Sunday, June 16, 7:30 PM at Casa Del Xolo - Event Page
Royce Hobbs / sonora enjambre / FACEDEATHBLUES Band
First show in a series of Wednesday night performances curated by Noel Kennon. Roye Hobbs will perform along with sonora enjambre (ambient drone) and the house band, FACEDEATHBLUES.
Wednesday, June 19, 7:00 PM at Vermillion - Event Page
Perennial / Black Nite Crash / Miscomings / The Dust Mice
Very bummed to miss this one. Mike Murphy is moving away so this will be the last time he will be performing in all three of the bands playing. Authentic Luxury (free jazz post-modern rock), Moon Letters (prog), and Everything Oscillating (psych prog rock).
Saturday, June 22, 8:00 PM at Blue Moon Tavern - Event Page
Upcoming Shows June 9 - June 15
Finally summer is here with plenty of interesting lineups to check out.
Sunday, June 9, 5:00 PM at Substation - Event Page
Meat Salad / Vantana Row / Morgan Garrett / Sleevies
Members of Flesh Produce will perform as Meat Salad. Joining them on tour from San Francisco, CA will be Vantana Row (cybergrind experimental), Morgan Garrett (experimental nu metal noise rock) from Philadelphia, PA, and Sleevies (math rock).
Tuesday, June 11, 7:30 PM at Black Lodge - Event Page
Mason Lynass / WMD / Party Store / Shelf Nunny
Note the earlier than normal start time. Experimental electronic music including Mason Lynass (experimental electronic), WMD (ambient electronic), Party Store (ambient drone), and Shelf Nunny (ambient).
Thursday, June 13, 6:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page
Six Organs of Admittance / Diminished Men / Lori Goldston
Saturday, June 15, 7:00 PM at Lucky Liquor - Event Page
SPLASTEEN / OK Bucko OK / Begonia + DJs
House show featuring DJs Fleksor, mxwix, and Goop. Music performances by SPLASTEEN (live modular noise), OK Bucko OK, and Begonia (experimental).
Saturday, June 15, 7:00 PM at Casa Dentata - Event Page
Upcoming Shows June 2 - June 8
AP Macroeconomics / Jade Peter / Benjamin Gear X / rEEk
AP Macroeconomics (alternative indie rock) will play along with Jade Peter (bedroom hyperpop) from Portland, OR, Benjamin Gear X (avant synth punk) from Nebraska, and some noise from rEEk.
Thursday, June 6, 8:00 PM at Blue Moon Tavern - Event Page
Ritual Improv redux
Join us for a night of improvised experimental sounds created by you, the audience. Inspired by the 5th Tuesday “Ritual Improv” at Spite House, RIR recapitulates the community of sound “in spite of…” Please bring your own instrument, piece of resonating material (scrap metal or other found object), or voice. Our intention is to remain open ended and mindful of the space and energy present. Everyone is open to play, but unlike an open mic, the sound will be continuous with no interruptions, save the ritual bell before and after each leaves.
Friday, June 7, 7:00 PM at Mudlark Oddities - Event Page
Kaho Matsui + Snairhead / Birthday Girl / Where the Light Goes / Sadie Siskin / Ultra Hipsters
On a mini tour is Kaho Matsui (computer and recording works for girls) from Philadelphia and Snairhead (electornic) from Portland, OR. They will be joined by Birthday Girl, Where the Light Goes (experimental drone ensemble), Sadie Siskin (experimental) and Ultra Hipsters (noise).
Friday, June 7, 7:00 PM at Gallery 1412 - Event Page
Zachary James Watkins / Trigger Object / Aaron Turner
Tuesday, May 28, 8:00 PM at The Sunset Tavern - Event Page
Automatic Overtone Environment
David Stanford and Dave Knott have been experimenting with bristlebots/hexbugs (little vibrating motor driven toy bugs) inside cast aluminum kitchen pan lids. The result is a sustained ringing created by the perpetual circular motion of the hexbugs inside the lids, with periodic contrasting “pings” and all manner of subtle changes in overtones based on the action of each individual bug/lid combination as well as the interaction across multiple lids.
