The Green Room at the Crown
2523 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612

- Zachary James Watkins & Lori Goldston
- Voicehandler (Danishta Rivero & Jacob Felix Heule)

Live in the Green Room is a new series of exploratory music presented by The Crown and Working Name Studios. Set beneath the gorgeous green tile of The Crown, join us as these sonic adventurers guide us into new aural territories.

For the evening of Saturday, September 14th, Lauri Goldston and Zachary James Watkins, joined in the evening by Voicehandler, dive deep into the wells of improvisation, noise, and sound sculpture, immersing us in HIGH VIBRATION RESONANCE

Doors at 7. Show at 8. $20 Sliding scale available.


LORI GOLDSTON + Zachary James Watkins


Lori Goldston & Zachary James Watkins Strings laid sideways and again sideways form a heavy frequency generator of processed cello and guitar, but the exceptional factor is less the generator than the twin receivers driving them: Lori Goldston (Earth, Nirvana) and Zachary James Watkins (Foreign/Domestic, Black Spirituals) distill the consciousness-infinity nexus through somatic-magnetic flumes that gather and deepen until finally spilling from loudspeakers. You'll find your own infinite sluice gushing when their entangled improvistions sink your ears, pulling you in under and through, back from murky top.


https://www.lorigoldston.com/

https://www.zacharyjameswatkins.com/


VOICEHANDLER


Danishta Rivero: voice & electronics

Jacob Felix Heule: bass drum & electronics


Voicehandler plays intuitive, incantatory music grounded in the most primitive and somatic instruments -- the voice and percussion -- juxtaposed with contemporary, disembodied electronics. We situate ourselves in our physical and social environment through our music.


Our improvisations are shaped by their setting and context. The performance is loose and exploratory, at various times energetic and meditative. Rivero’s voice embraces noise, with the lines blurred between electronic processing and extended vocal techniques. Heule has a special interest in friction techniques, and embraces limited instrumentation - like a single drum and a single cymbal - as a commitment to exploring the depth of his instruments.


“…bizarre glossolalia, witch-like chattering, deliriously stuttering as an obsessed medium, as a distorted mouthpiece of Latina experiences. Heule… patters on predator paws or becomes very meek when the ghosts whisper as if with paranormal tape voices or increasingly only sizzling pure noise or switching off the human factor in waves of hum.” - Rigo Dittmann / Bad Alchemy (via Google Translate)


http://heule.us/voicehandler/

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_HPASqyjYfKMW8R2sV6xM-3-8qGu4Wb4

https://humbler.bandcamp.com/album/light-from-another-light

https://soundcloud.com/voicehandler

Cost: $20 Sliding scale available.

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