Archive | June, 2012
Coming Events
29 JunJune/July is loaded with noiseyness!!!
We now have a calendar located on the sidebar so you can always stay updated on the weird things happening in Edmonton
The Psychedelic Mind of Stephen Ferris
28 JunStephen Ferris, cyclist and prolific artist. Recently coming off of Whitehorse’s 24 Hours of Light Mountain Bike Festival, and having designed the cover for Pigeon Breeders album, “Nocturnal Reveries” it makes you wonder, when does Steve have the time to create all of these very detailed and intricate pieces.
Here is your brain:
and here is your brain ripping it up:
check out more:
PSYCHIC TB://:ZEBRA PULSE://:PETER QUISTGARD:///:JULY 14:////:BOHEMIA
27 Jun
Ramshackle Day Parade Presents:
PSYCHIC TUBERCULOSIS
From Vancouver, BC. Featuring Jacob Hardy, Trevor Rutley, and John Brennan
PETER QUISTGARD
From Amsterdam, NL
ZEBRA PULSE
From Edmonton, AB
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JULY 14th
BOHEMIA
10217 97st
$5
9PM
Ramshackle Day Parade // Open Mic/Input // Feat. Jeff Younger // July 23
27 Jun
The legendary experimental open mic/input returns!
with Special Guest Jeff younger!
http://jeffyounger.net/
sign up now by emailing rdp.noise@gmail.com or posting on this event
10 minute sets max
music at 8pm sharp
entry by donation (for Jeff Youngers travel expenses)
Bohemia
10217 97ST
Vancouver Noise Fest 2012
27 Jun
VANCOUVER NOISE FEST 2012
July 20th-22nd at ART BANK
JOHN WIESE (LA) / THE RITA / UNEXAMINE (PDX) / MASA J. ANZAI / FUNERARY CALL / DRIED UP CORPSE / WORKER / RUSALKA / GRIEFER / TASKMASTER / EARS / V VECKER / CEREBRAL ANOXIA /THROBBING CONTINUUM OF FUCK / JOSH ROSE / NURSE / RRKKTTTSS / SPINAL EXTRACTOR / NIGHT TIDE / PSYCHIC TUBERCULOSIS / WHIP OF THE UFO / NERVOUS OPERATOR / THE NAUSEA + KELLY DAVIS/ NIGHT MOTHER / MASS MARRIAGE / GAVIN MCSHITTER
PASSES: $15 for all three days
Available through http://screamandwrithe.blogspot.com/ and from around town and at the door on Friday July 20th at 6:00pm
FRIDAY JULY 20TH 7:00 PM – 11:00PM $10
SATURDAY JULY 21ST 6:00PM-11:00PM $10
SUNDAY JULY 22nd Day Show 2:00PM-6:00PM $5
JUNG PEOPLE on tour
26 JunCalgary’s avant-rockers Jung People will be announcing their Canadian tour dates shortly. Here’s what’s lined up for early July:
Calgary – Sunday – July 1st
East Village Street Fair! Free Show thanks to LandLocked Agency
https://www.facebook.com/events/315574631861783/
Edmonton (first edm show) – Tuesday – July 3rd
The Works Art and Design Festival!
https://www.facebook.com/TheWorksArtandDesignFestival
Calgary @ Broken City -Wednesday – July 4th for the Femmes on Frames – Atlantic Canada Fundraiser! Also playing is Giordano’s other band called amHappy, music by Alyssa Kelle, and more! Get in by donation to the girls.
http://www.facebook.com/FemmesOnFramesAtlanticCanada
JUNG PEOPLE INTERNETS:
http://www.facebook.com/jungpeople
http://jungpeople.bandcamp.com/
http://soundcloud.com/jung-people
https://twitter.com/#!/Jung_People
PSYCHIC TUBERCULOSIS//PETER QUISTGARD WESTERN CANADIAN TOUR!!!
25 Jun
28/06/12 : Zoo Zhop, Vancouver, Canada
29/06/12 : The Sound, Sechelt, Canada
30/06/12 : The Sound (circuit bending workshop w/ PQ + open jam hosted by Psychic TB and PQ), Sechelt, Canada
03/07/12 : tba, Salmo, Canada
04/07/12 : KCR 93.5FM, Nelson, Canada (starts at 8pm)
06/07/12 : Emmedia, Calgary, Canada
07/07/12 : house show, Regina, Canada
11/07/12 : CKUW 95.9FM, Winnipeg, Canada (starts at midnight)
12/07/12 : Negative Space, Winnipeg, Canada
13/07/12 : PAVED Art and New Media, Saskatoon, Canada
14/07/12 : Bohemia Cafe, Edmonton, Canada
Psychic Tuberculosis (Vancouver / Victoria)
Based out of Vancouver and Victoria, Psychic Tuberculosis is made up of drummer John Brennan, guitarist/vocalist Trevor Rutley and electronics player/vocalist Jacob Hardy. The three met in Vancouver, playing an impromptu set at Roy G Biv Studios. The chemistry clicked and the band was formed. The sound is a mix of punk, free improv and acid soaked psychedelia, drawing from influences as diverse as Crass, the Boredoms, Coltrane, Evangelista and Neil Young. The three have very separate and unique musical histories as well. Brennan has become known for his frantic rhythmic style but has also toured extensively with his solo electronic project Static Kitten as well as performing as part of Argon Floozy, a mainstay in the Montreal free improv scene. Rutley runs Gold Rush, a country, folk band and began trash noise project Italian Husbands with Hardy who himself has toured extensively with his dance-noise-acid project Holzkopf. The debut Psychic Tuberculosis cassette, “Sharp Tongue,” will be released on the Ramshackle Day Parade label.
