A night of experimental music, with touring artists and local acts. Early Show, music over by 9pm. GOAT Karaoke night to follow. 21+
Stevie Richards (Melbourne, Australia) and Mike Meanstreetz (Los Angeles, CA) will be
performing a duo of improvised saxophone, drums/percussion and electronics for a fall tour of
the North American West Coast
Stevie Richards is a DIY electronics and woodwind player and performer currently based in
Naarm / Melbourne, Australia. Stevie has performed in Europe, United States, Mexico and
Japan and is an active participant in the avant-garde / improvisation environment of Naarm /
Melbourne. Stevie has performed in many past and ongoing ensembles worldwide playing
noise, free jazz, ambient and electroacoustic music both as a soloist and through deliberate
international collaboration.
Mike Meanstreetz is a Los Angeles based multimedia artist whose non-tradtional craft seeds
new genres while reaping the fallen fruit of old. Auditory, visual, and word rarely appear in the
singular, most often materializing in a tangle of synaesthesia. His rigorerd wabi-sabi invites the
daydream and its ushering of both resonant and dissonant perspectives/perceptions in an
inclusive synthesis betweenst. Most of his work focuses on the improvised, situational and
shared, and is rooted in the belief that collaboration is a practical divination of that fount pushing
all. Sonically his practice primarily explores and expands upon both more metrical genre
adjacent sensibilities and more fluid extended techniques via drum kit/percussion, musique
concrete/electronic manipulation, and harmonically loaded electro-acoustic nylon MIDI triggered
guitar. In these various modes he has performed throughout the US, Mexico and Europe.