LIVE :: SUNDAY 06 JUNE :: 2 PM :: outside at Rhizome :: ADVANCE TICKETS REQUIRED
The 21st annual staging of performance / sound + digital arts / spoken word / visual art focusing on LGBTQI+ / post-gender-identified / supportive allies + queer artisans.
PD SEXTON (SAN FRANCISCO) (digital)
Pete Sexton is a multi-instrumentalist and member of BLK w/BEAR. He has contributed a solo recording that serves as the audio introduction to QUEERING SOUND 2021.
fuzzypanda.bandcamp.com/album/oumuamua
DANIELLE EVENNOU
For over a decade, Evennou has kept herself busy by hosting poetry readings, workshops, and open mics in Washington, DC. Her poetry and memoir appear in apt, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Dryland, and Split Lip Magazine. Her chapbook, DIFFICULT TRICK, is available from dancing girl press. With the help of therapy, she is learning how to calm the fuck down.
whatevennou.com
NOVPAROLO
Novparolo is an ongoing collaboration between Bev Stanton and Winston Psmith. Stanton has won over a dozen Washington Area Music Awards in the Electronica category. Her music has appeared in shows on the Discovery Channel, VH1, MTV and other cable television networks. Stanton is one of 24 female electronic artists and deejays profiled in Pink Noises: Women in Electronic Music and Sound (Tara Rodgers; Duke University Press, 2010). Winston Psmith (the "P" is silent) is an American experimental musician, who has spent far too long in the company of machines. He calls himself a "black box" musician, since so much of his sound comes from black boxes with blinking lights.
novparolo.com
novparolo.bandcamp.com
CHRISTINE PALUCH
DC-based composer using synthesizers, code, and other musical instruments to explore the relationship between synesthesia and urban spaces.
praxiscat.bandcamp.com
undernight.bandcamp.com
www.msmodular.com
SIR E.U
“There’s a myriad of ways to describe SIR E.U, and a shortage of words that do the 27-year-old DC native any justice: idiosyncratic, innovative, relentless Aquarian leaning contrarian. As a multimedia artist, he’s spent over half his life designing sound, specializing in rap music and performance that shapeshifts on his whim and refuses to landlock itself. E.U’s been heralded, swagger-jacked, and still overlooked in the deep lineage of the D.C. underground.” (Michael Penn II, VinylMePlease.com, November 18, 2020)
sireu.bandcamp.com
THAT + GLEB KANASEVICH (NYC) (digital)
Curated by JS Adams (BLK w/BEAR) + Christopher Mathew-Larsen (Grave Nature), THAT orchestrates massed playback for socially diminished or abandoned public places, carparks, and open fields. Performances offer guaranteed, total audience participation where selected pre-recorded tracks are downloaded by participants via QR Code or embedded link and used en Gleb
adams-dress.com/THAT/
Gleb Kanasevich is a clarinetist, composer, and noise/drone musician. He currently works primarily with feedback and modified instruments, while exploring expressive possibilities in simple electronic processing. He works in a variety of formats as a soloist and collaborates with many artists, ranging between composers, improvisers, noise musicians, and death metal bands. Since 2013, he has been a core member of Ensemble Cantata Profana – a group based in New York City. In August 2018, he has taken on the duties of the ensemble's Associate Artistic Director.
glebkanasevich.com
https://gleb-kanasevich.bandcamp.com
TAG CLOUD w/ RAVEN BAUER DURHAM + JAMES LAWRENCE WOLF
Chris Videll performs as Tag Cloud, which started in 2009, as a series of best-forgotten experiments with field recordings and has come to include analog electronics, effects, cheap keyboards, metal percussion, and Shruti box. Best described at this point as “electroacoustic sound sculpture and carpets of drone.”
tagcloud2.bandcamp.com
Raven Bauer Durham is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. She has performed and recorded as a solo artist and in Phoenix Auto Group.
ravenbauerdurham.bandcamp.com
James Wolf is a violinist/multi-instrumentalist and a veteran of the DC indie and experimental music community. He has played and recorded as a solo artist and with several bands, including Fern Knight, The Orchid, and Phoenix Auto Group.
jwolf333.bandcamp.com/jameslawrencewolf
ravenbauerdurham.bandcamp.com