Friday June 16 * 7pm * TICKETS
Join us for a QU23 music showcase featuring boundary-pushing guitar work, a sonic interpretation of an American Outsider Art and experimental music by queer artists and allies on Friday June 16th at 7:00PM at Rhizome DC. QUEERING SOUND is a multifaceted arts festival of LGBTQIA+ artists/allies held annually in Washington DC.
Performances by:
THE HORSE STORY SO TRUE #2,386 (Howard Finster, 1982)
Improvisational suite for electronics, guitar trio + narration
LIZARD HANDS (INTRO)
Lizard Hands is the project of a queer guy based in the Washington DC area who creates a variety of experimental and ambient sounds that drift between melodic instrumentals and spacey drones. Sounds layered upon each other create soundscapes that evoke, hypnotize, and wonder.
lizardhands.bandcamp.com
JS ADAMS, concept + conductor for audience participation/narration
thatcloud.bandcamp.com
CHRISTOPHER MATHEWS-LARSEN, guitar + effects
gravenature.bandcamp.com
DEPRESSION CHERRY (OUTRO)
Depression Cherry so far is a one-man project by Queer Germany-to-DC transplant Markus Meier that has lived its looping existence for several years in a small bedroom in the middle of Washington DC. A pre-pandemic QUEERING SOUND was the initial spark to take these sweet repeating lullabies out of the bedroom and onto the (small) stage and share them with you. I hope you enjoy my little melodic clouds that want to massage your soul and tell you that everything is fine (clearly a lie) and give you a break for a minute or two.
JOE BELKNAP WALL, stories + soundtracks
Joe Belknap Wall grew up in semi-rural Scaggsville MD, caught in the half-light between Baltimore and Washington DC, and was raised in an environment of omnipresent storytelling. With family from Baltimore and Georgia, he had ample opportunity to absorb the rhythms and cadences of a good tale well told, and, after having been given a used typewriter by his often-exasperated mother, unsuccessfully attempted to write a novel at the age of twelve.
When he was old enough to get his hands on his first tape recorder, he started recording, and soon was cutting and splicing and making strange landscapes out of found sound. He refined his technique over the years, branching out into modular synthesis and modern digital sampling, always working on a balance between telling stories with words and building pictures out of pure sound, with lots of crossover as words were broken down into noises and cut and diced and recontextualized into new forms.
joebelknapwall.com
INSECT FACTORY + ANDY WILSON (digital contributor)
Local guitarist + sonic explorer Jeff Barsky performs alongside digital field recordings provided by Andy Wilson (London). Beyond his solo guitar work, Barsky is a member of Bed Maker, Paper Balls + other collaborations. Wilson writes mostly on William Blake + counterculture and is the author of books on Faust and Iancu Dumitrescu. He has released music as RBE, The Grand Erector + a Sunseastar/Bourbonese Qualk collaboration.
insectfactory.bandcamp.com
twitter.com/THETRAVELLERIN1
EMILY GEN
Throat poems/electronics/cassette manipulation
SAD VEILED BRIDE
Ukulele Weltschmerz! Uke + beatbox + 80s melancholia.
https://www.sadveiledbri.de/
THE HORSE STORY SO TRUE #2,386 (Howard Finster, 1982)