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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
Jayden Barber, Don Nothing, Excavator + Angel Louis
Over the course of their thirty trips around the sun, Earth has remained diligent in their commitment to monolithic minimalism. The sonic vocabulary may have changed—from their early years churning out seismic drone metal on albums like Earth 2 (1993) to the dusty Morricone-tinged comeback album Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005) to the meditative rock approach of Primitive and Deadly (2014)—but the underlying principle of austerity and restraint remains a constant. With their latest album Full Upon Her Burning Lips, Earth purges the layers of auxiliary instrumentation that embellished some of their previous records and deconstructed their dynamic to the core duo of Dylan Carlson on guitar and bass and Adrienne Davies on drums and percussion. In the process, they tapped into the Platonic ideal of Earth—an incarnation of the long running band bolstered by the authority of purpose, where every note and every strike on the drum kit carries the weight of the world.
Over the course of their thirty trips around the sun, Earth has remained diligent in their commitment to monolithic minimalism. The sonic vocabulary may have changed—from their early years churning out seismic drone metal on albums like Earth 2 (1993) to the dusty Morricone-tinged comeback album Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005) to the meditative rock approach of Primitive and Deadly (2014)—but the underlying principle of austerity and restraint remains a constant. With their latest album Full Upon Her Burning Lips, Earth purges the layers of auxiliary instrumentation that embellished some of their previous records and deconstructed their dynamic to the core duo of Dylan Carlson on guitar and bass and Adrienne Davies on drums and percussion. In the process, they tapped into the Platonic ideal of Earth—an incarnation of the long running band bolstered by the authority of purpose, where every note and every strike on the drum kit carries the weight of the world.
JPA FALZONE & BRENDAN GLASSON
will be performing John Cage's "ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible)." ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage and the subject of one of the longest-lasting musical performances yet undertaken. It was originally written in 1987 for organ and is adapted from the earlier work ASLSP 1985; a typical performance of the piano version lasts 20 to 70 minutes. In 1985, Cage opted to omit the detail of exactly how slowly the piece should be played. ABOUT 1/4 VOLUME NOISE LOUNGE:
1/4 Volume noise lounge is a free 3 hour lounge session. Listen to the experimental soundscape hosted by that week's artist, chat, bring a book and read or sketch, do your homework, do some experimental research, google, snuggle, practice your astral projection skills, and check out the art in the gallery 'cuz we've got OPEN HOURS, baby---breath---AND grab yourself a bomb cocktail or two.
ART ROCK CITY.
You should see the meniscus on this teeming cup of radioactive sound. Oh--that snapping, crackling, racket? It's the geiger counter. +++Oneida+++
"a restlessly creative Brooklyn rock quintet" - New York Times " Brooklyn's finest (and most robustly prolific, extravagantly aliased, and relentlessly propulsive) art-rock band" - Village Voice +++Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores+++
You know these local heroes.
Laura Cetilia graduated with distinction from the School of Music at Indiana University and received her Master's degree in cello performance from Wichita State University. In addition to her solo work, she is a member of the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1 with partner Mark Cetilia, and performs avant-garde chamber music with violist Robin Streb in their duo Suna No Onna. Mark Cetilia is a sound / media artist working at the nexus of analog and digital technologies. Exploring the possibilities of generative systems in art, design, and sound practice, Cetilia’s work is an exercise in carefully controlled chaos. He is a member of the media art group Redux, recipients of a Creative Capital grant in Emerging Fields, and the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1, described by The Grove Dictionary of American Music as “a complex cybernetic entity” whose “evolving, custom-built systems are as important an aspect of the duo’s achievements as their ever-innovative sound.”
