Events
What does science and religion have in common? They are both trying to figure out the growth, the mechanisms.
What do these two shows have in common? Potential for Corporeal Reformations, the Sound is the Symbol.
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Tuesday Nov 18th @
in Dwntwn LA
The Zero Collective -
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Bandito Overlord -
DivineBrick
Doors at 8, show at 9 - No Cover
An ALL-FI multidisciplinary skirmish-locale, spring boarding Xover (Sardinia, Italy), PRESENT & DivineBrick (LA LA) up and down the coast, later to join up with FAILINGS (of Tecumseh) in the Pac NW.
Bouncing them out, our hats tip to sister weirdos CT ASSAULTS, long standing freeker-grinders BAD ACID TRIP, and the properly paradigm-shifting BANDITO OVERLORD!!
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BAD ACID TRIP
XOVER (touring)
BANDITO OVERLORD
PRESENT (touring)
DIVINEBRICK (touring)
CT ASSAULTS
Whereas Warehouse
1729 E 21st Street Los Angeles, CA 90058
$5 donation
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.
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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.
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
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
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.
<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
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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
Video still by Maneesh Raj Madahar
Contemporaries,
There are some great shows coming up for DBRP and partners. We are looking for some bodies to make an experience.
On april 19 there will be a Joshua Tree all night event. We would love for some creatives to caravan with us for a night of visionary performances.
On April 19th
D3C0D3D in the D3S3RT a free vision event
A magical night in Joshua Tree hosted at FURSTWORLD
Furst World is stunning artistic oasis and theater located about an hour and a half outside of Los Angeles in the fabulous rocky high lands of Joshua Tree. Bobby Furst is an artist who creates and facilitates all varieties of visionary and political arts
http://coachellavalleyweekly.com/furst-wurld-theater-a-step-beyond/
Map of the drive-
There will be a Caravan Saturday morning, but we hope you can arrive at your convenience.
More to come!
On May 2
The first of expanding experiences at the 21st Warehouse space DBRP is looking for artist and performers. Works usually fall along the line of ritual and art. Laying down a hypnotic and meditative environment performances usually involve projection, sound, performance art / dance and imagery.
To be part of the concept outline join early or join late to have an opportunity to contribute your offer and have transformative Experience in multi sensory performance.
Its going to be a busy April. Many thanks and much appreciation of your support.
More details as they emerge.
April 12:
heART Walk Echo Park: Closing reception.
heART WALK _ echO park _soundwaves Heal cancer Two
– CLOSING RECEPTION saturday april 12th at LA Pizza 1498 west sunset with performance artists Whereas= Mike Meanstreetz, Josie J, Maneesh Madahar, Mike Glover, Ali Hyman Wolff, = DJ Fly, Jim Priest, Gaylord Fiend, Stiive Mage, Igor Amokian, AC The Program Director, Gra
ce Hall.
echo park stores, curators, artists, buyers and art lovers present and preserve history by providing a place to gather, celebrate and tell stories of what is and was.
April 19-20:
DBRP will be performing with a group of artist.
Its sure to be a wild one.
D3C0D3D in the D3S3RT a free vision camping event
April 19-20 2014
full list of Performers will be announced shortly.
SONIC~
PRESENT (PSYCHEDELIC SOUL SONIC)
CONSCIOUS SUMMARY- (EAR VIBRATION STIMULANTS)
BOMH
CYPHLON
LAZER BLADE~
MEANSTREETZ-
DBRP
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MORE TBA
SPECIAL performance by
FIRECAT PRODUCTIONS
LIVE ART
JOSE BICAN-
TONY KOEHL-
LEFTY JOE-
A magical night in Joshua Tree hosted at FUvRSTWORLD Furst World is stunning artistic oasis and theater located about an hour and a half outside of Los Angeles in the fabulous rocky high lands of Joshua Tree. Bobby Furst is an artist who creates and facilitates all varieties of visionary and political arts
Map of the drive-
There will be a Caravan Saturday morning, but we hope you can arrive at your convenience.
D3C0D3D is itself a ritual in visual and sonic rites in which the experiencer is lead into psychedelic realms through over lapping multi projected video and tonal tides which wash over the consciousness of the participant to allow for multidimensional decoding of subconscious thoughts and universal higher self concepts.
I felt Furst world would be an amazing place to bring in new energies and set the intentions of the year to come. There is also intended interactive elements, games, photobooths, face painting and magic. We are all here to entertain and inspire each other. I intend a performance aspect which involves professional fire swallowers and spinners. These aspects will be safely outside in the sand and should also include a portable aerial pyramid (allegedly) for what promises to offer an enticing and flowing circus environment. I anticipate these are all professional artists who create with purpose and safety is number one. Environmentalism is also paramount, we are fans of the "leave no trace" policy. Safety and cleanliness are the fulcrum by which this event pivots. In all, I want to assure that it will be a fun night where every one can really absorb a fully interactive spectacle while being responsible for their trash. I have a cleaning crew set up and all that we do is portable and makes zero impact on the environment and certainly no impact on the wonderful art installations.
