Aug. 14, 2008: 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Issue Project Room at the (oa) can factory

232 Third Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Admission: $15

Evidence (Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood) celebrate the release of their new CD “Receiver” (free103point9 Audio Dispatch 035), created through a residency at Wave Farm, with a re-imagined performance of the original installation. (See Evidence - Airtime performance under related events.) Bring a radio with batteries! A limited number will be provided. Evidence will be joined by the modern dance company The Extra-Sensory Pedestrians, performing a new work, “Boxed Dances.”

For more information see: http://www.free103point9.org/events/1957/

Go to my site and check out photos, info, specs and ordering info right on the splash page.

Oh…and…if your around NYC on Aug 22….I’ll be showing with Leigh Barbier and Homer Flynn at THE SHOWROOM NYC on 2nd ave in the East Village.

and…I’ll be signing figures and prints in Detroit and Chicago in the same month (I’ll get back to all of you about the exact dates)

Best, Steven Cerio

Montague Phantom Brain Exchange #7
Wednesday, July 30th, 9pm (sharp!) Five Bucks
at the Rendezvous
78 3rd St
Turners Falls, MA 01376

Argumentix
Extreme Animals
Jason Martin
BudweiserSprite
Fortress of Amplitude

DJ Jazzy Jexx
lecture by Dr. Veronica Lopez on Microbiology

read on:

This month’s Phantom Brain Exchange is a very special pre - Wickermania Festival show.   The weekend following our event will be stuffed silly with shows, parties, & picnics under the name Wickermania!  Planned by a loose conglomerate of adventurous western mass promoters/afficianadoes of weirdo culture such as Autonomous Battleship Collective (orange!), Shineola (goshen!), Mystery Train (amherst!),  Ecstatic Yod (florence!), and more.  Consider that a heads up, now let’s examine this evening’s details before we talk anymore of this Wickerdoodle.  

Argumentix is the ongoing solo project of Mr. James Squeaky, Portland, Oregon’s preeminent connoisseur of provocative culture and cuddly felines.  He’s shrieked for the spastic hardcore band Alarmist!, puked forth a million oddball recordings and side projects, and also edited the fine fanzine and webzine Below PDX.  In Argumentix, he swoons with faggy goth swagger fumbling over tape & feedback loops leaving behind a rag-carpet of sound for us to marvel at.  
http://www.belowpdx.com/argumentix/

Extreme Animals are the official Paperrad thump factory.  For years, Jacod & David have been pushing the midi envelope filter with their neon brand blacklight strobe budget rave blasts all over sweaty house parties, decrepit art lofts, and fancy danceclubs all over the world.  Just prep yourself for booty-collapse, as the jams will be too infectious for your ass to handle.  i’ve seen it happen.  
http://www.paperrad.org/extreme/

Jason Martin might be more widely known for his work with Evolution Revolution (a furries rock band) or maybe even is rippin’ bass playinng in the infamous BunnyBrains, but i always like to remind people of his solo work and stuff he did throughout the 90’s with Schenectady’s expansive cable-access tele-audio-visual collective Brown Cuts Neighbors. For this evening’s Phantom Brain Exchange, he’s getting back to basics with his reel to reel & multiple instruments, plopping out beefheart-esque rumpled popsongs.  A release on Yeay! tapes is in the works.  
http://www.myspace.com/evolutionrevolution

…from what i know, BudweiserSprite is a foul westcoast drink poured out on a four track.  A one-man beer-soda can who eats tapes for breakfast.  
http://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2008/02/budweiser-sprite-mouthbreather.html

Fortress of Amplitude music, an ancient druidic guitar sorcery from suburban depths, has been popping up at satanic rituals & LARP events throughout Texas.
http://www.rf-da.com/fortress.html

Mudboy & Bug Sized Mind Collaboration!  Two Providence heavyweights will battle via retooled mechanical organs and synthesizers hogtied with patch cables and effects pedals.  Flowers bloom.  
http://www.mudboymusic.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6QaR0tX09Y

Radical Paperrad deejay DJ Jazzy Jexx will be setting the ambiance with crooked bumpin farts and the freshest in future bass.  She scratches CDRs with brute force.  
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=85834915

Our favorite local Neuroendocrinolgist & Flywheel member, Dr. Veronica Lopez, will be presenting a brief lecture reintroducing us to Mircobiology and making sure we won’t fail next month’s popquiz.  

