Videos

Body Works: Five Senses (DivineBrick in collab. w/ Wes Johansen and Z.Vital) /  by DBL

Whereas watching 

Izella Berman with Jean Paul Jenkins and Mitchell Brown

Whereas

DivineBrick in collab. w/ Wes Johansen and Z.Vital

“A Rosie Smell, Still Turns My Nose if Grown with Distaste”

game experience in three parts (grey 3)

Viewer this is your part of this game. A simple description to still allow the experience to be new.

Part one

When invited to the Chamber feel welcome to come along. The space you hold sacred around you will be respected, all that is asked from you is to exist at a moment with another force other than yourself. You are free to leave at anytime, until another is chosen. We are mirrors to each other.

Part two

Come closer to the figure(s) that move under the light. Come see this moment as a landscape in which you hover over. See yourself in these/ this figure(s) as floating world(s), only now able to see the pale blue delicate soup that you are. Harmony easily broken with any influence dropped in. Decipher your roots.

Part Three

Five with frogs follow the figure(s), the rest follow the five. Five lead us all to the next experience when this ones complete.

Photos by Andrew Hall

Raze the WhiteBox- DivineBrick in Collab. w/ Mike Meanstreetz and Z.Vital @ Human Resources, Chinatown, LA, Ca /  by DBL

Raze the WhiteBox

from

Eon Mora

on

Vimeo

.

Raze the WhiteBox

DivineBrick in Collaboration with Mike Meanstreetz and Z.Vital @ Human Resources, Chinatown, LA May 10, 2016

Video By Eon Mora

www.razethewhitebox.com

Click on Title of Vid to Enlarge

Winter West Coast Tour 2014: Into the Forest of the NorthWest /  by DBL

DivineBrick @ WHEREAS Warehouse photo by Amy Darling

Excited to share the Corporeal Reformation this winter.  I will be traveling the west coast with a sonic wave bending into light:

XOVER

(Danilo Casti) : Electro-power-noise audiovisual performance

The project Xover is an electronic sound and visual performance that

runs around glitches, drone noises, field recordings played by digital and analogue

electronics instruments, a mixture between digital and analogue sounds, programming and

circuit bending, idiomatic shapes, abstract sound objects and absurd musical architecture.

PRESENT

is a Los Angeles based quartet performing femininly heavy-experimental music since 2012.Their compositional process is shared between members with most passages crediting all four. As PRESENT is the seminal group for half of its members, their writing and style is idiosyncratically colored as outsider. The tone of their music invokes influences of 20th Century Classical, Black Metal, Japanese underground, Anarcho Punk, art and free jazz. Live shows have been regularly accompanied by performance art, live video, and improvised noise artists also performed with in non-PRESENT iterations.

Saxophonist Erin Worra is trained in classical brass, and singer Angela Gleich has studied and performed flamenco singing. Since 1997 drummer/sequencer Mike Meanstreetz has performed/shown/installed on both coasts of the US (including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles) and extensively recorded and worked in such varied forms as musical free improvisation, experimental music, installation, video, painting, costume, performance art, noise, dance, punk and metal.

PRESENT's recordings have been released on a split LP and various compilations by meta and

micro labels based in France, the Czech Republic, Oakland and Los Angeles.

Their atonal compositions abandon guitars and lyrical form in favor the angular dissonances of female saxophone, synthesizer, and vocals seated atop a hectic percussive intensity. Non-traditional linear song gives way to free form passages, often in collaboration with other artists. On this tour, Mike Glover supports performing noise.

Video

Ian Hawk (of Tecumseh)

soundscape and drones set to film

Tecumseh

Keep up on tour dates here

Tour Dates

Winter tour kick-off show December 20th in LA at the WHEREAS warehouse!!

featuring:

Bad Acid Trip / Bandito Overlord / Xover (Danilo Casti, Sardinia) / DivineBrick / PRESENT 

DivineBrick will be performing  "Tale of a Toad".  On this tour.  The ritual was first performed in Long Beach.  Time will only tell its growth by the end.

Teaser

DivineBrick

Research Projects traces the steps that connect all practices.  The goal is to manifest a practice that informs and awakes performer and witness.  An exploration in sound and movement this project continues the exploration of Corporeal Reformation.  Self accompanied (drum machine, the Buto' Fluto' {a wooden head piece decked out out with circuit bends and an analog synth}, and loop pedal)  josie j structures a landscape to present "Tail of a Toad" a non-linear long lost story of transformation and corruption. The product is not a performance but a ritual cleansing.  An intense exchange in which something is always gained as some thing is burned.

