Second Act
1727 Haight St. SF
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Arma Agharta
Whatever happened to Vilnius Fats? Too little is known about Baltic Paganism although traces persist to this very day, not in anachronistic costume re-enactors but in the heavy experiments of artists like Lithuania's Arma Agharta. Besides live conjuring of acoustic objects, soviet vintage electronics, spontaneous improvised games, glossolalia and odd costumes, he’s renowned for summoning communal cultural production through curation, festival organization, and erstwhile operation of the hand-crafted micro-label Perineum. His solo and communal works evince an enduring will, discipline, a consciousness without superstition, and infinite devotion without egotheism.
https://soundcloud.com/d-petri-aubject/noosphertilizer-ii-sampling
http://arma.lt

Collision Stories
A four way head-on with members of SubArachnoid Space, Crawling With Tarts, Snowsteps and Seeded Plain throws no shrapnel, instead congealing as an airborne amalgam of tin, bass, theremin, copper, vinyl, skin, and string. Come hear four heads take flight, Mason Jones, Michael Gendreau, Jorge Bachmann, and Bryan Day, before the cold ground rushes to unmeet them.
http://collisionstories.com

Tender Buttons (feat. Bill Thibault projections)
Tender Buttons rewinds classic electronic musics in a swarm of devices and languages, composed in the moment via a shared esthetic of severe improvisational methods. Friendly spirits Fluxus, WDR, Cage, On-U and Kling Klang are never far away.
“Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination.” — Gertrude Stein
Tender Buttons is: Tania Chen – piano, electronics, toys; Gino Robair – modular electronics; Tom Djll – modular and circuit-bent electronics; Bill Thibault – projections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMnAQmYV3kU

BLEIE
Explorist of physical and metaphysical topographies, Sarah Bly scales heights by day and dives deep by dark snaring everything between in a cat's cradle of sinewed sound. Once she plucks you from your chair on sticky rhythms, a beauty of horrible proportions announces itself. Prepare to be swaddled in sounds that paralyze description as eight-eyed chaos creeps in quick for a final snuggle.
http://soundcloud.com/bleie

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