performance
Body Works: Five Senses (DivineBrick in collab. w/ Wes Johansen and Z.Vital) /
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 /
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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.
::LA CITA/ Los Angeles::Photos /
DivineBrick
Zero Collective
Photos by Brenn Lowe
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
::
Nagual Sun
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
$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
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 /
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.
PARALLAX BEACH: Parallax Scroll @ Highways /
Friends,
Excited to invite you to PARALAX BEACH's debut of "Parallax Scroll".
-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.
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.
Hell D3C0D3D /
Recall,
On November 2 I realize Halloween at this point in my life has no meaning just like Christmas it has the stench of a sales man with nothing to sell, but an all consuming idea. But I do feel I need a time to explicitly remember the dead and face death as a mortal that I am.
On this day I was lucky to be part of Highways Performance Space Dia de los Muertos Celebration. It was a performance that stemmed from a workshop conducted by La Pocha Noestra at Highways.
The Performance itself was a variety of talented performers showcasing a variety of styles. Ranging from dance, singing, to performance, some including all three. Sneak peek pictures coming soon.
After the show I was honored enough to be invited by Mike Meanstreetz to be part of a jam performance at a house in Echo Park. It was a Zombie Day of the Dead Party. I was happy enough to freak out some more and channel some ancestral wisdom to freak out the locals. Didn't quite get enough at Highways I guess. In the end it was a wonderful piece. Lazer Blade on keys/ sound/ mythical puppet performance, Mike Meanstreetz on drums and triggers, Zac Vidal on sax, and a new one I just met (groove guy) ARCHITECT on sax...SAX, duo it was monstrous.
Here are some lovely pics via Amy Darling.
Don't forget to water your Roots.
Much too Weird for your scene.
-DBL
<a href="http://mikemeanstreetz.bandcamp.com/album/dia-de-los-muertos-performance-d3cod3d">Dia de Los Muertos performance @ D3COD3D by Lazer Blade + Zachary Vidal + Architect + Josie Jay + Mike Meanstreetz</a>
Michael Nannery :: DBRP :: Intimatchine @ AHC /
Lovers,
The Show at Almost Holden Collective was intimate, tasty, and seductive.
Intimatchine was a lovely hypnotic landscape of dreams. Michael Nannery was a memory trip of textures and primal awakenings. AHC thank you for your hospitality.
Everyone was open to the freakers we are. Thanks for your support.
It was a treat to further explore this experiment of self deconstruction which is "Research in Religious Self-Cybernetics: Pruning the Rose, Eating the Thorn". The ritual object which you see was finally named that night. Pronounce in Spanish, Butó Flutó. Thanks Wes. My need for smirks and giggles in my work is much needed.
Enjoy this peek behind the veil... If you were not present.
Intimatchine
D.B.R.P.
*photos by Christopher Steven Wormald and Brian David. Video by Jacqueline Li and josie j
Update: SoundWalk, Other Performances /
Family,
This year has been a very eventful year. Many performances and many artwork has yet to be made, but the opportunities I have had this year I have been grateful for.
I have lost my mailing list do to my computer failure but hopefully new social media will add in communication. Also the few die hard fans can always keep up to date here and on the events page.
Any yes the new computer is on its way... finally.
More shows coming this month (more DBRP performances), in November (as part of the La Pocha Nostra Workshop at Highways) in December (Parallax Beach Debut of Parallax Scroll 2.0 At Highways). List of events HERE.
This Past weekend Parallax Beach had an opportunity to run though the beginnings of Parallax Scroll in marathon form. Five 45 min performances in a four hour block. we finished exhausted, cleansed and accomplished. Here are a few snippets of the performances.
via SoundWalk
Instagram photo by @greeniebeanies (Ryan Lampert)
Photos by Hannah Maynard via LB Post
Instagram photo by @chakosroughdraft
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
Hunter House Show /
Will be performing at the Hunter House with Mike Meanstreetz of Bow + Arrow. Heres the info:
Welcome to the first show at the
DTLA's warehouse district.
Entry is a suggest $5 donation.
$2 beers
Doors open at 9pm.
Roman Aeon - band
DBRP (DivineBrick Research Project) w/ Mike Meanstreetz -performance artists
Intimatchine - band
The Midnite Sixes - band
Hunter House
2458 Hunter St. Ste 2
Los Angeles, California 90021
March 30, 2013
Welcome to the first show at the
Hunter House
inDTLA's warehouse district.
Entry is a suggest $5 donation.
$2 beers
Doors open at 9pm.
Roman Aeon - band
DBRP (DivineBrick Research Project) w/ Mike Meanstreetz -performance artists
Intimatchine - band
The Midnite Sixes - band
Hunter House
2458 Hunter St. Ste 2
Los Angeles, California 90021
Tree Performance- Audio Track /
From the Archive
Found an old
recording of the Tree Performance done back in 2007. Don’t think I ever shared it.
Here it is:
"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)
Solo Dolo #2 @ Highways Performance Space /
One more thing,
I will be
performing at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California on the
evening of February 8th and 9th. Here is the info. Click me please and I will show you more.
Hope to see ya
there,
-DBL