Wow Cool is a studio and label based in Cupertino, California. Artists include: Marc Arsenault, Brown Cuts Neighbors, Steven Cerio, evidence, Simon Gane, God Hates Computers, nickname: Rebel, and Offset Needle Radius.
Newave! is a 892 page monster collection of 80's minicomix. Art by Marc Arsenault, Sam Henderson, Ion, Wayno and scores of others. Available Right Now!
John Culhane's film Radio Free Blissville, which features the nickname: Rebel composition "Easter", will be screened as part of a larger program. The band will not be in attendance, but the filmmaker will be.
6:00 PM
Documentary Series
Sequential Paint | Stephen Dackson 2006
Mezzanotte Obscura | Lori Petchers 2009
Scribble 08 | Mark Murphy 2009
7:00 PM
Shorts Program
Radio Free Blissville | John Culhane 2009
Hibernation | Anthony Werhun 2008
8:00 PM
Rage
Christopher Witherspoon 2009 | Feature Film | 85 min.
PIMA Artist in Residence at Brooklyn College. Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood (Evidence) present works along with students from the Brooklyn College as part of the PIMA artist residency program: a collaborative "happening" around the topic of the impending Atlantic Yards development project in downtown Brooklyn. More info TBA.
with Warewolf, Crank Sturgeon, New England Phonographers Union, Marc Bisson
Thriving on the deadline, the flier is in the works. A great line up once again with diverse sets from New England Phonographers Union, Warewolf, Crank Sturgeon, Marc Bisson, bunq, and of course, Offset Needle Radius.
The New England Phonographers Union
is a fluid congregation of sound artists and field recordists who work with untreated and unprocessed recordings of the rich and varied sounds around them. Through the exploration and documentation of urban and rural public spaces, sound objects and events, the Union captures auditory phenomena otherwise lost, and re-interpret the particularity of individual places as a newly idealized sonic environment. Within a focused listening environment the members present their recordings, both individually and as collaborative improvisations. Performing at Sun Worship IV will be Rick Breault, Mike Bullock, Linda Aubrey Bullock, Ernst karel, and Jed Speare.
Crank Sturgeon
has been freaking out audiences around New England and the world for longer than I can tell you about. His combination performance art/noise creation is always unique and completely unignorable. Utilizing during various performances, nudity, inflatable sculptures, masks and costumes, contact mics, intense square wave generators and high volume. Crank Sturgeon was unable to participate in Sun Worship III having just come off yet another European tour and down with a case of the travel bugs. I'm really excited to bring him back to Kittery this time around.
Warewolf
is collaborative group consisting of Walter Wright on electronics, Saitani on toy pianos and objects, Mike Daily of birdorgan on prepared guitar and whatnot, Kit Demos of Mystic Out Bop Review on electronics. The pairing of sound sources can at first seem unlikely or perhaps unsettling. The introduction of melody from the damaged primitive sounds of the toy piano jars some peoples idea of free improv sound. The result is playful and disarming at times, conflicting and challenging other moments. I have yet to see all four members perform together. We'll just have to see who can make it.
Marc Bisson
is one quarter of birdorgan, utilizing prepared guitar, electronics, synths, wind up toys, and many other objects to create sort of a one man improv band of unique sound that moves easily through varying textures and intensities.
bunq
has been appearing at area free improv sound events for some time, usually accompanying sound performers with his creative stacking and balancing performances. Always with different elements to create teetering towers with, challenging his own sense of balance and the limits of structural gravity resistance, until the inevitable climax of a crash scattering objects across the floor. Each time David's performances are an exercise in tension building, structure rendering, release, and rebuilding.
This is happening at Buoy Gallery at 2 Government St in Kittery just over the bridge from Portsmouth. We'll get things started around 7pm. Donations requested. Please bring $$ or gas cans full of petrol to help offset the cost to performers and the gallery for bringing you this event. It is truly a labor of love and oobe.
