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Established in 2006, Machines with Magnets hosts experimental music performances, sound and art exhibitions and installations, performance art, film and video screenings, cultural and community events, private events, and fundraisers. Past performances include The Body, Dan Deacon, Mirah, Etran de l'Aïr, Braveyoung, Lydia Lunch, Lightning Bolt, Brown Bird, Container, and Mdou Moctar.
Upcoming Events + Tickets
All ages unless otherwise noted, 21+ with valid ID to drink
Cold Flame, an audiovisual haunting with Unfeeling, Bittersweet + Kristina Warren
Traveling from Philadelphia:
SHARLYN EVERTSZ "Evertsz, formerly of confrontational noise collective The Laundry Room Squelchers, bleeds genuine ferocity. Her troubling, beat driven noise blasts brains with PE-strength and noise-punk operatics, hovering carefully between sensibilities in synth-based constructions and cacophonous free improv. She is originally from Miami, Florida and now lives in Philadelphia." ANDY BORSZ "Andy Borsz has played enough noise fests to have a pair of shoes specifically for stepping in piss. Eschewing a project moniker he approaches solo performance like a naked ape, deliberately forgetting and relearning every time on stage. The familiar maximal approaches and harsh broods of his collaboration work are always present but often the unexpected is as well: an a cappella Johnny Cash cover, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, a spontaneous meditation on the inside of a drum." With local support from:
Valerie Martino, Bird Lady, Oxomo & DJ YU//F.
Fyne Artist _ RRLEW _ House Red _ Droplet & Atropos _ [[ DJ Recepticide ]]
December 18, 2016
9:00 pm
FYNE ARTIST (LA): "Bashir Naim is a movement/performance artist and actor based in Los Angeles. His family founded a dance and performance art community in The Berkshire mountains. Naim was recently an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research NYC and S & S Projects (Chicago). He can be seen opposite Anjelica Huston and Jeffrey Tambor on Amazon’s “Transparent," in Benjy Russell’s “Battlefield of Flowers," and the upcoming short film, “Raymond.” He has been featured in Bullet Magazine, Vice magazine - in print as well as on their docuseries with Ellen Page, “Gaycation." His solo performance work has been shown at LA><ART, The Hammer Museum, S & S Projects Chicago, the Tom of Finland House, Human Resources Gallery in LA, with Rhonda and Soho House International, RK Projects, Art Basel Miami, 700B in Portland, and at dozens of nightclubs and warehouses internationally." Local support from: RRLEW, HOUSE RED, DROPLET & ATROPOS, & DJ RECEPTICIDE.
Forced into Femininity • VOSP • Power Monster • YÜ//F
December 14, 2016
9:00 pm
FORCED INTO FEMININITY (Chicago)
"Forced Into Femininity has been the "marxist body horror act" of performance artist and musician Jill Lloyd Flanagan for 9 years. Jill is known for playing in the bands Coughs (Load Records), 2watt, Gula-Gila, and more. The music of Forced Into Femininity is a mix of asymmetrically assembled beats, strange electronic outbursts, and of course Jill's arresting vocal style. It has that truly rare quality of being unlike anything else." with local support:
VOSP (formerly SOFT TARGET),
POWER MONSTER, and
YU//F.
Monday December 12th 2016...Tiki Day in Pawtucket. all the way from Japan on their first ever US tour: FOODMAN - brain bending electronic musician who manages to skirt between hyper speed polyrhythmic blasts, full on ambient drifts, and seinfeld theme-esque wackiness, all while retaining a singular, highly recognizable sound. DJ FULLTONO - 'godafther' of japanese juke and footwork. local support from
CONTAINER and everyone's favorite party host
DJ MANDY. all taking place at the wonderful
MACHINES WITH MAGNETS
at 9 PM for the cost of $8 DOLLARS.
with a seriously legit TIKI MENU at the bar!
Machines with Magnets presents a great show of experimental sounds: from near and far:
ANDRIA PENESADOE* (Argentina)
"AP works with sound as a performer and programer. She has been using digital media and live interactive musical systems since 1995... Harsh dense layers of sounds, often interwoven with her voice, combine hybrid synthesis techniques to create a highly personal sound language, which reflects an intuitive, emotional and paradoxically also logical approach to music making." ASPAKT* (Italy)
"An Italian duo working with electro-acoustic instruments, digital devices and systems of feedback and resonance, their music shares the timbral research and execution typical of radical improv music. The result is a fascinating and inextricable forest of sounds: frenetic structures, noise explosions, ancestral cries, an unceasing perversion of soundscapes and time." With local support from:
UNIVERSAL CELL UNLOCK and
RETRIBUTION BODY.
