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Stay Strange continues their legacy of outsider art and music - which relocated from the Kava Gallery to Space 4 Art (325 15th Street - East Village) at the beginning of the year - with a Saturday, April 13 showcase featuring industrial doom and drone fabricator Author & Punisher, audio/visual artist Isolde Touch, and LAlaland psych outfit Ides of Gemini.
As visually provocative and he is sonically crushing, Tristan Shone designs open-source kinetic drone and dub machines to channel ecstatic, unbelievably heavy noisescapes as one-man infernal band Author & Punisher.
“The devices draw heavily on aspects of industrial automation, robotics and mechanical tools and devices, focusing on the eroticism of interaction with machine,” writes Stay Strange curator Sam Lopez, who recently organized his fourth annual San Diego Experimental Guitar Show at the Soda Bar.
“Doom metal is combining a feeling of devastation with a moment of emotional inspiration,” Shone told the Reader last December.
“It’s very positive. Either way, you give yourself to this overwhelming sound.”
Author & Punisher’s sophomore album, Ursus Americanus, was released April 24th, 2012 via Seventh Rule Recordings and was listed as one of Decibel Magazine’s top 40 metal albums of 2012.
Look for his new “Women & Children” LP in April, 2013.
Writes Lopez: “Isolde Touch (Asha Sheshadri) is a San Diego-based electronic musician and videographer who creates ethereal and pointilistic soundscapes focusing on emotion and geometry in the natural environment. In both her solo work and in previous collaborative projects, she works with analog synthesizer, tape, voice, and computer, and is at once influenced by Basic Channel, the Wax Trax catalog, and Linda Perhacs. In 2k13 she has forthcoming releases on Digitalis Ltd and Further Records.”
Opening up the night will be Ides of Gemini, “a collusion of musical forces precipitated by the haunting and inimitable vocal prowess of singer/bassist Sera Timms, also of Los Angeles dark-psych alchemists Black Math Horseman. The compositions are the long-simmering mental fallout of veteran music and film journalist J. Bennett (guitar/backing vocals), who has spent most of the last 14 years writing for such publications as Decibel, Terrorizer, Revolver, Alternative Press and Thrasher. The third and final corner of the triangle is Kelly Johnston, whose martial drumming techniques and soaring backing vocals brought Ides of Gemini to life as a performing entity.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi-Ogdb9gdQ
7 p.m. – $5.00 – all ages
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/07/43378/
Stay Strange continues their legacy of outsider art and music - which relocated from the Kava Gallery to Space 4 Art (325 15th Street - East Village) at the beginning of the year - with a Saturday, April 13 showcase featuring industrial doom and drone fabricator Author & Punisher, audio/visual artist Isolde Touch, and LAlaland psych outfit Ides of Gemini.
As visually provocative and he is sonically crushing, Tristan Shone designs open-source kinetic drone and dub machines to channel ecstatic, unbelievably heavy noisescapes as one-man infernal band Author & Punisher.
“The devices draw heavily on aspects of industrial automation, robotics and mechanical tools and devices, focusing on the eroticism of interaction with machine,” writes Stay Strange curator Sam Lopez, who recently organized his fourth annual San Diego Experimental Guitar Show at the Soda Bar.
“Doom metal is combining a feeling of devastation with a moment of emotional inspiration,” Shone told the Reader last December.
“It’s very positive. Either way, you give yourself to this overwhelming sound.”
Author & Punisher’s sophomore album, Ursus Americanus, was released April 24th, 2012 via Seventh Rule Recordings and was listed as one of Decibel Magazine’s top 40 metal albums of 2012.
Look for his new “Women & Children” LP in April, 2013.
Writes Lopez: “Isolde Touch (Asha Sheshadri) is a San Diego-based electronic musician and videographer who creates ethereal and pointilistic soundscapes focusing on emotion and geometry in the natural environment. In both her solo work and in previous collaborative projects, she works with analog synthesizer, tape, voice, and computer, and is at once influenced by Basic Channel, the Wax Trax catalog, and Linda Perhacs. In 2k13 she has forthcoming releases on Digitalis Ltd and Further Records.”
Opening up the night will be Ides of Gemini, “a collusion of musical forces precipitated by the haunting and inimitable vocal prowess of singer/bassist Sera Timms, also of Los Angeles dark-psych alchemists Black Math Horseman. The compositions are the long-simmering mental fallout of veteran music and film journalist J. Bennett (guitar/backing vocals), who has spent most of the last 14 years writing for such publications as Decibel, Terrorizer, Revolver, Alternative Press and Thrasher. The third and final corner of the triangle is Kelly Johnston, whose martial drumming techniques and soaring backing vocals brought Ides of Gemini to life as a performing entity.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi-Ogdb9gdQ
7 p.m. – $5.00 – all ages
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/apr/07/43378/