Listen and Enjoy: “The Truth About Charlotte”

Recorded in the Charlotte, NC Hilton this June.

THIS SUNDAY JUNE 8
FROM 2 - 4PM SHARP
@ 51 3RD STREET TROY NY 12180
+ SOME KIND OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE at 4pm! Show up and buy your way into an improvised band.

So heres the stuff:
* electronics of various kinds in various states of working (some working, some need a little work, and others are best used for parts)
* a few pieces of furniture
* some instruments

I do not have detailed list of what is available. Can’t respond to individual requests about gear. Come to the sale.

Over n out
Jason

All June nickname: Rebel will be on the awesome Mark Whitby show - listen online to Dandelion Radio.

In the meanwhile Marc Arsenault and Joshua Baker will be carrying some portable recording equipment to the Charlotte Hilton in two weeks to try to record some sort of source material for the new proper nickname: Rebel record. You can find us at the bar or at Heroes Con.

Wish us luck!

nickname: Rebel on Last.fm

Visit nickname: Rebel’s MySpaceship

Frank Budgen
The Legend of Frank Budgen
Specific 10″

“Totally weird one. I get the idea that this is a jape, but if so, it’s a jape so beautifully and elaborately crafted that it stands as a wonderfully crazy art project in its own right. Packaged in a Folkways-style 10″ sleeve with accompanying booklet, this is said to represent the recorded legacy of a drifter named Frank Budgen, about whom little is known, except that he called Troy, NY home for a while, early in the 21st century. There are six tracks, with heavy blues guitar, drums and vocals in a blown style reminiscent of Michael Yonkers, George Brigman and even The Workdogs. It’s wild lo-fi style, regardless of its actual provenance. And the care taken with the presentation is certain to appeal to cultists of most known stripes. Released in a numbered edition of 99, it’s a real brain rattler, which features one of the screwier Beefheart covers you’ll hear in this lifetime.”

-Byron Coley
The Wire - May 2008

The Legend of Frank Budgen is still available from Specific Recordings.

((im playing “function generator bass and samples” in BUNNYBRAINS tomorrow, friday))

This is part of a festival that starts tonight I’ve forwarded part of the email about it below, but even if u cant catch us, theres plenty of stuff going down so go to free103’s website to get all the dates n acts n stuff.
Cheers,
Jason

NOISE! 2008
May 8, 2008: 10 p.m. – May 11, 2008: 1 a.m. at Ontological Theater, St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th St., Manhattan, NY $10 admission; free video and audio online.

Noise! is a sound performance festival started in 2005. free103point9 curates for the second year. Each year the “Incubator” program at Ontological Theater hosts a Noise! festival, a three-night multi-arts event designed to promote interest in new forms of sound art.
The festival will feature short compositions and performances by established and emerging artists.
Each evening opens with a Radio 4×4 as the audience enters the theater.
Radio 4×4 is a free103point9 collaborative radio transmission performance. Four simultaneous audio performances are separately sent through FM transmitters to radios positioned throughout a performance space. Each radio receives only one of the signals, so that the audience becomes an active collaborator in the performance, “mixing” the audio feeds by moving about the space among the four signals. Other artists will perform each evening. Tianna Kennedy, Tom Roe, and Damian Catera will curate each evening. Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.