We will arrive saturday afternoon to set up,claim campers or camp sights joshua tree hike after set up, then performances all night and a casual sunday morning breakfast, yoga workshop then lunch and good times. Clean up by sunfall and head off into the sunset on sunday night. Performers will be paid in tips and donations, some free food, beverages, fun and camping areas will be provided, but its encouraged you bring stuff to share as well. Invite any and all conscious people who will respect the lands, but all friends are welcome. There is also a pool and jaquzi so swim wear is advisable. I look forward very much to this event. If you have any concerns or creative ideas please let me know. Food is a potluck Everyone is encouraged to bring some food to share in team building and PLEASE BRING FIREWOOD!
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
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soundwaves Heal cancer Two –
a sanchO art auction in multiple galleries
for 7days all on sunset strip.
bids open march 16 close march 22
independent stores are our host for this family fun exhibit. just follow your heART during regular store hours and place your bid before closing march 22. the highest bidder will be announced or contacted on march 23.
we begin with a walk and a Letter To My President with J.W. ScroGgie placing his first bid at 3pm at
Andrea's Hair Styles - 1398 west sunset
Sunset Tropical Fish - 1373 west sunset
The Happy Shirt - 1932 west sunset
E.R. Copies - 1439 west sunset
Dalilah’s - 1463 west sunset
Taza - 1825 west sunset
LA Pizza - 1498 west sunset - music food and fun 4- 9p
the buyer is on a scavenger hunt and must seek out works by fine artists in multiple stores during store hours before closing on march 22, 2014. Special thanks to GERMS and Leva Ann for the cover art. GERMS will be live painting, Karen Centerfold will duet with Doug Cox as Tramp for the Lord 7p, Luis Bunuel, Mike Meanstreets with CT assualts, Alli, and DBRP 5p, Spencer Elden, Ernesto De La Loza 3p lecture on the streets, AC The Program Director 9p, Nicholas Capaldi, Josie Basford, Colin Manning, Nora Keyes, Don Bolles, BenjaminAlejandro! Olivia Beall, Greg Gomberg, Igor Amokian, Amy Darling, Jim Priest 730, J.W. Scroogie 545 poem, Igor Amokian, Jeremy Kennedy, Buko Pan Guerra, Fenex Lopez aka Gaylord Fiend 930, Stiive Mage 530, Dix Denny, Marcel Dejure and Dani Collins.
proceeds from works purchased will be shared with the artist, the gallery with %25 to benefit Kelsea Collins, who is going through her second war on cancer due to her first. all buyers are doners and will see their name here:
echo park stores, curators, artists, buyers and art lovers present and preserve history by providing a place to gather, celebrate and tell stories of what is and was. for answers to questions connect with
sanchos • 310 406 6855 • sanchOsalon@gmail.com
3-7-14, 7pm
Community dining amongst freaky music, performance and video.
CT ASSAULTS (free jazz punk brutallty)
PRESENT (maternal worldgrind) featuring josie j (corporal reformation)
BOBBY LONDON (post ironic noise & performance art)
DITHYRAMB (hectic beat virtuosity)ation
dj+vj Wes Johansen (synth depths and video inversions)
Bring homemade dishes to share with omnivores and reserved palates alike for a full spread!
Main courses, sides, deserts, snacks, and drinks welcome.
BYOB
6-11 PM
performances 7-10
$5 donation
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Most Honorable Ones,
It has been a great privilege to have the opportunity to work with Brennan Lowe. Parallax Beach was and is the first venture into choreography for myself. Brennan has been very patient and a worthy aide and contemporary. Although Brennan has expressed his feelings of seeing me as a mentor, I have learned a lot from Brennan. He has and always challenges me and pushes my view on art and art process. Because of this I am excited to share with you, fellow viewer, his solo performance.
-DBL
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Performer/ Performance Artist/ Installation Artist Brennan Lowe, also known as Parallax Beach's other performer/ dancer will be having a solo performance at Highways Performance Space this Saturday. Come and support this very gifted young artist before he goes back to the east coast to finish his BFA.
Traveling through absurd environments and alternate states of consciousness, Volatile is a multi-media installation and performance about the fragility of sanity and the contextual relativity of identity. Referencing determinism and questioning the existence of free will, both the visceral and conceptual components of cognitive processes are pursued.
Brennan Lowe explores the malleability of the human mind from internal and external influences through meditation and performance inspired by Butoh, Fluxus, and German Expressionism. Thomas Stoeckinger examines the nature of perception by creating installations that reinterpret light and space
Saturday, January 11 @ 8:30pm
$15 general admission
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.
Soft Forms,
Coming off the Epic Highways show, Parallax Beach is excited to present a much more appropriate, raw and dirty version of "Parallax Scroll". We are honored to be performing at one of the last nights of Sean Carnage's influential Monday Nights in this City of Angels.
This show is poignant not only because of this, but because it will be the last time we will be performing "Parallax Scroll". With the monumental departure of Brennan Lowe from the troupe we will move on to a new piece.
I myself am excited and honored to be sharing the stage, for the second time, with
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Hope to see you there.
Deciphering the roots,
-DBL
*flier by Wes Johansen
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.
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.
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>
