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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
THEY'VE GONE ELECTRIC. THE NEW SHIT. That's right, The Sugar Honey Iced Tea returns to us in a new, electrified form. Playing along are our swamp-yank rock heroes The Quahogs and Convergence (Florence+James Falzone duo!) A truly magnificent event.
!!¡¡!¡¡¡¡!¡ TIGUE !¡¡!¡¡¡!!¡!¡¡¡ EXPERIMENTAL POWERHOUSE PERCUSSION TRIO TIGUE, FROM BROOKLYN, READY TO MASSAGE YOUR MIND. THEIR NEW ALBUM, PEAKS, DEBUTED NOV 13 ON NEW AMSTERDAM RECORDS. CHECK OUT THEIR SINGLE "MOUTH" FEATURING Ira Kaplan and James McNew OF Yo La Tengo. The "bubbling and hovering" track is featured on stereogum. With local spectacles JPA Falzone + Martim Galvão & Todd Anderson
https://martimgalvao.wordpress.com/ 8pm, $8
Announcing the 80th consecutive PechaKucha Providence (er... the Greater Providence area)! This month we return to Machines With Magnets, the cool performance space/recording studio/art gallery in downtown Pawtucket. During this month of giving thanks and eating too much, we will be doing a special canned goods drive for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. Please bring a canned good or other nonperishable food item to donate. In keeping with that spirit, our theme will be "canned." Presenters should feel free to interpret the theme literally, loosely, or not at all. If you haven't heard of this global yet unpronounceable phenomenon, PechaKucha is a monthly format for sharing ideas in which presenters are allotted 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide. Simply put: it's 6 minutes and 40 seconds of show and tell for grown-ups. It began in Tokyo in 2003, has since spread to over 780 cities worldwide, and first landed in Providence in March of 2009.
Wash yourself away in the November surf. We're turning the heat up for this one, so don your suits and shades. Coke Weed:
Uncontrolled substances swelling out of Bar Harbor, ME. Pixels:
Providence home-schooled garage rock. String Builder:
The ever-resonant and uplifting Thibodeau Brothers.
Coming in for landing:
//// Cloud Becomes Your Hand
Coming in from Brooklyn, psych-rock quintet Cloud Becomes Your Hand's magical sound will take you safely over the crests of the sea's most impressive swells. //// Minibeast
Minibeast is the musical creation of Peter Prescott (Mission Of Burma, Volcano Suns, Kustomized, Peer Group). Minibeast combines surf, psych, punk, easy listening, 60's children's music, and soundtrack influences to create instrumental soundscapes. Providence homies:
//// OMNIVORE Providence's own Glenna Van Nostrand eats all. Riding a border between experimental electronic music and vocal performance, Omivore has been known to repurpose corded phones and electronic bits to piece together an ethereal and overwhelming sound. //// HOST
Recent Providence transplant from Savannah, GA, Host, (Alex Maddalena) creates melodic, repeating compositions that build tick, wet astmospheres using a guitar and table of electronics.
The Quahogs . Tapestries . Pyramid . Ian O'neil and Dennis Ryan
October 24, 2015
8:00 pm
Tour Come Back Show!! The Quahogs, Tapestries, Pyramid, &
Ian O'neil and Dennis Ryan (of Deer Tick). We wish Rafay Rashid continued superhuman strength in his beastly recovery.
CTRL+ALT+REPEAT is an experimental music series that was founded in 2004 by Mark + Laura Cetilia out of an interest in exploring the intersections of electronic music, improvisation, contemporary classical music, and sound art.
KONUS QUARTETT:
As a chamber music ensemble whose instrumentation changes frequently, the Konus Quartet engages its audience with highly expressive and idiosyncratic sounds. Contemporary original compositions are interpreted predominantly by the quartet, but these are also contrasted with pieces from past centuries and arrangements for saxophone instrumentation. TOMAS KORBER:
Born in 1979 in Zurich, Swiss-Spanish composer/improviser Tomas Korber has written numerous compositions and played improvised music since the early 90’s. He has worked solo and collaboratively. and composes music for theater- and film-productions.
An evening of cybernetic constitution. Touring Creatures:
X Tiger Hatchery X welcome to the feline aviary. Free-rage-jazz birthing beasts. Accompanied by Mr Paul Flaherty.
X Joey Molinaro X Bow wielding, note shaker. This guy really tears. with Local Behemoths:
X Black Pus X ooozing, dripping, rattling, vibrational heartquake machine.
X Timeghost X android protoplasm brewing wave motion interference. signature socket grid. bulb shock.
X ...Shambling mound... X A mass of tangled vines and dripping slime rises on two trunk-like legs, reeking of rot and freshly turned earth.
Come to mankind's final frontier, Pawtucket! Where we will playing choice episodes of one of the most recognizable sci-fi franchises of all time...STAR TREK! Enjoy some special star trek cocktails, such as bloodwine, and sit back and get ready to go boldly, where no one has gone before!!!
There will be cake. There will be great music. There will be much fun. Please come and enjoy this evening with us. It will be a beautiful birthday memory for Courtney. Also, this will be an awesome chance for you to meet a fantastic musician from New Zealand, and to support local/regional music. Please PM Courtney, Mali, Emily, or Katie if you need further justifications for attending this shindig. Doors @ 7:30
Show @ 8:00 SHARP (Don't be late!) // All Ages Westeryear - Beautiful layers and harmonies of tender music that feel a warm hug. April Fish - Mysterious voices-in-your-head-esque 'proto-punk' from New Zealand. Courtney Swain - Dreamy and sorta progressive singer-songwriter sounds. Jaggery - Haunting and somewhat demented chamber-pop from Boston MA.
MIKE COYKENDALL // Currently most well known for his duties as a sideman, producer, and recordist via his work with M Ward, Blitzen Trapper, She & Him, Annalisa Tornfelt, & Tin Hat Trio, Coykendall has been making his own unique outsider records since the mid '80s. BEN MASON // A songwriter from Melbourne, Ben Mason's psych-pop band, the Smallgoods released three critically acclaimed albums between 2003-2007.
DEATH VESSEL // That Joel Thibodeau’s slender, winsome voice is at once so comforting and so unsettling might be the greatest of his many strengths. Reed-thin but sturdy, youthful but somehow ageless, its deep benevolence is also slightly eerie.
FIELD DRUMS // Taking a cue from their mutual love of great pop hooks and harmonies, Field Drums is a playground for Rachel and Jeffrey to embrace and play around with their pop and other musical leanings, incorporating drums, guitar, and two voices.
Rafael Toral plays electronic music today as a jazz musician would play his instrument, applying jazz discipline and working practices to his abstract electronics. The result is truly evolutionary music, once described as "a brand of electronic music far more visceral and emotive than that of his cerebral peers". Melodic without notes, rhythmic without a beat, familiar but strange, meticulous but radically free, it is riddled with interesting paradox. Toral has developed a musical system to physically play experimental electronic instruments and puts it to practice with large-scale project Space Program — a complex network of recordings and performances to deliver music that is full of clarity and space, articulating silence and sound in a thoughtful, yet physical way.
