Back to All Events

Flag Day Presents: Jeff Surak / Travis Johns / Tag Cloud / Guillermo Pizarro / Emily Gen / Xenojothsz

Saturday April 22 * 7pm * TICKETS

Jeff Surak has been a fixture within the experimental community for many years, curating the Sonic Circuits festival, programming for Rhizome DC, and running his own Zeromoon label. His own work manifests non-linear narratives through lo-fi techniques and archaic technologies.

Travis Johns is an artist from upstate New York who’s typically known more or less for these three things: 1.) building strange electronics under the nom de plume Vauxflores 2.) performing and composing experimental music, originally as part of the San Francisco BrutalSFX scene, also under the name of Vauxflores, among other assumed aliases and 3.) multidisciplinary art installations mounted alongside his wife Paulina Velazquez Solis, primarily, but not exclusively in various museums throughout Central America. Recently, he’s cobbled together an interface that converts brainwave measurements to control voltage which he’s using to do such thing as control synthesizers and explore rudimentary cybernetics in performances that usually spark the question of “so what were you thinking about when you were doing that?” This in turn provides ample opportunities for dirty jokes and bawdy humor, but the truth is, it really doesn’t work that way – but if you want to know how it does work, come check it out – just don’t ask that question. More info and this and that can be found here https://vauxflores.com/ and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXfHVSbGIyQ&t=634s

Guillermo Pizarro: Flag Day Recordings operator, Guillermo Pizarro uses field recordings, tapes, harsh noise, synths and ambient textures to achieve his cinematic storytelling through sound.
https://guillermopizarro.bandcamp.com/

Tag Cloud is noisy/ambient drone excursions since 2011. This show will mark the release of the latest record, Slated for Deep Sleep, by Fuzzy Panda Recording Co.
https://tagcloud2.bandcamp.com

Emily Gen: Emily Gen is a sound out of ecstatic throat poem/electronics/cassette manipulation

Xenojothsz: Abstract, metaphysical harsh electronics
https://anti-everything.bandcamp.com/album/mother-child-psychosis