Wednesday, May 29, 8:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page
Diminished Men / Corespondents / Rainha Selectress
Jonathan Rodriguez / Peter Tracy / Aaron Michael Butler
Another show of contemporary compositions at Vermillion next Thursday featuring the work of Jonathan Rodriguez, Darcy Copeland, and Eva-Maria Houben. There’ll be some slow burns, beautiful drones, and noisiness - something for everyone.
Thursday, May 23, 7:00 PM at Vermillion - Event Page
Other / Sataray / Sony Voodoo / Pavor Nocturnus
Other (electronic goth coldwave) will play along with Sataray (dark liturgical ambient), Sony Voodoo, and Pavor Nocturnus (DJ set).
Thursday, May 23, 8:00 PM at The Central Saloon - Event Page
Dark Chisme / Ghost Fetish / Secret Guest
Dark wave band Dark Chisme started by DJ Gold Chisme will perform along with Ghost Fetish (synthwave goth) and a secret guest.
Friday, May 24, 8:00 PM at Belltown Yacht Club - Event Page
Thursday, May 16, 8:00 PM at Vermillion - Event Page
Body Shame / rEEk / Casey Adams / Archival Image
Body Shame (experimental electronic harsh noise) from Portland will perform along with rEEk (noise), Casey Adams (noise), and Archival Image (experimental ambient drone) from Eugene.
Friday, May 17, 8:00 PM at Drongo Tapes HQ - Event Page
Solo Fest 2024
SoloFest! 13 solo acts! 15 minute sets! Two stages! A loft party!
Featuring, Swish Blade, MANiCA, Kim Blythe, Io Fox, Kj “Kush Jelly” Jones, Ceddysius, Max Julian, Blake Sterling, Xek, Eko La, Intisaar, Pessim, and Garlic man
Saturday, May 18, 7:00 PM at 932 12th Ave - Event Page
SH!TOMATO / Library Studies / Coyote Teeth / Florida Man
Saturday, May 18, 8:00 PM at Woodland Theater - Event Page
Sounding : John Saint Pelvyn
Welcoming John Saint Pelvyn, along with support from detuned radios/ silent dubplate (Gust Burns/ Troy Schiefelbein/ A.F. Jones/ Noel Kennon), Dave Abramson + Bill Horist + Neil Welch, and Mike Shannon + David Stanford.
Saturday, May 18, 8:00 PM at Gallery 1412 - Event Page
Upcoming Shows May 5 - May 11
RAICA / Rascal Rae / Cameron Macnair / G.T. Thomas
SPLASTEEN / Darn Tasty / SH!TOMATO / Glad We’re Together / UAP
SPLASTEEN (live modular noise) will play along with noise from Darn Tasty (CEOs Inc / EKG). They will be joined by SH!TOMATO (noise), Glad We’re Together (experimental weirdo), and UAP (noise ambient aliens).
Friday, May 10, 8:00 PM at Casa Dentata - Event Page
Cranial Key / Halting / Corpse Pose / Sofia O. & Yarrow Grae
Warren Realrider is a Pawnee/Crow multidisciplinary sound artist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is currently a part of the 2024-2026 cohort at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. While studying painting at the University of Oklahoma he began an exploration of sound, materials, and site as elements of his art practice. Warren created the Tick-Suck noise performance project in 2016 and has since presented his solo works and sound performance collaborations in varied Oklahoma locations as well as distant locales such as S. Windham, Vermont and Los Angeles
Nathan Young is an experimental musician, improvisor and artist whose expanded practice includes drone, noise music and sound art. Young is the founder and curator of Tulsa Noise, Tulsa Noisefest and the Peyote Tapes record label. His music performances often explore the idioms of drone music and harsh noise and are characterized by heavy atmospherics and ecstatic intensity.
Saturday, May 11, 8:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page
Upcoming Shows April 28 - May 4
Something going on every day except Saturday.
Daughters of Cacophony / Bit Graves / Peopling / SPLASTEEN
Coming up from Portland, Daughters of Cacophony (dark experimental ambient) will play along with Bit Graves (experimental electronic synth), Peopling (party noise) and SPLASTEEN (live modular noise)
Monday, April 29, 7:00 PM at Mudlark Oddities - Event Page
Modbang: DJ Weak Acid / Jay Hosking / Som Shankar / EZBOT
The monthly free electronic music showcase at The 4Bs will feature DJ Weak Acid, Jay Hosking (live synth), Som Shankar (electronic acid ambient), and EZBOT (dark minimal techno).
