JOHN WIESE - DONNE/SKARITZA - SCANT - April 25th 2015 at Sediment

Poster by Claire Zitzow

Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 7 PM

Sediment Arts

208 E Grace St, Richmond, Virginia 23219

JOHN WIESE (Los Angeles)

John Wiese is a prolific experimental electronic-noise composer. He has released over 100 7-inches on various international labels including his own imprint, Helicopter. John Wiese is known all over the world for his work in LHD and Sissy Spacek, including collaborations with Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Evan Parker, No Age and C.Spencer Yeh just to name a few.

http://www.john-wiese.com/

DONNE/SKARITZA (Richmond VA)

SCANT (Richmond VA)

Doors 7:00 pm Sounds 8:00 pm
$10-$15 Suggested Donation

PHARMAKON w/ MUTWAWA and COTERIES Live at Sediment January 30th 2015

Poster by Claire Zitzow

Friday, January 30, 2015 at 8 PM

Sediment Arts

208 E Grace St, Richmond, Virginia 23219

RVA Noise and Sediment Arts Present:

PHARMAKON

(NYC/Sacred Bones/Chondritic Sound/Bloodlust!)
http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/collections/pharmakon

MUTWAWA

(RVA/Ormolycka/Chaotic Noise Productions/Anti-Everything) http://freemusicarchive.org/music/MUTWAWA/

COTERIES

(RVA) http://coteries.bandcamp.com/

18+

Doors 8PM Sounds 9PM

SEDIMENT
208 E Grace St Richmond VA 23219
http://sedimentarts.org/

"Margaret Chardiet was born and raised in New York City. She has been making power electronics/ death industrial music under the name Pharmakon for five years. As a founding member of the Red Light District collective in Far Rockaway, NY she has been a figurehead in the underground experimental scene since the age of seventeen. Several projects emerged from the Red Light home/ venue during the four years Chardiet lived there including Yellow Tears, and Halflings amongst others. She points out that the environment there amongst so many other experimental artists inspired her to keep pushing herself and making increasingly challenging work. She describes her drive to make noise music as something akin to an exorcism where she is able to express, her "deep-seated need/drive/urge/possession to reach other people and make them FEEL something [specifically] in uncomfortable/ confrontational ways." The project is also an opportunity to exorcise her own demons and examine her own wild thoughts by pushing them outside of her head.

Four days before New York noise musician Margaret Chardiet was supposed leave for her first European tour as Pharmakon, she had a medical emergency which resulted in a major surgery. Suddenly, instead of getting on a plane, she was bedridden for three weeks, missing an organ. "After seeing internal photographs taken during the surgery, I became hyperaware of the complex network of systems just beneath the skin, any of which were liable to fail or falter at any time," Chardiet said. "It all happened so fast and unexpectedly that my mind took a while to catch up to the reality of my recovery. I felt a widening divide between my physical and mental self. It was as though my body had betrayed me, acting as a separate entity from my consciousness. I thought of my corporeal body anthropomorphically, with a will or intent of its own, outside of my will's control, and seeking to sabotage. I began to explore the idea of the conscious mind as a stranger inside an autonomous vessel, and the tension that exists between these two versions of the self." Consumed by these ideas, and unable to leave her bed, Chardiet occupied herself by writing the lyrics and music that would become Bestial Burden, the second Pharmakon LP for Sacred Bones Records.

The record is a harrowing collection of deeply personal industrial noise tracks, each one brimming with struggle and weighted with the intensity of Chardiet's internal conflict. Bestial Burden was recorded at Heaven Street Records in Brooklyn, N.Y. with Sean Ragon (Cult of Youth, Venerence), who also recorded 2013's critically acclaimed Abandon. That album led to extensive touring with Swans, Godflesh, and The Haxan Cloak, as well as a litany of glowing press from the likes of Pitchfork (8.0 review), The New Yorker (full-page print feature), The New York Times, The Fader, The Wire, and more. As an avid listener of noise, industrial, and power electronics, Ragon understood that the usual rules of recording sometimes need to be thrown out the window to capture the best possible performance. He allowed Chardiet to experiment with a mix of live recording and tracking, and some of the vocals were recorded live with a small group of people packed into the studio so she could feed off their energy. The result of those sessions is the bar-raising follow-up to Abandon, and an invitation to go even deeper into the sometimes terrifying, always fascinating labyrinth that is Margaret Chardiet's mind."

An evening with JASON LESCALLEET A live performance and film screening of "Tropy Tape" September 7th 2014

Poster by Claire Zitzow

Sunday, September 7, 2014 at 7 PM

Sediment Arts

208 E Grace St, Richmond, Virginia 23219

RVA Noise & Sediment present:

JASON LESCALLEET
(Intransitive, RRRecords, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Chondritic Sound...)

"Lescalleet's sound world occupies a space between noise, contemporary composition, and minimal electronics. Using decidedly primitive tactics and equipment (e.g. antiquated reel-to-reel recorders, damaged tape, etc.), his work focuses on extreme frequencies and microscopic audio detail" - https://www.facebook.com/JasonLescalleet

https://lescalleet.wordpress.com/

http://pitchfork.com/features/the-out-door/8940-double-time/3/

Watch the trailer for Trophy Tape:
http://vimeo.com/91550867

With local support by PHOTOBLASTER

Doors at 7PM Sounds at 7:30PM
$7-$15 donation strongly encouraged

7:30 - Photoblaster
8:00 - Screening of "Trophy Tape"
9:00 - Jason Lescalleet live performance

https://www.facebook.com/events/792359200795107/

///GENEVA JACUZZI/// Live at Sediment September 6th 2014

Poster by Claire Zitzow

Saturday, September 6, 2014 at 8 PM

Sediment Arts

208 E Grace St, Richmond, Virginia 23219

RVA Noise & Sediment present:

GENEVA JACUZZI (Los Angeles CA)
http://www.genevajacuzzi.com/

"Geneva Jacuzzi (born Geneva Garvin) is an LA-based songwriter, musician and visual artist who is known for her unique style of synth driven bedroom pop recordings, theatrical stage personas and retro style video art.