Peter Quistgard (Amsterdam, NL)
Peter Quistgard is not that (probably lone) guy who bought CoolEditPro all those years ago (of which many of us should thank!), but is actually a one-man-band project from Amsterdam’s Luc Van Weelden. A regular contributor to Amsterdam’s OCCII concert house, and co-running the Toztizok Zoundz label. He can at times be seen performing in costumes adorned with flashing LED lights and extra tattered arms and heads (like if Swamp Thing fused his DNA with a shipment of Radio Shack components).
He displays his latent craft for collage in the software side of things as his structures seamlessly shift and change, leaving you surprised to the end and yet somehow still wondering where you began. There’s an experimental sensibility here which is absent from most of the “8-bit” scene, but believe me folks, you can boogie to this! This is rave music re-imagined in a doom-noise blender.
Ramshackle Day Presents: Chris Riggs/Bent Spoon Duo/Zebra Pulse/Yankee Yankee/Pigeon Breeders/Yaocave
22 Jun
JULY 5 / BOHEMIA / 8PM (SHARP) / $5
Ramshackle Day Parade Presents a night of forward-thinking music: brave avant-interlopers, from as far away as Detroit. This show will feature a once-only chance to witness a collaboration between Bent Spoon Duo and Christopher Riggs.
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THE SCHEDULE IS SET IN STONE COME EARLY OR YOU MISS OUT
8:00 Yaocave (Calgary)
8:30 Zebra Pulse (Edmonton)
9:15 Yankee Yankee (Calgary)
10:00 – Pigeon Breeders (Edmonton)
10:45 – Chris Riggs/Bent Spoon Duo (Calgary)
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CHRISTOPHER RIGGS (Detroit)
Christopher Riggs is from Detroit, and thanks to the Calgary 2012 grant, will be coming to Alberta to play a series of shows and teach a masterclass at Calgary’s Theatre Junction Grand. He plays guitar, focusing on altered preparations, and his own style of notation. He will be playing a set with Bent Spoon Duo.
Internets – http://www.christophertriggs.com/
Masterclass – https://www.facebook.com/events/119825411491916/
BENT SPOON DUO (Calgary)
Comprised of Chris Dadge and Scott Munro, Bent Spoon Duo is possibly Alberta’s most highly esteemed free-improv group. In a recent review in The Wire, Byron Coley describes them as “spendid, low-bore Improv racket in the classic pots-and-pans style.”
Internets – www.myspace.com/bentspoontrio
ZEBRAPULSE (Edmonton)
Adding an insane drummer to the already insane lineup has, (in this guys highly biased opinion,) put new wind in the sails of Zebra Pulse. Absolutely face-melting live and a must-see.
Internets – http://www.myspace.com/zebrapulse
PIGEON BREEDERS (Edmonton)
The Charles Barkley of free-improv, with three Charles Barkleys.
Internets – http://www.facebook.com/pigeonbreeders?ref=ts
YANKEE YANKEE (Calgary)
This Calgary two-piece is a brain-massaging space ritual of widescreen proportions. First show in Edmonton.
Internets – http://soundcloud.com/unit-structure-sound
YAOCAVE (Calgary)
Calgary’s Jevon Voon makes twisted songs: crooning over African music, British Folk, Minimalist, Fluxus composers, and whatever else is lying around.
Internets – http://yaocave.bandcamp.com/album/pop-4-4-7-owens-maze-b-w-xanadu-wurlitzer-jujube
RDP Picks: The Works Festival 2012
21 Jun
Edmonton’s annual art & design festival, The Works, kicked off today. There’s tons of great art and music events going on, and here’s a list of some experimental sound performances that will take place on the Churchill Square stage!
Friday June 22:
2:30 – 3:15 ~ BEAMS’ Wayne De Fehr
3:45 – 4:30 ~ Sound Dancers Daniel Brophy and Jennie Vanderkerkhove
5:00 – 5:45 ~ BEAMS’ Skruntskrunt “Swarmed and Axis Himiko”
Saturday June 23:
1:15 – 2:00 ~ BEAMS’ Agaperaygunexperiment
5:00 – 5:45 ~ BEAMS’ Agaperaygunexperiment “Earth Sounds” and storms from the north
Monday June 25:
5:00 – 5:45 ~ BEAMS’ Wayne DeFehr and Dave Wall “Pure Data”
Thursday June 28:
3:45 – 4:30 ~ Sound Dancers Daniel Brophy, Gerry Morita, Jennie Vanderkerkhove
Friday June 29:
1:15 – 2:00 ~ BEAMS’ Condoleezza Rice Patties
5:00 – 5:45 ~ BEAMS’ FL3M “Dork Matter” and Bill Damur “Sound and Poetry”
Tuesday July 5:
5:00 – 5:45 ~ Jung People*
*Jung People are an amazing post-rock band from Calgary that are on tour this summer. Catch them in Edmonton in late August with Pigeon Breeders! More info coming soon.
For the full Churchhill Square stage line-up from June 21 – July 3, check out:
http://www.theworks.ab.ca/festivalfolder/festival/2012/pdf/Works2012StreetStage.png
More info about the Works festival:
http://www.theworks.ab.ca/festivalfolder/festival/festival.html
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