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A Monolithic Dome, Mountain of Woe, Professor A, Holy Mountain + Argot
Friday, May 29, 2026
$15
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Music Show
Friday, May 29, 2026
8:00 pm
$15
More Info + RSVP Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board Closing Reception
Thursday, June 25, 2026
“Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board” asks whether you are the invisible onlooker or an active participant. Eli Kauffman and Michael Gunn harness painting’s voyeuristic nature to complicate interpersonal relationships. The paintings exist at a threshold where our internal world is acted upon, through collaboration and intimacy. Tangled foliage, Twisting cables, A cast shadow—Reach, hold, repair, tend. How do we balance relying on one another while channeling the power of that which goes unseen? This exhibition shares its title with a game played by children at slumber parties. A levitation trick that evokes the unknown, a tension with the truth of its physics.The events that unfold are recalled, heightened and eventually brought back down to earth. The disillusion of our accounts is a natural conclusion. Through melodramatic lighting and intangible ghostly presence, tension between physicality and spirituality charges moments with desire—an attempt towards harmony.
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Special Event
Thursday, June 25, 2026
6:00 pm
9:00 pm
“Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board” asks whether you are the invisible onlooker or an active participant. Eli Kauffman and Michael Gunn harness painting’s voyeuristic nature to complicate interpersonal relationships. The paintings exist at a threshold where our internal world is acted upon, through collaboration and intimacy. Tangled foliage, Twisting cables, A cast shadow—Reach, hold, repair, tend. How do we balance relying on one another while channeling the power of that which goes unseen? This exhibition shares its title with a game played by children at slumber parties. A levitation trick that evokes the unknown, a tension with the truth of its physics.The events that unfold are recalled, heightened and eventually brought back down to earth. The disillusion of our accounts is a natural conclusion. Through melodramatic lighting and intangible ghostly presence, tension between physicality and spirituality charges moments with desire—an attempt towards harmony.
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PechaKucha Night Providence #80: Canned Presentations
November 18, 2015
xPechaKucha Night Providence #80: Canned Presentations
November 18, 2015
7:20 pm
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.
Coke Weed . Pixels . String Builder
November 6, 2015
xCoke Weed . Pixels . String Builder
November 6, 2015
8:00 pm
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.
Cloud Becomes Your Hand /// Omnivore /// Minibeast /// Host
November 5, 2015
xCloud Becomes Your Hand /// Omnivore /// Minibeast /// Host
November 5, 2015
8:00 pm
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.
Ctrl + Alt + Repeat: experimental music series featuring: KONUS QUARTETT, JÜRG FREY, TOMAS KORBER
October 22, 2015
xCtrl + Alt + Repeat: experimental music series featuring: KONUS QUARTETT, JÜRG FREY, TOMAS KORBER
October 22, 2015
8:00 pm
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.
BLACK PUS X TIMEGHOST X TIGER HATCHERY X JOEY MOLINARO X SHAMBLING MOUND
October 17, 2015
xBLACK PUS X TIMEGHOST X TIGER HATCHERY X JOEY MOLINARO X SHAMBLING MOUND
October 17, 2015
9:00 pm
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.
GOING BOLDLY. A Star Trek Party.
October 8, 2015
xGOING BOLDLY. A Star Trek Party.
October 8, 2015
7:00 pm
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!!!
Courtney's Birthday Partay! feat. Westeryear ☀ April Fish ☀ Courtney Swain ☀ Jaggery
October 5, 2015
xCourtney's Birthday Partay! feat. Westeryear ☀ April Fish ☀ Courtney Swain ☀ Jaggery
October 5, 2015
7:30 pm
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, DEATH VESSEL, BEN MASON, FIELD DRUMS
September 26, 2015
xMIKE COYKENDALL, DEATH VESSEL, BEN MASON, FIELD DRUMS
September 26, 2015
8:00 pm
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 // Scøtt Reber + Sakiko Mori // Ouxatil 95 // Titans of Jazz
September 18, 2015
xRafael Toral // Scøtt Reber + Sakiko Mori // Ouxatil 95 // Titans of Jazz
September 18, 2015
8:15 pm
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.
FLICKER, PULSE: An Evening with Bruce McClure & Alexander Dupuis
September 15, 2015
xFLICKER, PULSE: An Evening with Bruce McClure & Alexander Dupuis
September 15, 2015
7:30 pm
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents FLICKER, PULSE: An Evening with Bruce McClure & Alexander Dupuis, curated by Seth Watter. The art of Bruce McClure is sometimes called, with a nod to the sixties, “expanded cinema.” A more apt expression might in fact be “reduced cinema,” or cinema stripped to its most elementary components: light, sound, a room full of bodies. McClure himself calls it “projector performance,” a phrase that highlights the aspect of live enactment and improvisation that is so integral to all his efforts. McClure creates “a remystification of cinema… meant to elicit astonishment and wonder, but calibrated for a twenty-first-century audience attuned to the aesthetics of noise and distortion” (Ed Halter, Artforum).
A Simple Procedure: Epic release party
September 12, 2015
xA Simple Procedure: Epic release party
September 12, 2015
6:00 pm
Saturday 09.12.15 / 6pm–1am / $5 before 8pm / $8 after.
Epic release party. 42 one-of-a-kind lathe cut 7"s & 2 CD set available in letterpress-printed, hand-numbered editions (200 sets of CDs, only one copy of each lathe will be sold). Performances by:
BLEVIN BLECTUM & ED OSBORN • JEFF CAREY • MORGAN EVANS-WEILER • SARAH HENNIES • SHAWN GREENLEE • JEREMY HARRIS • DONNA PARKER & VIC RAWLINGS • ANDREA PENSADO • SOFT TARGET • TIMEGHOST • MATT UNDERWOOD • WORK/DEATH + live realizations of JOHN CAGE’S IMAGINARY LANDSCAPE NO. 5 between acts.
DAN FRIEL / WILTED WOMAN / DAVEY HARMS / UNICORN HARD-ON
September 11, 2015
xDAN FRIEL / WILTED WOMAN / DAVEY HARMS / UNICORN HARD-ON
September 11, 2015
9:00 pm
Dan Friel: Serpentine, melodic clamor oozing from accelerated sequences. Thrill Jockey Records Voyager. Wilted Woman: Returning to RI from a satellite over Berlin, industrial technician and electron daredevil, transmitting on Primitive Languages, Wicked City, MORE records. Davey Harms: From something about bits of burger and a bicycle, yea the Mincemeat or Tenspeed dude. Lexical originator of Fake Techno. Unicorn Hard-On: Hardwired Korg abuse. Sopping, drippy, hyperdimensional game of life techno. V A L E R I E.
