Matmos And The Case Of The Feverish February

FEBRUARY 9

BENEFIT FOR THE TRANSMODERN AGE FESTIVAL

MATMOS
(Plus Performance Works by: Stephanie Barber, Adam Robinson, Ric Royer, Laure Drogoul, Theresa Columbus, Rebecca Nagle)

FLORISTREE (H&H Building)
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
TEN DOLLARS
NINE PM
ALL AGES

Claustrophobics take note: Those who couldn’t squeeze into our way-packed Red Room show will have another chance to see Matmos live in Charm City and to contribute to a worthy cause. We will be performing a benefit concert to raise funds for the Transmodern Age Festival, a Baltimore institution that showcases experimental new performance work and hits the decks this year in April with “Mayhem, Ecstasy, and Radical Culture”. Sounds good! This evening will feature a musical set by Matmos and a series of short works of performance art from Stephanie Barber, Adam Robinson, Ric Royer, Laure Drogoul, Theresa Columbus, Rebecca Nagle “and more”. That’s right, performance art. Deal with it.

FEBRUARY 21, 22, 23

THE STONE
AVENUE C at 2nd STREET
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.
TEN DOLLARS
ALL AGES

A seriously righteous cluster of events will take place in Manhattan over this weekend at The Stone, courtesy of the curatorial intervention of Zeena Parkins and the overarching hospitality of Stone director John Zorn. It’s an overlapping series of shows that brings together East and West Coast friends and co-conspirators from the incestuously extended Matmos family and beyond. We want you to come to all of these if you possibly can (get in). As ever with the Stone, no advance tickets so it’s first come, first served. These will be intimate concerts and you should expect people to be trying stuff they wouldn’t normally attempt to pull off. Here’s the full run down:

2/21 Thursday

10 pm
Bevin Blectum Solo – Gular Flutter
Bevin Blectum (laptop, assorted electronics)
Costumed and with video, all new audio/video from the new album Gular Flutter. Audio by Blevin Blectum. Video by Ryan Junell. The live performance is a study in slo-mo sunspots, high contrast hydraulics, Cascaded Integrator-Combing, and negative acceleration. Epic sound for distressed ifrit. Peculiar winds during the eclipse allow for the rapid cooling of the organism via evaporative water loss and convection from the mucous- covered surfaces. The metal-helmeted cascade-familiar performs maintenance. Shot hot in the hills of Oakland, Ca.

2/22 Friday

8 pm
Phase Chancellor
Martin Schmidt (synth) Jay Lesser (synth) Nate Boyce (synth)
An improvisational 3 synthesizer trio: Ecumenically straddling the modular and digital divide and avoiding any straight answer to the question “to drone or not to drone?”. Phase Chancellor skip the presets in favor of intuitive long form progression through a smoky vortex of signal chains.

10 pm
Wobbly and Jay Lesser – solos and a possible duo
Wobbly (dual CDJ, samplers keyboards) Jay Lesser (electronics, laptop, synth)

2/23 Saturday (RK)

8 and 10 pm
MATMOS
Dr. Drew Daniel (laptop, objects) Martin Schmidt (synth, objects)
Matmos are a duo that recently relocated from San Francisco to Baltimore. Their work is all over the place: musique concrete, pop music, rhythmic patterns, free improv, video, sound, actions. For this concert they will present their “cover” of “The Backyard”, the final act of the Robert Ashley tele-opera “Perfect Lives” and some newer pieces that focus on pure electronic music. Expect some improvisation and some guest shenanigans.

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