Fri 3/12 6:00 PM $5
Caroliner Rainbow Deep Grey Mind Blushing Out a Pattern, Xome, Loachfillet, Vslfungi, Cypress Bill and Ted Zeppelin's Excellent Adventure in the Key of Real-D (members of Amphibious Gestures, Arachnid Arcade, fognozzle and Chrome Genie), Styrofoam Sanchez
6-9 pm Sharp
The big project for me of 2009 was my collaboration with Joshua Baker AKA Offset Needle Radius. We recorded an entire record in Maine, in January, when I had pneumonia. We did a tour around Easter in New England, we released some buttons, a totebag and a CD. The vinyl version will be coming soon. I swear. Anyway, a half a year after sending out promo copies of Offset Needle Radius Vs. nickname: Rebel we are getting some nice and odd (sometimes both) responses back. Despite relatively little recent promotional push, the record has charted above such luminaries as Fuck Buttons, the Gossip and Mozart on Stanford University’s KZSU 90.1 FM, just last week. (We are also getting lots of love from KDVS and WREK… thanks!)
Marc Arsenault and Joshua Baker come to improvised guitar music from a background in avant-rock bands, and now call themselves Nickname: Rebel and Offset Needle Radius respectively. On Nickname: Rebel Vs Offset Needle Radius (WOW COOL 24/005), they turn in some very credible meandering guitar-scaping episodes full of vast abstractions and intricate scrapey doodles, largely avoiding unpleasant noise or feedback in favour of continuous, real-time playing, only slightly enhanced with foreign-sounding effects and treatments. Intriguing material on offer, but I keep listening out for the moments when the duo cease to tread around each other like two cautious cats, and start to cut loose with some of the impolite energy that you might have hoped for from their punk rock backgrounds.
Hey… fair enough. Now I feel like I have the license to really throw down next time, if not kill….
34 Stuyvesant Street
New York, NY, United States 10003
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March 6 – March 20
"Mother"
Opening reception: March 6, 6:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Featured artists: Nancy Barton; Keil Borrman; Jennie Hagevik Bringaker; Marthe Ramm Fortun; Gabriel Fowler; Jessica Gispert & Andy Slemenda; Michelle Grabner & Brad Killam; Marisa Mandler; Jason Martin; Alex McQuilkin; David Merritt; Charlemagne Palestine; David Rimanelli; David Robbins; Tania Torres-Sanchez; Patrick Walsh
Opening reception performances by: Jennie Hagevik Bringaker: 7:00 p.m., Marthe Ramm Fortun: 8:00 p.m.
in Einstein Auditorium
NYU Steinhardt: Commons Gallery
34 Stuyvesant Street, 1st floor
New York, NY 10003
Curated by: Allan Bailey, Daniela Jaramillo, Alex Jovanovich and Allison Somers
Walter Wright has assembled an incredible event once again! The time will soon be upon us once again to gather at the 119 Gallery in Lowell, Massachusetts for the Two Thousand Ten XFest.
Wright assembles small groups of movement and sound artists to collaborate in 1/2 hour sets, 10 per night, for three nights. Plus great food, workshops, and general communal socializing. It'll be fun as hell whatever and whenever you get there. But I'd say try and spend one night in town, catch at least two nights of this crazy event that won't come around again until Two Thousand and Eleven.
Event Runs from February 26-28
Offset Needle Radius's Joshua Baker will be performing on the first night.
The Art of Zines show at Anno Domini in San Jose is still going on (through March 13th, 2010). There are many zines by me and related Wow Cool type people on display. Check it out if you can. Many reviews have been flowing in from the likes of: Daily DuJour, Gary Singh at the San Jose Metro, and 1 (800) Dilettante.
OK. Now some damn music. Brown Cuts Neighbors have been organizing the archives and have put out a call for any audio/video/photo documentation that might be out there (See this earlier post). One item that is already online that has resurfaced is this piece on the 1986 release(?) by BCN “No Big Deal” (When Jason was 12) on Albany, New York’s TheHiddenCity.com. It includes four song downloads and a full gear breakdown by Jason Martin. He claims a Tesco guitar was employed. That is hardcore.
