Monday, June 16, 2008

Insects With Tits + Nernes Skagen Tour 6/23-7/7

HzCollective Presents: NanoHz No14 - an evening of experimental drone and black noise, thought provoking ambient music, avant garde improvisation, and dueling no-inputs. This is a show to kick off a two week tour for Richmond's Insects With Tits & Norways Nernes/Skagen. [ http://hzcollective.com ]



Monday June 23rd, 2008
@ Gallery5 
200 W. Broad St. 
Richmond, VA 23220
(804)317-1938

8:00pm
$5

::::Tone Ghosting [washington, dc]

::::Anduin [richmond, va] 

 
::::Nernes/Skagen [norway]

::::Insects With Tits [richmond, va]


Bio:

A solo project of Jeff Bagato (aka DJ Panic), Tone Ghosting features a unique homemade instrument he invented himself: playing vinyl LPs with small hacksaw & electronic FX, magnifying, modifying, & energizing the small scrapes & squeaks to create a complex musical vocabulary. The patented "Tone Ghosting process" includes looping these sounds, reformulating them in frenetic live dubs, & adding freeform vocal madness and intuitive drum machine percussion. Tone Ghosting creates a unique sonic universe somewhere between the attack of power electronics & the complex mind-body games of electronica & non-idiomatic free improvisation.
 

Anduin is the electronic solo project of Jonathan Lee (one third of the instrumental experimentalists Souvenir's Young America). Dark and hypnotic, Anduin's ambient tones provide a kaleidoscopic effect for the listener with it's multitude of layers. Field recordings mingle with a wide range of synths and effect soaked instruments to create menacing yet beautiful abstractions. A full length CD / LP is due out this summer. 

In 2006 Kjetil Nernes and Stian Skagen started collaborating, their aim was to bring Nernes' noiserock band Årabrot further into the experimental Noise genre, looking for a unifying sonic expression between hard Melvins like riffing and Burzum wise structures, layered upon Skagen's drones and electronic soundscapes. The result became an Årabrot [concept.virus] ABS.NEG EP. As a side project, NERNES/SKAGEN started to develop and shape the sound of what was to come in future releases by the collaboration Årabrot [concept.virus]. Inspired by artists such as Glenn Branca, Tony Conrad and Pauline Oliveros, the song Ad undas took shape. On the West-coast of Norway, Ad undas is referred to as a state beyond. Out of memory. Where the self is controlled by the drift of primal human behavior. Unpredictable. Logical paradoxes. And this is what NERNES/SKAGEN wants to pull in under their control, a sound phenomenon, rising from the depths of minds beyond. A glimpse into a world forgotten, or not yet discovered. A sacrifice in the cave of darkness. Reaching for truth outside logic.

Insects With Tits is Kenneth Yates [HarmStryker/Caustic Castle/804noise/HzCollective] and Roger H. Smith [Chefkirk/804noise].  This collaborative project brings together two very different but complimentary approaches to improvised no-input style mixing and processing that results in a colorful spectrum of frequencies and harsh tones and low rumbling bass. 

Insects With Tits & Nernes/Skagen are on tour from June 23rd - July 7th

June: 
23 - Richmond, VA @ Gallery5 w/ Anduin, Tone Ghosting
24 - Washington, D.C. @ Velvet Lounge 
25 - Baltimore, MD @ Scary Studio's w/ Ami Dang & HexSpeak
26 - Philadelphia, PA @
27 - New York City, NY @
28 - Lowell, MA @ 2008 Noise Axis Festival (Day 2)
29 - Montreal @ 
Suoni Per Il popolo Festival - Casa Del Popolo with Brooklyn's Blues Control, Butt Savage and Wapstan [ http://www.casadelpopolo.com/suoni/about.htm ]
30 - Toronto - @ the Renaissance Cafe  1938 Danforth Ave. Toronto, On

July: 
1 - Rochester, NY @ Potential Life Studios
2 - Cleveland, OH @ Bela Dubby 
3 - Chicago, IL @
4 - Lansing, MI @ 517noise 
5 - Allentown, PA @ Muscle Beach 
6 - Pittsburgh, PA @ 
7 - Charlottesvile @ The Bridge


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