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This week, Tuesday night 20 October…LAFMS icons JOE POTTS and THE TENSES, along with MSHR and SPECIAL COLLECTIONS!!! Joe opens at 8PM sharp! 2220 Arts and Archive.

Photos © Fredrik Nilsen

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MASSIVE week in Los Angeles with 27 events 👏 Full spectrum of music as always including just intonation, live film scoring, noise, improvisation, dance + music collaboration, shoegaze and more.

DM to be added next week 😊 and if I missed your event, please send so it can be be added to stories!

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I’ll be presenting a new Special Collections at 2220 Arts and Archives tomorrow night, Tuesday, October 20th.

The Propagation of Anomalous Sound

Anomalous sounds arrive in many forms.

Sounds not intended to be heard and sounds that are heard where they should not be. Sounds that go unrecognized or come from a source no one can name. Some are signals meant for someone or something else, hiding occult information within their tones. Anomalous sounds arise and are received from places ears do not work: the benthic ocean, the earth’s crust, interstellar space. Some anomalous sounds are interference, unintended source materiel; and others the strays, byproducts of anthropogenic transmissions to which no one planned to listen.

This edition of Special Collections presents field recordings, signals from space, animal calls beyond the range of hearing, data transmitted as sound, and several sources acousmatic, all mixed live as a sound collage.

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Cybernetic collective 𝗠𝗦𝗛𝗥 discuss their fantastical, sculptural, light-emitting (and photosensitive) instruments, and the feedbacks within their systems. Come see them all at play Tuesday @2220arts via @upend.la

Tickets via bio link! 🎟️ 🔗

Excerpt from 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗟𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗘𝗽. 𝟲 𝗠𝗦𝗛𝗥 by Seth Nehil
@sethnehil

📺 Check the whole thing here ⤵️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZXcTSrrgCY

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MSHR bring their cybernetic systems and very human circuit flow to L.A. on Tuesday at @2220arts via @upend.la🫸🏼🫷🏼

Come witness a singular spectacle of underground sound and vision making, as the collective of Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper unfurl an intermedia drama, performing on a menagerie of their fantastical inventions: sculptural instruments that can emit (and respond to) light, audio signals, and data. @liquidtransmitter @nestedface

Tickets via bio links!

Plus The Tenses, Special Collections, and Joe Potts

📺 Incred vid from @joebeedles shot live @pinkmcr_ in Stockport, UK

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This weeks’ delights! Come through 💫

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Kim Gordon and Bill Nace convene as 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬/𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗗 Thursday in L.A. @zebulonla via @upend.la

Their electric guitar expressions – and Gordon’s inimitable vocal abstractions – are ever-novel and raw, poetic and cinematic. Do come witness the gripping interplay.

𝗠𝗬 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 open the show with songs sparse and lambent.

An epic night.

Tickets moving, get yours via bio link or right here⤵️
https://link.dice.fm/Body-Head-Zebulon-Oct-8

Last slide: “Punk” Flyer by Bill Nace

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These will be available at the Body/Head show at Zeb, and only available there on that night. Very small print run. See you there.

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𝗠𝗬 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 opens for 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬/𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗗 on Thursday October 8th @zebulonla via @upend.la 💫

Three L.A. artists known for their own unique expressions - vocalist N.A.S. (P22, Purity) guitarist Sara Gernsbacher (Mayako XO) and bassist Sophie Weil (Syko Friend) - come together to create some things entirely new.

Sparse yet lambent, their single “Want It” hooks and hypnotizes, a beacon of the fresh directions forthcoming on an LP on @postpresentmedium

Grab tickets promptly! 🎟️⤵️
https://link.dice.fm/Body-Head-Zebulon-Oct-8

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On Tues Oct 20th, 𝗠𝗦𝗛𝗥 and 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗘𝗦 – two creative partnerships entwined in the story of Portland, Oregon’s fecund underground – hit L.A. @2220arts via @upend.la

𝗠𝗦𝗛𝗥 touch down in L.A. with the latest iteration of a live sound-sculpture cycle, performing on a menagerie of fantastical instruments of their own creation that can emit (and respond to) light, audio signal, and data. Through custom circuitry and software the duo coax a wild electronic stew of chirp, click, pulse, zap, and pow, enveloping the audience in an intermedia drama. 𝗠𝗦𝗛𝗥 is a collective comprised of Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper.

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗘𝗦 – the smoked-out duo of Ju Suk Reet Meate & Oblivia – again descend from the Pacific Northwest to offer us a slice of sublime subterranean Americana. Eerie mindscapes made spontaneously from crackles of found sound enmeshed with surf guitar and horn play, or whatever suits the day. The pair are, of course, key figures of 𝗦𝗠𝗘𝗚𝗠𝗔, the Los Angeles Free Music Society-affiliated collective of avant agitators since all the way back.

And sonic action from around the way as Sam Rowell drops a new live rendition of her 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 radio project, an interrogation of anomalous audio phenomena from across the electromagnetic spectrum, the built environment, and the natural world.

Plus a special solo set from the dean of the scene, 𝗝𝗢𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗧𝗧𝗦, whose story, like The Tenses can be traced back to the inception of the LAFMS. With a full-on, turn-everything-on aesthetic and an array of chopped electronics, he opens the show sculpting with saturation, charting threshold topographies that approach totality.

Grip tickets now!
Discover link in the bio location…

Flyer by MSHR

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@liquidtransmitter
@nestedface
@originaloblivia
@jusukreet
@theklauscroissant

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Thu Sep 10 Shows!

📸 @russialala_

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Kim Gordon and Bill Nace
convene as Body/Head in L.A. on October 8th @zebulonla at a show pulled by @upend.la

It’s been more than three years since these players unfurled their epic dual intuition live in this considerable town, and this return comes not a moment too soon.

On stage, their seemingly telepathic connection continues to mystify. Their electric guitar expressions - and Gordon’s intimable vocal abstractions - are ever-novel and raw, poetic and cinematic. Do come through and feel the heat.

(And grip your tickets now…)
https://link.dice.fm/Body-Head-Zebulon-Oct-8

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