WHEREAS- HOWEVER- a Bonanza 2 /  by DBL

Lighting by josie j and Brenn Lowe

heavy improvisation, desert dirging, angular arabesques & fleeting spectrums

WHEREAS HOWEVER summons the shamanistic landscape of a sonic arc lit by video projection and traversed by a troupe of performers whose movement tells the tale.

Constituted of the seamless procession several groups, each piece gathers momentu

m overlapping into the next in moments of collaboration between like and un-like.

Happenstance erodes whilst invigorating contrasts galvanize.

The night also heralds release of CT ASSAULTS' and PRESENT's cassette split on Sanity Muffin Records!

performances by:

Joey Molinaro (NY)

http://youtu.be/

ElGEcDAwMw0

S&ndc&stl&

https://soundcloud.com/

sndcstl

A'rk (Joshua Tree)

http://youtu.be/

Wte6p1i0Xxo

CT ASSAULTS

http://vimeo.com/80446033

PRESENT

::

http://youtu.be/

kbmpXakaBFU

Nagual Sun

https://soundcloud.com/

nagual-sun/

jaws-of-a-shark-live-the-do

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DivineBrick performance troupe

+Present setting the landscape, DivineBrick Troupe will be performing

Ritual: "Dinner for the Peasant Dog

"

with

performers Grace Smith

(WI), Brennan Lowe, and josie j

http://youtu.be/

0ziU4HpY_IA

$5 donation

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LIBERTY D3(0D3D: July 4 /  by DBL

Yes, this friday night a psychedelic observance of your state of liberty. Experimental Audio/Video

movies booze and bands 

PRESENT W/DIVINEBRICK TROUPE

TRANSCENDENTAL HYGENE

BOMH

CYPHLON

7pm

811 n. Beaudry Ave

Come join us as we celebrate 4th of July at the top of chinatown over looking with clear skies all of DTLA. We will be grilling and rocking sonic.. serving various libations and of course lighting fireworks.

A group of us will take a short walk to Grand Park to watch the fireworks that go off at LA city hall at 9PM. Here is what last year looked like

https://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=Q9NKypq9E5w

FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE

Parallax Beach-Parallax Scroll @ Highways Performance Space- Santa Monica, Ca /  by DBL

Severed moments of macrocosmic balance routinely underline human evolution. These moments intrigue, as modernity has alienated us from the immediacy of life. Perceptions of time become mercurial and subjective depending on perspective. Parallax Scroll will take the audience on a revisit through the emergence of life. A trip that re-exams light, language, and the development of society, ending in a space unresolved and recycled. All points can viewed when wading on a Parallax Beach.

PARALLAX BEACH's "Parallax Scroll" is a multi-media performance piece that bridges the abstract landscapes of sound, light, time, and movement. A collective of artists, each utilizing different mediums, come together to make this unique work. Wes Johansen creates a visual representation of abstract thought through digital video projection, edited live and synchronized to synthesizers. Mike Meanstreetz uses avant-garde percussion and composition techniques tangling the participants of this ritualistic performance in a web of synesthesia . These elements are accentuated as josie j conveys transformation to witnesses through ritualism/ meditative movement, influenced partly by Butoh training and a background in performance art. Also performing in this piece are Zachary Vidal (saxophone/sampled noise) providing textured mood, and Brennan Lowe (movement) setting the wheel of this cycle into motion.

Whereas However- a BONANZA {May 2} /  by DBL

<a href="http://ctyf.bandcamp.com/album/whereas-however-a-bonanza">WHEREAS HOWEVER: A BONANZA by CTYFaudio</a>

via Maneesh Madahar

we could elaborate on things, specify how we shall move, or even what may happen. certainly there have been times in which the discussions yielded these kinds of particulars….but…you know maybe thats not the communication we should have at this moment. here and now. what is needed, ultimately, is a space for intimacy a

nd connection that begins to push against a possibility. the dynamic potential of a tribe carrying torches deep within bowels of the earth. the cavernous geological womb…watching the fire dance and the luminous rhythm create a shifting choreography with the animals painted on the walls.

