Saturday May 25 * 2pm * $15-20 * TICKETS
FULL FESTIVAL PASS: $100 (50% of sales benefit Rhizome DC)
QUEERING SOUND 2024 performances are scheduled for Thursday 23 and Friday 24 May evenings (7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.) and 'all-day' (2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. blocks) on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May. Festival pass purchases directly benefit Rhizome DC and afford you advanced access to all QU24 performances, saving 13% over purchasing individual full-priced tickets for all dates.
BEAU BEV DeJOE
Bev Stanton, electronics
Stanton was born in the Bahamas and raised near Walt Disney World. Her music has appeared in programs on the Discovery Channel, VH1, MTV, and other cable television networks. Stanton is one of twenty-four female electronic artists and deejays profiled in Pink Noises: Women in Electronic Music and Sound (Tara Rodgers; Duke University Press, 2010). Her electronica project Arthur Loves Plastic has won over a dozen Washington Area Music Awards in the Electronica category. Stanton performs live with her DAWless electronic project neon.bev.click, the electronic duo Novparolo, the solo ukulele shtick Sad Veiled Bride, the self-indulgent ambient experiment KimbaKalimba, and the folk trio Mysteryband.
https://bevstantonmusic.com/
Joe B Wall, electronics
When he was old enough to get his first tape recorder, Wall started recording, and soon was cutting 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.
https://joebelknapwall.com/
Beau Finley, electronics
Beau Finley makes mostly ambient music and drone. He plays guitar, bass, and synthesizers. Beau's other projects include Small Craft and Destroyer of Worlds.
https://beaufinley.bandcamp.com/
https://fuzzypanda.bandcamp.com/music
niki afsar
A nonbinary/femme, Iranian-American writer, and interdisciplinary artist, niki’s work explores ideas of fluidity and longing within language, hybrid/myriad identities, and mental health. Their art and politics are shaped by questions of identity and liberation. They employ a number of mediums including devised movement and performance; poetry and text; live singing and recording using a vocal loop machine; sound collaging; and more recently, mirror work.
https://nikiafsar.com/
Marlena Chertock, spoken word
Marlena writes about growing up with a rare skeletal dysplasia. Other common themes in her work include identity, intersectionality, queerness, chronic pain, accessibility, science fiction, and how climate change impacts disabled people. She is an advocate for human rights — including disabled, LGBTQ+, people of color, immigrants and refugees, neurodivergent, incarcerated, and other marginalized folks.
https://marlenachertock.com/
OUTBOARD
Ambient drone + noise duo, Chris Mathews-Larsen (Grave Nature/Youth in Government) + Greg Mercer.
THAT MAJEURE
The continuing Deconstruction of Popular Classics: Promenade I-IV (Modest Mussorgsky "Pictures at an Exhibition," 1874 + orchestral adaptation by Maurice Ravel, 1922). The first performance of the Massed Narration composition, "tiny tragedies of human frustration" (Louise Bourgeois "He Disappeared into Complete Silence," 1947).
JS Adams, electronics + prepared vinyl
Christopher Mathews-Larsen, guitar + euphonium
Chris Videll, electronics
https://thatcloud.bandcamp.com/
CK Barlow, sampler
https://ckbarlow.bandcamp.com/
RA Martini, bass + violin
https://martini.bandcamp.com/
Josh Maxwell, bass
https://thatwithtusks.bandcamp.com/
QUEERING SOUND is a volunteer-driven, multifaceted arts festival of LGBTQIA+ artists/allies held annually in Washington DC and features visual art, spoken word, video/new media, and a wide variety of musical styles. Since 1999, QUEERING SOUND has presented over one hundred local, national, and international artists at nine DMV venues and online; showcasing artists who push against and create their work outside the socially-mainstreamed boundaries of sound and vision.
https://www.queeringsound.com