Tonight, on all hallow's eve, as the souls descend upon us, our current project: THE DEAD ECHOES TX DRONE FEST will achieve alchemy in the living room of the House of Tinnitus, so come, be a spectator as the majik goes down all this evening into the morning hours:
DEAD ECHOS : An experiment in dronology
Tuesday, Oct. 31
7pm
House of Tinnitus
628 Lakey St.
Denton, TX 76201
http://www.myspace.com/deadechoestx
DEAD ECHOES WILL BE THE PRODUCT OF 6 HOURS OF CONSTANT DRONE PROJECTED FROM THE MINDS/BODIES OF THE FOLLOWING TX ARTISTS:
Venison Whirled (Austin)
http://www.myspace.com/venisonwhirled
PURE primitive power dronescapes a la Phill Niblock & La Monte Young, but with a power-metal attitude. Longtime *drummer* for Austin weirdos ST 37 uses bowed cymbals and other unnatural non-percussives
Ethereal Planes Indian (Austin)
http://www.myspace.com/etherealplanesindian
Currently on tour with Venison Whirled, Ethereal Planes Indian is B.C. Smith of Iron Kite, ex-Primordial Undermind. Blurry peyote ragas colliding with billowing primitive percussion from the dawn of humankind.
The Zanzibar Snails (Denton)
http://www.myspace.com/zanzibarsnails
Three members of Denton incidental improv troupe iDi*amin meld old-guard oscillations and warped, whispery sound sculptures with the unpredictable sax fumigation of Mike Forbes (Notes From Underground)
p.d. wilder (Austin/Denton/parts unknown)
http://www.myspace.com/pdwilder
Expansive soundscapy guitarist with a patient mastery of timbre &texture, light & shadow. AKA Pablo St. Chaos, 1/3 of hotel,hotel and caretaker of the lo-bango sound.
OVEO (Denton)
http://www.myspace.com/freneticlove
Improvisational collaboration between J. Wilson Moore and Andrew Michael Hilburn of Denton’s You Are the Universe!. A clattering and seductive medley of feedback, tape loops, and slow-moving horror soundtrack rhythms
S.D.S. (Dallas)
aka Shortwave Death System
Mysterious experimental scene veteran using showtave and loop station; one of the only people in the area to have seen :zoviet*france: live
visual projections by Paul Baker, known for his work with Sub Oslo and at the Strategies of Beauty festival this summer at Rubber Gloves
FREE w/ DONATION!!!
BYOB
Kostumz N*courag’d
Here's a writeup in the Dallas Observer:
http://www.dallasobserver.com/Issues/2006-10-26/music/preview4.html
If you're familiar at all with the Denton musical landscape, you're probably aware of the recent emphasis on the experimental side of the spectrum, reprising a local thread that briefly gained nationwide notoriety a decade ago. After the eclectic, noisy blast of this summer's Strategies of Beauty Festival, the House of Tinnitus (at 628 Lakey) has had a strong subsequent run of noise-and-volume-oriented shows. The Dead Echoes Dronefest, in contrast, will offer a more sublime travelogue through the inner ear during the witchingest of hours. Top billing goes to a pair of upper-echelon drone veterans from Austin on the final stop of an East Coast tour of dim basements and quirky galleries. Ethereal Planes Indian is B.C. Smith (Iron Kite, ex-Primordial Undermind), who culls disparate threads of eastern fretwork, found sound and primitive percussion into an entrancing stew. Venison Whirled is Lisa Cameron, drummer of longtime cosmic rock stalwarts ST 37. As Venison Whirled she disassembles the drums, using them as source metals to conduct varying sculptures of high-density feedback. The Zanzibar Snails and OVEO are more stripped down, dark atmospheric offshoots of local Strategies stalwarts iDi*amin and You Are the Universe!, respectively. Also appearing is p.d. wilder, one third of Austin/Denton road warriors Hotel, Hotel, using his guitar as a gateway to serene places where beauty has a deep undertow. Rounding out one of the strangest Halloween parties you've ever seen are shortwave manipulator S.D.S. and projectionist Paul Baker (Sub Oslo), whose abstractions will be shifting in and out of focus as these three-lobed warriors drone on into the night.