Brown Cuts Neighbors bassist circa 1999-2001 Seth Cluett is presenting “Forms of Forgetting” Tuesday, March 9, 2010 8:00pm – 9:15pm at the Princeton University Chapel (FREE admission). The work explores the role of in-attention and re-attending in listening. Using found objects, altered consumer electronics, home-made instruments, sine tone oscillators, the acoustics of the space and a host of psycho-physical phenomena, this new piece aims to construct a focused, attentive perceptual space and an elastic, malleable experience of time. For more information: http://www.onelonelypixel.org
I got to spend last week in Wow Cool’s stylish Brooklyn HQ and met up with occasional recordist, mixer, and masterer for nickname: Rebel, Mr. Andrew Gerhan, who was fresh off of a European tour with Adam Arcuragi. Andy was part of Adam’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert recently, and he had many exciting tales of life on the road, which included late night concerts on the MTA (New York Subway), with the whiskey flowing freely, and other assorted hi-jinks.
Does anybody out there have visual documentation of shows and other live Brown Cuts Neighbors interventions? 1989-91 most desired, but other eras good too! i got all the audio, and Marc’s digitizing ALL the public access episodes from over the years… its the visual documentation of live performances and happenings that i have very little of…. We’re gonna use this stuff and you’ll get credit if you contribute. xoxoxox Jason
Lady Starlight–Brown Cuts Neighbors co-founder and infamous Lady Gaga collaborator–makes a cameo in the new eponymous video by Semi Precious Weapons (above – look for the two-tone hair and laser fingers)
Sunday February 14 at 6:00 AM on KFJC Special edition of Stream of Consciousness! Cousin Mary will play the complete concert performed by the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra that was recorded on June 13, 2009, featuring fognozzle.
nickname: Rebel splinter faction Creature Comforts (formerly White Seizure) will perform their debut live gig on Sunday, February 21 at El Rio in San Francisco, CA. 3158 Mission St (@ Cesar Chavez), San Francisco, California 94112. Cost: $5 Also performing are: Zoo – Deeply weird, deeply awesome electro-psych folk, from ex-Little Teeth. and Smallhands – Skater Heartbreakers.
Marc Arsenault will be there in the flesh to peddle zines, so bring your nickels!
Opening Reception: ART OF ZINES 2010 featuring hundreds of zines from basements, bedrooms and midnight copy shops througout the U.S. and abroad.
Opening Reception: First Friday February 5th, 8pm 'til late
Part of the South FIRST FRIDAYS art walk in downtown San Jose's SoFA District. Visit http://www.SouthFIRSTFRIDAYS.com for the full lineup.
We love zines… those little diy, cut-and-paste, copied-on-the-cheap, hand-folded, self-distributed gems that continue to surface because someone, somewhere feels the need to express themselves. It's that simple. Zines exist and fleurish outside the mainstream with no particular interest whether you're paying attention or not. According to Chip Rowe, creator of Chip's Closet Cleaner, "They're Tinkertoys for malcontents. They're obsessed with obsession. They're extraordinary and ordinary. They're about strangeness but since it's usually happening somewhere else you're kind of relieved."
Featured Zine sellers:
Marc Arsenault, John Bobst, Silvia Chenault, Michael Foley, Ben Henderson, Chris Kardambikis, M Undead, Yumiko Miyagawa, Tomas Moniz, Kyle Pellet, Mahoney Perkins, Louis Schmidt, Matthew Seigel, Kate Steward & Meagan Zupancic.
Live Musical Performances:
Adam Lynn's "scrapbook-y collection of mostly melancholy stripped down tunes recalls a wide variety of influences from the raw end of Mogwai's catalogue, to the acoustic balladry of Nick Drake, to the sparse and almost-robotic piano embellishment of Pinback." http://www.myspace.com/theextras
Zoe Boekbinder is one half of the popular duo Vermillion Lies which she formed with her sister Kim Boekbinder. Her voice is evocative of jazz vocals music circa 1930’s and 40’s; in keeping her style she sometimes performs with a full cabers act. http://www.myspace.com/zoeboekbinder
Corpus Callosum is part puppet show, part performance art ensemble and part experimental-folk-orchestra. At a Corpus Callosum show you will see stilt walkers, instrumental oddities; you will hear lovely music and you may even be called upon to sing along. http://www.myspace.com/corpuscallosumband
Exhibit on view through March 13, 2010
-------Some Background---------
Anno Domini hosted an annual Art of Zines exhibit at it's former warehouse location from 2001 - 2004 (the latter of which was in collaboration with, and held at the San Jose Museum of Art concurrent with the Yoshitomo Nara exhibit Nothing Ever Happens, July 24th-October 31, 2004.) Upon moving to our current location in the SoFA District, we thought carrying independently published art books and zines in our gallery store would satisfy our zine festish, but alas, it's time to bring back the Art of Zines in its full blown dedicated exhibition. The event is a celebration of current zinesters and we hope an inspiration to those that may, or may not, have thought of starting one.
