Touch the Sword - Tenderizor from Brian Fejer on Vimeo.
30 April 2011
ABQ MTV: Touch the Shovel of Turbulence
26 April 2011
ABQ MTV: Flashback Film
22 April 2011
7inches to Freedom Turns One on Easter
20 April 2011
Get Your Heptagram On At Third Not-Really-Annual Crabwalk
"I think this is the most musically diverse of all the crabwalks that have happened. Hip hop, singer/songwriter, metal, sound collage, noise, experimental, and chiptune music are all represented here, plus some stray subgenres, I reckon," said DJ Caterwaul. This year's crabwalk features seven musical elements. It's formula is : Bud Melvin's "8-bit hacked Gameboy accompanied by banjo/uke" + Chemtrail Pilot's "lone wolf hip hop" + Cinik's "solo-experimental-[ism]" + Iceolus' "proggy high desert 'burnt sienna' metal" + Javelina's songstress Emma Arsonist + Las Cruces-based Lobsterbreath's "mad scientist culture jamming" + a guest appearance by Alan George Ledergerber's Blacker Guise.
According to Bud Melvin (the Grave of Nobody's Darling, Lionhead Bunny, Phantom Lake), "In a crabwalk, the groups form a circle as the primordial point. The audience goes wherever it will. I walk in with a plan and the plan becomes useless, as I end up changing songs at the last minute to compliment or contrast what came immediately before and what maybe my unconscious knows is next."
Cinik said, "Even though I play live occasionally, I'm still always a bit uncomfortable playing for an audience, but, for once, I feel totally comfortable because this group event has a strong purpose -- to illustrate that Albuquerque has an excellently diverse music scene. The concept is less about the traditional performer audience relationship and more about communicating what Albuquerque has going for it."
According to Greg Markham (Roñoso, Iceolus, Prison of Sound), "This event shows our capacity to have seemingly contradicting genres compliment each other. Meanwhile, an audience in the middle is given a ride through five, and now with this year seven, different sonic entities. And, in the end, when all the sounds converge, we hope that if we haven't treaded upon new ground, we can all come out inspired."
The Third Not-Really-Annual Crabwalk will commence at the P&J (202 Harvard SE) on Thursday night at 8 p.m. and end by 11 p.m. All-ages. Donations for the P&J and local artists are welcome.
Scroll on for video of the artists performing at this year's Crabwalk.
VIDEO:
Bud Melvin
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Chemtrail Pilot
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Cinik
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Iceolus
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Javelina
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Lobsterbreath
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Alan George Ledergerber/Blacker Guise
18 April 2011
Boom Baggage: The Haters Bring the Noise to ABQ
GX Jupitter-Larsen, the founder and central protagonist of noise art project The Haters, is disappointed when people refer to The Haters' aural output as “music.” “It's noise to me, and I love noise,” said Jupitter-Larsen, “More than any type of music, noise is the most accurate metaphor for entropy.”
Entropy and decay, professional wrestling, and Jupitter-Larsen's self-created measurement lexicon have been described as primary Haters themes. According to Jupitter-Larsen, this is an accurate description. “Why I'm drawn to such, is movement. Each implies a different aspect of the nature of movement,” said Jupitter-Larsen.
Performing with sound since the late-'70s, Jupitter-Larsen has no formal training in sound, preferring to learn by experience and experimentation. “As a child 'til my late-teens, I had no interest in sound whatsoever. Even as a teen, I never listened to top 40 radio. I was more into talk radio, the nuttier the guest, the better. It wasn't 'til I discovered punk in '77. People at the time talked about punk as if was noise, but it was never noisy enough for me. After that, one thing lead to another,” said Jupitter-Larsen.
Geared toward a sociologically transmitted noise ethos, attending a Haters show is about participating in an unfamiliar communion of noise. Jupitter-Larsen notes that one of his goals for The Haters' shows is fostering cognition in the audience. By failing to conform to preconceptions of The Haters' themes, the project aims to leave audiences guessing and, by extension, thinking.
Jupitter-Larsen is most well known for his work with The Haters, which is understandable as the prolific noise project has released over 300 CDs and records since its inception and performed extensively across the globe. But Jupitter-Larsen is also a novelist, zinester, conceptual artist (working in diverse media, including radio, video, and mail), and an alt-numerologist. Jupitter-Larsen's self-created measurement lexicon includes measurements such as the polywave, the totimorphous, and the xylowave. His transexpansion numeral unit (TNU) “explores distance and separateness between linear and counting locations that do not neighbor each other.” Less arithmetic and more emotional barometer, TNU is inclusive, allowing anyone to create “personal numbers to symbolize any numeral interrelationship.”
Jupitter-Larsen has served as sound engineer for Survival Research Laboratories, employed inside agitators to instigate physical destruction of venues by audience members, and written four “noise novels.” Jupitter-Larsen's noise novels are “collection[s] of philth, poetry, & philosophy, combining different writing techniques into a literary hiss.” As of 2001, Jupitter-Larsen had performed over 3500 hours of live radio art, on 31 stations and in 11 countries.
The Haters will perform in Albuquerque at Small Engine Gallery on Thursday, April 21. Since it's a traveling show, The Haters will be using amplified suitcases. Other noise acts -- New England “fish-man hybrid”/“Dada-mainliner” Crank Sturgeon, Billings, MT-based harsh noise project Pop Culture Rape Victim, experimental electroacoustic ensemble KILT (featuring native son Raven Chacon, Bushwick, NY-based composer Bob Bellerue, and Hungarian-American vocalist and percussionist Sandor Finta), and Oakland, CA-based noise outfit Styrofoam Sanchez -- will also perform at Thursday night's show, before making a pilgrimage to this weekend's Denver Noise Fest.
Thursday, April 21, at 9 p.m.
Small Engine Gallery, 1413 Fourth SW (Barelas)
All-ages, $8
VIDEO
The Haters
The Haters at Neon Marshmallow Fest (Day 2, 8/20/10) from Bullart. on Vimeo.
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Crank Sturgeon
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Pop Culture Rape Victim
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KILT
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Styrofoam Sanchez
Styrofoam Sanchez "Your Blood Is In Our Mouth" live from Ratskin records on Vimeo.
17 April 2011
ABQ MTV: Local Music Videos That Rawk
I love music videos. And, this week, I stumbled across two new, local music videos that I absolutely lurve. Scroll on to get your ABQ A/V fix.
"SONG" By Fart House from Supernormals on Vimeo.
10 April 2011
X's and O's: Santa Fe Scribbles George Lewis Jr.'s Name On Its Trapper Keeper
03 April 2011
Tuesday's Child is Full of Rawk: Mixed Media Showcase + Doom Crawl in ABQ
Albuquerque Boys Choir from Elena Lopez on Vimeo.
02 April 2011
Bevvitched: Fielded Incants Monday in ABQ
Fielded - Another Time from Hearsay and Hyperbole on Vimeo.
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