Wednesday November 26 * doors at 7, show at 7:30 * $12-24 * TICKETS
Valentina booking presents:
some pepper is daby/ David L Byrne from lounge act Charmaine's Names and spy rock band De Klok. daby uses feedback in all it's incarnations; audio, video, radio, biological, philosophical. A master router, daby will sometimes give instructions live or on video for feedback synthesis, and can be found on youtube and elsewhere as profquad. Recently moved to the promised land of Pittsburgh, daby has been diving into sound reactive video feedback synthesis, and collecting too many tvs.
Ben Jenkins
New Jersey-born Ali Berger is a drum machine specialist and low-key US dance music standby, now based in Pittsburgh after spending the 2010s in Boston and Detroit. His catalog of original music runs deep, with over 80 releases on his Trackland label and EPs on imprints like Scissor & Thread, Spectral Sound, and Sequencias, all resulting from a lovingly-cultivated studio approach which respects improvisation as a spiritual practice. Ali brings the same open energy to the DJ booth, blending classic sounds from New York and Chicago with their contemporary continuations, taking in vocals, jack tracks, swinging house cuts and blissed-out techno funk in whatever configuration suits the moment.
frogonbough is an experimental musician whose practice spans glitch, ambient, noise, and drone. Working primarily with livecoding in TidalCycles, she creates intricate, shifting rhythmic structures that blur the line between improvisation and composition. Her work often incorporates field recordings, found objects, and collaborative improvisation, pushing sound into unexpected directions.
anna thompson and taylor knight are slowdanger, a multidisciplinary duo creating work at the intersection of movement, sound, and technology. Their music fuses experimental club, noise, and ambient influences with processed vocals and deep rhythmic textures, producing visceral environments that invite both listening and movement. Their practice blurs boundaries between dance, performance art, and electronic music.