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LIVE :: SUNDAY 13 JUNE :: 2 PM :: outside at Rhizome :: TICKETS

The 21st annual staging of performance / sound + digital arts / spoken word / visual art focusing on LGBTQI+ / post-gender-identified / supportive allies + queer artisans.

INSECT FACTORY
Insect Factory is music from Silver Spring MD musician Jeff Barsky. Insect Factory focuses on texture and mood, building layers of dense sounds that slowly evolve into hypnotic and atmospheric drones.
insectfactory.bandcamp.com/

ONE CHORD PONIES :: Am7 CHORDS! MOTORIK BEATS! KAZOOS! CICADAS! BUZZSAWS! AZTEC DEATH WHISTLES! MASSED PLAYBACK!
featuring:
CK BARLOW (BALTIMORE)
CK Barlow is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who divides her time between producing music for television, performing with electronics, and teaching music technology. As a performer she has long specialized in structured improvisations using processed field recordings, as well as live sampling herself and other performers. Barlow is a Board member of Baltimore’s High Zero Collective. Barlow received her B.A. in Technical Writing/Computer Science with a minor in Music Theory and Composition from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; and her M.Mu. in Music Theory and Composition with distinction from the University of New Mexico.
ckbarlow.com/wordpress/
ckbarlow.bandcamp.com/

CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS-LARSEN + JS ADAMS
Curated by JS Adams (BLK w/BEAR) + Christopher Mathew-Larsen (Grave Nature), THAT orchestrates massed playback for socially diminished or abandoned public places, carparks, and open fields. Performances offer guaranteed, total audience participation where selected pre-recorded tracks are downloaded by participants via QR Code or embedded link and used en masse.
adams-dress.com/THAT/

JEFF BARSKY
insectfactory.bandcamp.com/

JOSH MAXWELL
Drone, dark ambient, noise
thatwithtusks.bandcamp.com/

RA MARTINI
Multi-instrumentalist RA Martini graduated from Michigan State University with a B.S. in Environmental Studies and Sustainability and a B.F.A. in Music Composition.
martini.bandcamp.com/

LA VOIX HUMAINE :: DECONSTRUCTION/ADAPTATION OF LA VOIX HUMAINE (THE HUMAN VOICE), AN OPERA BY FRANCIS POULENC BASED ON THE ONE-ACT PLAY BY JEAN COCTEAU. HELLO? HELLO!
featuring:
CK BARLOW (BALTIMORE)
ckbarlow.com/wordpress/
ckbarlow.bandcamp.com/

JOSH MAXWELL
thatwithtusks.bandcamp.com/

RA MARTINI
martini.bandcamp.com/

JEFF BARSKY
insectfactory.bandcamp.com/

CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS-LARSEN + JS ADAMS
adams-dress.com/THAT/

BLEEDINGBLACKWOOD (BERLIN) (digital)
Freak Folk, Sad Core, Funeral Marches, Mutant Drama, Synth Pop, Slow Dub...Timo C. Engel sings his personal diary.
bleedingblackwood.bandcamp.com/
instagram.com/timocengel/ 

{AN} EeL (TORONTO) (digital)
{AN} EeL is all over the map. An experimental vocalist and full bodies inhabitant of this colorful universe. He Make Ood Thiings, You Knoww.w>....
panpanpanaviandistresscall.bandcamp.com/

JASSIE RIOS (digital)
2018 Guthman Musical Instrument Design Competition winner for her GramFX program, Rios is a sound artist working at the intersection of computer music, sculpture, and drawing. Her work oscillates between states of representation and fragmentation, acoustic and electronic, object and process, and takes the form of site-specific, interactive sound/light installations, collage, video, photography, text, performance, and works for internet and paper.
instagram.com/djjassie/

SARAH O’HALLORAN (digital)
O’Halloran is a composer from Ireland, who currently lives in the Washington, DC area. In 2015 she completed her Ph.D. in Composition and Computer Technology at the McIntire Department of Music, U.Va. Before attending U.Va., Sarah received an M.A. in Sonic Arts from Queens University Belfast. Sarah also has a B.A. in Music and English and an M.Phil. in Musicology from University College Cork. Sarah has attended master classes and residencies with composers including Alvin Lucier, Louis Andriessen, Christian Wolff, Kaja Saariaho, Petr Kotik, and Mark Applebaum. She has also studied Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros. Sarah also creates original music and sound design for theater
sarahohalloran.com/

ROSHI NASEHI (LONDON) (digital)
Roshi Nasehi is a Welsh born singer-composer of Iranian parentage with a strong track record in live performance, collaboration, recording, and workshops. After moving to London, she formed her much acclaimed "experimental, electronic Welsh-Iranian folk pop" project Roshi Featuring Pars Radio with prolific percussionist/producer Graham Dowdall (Gagarin, Nico, Cale, Pere Ubu); an unorthodox sound world combining Roshi's intimate singing style with Gagarin's experimental electronic powers to create a unique genre-crossing, “exotic, folktronica landscape.” Her songs reflect her origins, influences and experiences in a personal highly individual way accompanied by unusual piano or keyboard arrangements, vocal loops and effects – they are reflective, melodic and quirky – her voice airy and tender but possessed of an inner power. When she interprets Iranian song, it is in a personal style bringing a contemporary twist combined with an authentic understanding of context and language.
roshi.biz/about.html
rifmountain.bandcamp.com/album/mehregan
gagarin.bandcamp.com/album/3-almonds-and-a-walnut
gagarin.bandcamp.com/album/oosh-badaam-ber-goz-remixes
gagarin.bandcamp.com/album/dont-breathe-it-to-a-soul-remixes
gagarin.bandcamp.com/album/the-sky-and-the-caspian-sea 

KATIE MACYSHYN (digital)
Katie Macyshyn (she/they) is a performance artist and experiential art practitioner serving collaborative new media art that include wearables, installation, sound, and video. Macyshyn’s work is frequently shown in DIY venues and gallery exhibitions alike. They are also an art instructor and songstress who specializes in the therapeutic benefits of creative play in early childhood. Macyshyn holds a BFA from the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at George Washington University. She lives in Mount Rainier, MD and hails from Toms River, NJ.
www.katiemacyshyn.com/

THAT CLOUD
Birthed out of a virtual-tour support request, a subsequent social-distance live performance, and recording purposes, THAT CLOUD is a collaboration by JS Adams (BLK w/BEAR) and Christopher Mathews-Larsen (Grave Nature) as THAT and Chris Videll’s Tag Cloud project. The one-hour audio work from their La Règle des Tiers recording sessions – “A self-portrait of Thomas Eakins, seen at the left-hand side of the painting, next to the tunnel railing, with a white cuffed sleeve sketching or writing” – will be performed at QUEERING SOUND.
thatcloud.bandcamp.com/