Played the show at Bickett Gallery last night.
Seemed to go okay. Wasn’t really happy with what I
played, but I think it may of been because I
was overthinking what I wanted to do both before
and during the show. Should get the recording
soon to check.
Crowd was a bit smaller than last time, as most
of folks I know had other things to do.
Pig And Iron played first. Went pretty well, lots
of interesting noise making devices.
Serpent Earth were up next. They played with
a slightly stripped down setup as compared to
last time I saw them. Just rob on ms2000 and
anthony on guitar and vocals.
Phasmatodea
played next. All day I had in my head to start the
first piece off with a theme of “giant robot death rattles”.
I was never really satisfied with my giantrobotdeathrattleness
and eventually morphed it into a vaguely ambient thing. I
wanted to play something nice and melodic all evening but
my brain was not going to let that happen.
A minute or two into the second piece after I
flailed about for a while attempting to do something
sorta melodic and sonically interesting, but mostly
just got frustrated (some minor equipment problems
didnt help). I then remembered that it was 919noise
and decided to live up to my end of the deal. Lots of
distortion and noise and whatnot. I seemed to only be
able to either bury badger under noise, or not
hear what I was playing at all, which kind of disoriented
me a bit.
For the last bit of the evening, we planned a jam of everyone
playing that evening. We decided to make it a simple game
piece based vaguely on the ideas of the surrealist game
“exquisite corpse”. I think it would be fun to try a more
formal game piece at some point in the future. In addition
to Rob and Anthony (from Serpent Earth), myself, badger,
Drew (from Pig and Iron), Brian (from Shadow
Of A Great Name and Razorwire Safety Net) and Michael (from
7 Years In Space) joined us.
Brian and Michael started out with some interesting electronic
noise, after a few minutes Rob & Anthony joined with keyboards
and a nice guitar riff that seems to pull things together a
bit. Next up was me and badger, badger on ebowed drones and
other noises, me doing a bit of processed “prepared” stick
(in this case, gently attacking the strings with a saw blade…)
At that point, the original idea was for folks to start fading
out. I didn’t actually expect that to happen, so wasn’t surprised
when it didn’t. So all of us were playing together for a few minutes,
creating quite an impressive noise. Sounded pretty
cool to my ears. Can’t wait to hear the recording.
