At 9pm, the Southern California Soundscape Ensemble (SCSE) will perform an unrehearsed, completely improvised concert using only unprocessed field recordings gathered from places all over the world.

Please join us for an intimate evening of listening and discussion.

Thursday, May 19 || 8pm || $3

{open} and URCK records present ..
The Deglet Noor Fakirs
Huhm Druhm
w/ a short film by Brian Traylor
curated by the hop-frog kollectiv

3rdThurs – April 2010

The Constant Collection
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Peter Kolovos
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a screening of “Un Chien Andalou” by Luis Bunuel

Un Chien Andalou is a sixteen minute silent surrealist short film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. It was Dali’s first film and was initially released in 1929 to a limited showing in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months. It is one of the best-known surrealist films of the avant-garde movement of the 1920s. – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_Chien_Andalou

“… in New Bodies, his first solo release, Kolovos lets rip with all the skronk and blurt he’s been holding in for the last decade, in tiny, tightly gated segments.” -The Wire, August 2009 – http://www.myspace.com/peterkolovos, http://www.thinwrist.com/

The Constant Collection state their influences to be: “Dense Minimalism, Hysterical Realism, Natural History, Super Nature, Holism, Various Film Composers, Incidental Music/Programme Music, Synesthesia, Sonology, Sound Context, etc.” – http://www.myspace.com/constantcollection

thurs, jan. 21 // 8pm // $3
Blackbird Raum + Whitman
w/ a short film by Charles Pieper
curated by Elaine Layabout (of KXLU’s Demolisten)

Please note: Due to the travel involved, this 3rdThurs is $5 instead of the usual $3. Please come down and support!

with performances by
Double Blind + Julia Holter
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Double Blind, an improvising ensemble with improvised membership, will perform a live, improvised interpretation of their latest project, “Wounded Speaker,” recently released on mprntbl.com.  Participants scheduled to appear include Glenn Bach, MLuM (Michael Raco-Rands and Marco Schindelmann), David Nadal, Joseph Richard Negro, Matt Pogue, and smgsap (shea M gauer & scott A peterson).

Julia Holter is a Los Angeles-based musician who specializes in creating homemade recordings out of casios, microkorgs, harmoniums, bells, and alta vista translations. She is a frequent performer of experimental music in the Los Angeles area, both as a Cal Arts Composition MFA student and as a member of pop label Human Ear Music.
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www.soundwalk.org

This 3rdThurs is a significant one for Nial Morgan (aka Deer Tear): Excepting a recent set at the Wilson High School open mike, it will be the debut performance for the 15-year-old. Using spacial drones, piano samples and signal generator tones, DeerTear creates a soundscape that, according to {open} co-owner Shea Gauer, assures him an “avant-future.”

Also on the evening’s bill is Ain Soph Aur. “Ain Soph Aur,” one of the many Hebrew names for God, translates as “the limitless light.” Fittingly, artists Sander Wolff and Carl Off (of the hop-frog kollectiv) perform along a limitless field of sound and vibration, though one could argue they are best experienced with the lights off.

“I don’t know if there is a specific intention about expressing something, or an idea,” said Wolff. “It is more about listening, creating a dialog, and allowing the moment to expand.”

Moments spent in the performance expand with an entire legion of instruments–bells, bowls, banjos, a drone unit–gently and individually played. The sounds from each are then looped, live, into the improvised performance, resulting in the nuanced evolution of the performance itself. Watch a previous performance here or listen to a room recording of their first performance here.

The latest installment of this incredibly intriguing evening will feature Unicorn, a side, solo project of WT Nelson, founding member of rough-edged experimental staple Bastard Noise. With Unicorn, WT tangents from that harsher foundation to explore an ambient experimental sound that dances between noise, melody and minimalism.

Also taking the 3rdThurs stage will be sublamp, the minimalist sound and video project of LA artist Ryan Connor. sublamp’s sound is centered around field recordings, incorporating guitar and sound manipulations. During his set at {open}, sublamp will screen two short films before beginning his visuals-accompanied performance.