solo installation. Illustrations, multi-channel video, and sound.
"...Artist fetishist pop musician Jason Martin creates a space to consider gender and species-confused cartoons, embracing pop culture influences on sexuality. Featuring subtle mashups with pagan goddess archetypes and teenage boy fantasies in the 80s. And some pop songs."
In case you missed Fluke on tour recently with Andrew Jackson Jihad, you can pick up the latest issue from me at Anno Domini’s Art of Zines show in San Jose this Friday. Published in Tucson, Arizona, 2010. 68 pages, half size, offset print, $2.00 by hand, $4.00 by mail. interviews with Christ on Parade, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Paige Hearn and Alan Short. Writings by Shane Halvorson, Tre Baker and Mark “Sledge” Howe. Artwork by Nate Powell. Photo credits: Siobhan King, Monycka Snowbird, Paige Hearn, Shane Halvorson, Lindsey Gaither, Meredith Bennett and Julie Halvorson. Stencil by stencilpunks.org. It’s been way too long since someone put out a quality punk zine like this one. Get yours from the source if you won’t be seeing me Friday: Send $4.00 to: FLUKE FANZINE, PO BOX 41931, TUCSON, AZ 85717-1931
1201 South Vale Street
(at Airport Way S.)
Seattle, WA, USA 98108
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Fantagraphics Books celebrates the publication of NEWAVE! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s with an exhibition, book signing, and mini comix workshop on Saturday, January 30 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. The show will feature original art and graphics by underground mini comix pioneers Jaimie Alder, Jim Blanchard, Wayne Gibson, David Lasky, Wayno, Steve Willis, Dennis Worden, and XNO. NEWAVE editor Michael Dowers will produce and distribute a mini comic on site. This festive reunion also includes live music, a comix jam, and the debut of the NEWAVE! anthology.
NOTE: Marc Arsenault will not be attending this event, but his art will be on display.
An unholy host of New York City-type cartoon art guys (and a couple others and at least one gal), many of whom have been or are currently published or distributed by Wow Cool (and nearly all the rest are old friends from SVA, minicomics or the Zero Zero anthology) get to step out in style in Hotwire Comics 3, available today, Wednesday, January 27, in a comic book shop near you. That’s right, brand new work from Steven Cerio, David Sandlin, Mats?!, Danny Hellman, Michael Kupperman and a whole bunch more. The Comics Reporter says: “A boon for fans of a certain kind of energetic, restless, profane comic book making — for the rest of us it’s an exquisitely curated, controlled visit to that particular comics world.”
If you are in New York City, there is a release event for the book at Desert Island Comics this Friday, January 29. Editor Glenn Head and contributors Danny Hellman, Sam Henderson, Michael Kupperman, Jayr Pulga, David Sandlin, R. Sikoryak, Chadwick Whitehead and Karl Wills will be there in person. If you miss it, I imagine you can catch most of them at Kellogg’s Diner sometime after 4 am.
Get on down to the glorious DTSJ (that’s Down Town San Jose, folks) for the South First Friday art walk this coming February 5th; and, do not fail to stop in at Anno Domini for their Art of Zines show. Wow Cool will be at a table there hawking our wares, too. All the details and the awesome poster (including Frank Beam with the ductwork head on the cover of “That Dog Drives A Go-Cart”) can be found right here. The show runs through March 13th. Anno Domini, 366 So. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113 408.271.5155
Newave! is a 892 page monster collection of 80's minicomix. Art by Marc Arsenault, Sam Henderson, Ion, Wayno and scores of others. Available Right Now!
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