Mayuko Hino + Lucas 'Granpa' Abela + Rubber (() Cement

Doors 7pm / Show 7:30pm
$17 adv / $20 door / free or discounted for members

Mayuko Hino is a pioneering Japanese noise artist known for her visceral and captivating performances, combining auditory chaos with intense visual elements.

Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela (formerly Justice Yeldham) has been performing their signature instrument; shards of amplified glass for over 20 years. Their singular practice spawned from the international noise music underground, where the glass evolved from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an oddly versatile instrument producing an organic form of outsider electronica.

Coalescing into a specific burning vision in 1994 Rubber (() Cement was put together as a direct idea for a super science future that will happen. The next technological breakthroughs are realized in a zero-tech way with the emulation of the unrealized 'next step' with the actual "vision" existing in the present (picture a cargo cult with stats on NASA industries) using extremely experimental sounds with a Genetic Geneflub & massive Cimevox computer fronting the experiment.
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Shane Parish + Katsy Pline

Shane Parish will perform his solo guitar arrangements of music by Alice Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk, John Cage, and so much more.

Katsy Pline is a guitarist and singer living in Berkeley, CA. Her latest album ‘Devotion’ is a record of ambient country music assembled from B-bender guitar, electronics, synthesizers and saxophone. Largely eschewing harmonic development in favor of oceanic feeling, the record stretches the swirling unconscious yearning of heartbreak country into glacial shapes, starlit and blue.
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Robert Blatt & Michael Winter: Harmonie Universelle

Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
$17 adv / $20 door / free or discounted for members

Robert Blatt and Michael Winter's Harmonie Universelle reimagines the history of acoustics as a history of experimental music by considering the experiments, technologies, and observations of early acousticians as modes of composition, instrumentation, and listening. Experiments investigating sonic characteristics such as speed of sound, interference patterns, and resonance become musical material. Scientific instruments such as sirens and tuning forks become musical instruments. And texts and images by Hermann Helmholtz, John Tyndall, Sophie Germain, Ernst Chladni, Jules Lissajous, Marin Mersenne, and Leonhard Euler, among others, are read and projected as artistic observations and reflections that occupy a liminal, transitory space between the qualitative and the quantitative. Within a performance-installation environment, these elements come together in an experimental tracing of the history of acoustics as music.
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Mundanas + Oakland Reductionist Orchestra
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Lia Kohl

Lia Kohl performs a live rendition of Normal Sounds, her recent solo album on Moonglyph Records.

Equal parts reverent and playful, Normal Sounds is built around field recordings of anthropogenic sounds: fridge drones, grocery store beeps, car horns. Using a textural cloud of cello and synthesizers, Kohl alternately hallows and mimics them, offering them to the listener in a new light. The live performance will draw on Kohl's practice as an improviser, as she plays with and around the material of the album.
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Rick Prelinger, Anna Friz & Jeff Kolar: The Other Spectrum

As part of the arcane transmissions performance series, cloaca projects and The Lab present The Other Spectrum, including of a lecture by Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Library) on “useful radio,” and a live transmission art performance by Anna Friz & Jeff Kolar.

The Other Spectrum: Useful Radio
A Lecture by Rick Prelinger

Useful radio is defined by its utility, as distinct from broadcast radio whose function is to entertain, inform and exhort. Useful radio regulates the labor and mobility of humans, animals and vehicles on land, sea and in the air; supports state functions, including combat, policing and surveillance; enables infrastructures of production, distribution and consumption; and links networks of technically- literate and non-technical people. As a multidirectional system of transmitting and diffusing commands, instructions and situational information, useful radio has from its origins simultaneously mapped and reproduced geographies of power and control. At the same time, manifestations like citizens band (CB) and low-power handheld radios have enabled uncountable acts of resistance and rebellion. Useful radio has played a key role in workers’ organizations, civil rights and antiwar movements and youth rebellion, and it might be considered the pulse of the January 6 Capitol riot.
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Byron Westbrook + Thomas Dimuzio
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Chihei Hatakeyama + Billy Gomberg

Chihei Hatakeyama is a sound artist, an organizer and mastering engineer who was born in 1978, and lives in Tokyo. He has performed for years under his given name and also as one half of the electroacoustic duo Opitope, along with Tomoyoshi Date. Hatakeyama got involved in playing music through strumming a electric guitar in a few rock-oriented bands in his teenage years. Subsequently a laptop computer superseded his bands as his main platform. Hatakeyama polychromes memory-evoking soundscapes with various recorded materials of acoustic instruments such as guitars, vibraphone, and piano; mostly played by hand and processed time and time again via laptop. His first album Minima Moralia was commissioned for release by the Chicago-based label kranky in early 2006.
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