DREKKA - Working under the moniker Drekka (based out of Bloomington, IN) since 1996, composer Michael Anderson has spent the last twenty-five years touring, traveling, and collaborating extensively; collecting memories and building a very personal archive of sound that dates back to the mid-1980's when he first became interested in the emerging industrial tape culture scene coming out of post-punk Europe and the DIY ethos it taught.
Anderson sculpts his ritualistic and cinematic ambient industrial soundscapes using self-made field recordings of everything from insects in the mountains outside Kathmandu to a washing machine in Reykjavik, from countless sketches and abandoned projects donated by friends, from hundreds of hours of multi-track live recordings of Drekka captured all around the world, from his own voice and various instruments and objects found around his house.
His work and performances touch on themes of silence, memory, and forgetfulness. But rather than obscure himself, as is so often the effect of experimental music, Drekka functions as a direct line into Anderson's mind and his tenuous cache of memories. These personal aspects and this fragility are clearly on display, rather than being obfuscated by poetic abstractions.
TIMBER RATTLE - From the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virgina, TIMBER RATTLE is a roving, revolving and ongoing music project that continues to explore the connections between primordial sound, landscape, and the musics that have derived from our relationships to space and place throughout time.
This contemplation manifests in a kind of "pyche-pastoral", a music both spatially vast and intimately inward-looking, which seeks to create a celebratory and reflective environment that shares borders with nature and silence.
While never straying too far from the mountain-hymns that are at its roots, the songwriting - which simultaneously embodies and considers its own history and geography - is yet suffused with a vocabulary of drone, collected recordings and sound-experimentation.
An intuitive exploration of palette, pattern, and scale is the softly shifting foundation for arcane texts and vocals, which inhere as sound and instrument in the sonic celebration of the meeting and interfolding of land and bodies, animals and plants, language, life and death.
JACOB DERAADT - Multi-media artist, online reviewer, and BASEMENT TAPES label head, based in Eureka, California focusing on electronic/industrial/noise/experimental
Doors 9pm. 21+