Her lyrics describe blood being thrown onto fire, clown-like machines in search of sadness and the raging monologues of future/past elemental beings. Her videos and live performances portray the story of a once abundant Self being shattered into a variety of other personas such as Dracula, Mime, Zygote, Rozbo, etc. all being played by Jacuzzi, and all cannibalizing-commodifying their rape revenge upon the idea of an original Self which is now lost if not mythical, somewhere in the Islands of the Jacuzzi"

With Special Guests:

KARACELL
http://www.soundcloud.com/karacell

IKAGURA
http://www.soundcloud.com/Ikagura

More TBA

Doors at 8PM Sounds at 9PM
$5-$10 donation suggested

https://www.facebook.com/events/351151555036856/

///JEROME///CLAIRE/// Live at Sediment August 8th 2014

Poster by Claire Zitzow

Friday, August 8, 2014 at 12 AM

Sediment Arts

208 E Grace St, Richmond, Virginia 23219

RVA Noise & Sediment present:

JEROME (Providence RI/Chapel Hill)
CGI Records/ex Lazy Magnet)

"Having fully devoted the better part of 2 decades tearing music apart from every conceivable angle and putting it back together as only he can, the wanderer also known as JEROME has constructed some of the tuffest house abstractions using only what will fit in the backseat of his '81 Rabbit. Not much is known about this lazy magnet but his sound is indeed magnetic, huge round bass lines ground the unrestrained dubby house experiments happening around it. The results produce a hypnotic and moving dancefloor experience."

https://soundcloud.com/mr-lazymagnet

CLAIRE (NYC/Atlanta/RVA)
Acoustic Division/ex Featureless Ghost)

"Techno that sucks the air out of the room and charges the void with an inescapable atmosphere of enchantment and control. Distilled from smoke and mirrors and spun from the hypnotist's lyre, her machinery leaves its trace everywhere, as fragments of desire dissolve into the presence of total submission. An intoxicant of the most refined beauty..."

https://soundcloud.com/claireelisetippins

Visuals provided by Fantastic Lands
http://fantasticlands.tumblr.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/FantasticLands/videos

DJ sets by LEAFY GREENS (Carrboro NC)
"no edits. No promises. No apologies. No future."
https://soundcloud.com/leafy-greens

09:00 - Leafy Greens
09:30 - Claire
10:00 - Leafy Greens
10:30 - Jerome

Doors at 8PM Sounds at 9PM
$5-$10 donation suggested

https://www.facebook.com/events/346188995534265/

Poster by Claire Zitzow

Friday, April 11, 2014 at 8 PM

Sediment Arts

208 E Grace St, Richmond, Virginia 23219

Sediment Arts in association with RVA Noise proudly present John Wiese.
http://www.john-wiese.com/

"John Wiese is an artist and composer living in Los Angeles, California. He works primarily in recorded and performed sound with a focus on installation and multi-channel diffusions, as well as scoring for large ensembles. He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering the US, UK, Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. He is also a founding member of the concrète grindcore band Sissy Spacek."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpF78WNq7Tc

Local support by:

Broadcastatic
I.G.M.

Broadcastatic is the work of Tommy Birchett a long standing figure in the local experimental music community. Broadcastatic, originally a local richmond collaborative radio show, is an audio/video project focused on active manipulation of input/output routing using a combination of improvisation, mechanical manipulation, feedback loops, and randomization.

I.G.M. is the work of Ian McColm, a multi-instrumentalist and composer based out of Richmond, Virginia. A drummer since the age of 8, he was admitted to Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Jazz Studies under the tutelage of master drummer Billy Hart. McColm has performed nationally and internationally in a variety of ensembles including the drone/ambient duo, Nagual, as well as under his solo moniker, I.G.M.

Doors at 8PM Music at 8:30PM

All Ages Welcome

$5-$10 Suggested Donation

https://www.facebook.com/events/709896245708880/

PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT - May 20th 2014 at Sediment

Poster by Claire Zitzow

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at 7 PM - 11 PM

Sediment Arts

208 E Grace St, Richmond, Virginia 23219

RVA Noise and Sediment Arts present:

PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT (LA)

"The music of Jonathan Borges and Shannon Kennedy of Pedestrian Deposit could best be described as highly composed, focused and dynamic, experimental music that draws on their widely varying music talents. From Borges’s interest in such areas as electronics, tape loops, sampling, field recording, and feedback, to Shannon’s use of classical instruments, contact mics and manipulated metal objects, the duo combine elements of musique concrete, ambient, drone, classical and harsh noise."

http://pedestriandeposit.bandcamp.com/

Local Support by:

SCANT
CREEPING

W/ Special Guests:

LA LA JACUZZI (Boston)
Members of LSDV and Fume Hood)

Doors at 7:00 pm
$5 - $10 Suggested donation

https://www.facebook.com/events/287955938035811/

Gary Stevens on Noise - 2013 Oct. 7 @VCU - Richmond, Virginia - Filmed by Silver Persinger

Gary Stevens on Noise - 2013 Oct. 7 @VCU - Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger on Vimeo.


"Gary Stevens has been creating noise since the early 1990's and organizing noise shows since 2005(?). Gary spoke with Andrea Burks, Claire Zitzow, and students from VCU's Art Foundation program about "Sound Art and Noise Music." Gary also demonstrated various techniques he uses to generate sound."