Friday May 2 * 7pm * $15-20 * TICKETS
QUEERING SOUND FUNDRAISER
PERFORMANCES // SILENT AUCTION OF ARTWORKS + QUEER PUBLICATIONS
02 MAY 2025 // 7-10PM
TICKETS: $15-$20
RHIZOME DC
6950 Maple Street NW
Washington DC 20012-2014
Help us fund our expanded vision of a two-week QUEERING SOUND festival staged across the DMV during WorldPride, 23 May - 08 June.
Ari Voxx
charlee scythe
Novparolo
Boy Meets Pearl
The Constructivist Brotherhood
Silent auction for a signed copy of Tara Rodgers Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound(Duke University Press, 2010) + ephemera; Fanny Chiarello BASTA NOW: Women, Trans & Non-binary in Experimental Music (Permanent Draft, 2024); “first fire” physical poetry artwork by Greg Thomas / oo (first edition/sold out); signed copy of JS Adams The New Vocabulary/Photographs 2017-2024 (Fading Glamour, London, 2025); and March for Our Lives “Life or Death” poster.
Ari Voxx
DC’s Dreamy Pop Princess is well-versed in many different music worlds, she focuses on writing music that is eclectic and authentically her, transcending genres. With a sound heavily inspired by the moods and vibes of 80s/90s new-wave and pop artists, a performance from Ari Voxx casts an encompassing nostalgic atmosphere over the listener. Ari's latest EP is a 6-song bedroom-pop expedition filled with hazy dreamscapes, bittersweet melodies, and 90s-esque breakbeats. Lament in lilac with "distance." Short description of Sound: "indie pop-rocks featuring precise yet ethereal vocals, pulsing synths, and dreamy atmosphere."
https://www.arivoxx.com/
https://arivoxx.bandcamp.com/
charlee scythe
From a void near you comes this hybrid, experimental artist. No matter what stage is under their feet, charlee is sure to ignite a fire with a unique genre-bending experience with influence ranging from late nineties nu metal to 70s Brazilian jazz. Whenever they are not deconstructing gender norms with passion, they are probably planning the next wild stunt to pull on stage.
https://www.youtube.com/@nameless_ent_
https://www.instagram.com/charleexscythe/
Novparolo
What Novparolo (Winston Psmith on guitar and Bev Stanton on keyboard and groovebox) does is create cinematic scores for films which haven’t even been made yet, but which just through their sonic grace conjure a thousand images...It is chamber-synth-pop, but with gentle, futuristic electronica replacing the more traditional sounds and beats which seem only to guide and structure rather than drive the music. (Dave Franklin, Dancing About Architecture)
https://novparolo.bandcamp.com/
https://www.novparolo.com/
Boy Meets Pearl
Boy Meets Pearl are queer-fronted and oddly orchestrated, with a sound reminiscent of a carnival midway, these carousel punks play exciting new originals inspired by sea shanties, circus waltzes, and Victorian Music Hall singalongs.
https://www.instagram.com/boymeetspearl/
https://www.facebook.com/BoyMeetsPearl/
The Constructivist Brotherhood: Let the panic ensue Claire de Lune
De courtes vignettes audio peuplées d’un casting de personnages réinventés douteux: Hugo Ball + Emmanuel Radnitzky dressed as a pantomime horse, alongside Carl Jung looking rather dapper in a sporty pork pie hat + Mies van der Rohe disguised as a small radioactive radish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsRlO4dQJGI
QUEERING SOUND is a volunteer-driven multifaceted arts festival of LGBTQIA+ artists/allies held annually in Washington DC that features visual art, spoken word, video/new media, and a wide variety of musical styles. Since 1999, QUEERING SOUND has presented over 100+ artists at local venues and online; showcasing artists – from the DMV region, across the nation + internationally –who push against and create their work outside the socially-mainstreamed boundaries of sound and vision.
RHIZOMEDC.ORG // QUEERINGSOUND.COM