SPECTACLE

unFact, Animal Hospital, Noveller

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:32:21 +0000

UNFACT

UnFact is the solo bass project of David Wm. Sims. Using electric bass guitars and an array of effects and looping devices, unFact creates improvised instrumental canvases of noise and melody that encompass fragile shards of memory and harrowing cascades of chthonic fury. Sims is known for his work in the rock bands Scratch Acid and the Jesus Lizard. He has toured as the bassist for Sparklehorse In 2009, Sims participated …in the 200-guitar ensemble that performed Rhys Chatham’s “A Crimson Grail” at the Lincoln Center. He is currently collaborating on recording projects with various artists including Big Sir, Paul Amlehn, and Teledubgnosis. Sims lives in New York City and is a recovering Certified Public Accountant.
http://www.davidwmsims.com/
http://www.myspace.com/unfact

KOUHEI MATSUNAGA

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:35:00 +0000

Non-Event and Spectacle present

KOUHEI MATSUNAGA
(Raster-Noton/Monochrome Vision/Important Records)
with Ppalmm

KOUHEI MATSUNAGA makes music that ranges from harsh, blistering noise to beautifully abrasive techno. He grew up in Osaka, Japan, studied architecture, and listened to hardcore techno and rap music. He started making music of an abstract, experimental sort in 1992, releasing his first album on the legendary experimental techno label, Mille Plateaux. In the past he’s collaborated with artists like Merzbow, John Waterman, Asmus Tietchens, rlw, Rudolf eb.er, Anla Courtis, Greg Davis, Conrad Schnitzler, Lesser, Calros Giffoni, Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic), Mr Maloke (Puppetmastaz), Sean Booth (Autechre) and Sensational (ex Jungle Brothers). He also performs as NHK (with Toshio Munehiro) and as Internet Magic (with Max Turner). He currently lives in Berlin and Osaka.

The Pharmacy, Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk, Birthdays, Captain Cat

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:35:42 +0000

COME & LET YOUR PSYCHEDELIC POP FLAG FLY (QUITE FREAKISHLY)

Spectacle teams up with HMS Putnam to present:

The Pharmacy (from Washington)
pretty but heavy psychedelic pop
http://www.myspace.com/pharmacy

Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk (from Kansas)
bedroom psychepopla
http://www.myspace.com/babybirdsdontdrinkmilk

Thundersun, Banditas, The Woodrow Wilsons and Big Kitty + Jenn Pipp from Architecture of The Sun

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:49:30 +0000

April 23rd 2010: A good day for a lovely evening of music:

Thundersun (Cambridge) http://www.myspace.com/sparrowlovesthundersun

Banditas (Cambridge): http://www.myspace.com/banditasmusic
The Woodrow Wilsons (JP): http://www.myspace.com/thewoodrowwilsons
Big Kitty (Tennessee): http://www.myspace.com/bigkittyclark

Vinyl and Shellac courtesy of Mr John Funke:
http://wmbr.mit.edu/shows/backwoods/backwoods.html

CARTUNE XPREZ 2010 Boston with CoralCola, PPalmm and Volvox

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:21:52 +0000

CARTUNE XPREZ 2010 with CoralCola, PPalmm and DJ Volvox. April 18, 8pm.

Part live video theater, part psychedelic insurrection, part cartoon road show, we harness the energies of video artists who remix commercial imagery to the extent of anarchy and animate their way out of Sunday Morning Cartoons. Previous shows have included Paper Rad, Bruce Bickford, Takeshi Murata, and Shana Moulton, who have since been featured in the Whitney Biennial, the MOMA in New York, the Sundance Film Festival, and many others. Our touring programs have become a touchstone of the genre, with this upcoming program offering a rare opportunity to see innovative animated videos from around the world. Adding to the spectacle, Peter Burr and Christopher Doulgeris’ Hooliganship will combine videos, music, and installation to create an electroluminescent stage show.

DiscordiaFilms: Benefit Film Screening for Chile

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:03:49 +0000

Saturday April 17th, 8pm

discordiafilms will be hosting a benefit show to help fund relief efforts in Chile in the aftermath of the February 27th earthquake. Donations will help artists we have collaborated with in the past, specifically Chimba Lab in Santiago, whose space was badly damaged. Since VideoNorte has never been shown in the northern hemisphere, we have decided to show the complete program that night. Please join us in solidarity with people in Chile and help us get the word out, and come out to see this fantastic line up of experimental shorts that is now touring the south (Argentina and Chile).

GOODIEPAL with Insect Factory

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:55:17 +0000

Friday April 9, 2010:

Non-Event and Spectacle present

the return of
GOODIEPAL
with Insect Factory

Spectacle
17 Edinboro Street #3
Boston (Chinatown)

9 p.m. / $10
BYOB

GOODIEPAL returns for his first Boston-area show since his amazing performance at the 2006 Brainwaves festival! Goodiepal is Parl Kristian Bjorn Vester, a Danish/Faroese musician and composer. The eccentric Goodiepal performs and lectures about his work and ideas at universities and galleries around the world — he is in town to lecture at Harvard. Until recently, he was employed as a teacher at DIEM (Danish Institute for Electro-acoustic Music) at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark. Goodiepal declared intellectual war against the stupidity in modern computer music and media art, which is to say against The Royal Academy of Music, when he quit the job in 2008. He currently lives in London.

Family Portrait, Truman Peyote, The Idols, Baby Brainwaves

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:18:28 +0000

April 8th, 8pm:

Family Portrait (http://www.myspace.com/officialfamilyportrait)
Truman Peyote (http://www.myspace.com/trumanpeyotemusic)
The Idols (http://www.myspace.com/andyflop)
Last minute addition: Baby Brainwaves (http://www.myspace.com/babybrainwaves)

+ Andre Obin (http://www.myspace.com/andreobin) DJiing shoegaze and beyond.

8pm doors, $5 suggested donation. byob.

Steve Gunn/John Truscinski, High Aura’d and Baba Yaga

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:54:55 +0000

Steve Gunn and John Truscinski

http://www.myspace.com/pyramidmerchandise
Steve Gunn’s prodigous talent for fusing traditional american song structures with a raga influence is almost criminally unheralded. Gunn’s songcraft is so strong and his playing style so effortlessly beautiful that folks should be shouting his name from every tall building and mountaintop. Without any doubt… [His latest album] Boerum Palace is a staggering accomplishment and is certainly Gunn’s most assured and confident work to date.

Stress Ape ◊ Isa Christ ◊ Rotten Apples ◊ DJ Redfoxx

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:36:02 +0000

March 9, 2010. 8pm.

STRESS APE:
OAKLAND DEATH
ISA CHRIST:
BROOKLYN NOISE

ROTTEN APPLES:
BOSTON FREAK SHOW FREAK OUT

REDFOXXXXXXXXX:
DJING LIKE <3THROB IN HELL