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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.
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All ages unless otherwise noted, 21+ with valid ID to drink
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp with DakouDakou
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
8:00 pm
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Founded in 2006 in Geneva, 90 years after Dada, by Vincent Bertholet (Hyperculte), the 12- piece Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp has released 5 albums on the highly influential Bongo Joe Records and played the European festival circuit for years. This will be their second attempt to conquer America – following the release of the latest album, Ventre Unique. The band’s name is an homage to some of the classic Congolese groups (Orchestre Tout Puissant Konono n°1, Orchestre Tout Puissant Polyrytmo, TPOK Jazz etc...) and to one of the greatest provocateurs of 20th century art. Their music mixes echoes of The Ex, Moondog, kraut rock, minimalism, high life, symphonic touches and punk outbursts - and yet, none of it is terribly relevant: OTPMD has managed to invent its own reality – or, if you prefer, a simulation. Their live performances are mesmerizing affairs with an almost ritualistic slant and arrangements so tight they seem to re-organize chaos itself.
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp with DakouDakou
Music Show
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
8:00 pm
$15 adv / $20 day of
Founded in 2006 in Geneva, 90 years after Dada, by Vincent Bertholet (Hyperculte), the 12- piece Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp has released 5 albums on the highly influential Bongo Joe Records and played the European festival circuit for years. This will be their second attempt to conquer America – following the release of the latest album, Ventre Unique. The band’s name is an homage to some of the classic Congolese groups (Orchestre Tout Puissant Konono n°1, Orchestre Tout Puissant Polyrytmo, TPOK Jazz etc...) and to one of the greatest provocateurs of 20th century art. Their music mixes echoes of The Ex, Moondog, kraut rock, minimalism, high life, symphonic touches and punk outbursts - and yet, none of it is terribly relevant: OTPMD has managed to invent its own reality – or, if you prefer, a simulation. Their live performances are mesmerizing affairs with an almost ritualistic slant and arrangements so tight they seem to re-organize chaos itself.
This exhibition is a love letter to the ways we create ourselves and each other, again and again, across thresholds both visible and unseen. Eli Kauffman and J Rowen O’Dwyer bring together vivid, psychologically charged paintings that explore the threshold between the physical and the mythic, the home and the holy. Their work charts the sacred rituals of queer life — from moments of pleasure to acts of care, devotion, and transformation. The home becomes a site of alchemy, the body a threshold, and queer experiences a mirror and a myth in constant renewal. The outside world serves as a mirror, a set on which to explore new versions of ourselves, and fill unexpected roles. Images drawn from play, intimacy, domesticity, and community shift between documentation and dream, honoring both the rawness and the magic of trans and queer existence. Otherworld refers to myths and realms in legends, but also to the term “Otherworldly” describing the uncanny nature of otherness, leaving the door open to new realms, for those considered outcast.
This exhibition is a love letter to the ways we create ourselves and each other, again and again, across thresholds both visible and unseen. Eli Kauffman and J Rowen O’Dwyer bring together vivid, psychologically charged paintings that explore the threshold between the physical and the mythic, the home and the holy. Their work charts the sacred rituals of queer life — from moments of pleasure to acts of care, devotion, and transformation. The home becomes a site of alchemy, the body a threshold, and queer experiences a mirror and a myth in constant renewal. The outside world serves as a mirror, a set on which to explore new versions of ourselves, and fill unexpected roles. Images drawn from play, intimacy, domesticity, and community shift between documentation and dream, honoring both the rawness and the magic of trans and queer existence. Otherworld refers to myths and realms in legends, but also to the term “Otherworldly” describing the uncanny nature of otherness, leaving the door open to new realms, for those considered outcast.
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.
Chris Corsano, House Red, Dupuis/Morosky, Moldof, Double Dragon
October 25, 2016
8:00 pm
Machines with Magnets Studio is proud to welcome renowned percussionist
CHRIS CORSANO! Chris Corsano is a drummer from New England, United States. He often performs in an improvisation duo with saxophonist Paul Flaherty. He has also recorded material with artists such as Evan Parker, Dredd Foole,Sunburned Hand of the Man, Six Organs of Admittance, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Matt Valentine, Nels Cline,Vibracathedral Orchestra, Cold Bleak Heat, Jim O'Rourke, Jandek, Michael Flower, and C. Spencer Yeh as well releasing numerous solo recordings. With local performers:
HOUSE RED (vocals and electronics by Rebecca Mitchell of Made in Mexico, Whore Paint, and Houseboy), ALEXANDER DUPUIS and ADAM MOROSKY (live-manipulated digital video and modular synthesizer), LUKE MOLDOF (Brown University PhD candidate in electronic music, releases on Hospital Productions), and
DOUBLE DRAGON (Drums and trumpet duo of Joe & Sean from Honda Civic). DJ PARTY TOM starts at 8:00pm / performances at 9:00pm.
A chill fall, Friday evening of live music in Pawtucket. Gregory Uhlman, on tour from LA, Sianna Plavin, PVD crooner Penn Sulton (of Last Good Tooth), and in demand, incomparable cellist about town Emily Dix Thomas
A slightly twisted folk show featuring Emily Jane White (New record "They Moved in Shadow All Together," out on Talitres Records) with local support from
Diego Perez and
Liz Isenberg
Machines with Magnets welcomes Third Man Records artists ESSENTIAL TREMORS (Nashville TN). Essential Tremors is something of an anomaly in a city steeped in twang, bathed in sunshine and besieged with hootenannies. With local support from:
CRAOW (Sean Halpin, NOSTILEVO), AETHER JAG (Bridget Venuti), and
ASTRONAUT VISION (Jenny Young, Assembly of Light Choir/Syzygy).
Electronic and Electro-Acoustic performances by: Sarah Hennies (Ithaca, NY), John Krausbauer (Los Angeles, CA), and Valentine Sinclair & Kieran Morris
(collaborative performance by Clandestine Compositions label head and Negation)
PROFLIGATE returns as a duo, featuring Elaine Kahn of Horse Bladder
with
VALISE (Maralie of Humanbeast), RRLEW (Rachel Lewallen), and
POOL (Ren Schofield, Christopher Forgues, Alex Tominsky). DJ VØM DØG starts at
9:00pm.
The anticipated record release event for the Type Records LP "Moments in the Shapeshifting" by
BELARISK
with the return of long-time Providence favorite..
VIRUSSE https://soundcloud.com/virusse
plus
PETER SELIGMAN (NYC) and BASTIAN VOID (MA)
Gonna jam for three hours at machines on Sunday. Free gig, very quiet. Manipulating private home recorded tapes whilst jamming improvised noise and ambient lifeless drone.
They're baaaaaack! THE BODY back in Pawtucket for the month of September working on new material in Machines with Magnets' studio as well as playing a couple shows.
