Experimental Show at Bantha Tea Bar with Bloodrot, Slowdanger, burnt-feathers, Johnny Arlett, and Mercy Clinic Doors open at 7PM, music at 8PM. $10-$15 suggested price. Tickets at the door
BLOODROT
A collaboration between Dagger Wound (Los Angeles) and Kwami Winfield (NYC).
Dagger Wound (he/it) is Harsh Noise Electronics with extreme performance art. He brings abrasive sounds with a strong political message and a cathartic and transgressive performance style that slices through reality. He is motivated by his desire for a better world and his lifestyle as an underground trans freak, sex worker, farmer, and transient. He is currently creating a body of work honoring Lawu, his beloved life partner who tragically and horrifically died in a car crash.
Kwami Winfield (she/her) is a musician/sound designer who employs a variety of electronic and acoustic instruments, often smearing any distinction between them, connecting complex and interactive networks of sonic systems. Her open-ended definition of "instrument" welcomes all objects, concepts, and feelings into the fray. She has toured in the continental states extensively, playing in bands like Turnip King, Many Many Girls, Divide and Dissolve. She publishes music on her personal bandcamp, and her cassette labels Call Waitn and Stolen Time.
SLOWDANGER (Pittsburgh)
Taylor Knight (they/them) & Anna Thompson (they/them) are co-founding artistic directors of this multidisciplinary performance organism founded in 2013. slowdanger uses systematic approaches to movement, sound, queer world building and ontological examination to produce performance work, utilizing process based practices to delve into circular life patterning including effort, transformation, and death. Their sound work fuses body-based sound activation, textural layers, and fragmentation to stimulate somatic sensing. They have performed nationally and internationally including collaborations with Black Leather Jesus on their 2023 EU tour.
BURNT-FEATHERS (Pittsburgh)
^angelic-electronic technology maintenance & development ^curse-removal & wish-negation service technician ^devotional joyous glitch'd-body bloodmusic ^awkward maneuvers on the transcendental dance floor
^recently released output titled "[TOTAL_LOVE] DISSOLVING" featuring a large number of collaborative electronic dance remixes of previous noise recordings from "in the light of total love" ^new output titled "TOTAL LOVE (DIS)INTEGRATED" a further deconstruction of TOTAL LOVE music, made in collaboration with DJ Treebug ^next recorded output will be "why do you shiver so close to the flame?", a postgothic spell against fascist ritual.
JOHNNY ARLETT (Pittsburgh)
Johnny Arlett (he/they) is a Pittsburgh-based musician and multimedia artist most widely known for his contributions to the noise rock trio Microwaves (Three One G Records), as well as his experimental solo work in sound and visual arts. Arlett explores a vast range of sounds in his solo output and with local/international collaborators. Live performances often consist of utilizing bass, contact-microphone instruments (for vocals and percussion), cassette tapes, live looping & synth. A trilogy of self-released EPs in the past year ('MHHSÔNXXX', 'MHHSÔNXXX II', and 'MHHSÔNXXX III') showcases his approach to sonic navigation in the face of uncertainty via unconventional structures.
Performances may sometimes incorporate immersive multimedia elements, such as visual projections, reflecting a desire to create a sensory-stimulating experience that pushes the imagination to reconsider its limits & draw the audience closer.
MERCY CLINIC (Pittsburgh)
Hallucinatory harsh noise, decayed futuristic soundscapes possessed with disorienting ambience & occult symbolism