Thursday, May 8
Curated by Tianna Kennedy
Opens with Radio 4×4 with Tianna Kennedy + Mark Anderson + Jordi Wheeler + Tyler Nolan
Lith (Jordi Wheeler)
Diamond Terrifier (featuring Sam Hillmer from the Zs)
Dome Theater (Forrest Gillespie directing “Fucked for Real”)

Friday, May 9
Curated by Tom Roe
Opens with Radio 4×4 with Giancarlo Bracchi + Tom Roe + Slink Moss + Michael Garafalo.
Bunnybrains
Michael Garafalo (Latitude/Longitude)
Giancarlo Bracchi
Tom Roe

Saturday, May 10
Curated by Damian Catera
Opens with Radio 4×4 with Damian Catera + () + Tom Roe + John Baird
Skyline
Damian Catera
Andrea Parkins

More information

The Percy Thrills Thrillington masterpiece, Thrillington, is now available in the DRM-free Plus format on iTunes for just 9.99USD. Awesome arrangements, super smooth bass by session legend Herbie ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ Flowers, Easy to listen to. Um, I guess you could always get it from Beware of the Blog or buy the CD, but, honestly I thought it had only ever been available on vinyl or torrent (sounding pretty bad) until now. Here’s some background (of varying accuracy.. I think) on the project.

Go watch it now!

Hudson Mohawk Indymedia has produced a definitive account of the whirlwind of events surrounding Wafaa Bilal’s controversial art exhibit, “Virtual Jihadi.”

“Art (does not equal) Terrorism” goes beyond the sound bites to find out what happened when an Iraqi artist came to Troy, NY only to be censored–not once, but twice.

First, Wafaa Bilal was chased off campus after his artwork was mis-characterized as terrorist propaganda by undergraduate bloggers.

When the exhibition was given refuge by The Sanctuary for Independent Media, the city government responded by shutting down the space.

Finally got it together to put the Rebel sound up on Last.fm. There is the mini 5-song version of the R is For Riot EP available as free downloads. You can get the whole 10 song thing for free, of course, as one big 30MB download. The MySpaceship has 3 more tunes. The n:R cover of a Sexual Milkshake song is still available as part of a Teen Beat Records tribute called Relax Brother, Relax up on the Internet Archive. Two more cover tunes are on the old DeptEx Sounds page, for you completists. There, that’s it, that’s all of them. Now you know. Now you know… there is a hell.

Visit nickname: Rebel’s MySpaceship

In other news, nickname: Rebel and Wow Cool main guy Marc Arsenault (me) is laying down the guitar as part of Thee Froggss for a benefit for the Pilot Light in Knoxville, Tennessee. Also appearing, the mighty GUNN CLUUB and the GERRMMS - April, 1 2008 at The Pilot Light 106 E Jackson Ave, Knoxville, 37915 Cost : $5.00

Be seeing you.

OK. I just spent the month of February taking the RPM Challenge-record an album of at least 10 songs or 35 minutes in 29 days. Easy, right? Except I’m down in Knoxville and the band (Brown Cuts Neighbors, nickname: Rebel, anyone!) is now scattered to the four corners. I was talked into this mad venture by the Rev. Joshua Baker (God Hates Computers, Chased and Smashed, childhood friend) who is in a similar boat up in Maine. We’re both also trying to figure out how new digital audio deals work on our respective underpowered laptops. The very last tune I finished was the one we had worked on together, and probably the most successful - check out Ouroboos (4MB MP3). If this sounds at all like something you want to hear, you can have the whole thing for free (30MB zipped MP3 files and cover in PDF). It’s called R is for Riot and is by nickname: Rebel. There are just 10 songs. It’s 21 minutes. A few songs have words, they concern micronations with solar powered submarines, lab accidents, Ernest O. Lawrence, and tactful ways to tell someone they’re being cheated on. I got done just in the proverbial nick… getting it in the mail 9 minutes before deadline. nickname: Rebel RPM Page | Josh’s Not Square with Zero RPM Page

What I learned

• Get a taller drum throne. I cannot believe how much my legs hurt.
• That old saying, never mix the same day… oh yeah. These actually sound ok a day or 2 later.
• I’m not loosing my mind now that there are just a few days left… that already happened yesterday.
• Always record every take, even the practice warm up one. Some things are hard to nail. Had two perfect solo runs lost to time. All the ones I got down… eh.
• I have recorded none of the songs I wrote or planned in the first week.

Thanks,

Marc Arsenault
http://wowcool.com/engine