Tuesday, April 30, 7:00 PM at The 4Bs - Event Page
I Can’t Trace Time / Emergency Hand Puppet / Noisepoetnobody / Sacred Signs
Members of Afterlife Giftshop along with members of Von Wildenhaus will perform an evening soundbath in AM static and barely tuned in stations, interjected with imagined soft rock hits, talk radio detritus, and mellow jams being compressed and awash in AM frequency white noise.
Thursday, May 2, 7:00 PM at Rabbit Box Theatre - Event Page
Radio Noise Collective - City Statics + Maria Thrän
Radio Noise Collective transforms the airwaves into a framework of sonic exploration, where participant-performers decode the universe through a symphony of radio hacking, unraveling the hidden dance of electromagnetic waves and the raw essence of noise-clouds in a captivating live performance.
They will be also be joined by Maria Thrän (Berlin / Seattle)
Thursday, May 2, 8:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page
Test Frenzy / (blouseusa)band / noisepoetnobody
Record release for the Lythic Records comp appearance of Test Frenzy (industrial sweater core) (members of Githyanki). They will be joined by (blouseusa) (electronic free jazz) and noisepoetnobody (experimental cold wave).
Friday, May 3, 9:00 PM at Southgate Roller Rink - Event Page
Friday, May 3, 8:00 PM at Gallery 1412 - Event Page
Interview with PRISONFOOD
PRISONFOOD is the noise project by Abraham Moses from Everett, WA. He has been making noise in some form or another since 1999. I’m excited to have him here on the blog for an interview.
SEATTLE NOISE:
Good morning. We are conducting this interview while you’re on tour, so it may be interesting to see how your perception may change as you make your way down the road and back home.
PRISONFOOD:
Good afternoon Seattle Noise and thank you for reaching out during this adventure. Luckily I discovered my flip phone has a hotspot so I am able to internet a tad out here. It’s wild to me that I am on a tour, something I have actively resisted doing ever since touring as the noiser in a metal band ages ago.
SEATTLE NOISE:
Can you give us an introduction to your project? How do you describe PRISONFOOD?
PRISONFOOD:
My project is mostly just me scratching whatever audio video itch tickles my fancy. I have always found it difficult to learn an instrument and play music but I still enjoy the process of creating textures and honing in on subtle minutia detected within the waves.
PRISONFOOD is just the moniker I give myself when I am experimenting alone. If someone collaborates then usually that would earn its own project name. I used a couple of names for my solo recordings before eventually locking it down.
Back then I wanted my tracks to sound good like Locust Abortion Technician and when they didn’t I would be so discouraged it prevented me from creating. Keeping expectations low and giving myself a license to create sounds that sucked was the key to ensuring momentum, an inertia free of discouraging deprecations. Surely no one would check out a project called PRISONFOOD and expect it not to suck.
SEATTLE NOISE:
There is such a diverse group of noise artists and musicians in the Seattle / Cascadia region. Is there a memorable show where you first connected?
PRISONFOOD:
The Wooden Octopus Musick Pfestival in 2005 was a pivotal event for me. After years of incessantly searching for the PNW noise sect, I had finally found my fold. Seemingly everyone in attendance had a noise project and I could not wait to hear them all. Trading releases was the social media of the day. Thankfully I was able to break the ice, meet all the locals, and bring home some of the most treasured releases in my collection. That Pfest audience was packed with so many local noise acts, I decided that day forward to focus my ears on local experimental sounds because the ocean of Euro and japanoise was insurmountable in my eyes.
A highlight from that show was during The Haters set I kept checking my ears for blood, it felt like liquid was streaming down my neck. Surprisingly there was no blood but it was so loud I was concerned about my hearing safety for the first time at any live show. I noticed the person next to me pull out a fist full of individually wrapped ear plugs which they were happy to pass around. Thoughtful generosities such as these, no matter how small, are what I’ve come to admire most about Seattle’s noise contingent.
SEATTLE NOISE:
Building community is what I find exciting about noise. [I fell into the noise community in 2018]. I first heard about you from the AnaRchYinBedRoK Twitch streams. How did that start and have you been able to connect with people from Twitch while on tour?