A much needed dose of reality and perspective after a few unrealistic weeks, the legendary Ian Svenonius (the mind that brought you Nation of Ulysses, The Make Up & Chain and the Gang) returns to Machines with Magnets with ESCAPE-ISM. Also touring is Michigander (and member of Tyvek) Shelley Salant performing as SHELLS. Beautifully cosmic, droney solo guitar musings and meditations. Local heroes, famous Load Records recording artists, recent mothers and/or homeowners, your friends and mine the inimitable WHORE PAINT in their first show defending against the patriarchy since... a real long while? And what a goddamn pleasure it is to bring to you our dearest bud––local mystic, greatest thinking, and rare performer Natalja Kent; gracing us with the presence of QUERENT AT THE MIRROR DOOR. It’s another lovely evening in Pawtucket, folks. On the eve of December 7th, 2016, we plan to have libations. We welcome your attendance.
Bellerophon - Winner of the #Dorry for Electronic Act of the Year; Favourite - Electronic dream-pop on the rocks for dancefloor lovers; Timelapzzz (Philadelphia, PA) Haze and thick low end; Straw Man Standing - Frantic synth-pop from the woods | ep release, and The Music Please - Winners of the #Dorry for DJs of the Year
achines with Magnets Studio presents: UNIFORM (Sacred Bones Records, NYC) with Providence's
TIMEGHOST (Load Records, first PVD show of 2016),
FINISHED (Load Records), and
TRIM (MA).
Machines with Magnets Studio presents: UNIFORM (Sacred Bones Records, NYC) with Providence's
TIMEGHOST (Load Records, first PVD show of 2016)
FINISHED (Load Records)
TRIM (MA)
CHASMS (CA) and BOY HARSHER (MA). With local support from V MANUSCRIPT (Eli of Humanbeast) and
HOUSEBOY (Rebecca Mitchell of Whore Paint/Made in Mexico, with Dylan Going of White Mice).
CIENFUEGOS (Miami/NYC, L.I.E.S., Bank, Primitive Languages, Unknown Precept), EMIL BOGI-NAZ (NYC, FKA Flared Nostril, member of L.O.T.I.O.N., ex-Dawn of Humans/Hank Wood and the Hammerheads). With local support from MARIO SISTERS, TAYLA ROBERGE, ORGONON PIT and special guest DJ DO-GOODER DUDE starting at 9:00pm.
ISOLDE TOUCH (CA/PA)
"The music Asha Sheshadri makes as Isolde Touch is boldly literal. Perhaps literal is inexact; concrete is closer, as her sounds have a clarity that ties them directly to their origins (a piano is exactly a piano). Conceptually she deals in abstraction, but sonically she’s unafraid to let her sources shine through like light beams where they could easily be buried in fog... This is organized music whose
physical effects come with a creative agenda, even if that agenda can be interpreted in many ways." HATCHERS (PA)
Clandestine Compositions and Machines with Magnets presents a night of harsh and heavy electronics from: Plagues (Grand Rapids, MI) - Absolutely crushing noise from the drummer of phenomenal grindcore band, Cloud Rat. Not to be confused with the MA black metal band, Brandon set a very high mark at Summer Scum this year. We are excited to host him, not to be missed. Sunken Cheek (Ithaca, NY) - "Misery Electronics", recent releases on Angst and Aught/Void. Holding down a crucial position in the central NY State harsh noise community. Progenitor of the label Prime Ruin. Plus Kjostad (Michigan) + Valentine Sinclair (PVD).
Machines with Magnets presents the return of two true visionaries from the northern reaches of Maine: BEGUILING ISLES - Grant Corum composes sound / visual encounters. He is a member of the group Million Brazilians and co-founder of label Psychic Sounds Records. Plus WHITE GOURD, with local support from:
VALISE (Maralie of Humanbeast), MYSTERY RED INFERNO (Alec Redfearn and Chris Sadlers), and
DAN TALBOT.