this place can also be a bedroom or cinema or a warehouse. they them us we will congregate and gather to help each other thrive. to find ways of becoming a peoples of instantaneous magnitudes blossoming into the infinite impermanence… or , at the very least, we can make something happen that is new and for us. something whose precedent is an elaborate tapestry of interwoven histories extending along fractal meridians into the future and past lives of the selves we always knew we could be…come with me ill follow you.

dancing. summoning sounds. trying to conjure the numinous materiality. bass. gazes and silences.

this event is focused around an extended improvisation between groups and projects. every individual will be given a certain space-time frame in which to perform their personal work. however, this space-time frame will emerge from and merge with a larger collective platform. sights, musics, and costumed forms will be improvising into and out of each other.

constituting the arc are:

C-STARSOUND

http://

c-starsound.bandcamp.com/

DivineBrick Research Projects

(josie j, LAZERBLADE, Maneesh Raj Madahar, STIIVE MAGE, elle merhmand, and Ashley Moon)

http://dbrp.blogspot.com/

PRESENT

https://www.facebook.com/

PRESENTbandLA

JIHAD BALLISTICS

Elle Mehrmand

https://en.wikipedia.org/

wiki/Elle_Mehrmand

CTHS

http://ctassaults.com/

BOBBY LONDON

https://soundcloud.com/

bobby-london-2

Danilo Casti

http://

www.danilocasti.com/

Wes & the Cult of the Eternal Beat

http://

blowupyourcar.wordpress.com

/

Friday, May 2nd

1729 west 21st. street

Los Angeles, Ca 90058 

Facebook Events Page

Boulevard Wind - heART WALK Echo Park, March 16th 2014 /  by DBL

 Via Mike Meanstreetz

Fleeting moments of the site specific performance “Boulevard Wind,”

 by collaboratists WHEREAS 

@ heART WALK Echo Park, March 16th 2014

Ali Hyman Wolff (bodycity et al)

Mike Glover; Maneesh Madahar (CT Assaults)

Mike Meanstreetz

DBRP

Fotos compliments of Stiive Mage

Parallax Beach @ Pehr Space: Parallax Scroll Final Performance /  by DBL

Witnesses,

This was the last time Parallax Beach performed Parallax Scroll.  The night was filled with great acts.  I personally was hypnotized by the sounds and visuals of

Beru

.  I hope to see more of this very very talented lady.  I always gush for

Intimatchine

so...

TV Crime Lords

were fun.  Three cute boys making noise, much fun.  

Without further a due here are some stills of the night.  Brennan has got his character and moment down.  Stay tune for some audio.  

Heads: Performance Show /  by DBL

Viewers,

This Saturday, November 23, Members of PRESENT, BOW+ARROW & PARALLAX BEACH’s combined efforts will yet again crash their own party, and take others’ lives into their own hands. Improvisational video/puppetz/noise/synths/movement/blast beats/saxophones will scratch their own disc into bludgeoning skips while surrounding the crowd. Warehouse party.

PARALLAX BEACH: Parallax Scroll @ Highways /  by DBL

Friends,

Excited to invite you to PARALAX BEACH's debut of "Parallax Scroll".

-DBL

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Severed moments of macrocosmic balance routinely underline human evolution. These moments intrigue, as modernity has alienated us from the immediacy of life. Perceptions of time become mercurial and subjective depending on perspective. Parallax Scroll will take the audience on a revisit through the emergence of life. A trip that re-exams light, language, and the development of society, ending in a space unresolved and recycled. All points can viewed when wading on a Parallax Beach.

PARALLAX BEACH's "Parallax Scroll" is a multi-media performance piece that bridges the abstract landscapes of sound, light, time, and movement. A collective of artists, each utilizing different mediums, come together to make this unique work. Wes Johansen creates a visual representation of abstract thought through digital video projection, edited live and synchronized to synthesizers. Mike Meanstreetz uses avant-garde percussion and composition techniques tangling the participants of this ritualistic performance in a web of synesthesia . These elements are accentuated as josie j conveys transformation to witnesses through ritualism/ meditative movement, influenced partly by Butoh training and a background in performance art. Also performing in this piece are Zachary Vidal (saxophone/sampled noise) providing textured mood, and Brennan Lowe (movement) setting the wheel of this cycle into motion.

Invoking the zeitgeist of the night's multi-disciplinary performance,

        elle mehrmand opens with a solo piece

divined of haunting sing-song and movement, foreshadowing what is to come.

Passing through the theater's entry way, the night's performances will be initiated both spatial and temporally by a traversable light and sound installation by the artist Lazer Blade.