PRISONFOOD:
In 2017 I entered into hermit noiser mode and after some time had passed my curiosity about the current state of noise had piqued once again. I began looking for the places where people get their noise but it’s not like there is any centralized noise hub that I could find. Falling down some rabbit hole that I discovered on Hollow Earth Radio, I found myself checking out a new social media messaging site called Discord which I didn’t really like but there I met a young media specialist who turned me onto Twitch as sort of a free and easy platform to build a channel kind of like MTV for noisers. The word “twitch” reminded me of a song where the lyrics say “Anarchy in bedrock, twitch twitch” AnaRchYinBedRoK came from the song. It was just a spur of the moment thing, it said I could change the name later but I guess I just left it there and that’s what my online Twitch persona became.
It’s been real hard to stay connected to anyone on the tour with my flip phone and limited internet, but I know they are fine. I have built a strong community of leaders there for keeping noise events thriving on Twitch even after I am gone. I have created a Discord server I can keep an eye on that is a staging ground for twitch noise events as well as sharing news and tips about gear, releases, irl shows, everything and nothing, really. It’s very autonomous the way pretty much anyone can set up events there, anarchy at its best.
SEATTLE NOISE:
Looking to the future, do you have any goals for PRISONFOOD? (other than of course completing this tour)
PRISONFOOD:
Tour is almost over and I feel like I’m not ready to hang up the reigns just yet but who knows? The future of PRISONFOOD is always uncertain and that is what keeps me interested. Collaborations, fun shows, freeing minds and interacting with fellow noise enthusiasts are the only real goals that drive my happy ass to keep living the dream.
Thanks for the interest, I enjoyed the Q&A sesh here on the road.
SEATTLE NOISE:
Where can people best follow you and keep up with what you’re doing?
Sunday, April 21, 7:00 PM at Lucky Liquor - Event Page
RN White / Lye Feast / Casey Adams / RIB
Another round of noise with RN White (harsh noise wails), Lye Feast (death industrial), Casey Adams (sparse-tronics) and the debut of RIB (movement noise)
Wednesday, April 24, 7:30 PM at Teatro de la Psychomachia - Event Page
The Electric Nature / Friends of the Road / Dosenöffner
Thursday, April 25, 7:00 PM at Drongo Tapes HQ - Event Page
🔮 G.T. Arpe 🔮 Debt Rag 🔮 Glad We’re Together 🔮 Fantasy Dumpster Circus 🔮
Generator show with G.T. Arpe (experimental avant garde electronica), Debt Rag (punk) from Olympia, Glad We’re Together (experiemental), and Fantasy Dumpster Circus (experimental).
Thursday, April 25, 8:00 PM at Under 1st Avenue Bridge - Event Page
Lori Goldston + Jaison Scott: interdimensional immersion for Torben Ulrich
Cellist Lori Goldston and drummer Jaison Scott improvise together, moving freely between ideas that spring from jazz, metal, chamber music and a long list of folk and popular idioms.
Thursday, April 25, 8:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page
Clove: Durate
Clove features a close group of players and improvisers attending to the interplay of emptiness and form. Clove draws on their flowers and roots in the punk, metal, noise and diy scenes, for syzygies of song, sound, and silence.
The ensemble will consist of Meredith Davey (cello, voice, electronics), Hanna Broback (guitar, voice synth), and Ian Gwin.
Friday, April 26, 8:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page
Eastern Iowa Municipal Percussion Ensemble
Eastern Iowa Municipal Percussion Ensemble was formed out of an Anarchist collective located in Blue Grass, Iowa. Their repertoire for every performance is chosen based on their beliefs in sound/percussion as Ritual and Protest. On this tour they will perform a percussion piece by Italian anarchist/composer Damiano Cecceralli (1937-1999).
Friday, April 26, 8:00 PM at Gallery 1412 - Event Page
NonSeq: 05elantra + august V.M./Arabella
The next performance in the NonSequitur NonSeq series curated by Connie Fu (enerph) will feature 05elantra:
05elantra is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary visual artist, musician, designer, technologist, and curator interrogating liminal spaces in modern life.
for this performance, august will present a collection of musical sketches composed in preparation for the writing and recording of her first album…In collaboration with august VM, they will be exploring the curiosities and openness of the deep sea, by creating an installation utilizing video synthesis and light as a material.
Saturday, April 27, 8:00 PM at Chapel Performance Space - Event Page