Immediately following 1/4 Volume Noise Lounge with Ed Osborn. LESLEY FLANIGAN is an experimental electronic musician inspired by the physicality of sound, she builds her own instruments using minimal electronics, microphones and speakers. Performing these instruments alongside traditional instrumentation that often includes her own voice, she creates a kind of physical electronic music that embraces both the transparency and residue of process — sculpting sound from a palette of noise and subtle imperfections. MARIA CHAVEZ is mainly known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist & DJ. Influenced by chance & improvisation in contemporary art, she has collaborated with Christian Marclay and the Whitney Museum of American Art, performed alongside Pauline Oliveros, Thurston Moore, Phill Niblock and worked with Merce Cunningham prior to his passing as a sound artist in residence with the DIA:Beacon Museum in Beacon, NY. With local support from Shawn Greenlee and Humanbeast.
Ed Osborn's work takes many forms including installation, sculpture, radio, video, performance, and public projects. His works combine a visceral sense of space, aurality, and motion with a precise economy of materials. Ranging from rumbling fans and sounding train sets to squirming music boxes and delicate feedback networks, Osborn's kinetic and audible pieces function as resonating systems that are by turns playful and oblique, engaging and enigmatic. Osborn has performed and exhibited, throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South America.
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge, April 3, 2016 hosted by WORK/DEATH. A long time staple of the providence noise scene, work/death (scøtt reber) doesn't have any easy explanations for anyone. The perception of air vibrating in a room, the investment of meaning into formal constructions and abstract procedures. Organized sound, orchestrated noise, disintegrated music regenerated again.
Two v nice North Carolina sonic experimenters arrive @ Machines. Come one, Come all. Sponge Bath:
Hardware produced techno music made by Nathan Taylor of Chapel Hill, NC. With Patrick Gallagher:
Prepared guitar experimentation and light flirting with beats. Also hailing from NCs Triangle area. Local Support:
Davey Harms & ONE MORE tba.
Corum presents MAGIC MIRROR (Portland, OR / Maine): “Magic Mirror is the creative audio/video project of Corum whose outsider vinyl Trilogy under the monikers of Beguiling Isles and Effigy Mounds has sought to explore a metaphysical relationship with a micro to macrocosmic world. Corum has recorded with an array of artists these last few years.. and like these artists, he too brings a psychedelic atmosphere, one not culled from a traditional sense, but of a deeply inmate ability to transform a space sonically creating a more spiritual, or visceral affair. ” - Chris Webb. GEIST & THE SACRED ENSEMBLE (Seattle): Geist & the Sacred Ensemble performs dark, sinister, trembling earth ballads that have echoes of country evenings and haunted memories. Almost reminiscent of the earliest, best freak folk sounds or more recently, a Swans style of brooding heavy stomp. And our neighbors: Universal Cell Unlock, Wex, Mystery Red Inferno (project of Alec K. Redfearn), & Laure Amat.
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge Easter Edition: Jeremy Harris
March 27, 2016
8:00 pm
We're PUSHING IT BACK. **special time** 8PM-11PM free. Jeremy Harris, everybody. And an excellent time to check out works by Yann Weiner, Joan Wyand and Howie Sneider in See Through Material.
a rare event... :OF THE WAND AND THE MOON:, DIE WEISSE ROSE, VRIL JÄGER, BLOOD AND SUN with local support... LAST FAMILY ON EARTH and ROTGUT GOD. DJ ARCANUS will play uplifting tunes before, between, and after the live acts. ** since this is a highly stacked bill, we will have to start this show pretty early, no later than 8PM. plan accordingly**
This week's host: Christopher Sadlers Chamber noise, minimalist improvisations, and maximalist compositions on solo string bass. Member (past and present) of: The Eyesores, Death Vessel, Barnacled, Denimvenom, Shamanic, Shambing Mound. also, cookies and board games!
Closing Night for IT STAYS WITH YOU: new work by Johnny Ray, Gyna Bootleg and Joseph Mauro. CYST, LVMMVX, SUGAR PIE, JOhnny Ray and the Vomit Arsonist (self flagellation, purging, going to the shrink), FALL RISK (collaborative performance by Gyna Bootleg and Joseph Mauro), RITA REPULSA (two homies performing the world's 1st auditory rendition of crab dreams). 1st show. provoking work. stiff drinks. hellion tunes.
