Twig twig, Dan Liparini, Shape King, Antonio Forte Process featuring Joan Wyand

April 16, 2016

9:00 pm

**Funky Electronics and Analog Circuitry**

Shawn Greenlee, Lesley Flanigan, Maria Chavez, Humanbeast

April 10, 2016

9:00 pm

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.

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: ED OSBORN

April 10, 2016

6:00 pm

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.

Hungry Freaks, Jonah Parzen-Johnson, Dave Miller, Ryan Dugre

April 8, 2016

8:00 pm

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: WORK/DEATH

April 3, 2016

6:00 pm

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.

Sponge Bath & Patrick Gallagher w/ Davey Harms

April 1, 2016

9:00 pm

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.

Geist & the Sacred Ensemble / Corum / Wex / Mystery Red Inferno / Universal Cell Unlock / Laurie Amat

March 28, 2016

7:00 pm

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.

:OF THE WAND AND THE MOON: / DIE WEISSE ROSE / BLOOD AND SUN / VRIL JÄGER / LAST FAMILY ON EARTH / ROTGUT GOD

March 25, 2016

7:00 pm

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**

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: JPA FALZONE

March 20, 2016

6:00 pm

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: CHRISTOPHER SADLERS

March 13, 2016

6:00 pm

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!

It Stays With You Closing, Cyst, Lvmmvx, Sugar Pie, Fall Risk, Rita Repulsa

March 11, 2016

9:00 pm

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.

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: AKIKO HATAKEYAMA

March 6, 2016

6:00 pm

Akiko is a composer, singer, and audio-visual performer / artist who is a native of Yokohama, Japan. She is interested in crossing boundaries between traditionally written music, improvisation, electronics, computer based live interactivity, and visual components. Storytelling, memories, and nature often play an important role in Akiko's work, and she most often finds beauty in simplicity. Designing and building instruments/controllers is a part of her current study as well. Akiko obtained her BA in music from Mills College and MA in Experimental Music/Composition at Wesleyan University. Since September 2011, Akiko has been engaged in PhD study in the MEME program at Brown University. Her instructors include Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton, Ronald Kuivila, Maggi Payne, Chris Brown, Jim Moses, Todd Winkler, and Butch Rovan. Akiko is a founding member of OPENSIGNAL, a collective of artists concerned with the state of gender and race in experimental electronic-based sound and art practices.

GOSH PITH with Illsnafu, JJAAZZ, Favourite

March 5, 2016

9:00 pm

Jungle labelmate GOSH PITH comes to Machines with Magnets with tour bud Illsnafu and local crooners Favourite and JJAAZZ. GOSH PITH (B3SCI Recs, Detroit). ::Gold Chain Tour:: Future R'n'B / Cosmic Trap duo bringing heat from motor city. With locals JJAAZZ mems of Math the Band, The Kolour Kult, & Favourite.

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: ANIMAL HOSPITAL

February 28, 2016

6:00 pm

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge hosted by ANIMAL HOSPITAL. Animal Hospital is a project created by Kevin Emil Micka :: A live performance of Animal Hospital consists of Kevin alone and is based on the idea of building a piece of music up from scratch into a completely fleshed out arrangement often containing enough parts to employ many musicians. The music often references many familiar aspects of contemporary rock and pop music but is open to venture out into much more experimental territory. You might remember his work directing Animal Hospital Ensemble performances - like the 30-Guitar-Strong performance under the bridge for the first DOT AIR.

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: DIAL PAINTERS

February 21, 2016

6:00 pm

Okay, so contrary to printed posters and calendars, Dave Public isn't playing this noise lounge. We wish him the best on his trip to a memorial in NJ and look forward to his RETURN. In his stead we've got another act with the initials "DP." 6-9pm | NOISE LOUNGE | 1/4 Volume | FREE | not a show, come play checkers and mind games | Gallery Hours DIAL PAINTERS (Steven W. Greco and Marcel McVay) will rip three hours of lounge noise, recalling the tragedy of the Radium Girls aka Watch Dial Painters who painted ever-glowing Radium paint on the numbers of watch dials in and around 1917. Pointing their brushes with quick lashes of their tongues and nimble lips, these teenage wage workers rapidly poisoned themselves - their buried bodies still cranking gieger counter clicks to this day. Also apparent will be a Tralfamadorian sense of timelessness, time warping and the simultaneous experience of birth, death and the passion inherent between them.