Sunday February 23 * 8pm * $10 * TICKETS
Sonoscopia, an experimental music collective / association based in Porto, Portugal. Phobos is a set of small robots and automatic music generation devices that form a Disfunctional Robotic Orchestra, an orchestra with strange instruments with defects, genetic mutations and erratic behaviors.
Phobos represents a critique of the technological overlapping over human thought, the function of labour and modern forms of slavery, as well as an historical retrospective of the various attempts of human liberation through machines, its technological utopias, the advances and retreats of freedoms. Its name comes from greek mythology, where Phobos is the incarnation of fear, and is also the name of the largest moon of Mars, doomed to disappear due to the proximity of its orbit to the planet.
TL0741
Pat Gillis (b. 1965, USA) began performing as TL0741 in January 2005, presenting structured improvisations for analogue modular synthesizer and effects combined with pre-recorded material. Drones, unstable automata and inharmonic gestures are harvested from the electrons to create a transient universe of unreliable premonitions and fragile possibilities.
Bizarre, minimalist synth-punk that may serve as a warning to the future from the past. Expect robotic vocals and assembly line rhythms married to simple yet emotionally resonant melodies, psychedelic twists and turns, and lyrics about knife fights, dead cats, and burning backwoods towns to the ground.