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Body Works: Five Senses (DivineBrick in collab. w/ Wes Johansen and Z.Vital) /
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Izella Berman with Jean Paul Jenkins and Mitchell Brown
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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 /
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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
DivineBrick @ Kunst-Stoff (Winter WHEREAS Tour 2014/15) /
Thank you Family.
Winter West Coast Tour 2014: Into the Forest of the NorthWest /
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.
Ian Hawk (of Tecumseh)
soundscape and drones set to film
Keep up on tour dates here
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 /
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)
S&ndc&stl&
A'rk (Joshua Tree)
CT ASSAULTS
PRESENT
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Nagual Sun
DivineBrick performance troupe
+Present setting the landscape, DivineBrick Troupe will be performing
Ritual: "Dinner for the Peasant Dog
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with
performers Grace Smith
(WI), Brennan Lowe, and josie j
$5 donation
LIBERTY D3(0D3D: July 4 /
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
Parallax Beach-Parallax Scroll @ Highways Performance Space- Santa Monica, Ca /
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} /
<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
DivineBrick Research Projects
(josie j, LAZERBLADE, Maneesh Raj Madahar, STIIVE MAGE, elle merhmand, and Ashley Moon)
PRESENT
JIHAD BALLISTICS
Elle Mehrmand
CTHS
BOBBY LONDON
Danilo Casti
Wes & the Cult of the Eternal Beat
Friday, May 2nd
1729 west 21st. street
Los Angeles, Ca 90058
PRESENT w/ DBRP @ D3C0D3D in the D3S3Rt /
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Filmed by: Danjon Black
D3C0D3D in the D3S3RT
Furst Wurld, Joshua Tree, Ca
April 19-20 2014
Music by PRESENT
with performance by DivineBrick
"Research in Ritual #c0z3n"
PRESENT:
Mike Meanstreetz, Holly Spirit, Erin Worra, Zachary Vidal
Projections: VJ Wes
DivineBrick:
josie j, STIIVE MAGE, Maneesh Raj Madahar, Mystic O'Reilly
Event Stills:
Stiive Mange
D'rok
Lazerblade w CT ASSualts
Mystic O' Reilly and Maya Papaya
Boulevard Wind - heART WALK Echo Park, March 16th 2014 /
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
Present with DBRP, Elle Mehrmand, and VJ Wes @ 21th street warehouse /
Two Updates: Video Links /
Parallax Beach @ Pehr Space: Parallax Scroll Final Performance /
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
. I hope to see more of this very very talented lady. I always gush for
so...
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 /
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.
Bike Oven: MMZ+DBRP /
MMZ+DBRP performing "Brothers of Two" @ The Bike Oven
Untitled from Taner Tumkaya on Vimeo.
Vid By: Taner Tumkaya
Beat Blastz: Mike Meanstreetz
Corporal Incantation: josie j
Mix: Mikey Z
Projections: Janevis
"a Sentient Approach, a Cybernetic Reproach" (night two) /
D.B.R.P. Performing in Solo Dolo #2
@ Highways Performance Space,
Santa Monica, Ca.
(First Night of Solo Dolo #2)
"a Perished Rose, a Salty Brick" D.B.R.P. @ Sancho Gallery /
Halloween Performance At Sancho Gallery
Echo Park, California
Oct. 29, 2011
Broom Made by DBL
Sound Engineered by Roman Æon
Thank you Roman Æon for your help and Bow + Arrow for inviting us to NukeWave BlastZone.
The biggest offense one can make is to take away another’s right to create or destroy what one has created.
-DBL
Jackal: DBRP Performance at The Torrance Art Muesums Zoom 2 /
jackal at tam by DBRP
Description:
Three performers: The Handler (which had the Jackal by a leash), the Jackal (which wore a leather headpiece) and the Controller (behind the laptop).
The Jackal and the Handler performed on a ring of salt.
The headpiece had a web cam on the front (which served as an eye), a microphone (which served as a digital gag), and a L.C.D. screen (which served as a filtered window to reality). The live video and audio feed, from the Jackal, was first processed by the Controller which was behind the laptop and in front of the projection. Then the feed was sent to the projector and back to the Jackal, transformed and filtered. What the Jackal saw and the audience saw was the equal.
Performers:
The Handler- Wet Mango
The Controller- Aaron Moreno
The Jackal- DBL
Description:
Three performers: The Handler (which had the Jackal by a leash), the Jackal (which wore a leather headpiece) and the Controller (behind the laptop).
The Jackal and the Handler performed on a ring of salt.
The headpiece had a web cam on the front (which served as an eye), a microphone (which served as a digital gag), and a L.C.D. screen (which served as a filtered window to reality). The live video and audio feed, from the Jackal, was first processed by the Controller which was behind the laptop and in front of the projection. Then the feed was sent to the projector and back to the Jackal, transformed and filtered. What the Jackal saw and the audience saw was the equal.
Performers:
The Handler- Wet Mango
The Controller- Aaron Moreno
The Jackal- DBL
SoundWalk 09-VID /
CLICK IMAGE ABOVE TO VIEW!!!
Bipeds alike,
This is the Sweep Performance performed at the SoundWalk of Long Beach, Ca (September 25, 2009). Many thanks to electronic emergency and many that helped out.
The audio consists of 2 channels each with two different excerpts from two different Sweep Performances performed at the SoundWalk.
The actual performance consisted of one performer sweeping with a broom that was wired to a computer. The computer filtered the sound of the broom accentuating it. This sound was then directed back to headphones that were worn by the performer and anyone else that wanted to follow him and immerse themselves in the performance.
-DBL