOCK CLUB (ASCETIC HOUSE)
http://jockclub.bandcamp.com/
SOMALI EXTRACT (ASCETIC HOUSE)
MEMORYMANN
21+ $10
Mic Check is an every 4th Thursday hip-hop showcase that promotes and supports performing artists.
This month will host live performances from Hanif, Stewart Villain, and Karma Rivera.
Advanced tickets and information available at mcmenamins.com/events.
21+ / $5
Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Zaïmph) and Samara Lubelski (Thurston Moore band) return with 110 Livingston. This is the second album from this weighty pairing of two of America's most audacious psychedelic drone proponents, following the stunning Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon, released in 2012 on Graham Lambkin's label Kye. Bassett's guitar processing squashes otherwise raging howls into densely packed tones of feedback wail, and blends with Lubelski's long violin voyages into the drone zone to form a combination that's wondrous to behold. One side-long trip and three shorter but nevertheless expansive explorations of black magic meditation. Live visuals by: Mia Ferm (Cinema Project).
$ 7 Day of show
Kingbanana.net Presents:
Elvis Depressedly / Teen Suicide
w/ Nicole Dollanganger
Molly Shannon, Molly Shannon
@ Analog Cafe & Theater (720 SE Hawthorne Blvd)
All Ages (bar w/ ID) / $12 adv - $15 dos / 7pm doors
adv tix:
http://www.holdmyticket.com/event/248370
X-ile On Ray Street - A Benefit for XRAYfm!
Lola Buzzkill
Psychomagic
Reptaliens
SECRET HEADLINER TBA!
XRAY DJs Chancie Chance & Theo Craig
Monday, August 22nd @ 7PM
$5 suggested entry, all proceeds go to XRAYfm
21+
Reptaliens has teamed up with Dig A Pony to raise funds for XRAYfm by throwing an amazing party stacked with some of Portland's most esteemed acts including: outer-space freakaholics of soul Lola Buzzkill; garage punk wizards Psychomagic; the smooth grooves of Reptaliens; and a secret headliner you likely won't be able to see for only 5 bucks ever again. Between sets, XRAY DJ's Theo Craig and Chancie Chance will keep the dance floor full and the party moving until close. Come enjoy great drinks and music all while supporting your favorite local radio station, XRAYfm.
This show has been curated by Reptaliens and will also act as their tour kickoff in support of their new album "Recordings"
Come out for a night filled with delicately blended electronic sounds, samples, and live instruments guaranteed to bring the electronic heads out of their basements and into this cozy sanctuary.
This month welcomes:
| EMS |
Psychedelic ur-drone synth-trance
https://emsmusic.net/
| Star Child |
Synthesizing earth and sky with sonic alchemy
http://www.celestialwindow.com/star-child/
| Pantøne |
Chopped and skrewed musique concrete
https://soundcloud.com/pant-ne/nocturne-5-pantone-guest-mix-for-kffp-lp-903-fm-05-29-2016
Tape Jockey:
Free
Booking/Promotions:
Coco Madrid - djchachapdx@gmail.com