Show Tonight! Girl Groups of the 50s & 60s Cover Show

May 14, 2016

7:00 pm

Girls Rock! Rhode Island Presents: "Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 50s & 60s Cover Show." Girls Rock Camp and Ladies Rock Camp alums, GRR! volunteers, and other local musicians, will be playing covers of songs by Girl Groups from the 50s and 60s! $5-$20 sliding scale donation. This is a fundraiser show to benefit Girls Rock! Rhode Island's music empowerment programming! Featuring special guest June Millington. Considered one of the Godmothers of Women in Rock, June played guitar in the 70s all-female rock band, Fanny. She also played in the genre of women's music, and is co-founder of the Institute for the Musical Arts. Also performances by Girls Rock Camp and Ladies Rock Camp alums, GRR! volunteers, and other local musicians, including (in alphabetical order): Bed Death, Bleeders of the Pack, Cramptown Mayors, DeeDee Brown, Emma Corbin, Hothead, Joan Wyand Lauren Walker, Sianna Plavin, Skylar Batz, Super Group, with RedDawn spinning between acts and Reba emceeing!

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: Luke Moldof

May 8, 2016

7:00 pm

Note! We are pushing back noise lounge to 7pm to honor the light! 7-10.

RIEMC Opening Night and Artist Reception

May 6, 2016

9:00 pm

Friday, the opening night and artist reception. All musicians and performers are invited to join the opening night of the event, which will feature performances by Unicorn Hard-On's Valerie Martino solo debut, Bellerophon's newest ep release, the screening of NOIA's latest music video, and a Dj performance by TBD j.

Twin Foxes // Creepers (members of Deafheaven) // Snowplows // The Hurt Ensemble

May 4, 2016

9:00 pm

The Hurt Ensemble - heavy post rock, math jazz ethusiasts. Snowplows - dischordy post hardcore + amps. Creepers - san fran alt metal gaze, members of Deafheaven. Twin Foxes - punk grunge, shoegazi.

Tashi Dorji, Marisa Anderson, Horse Lords, Wind & Ghosts

May 1, 2016

9:00 pm

Psyched to Announce that Tashi Dorji is coming back to Machines with Marisa Anderson. Pitchforked named their split as one of the Best Experimental Albums of 2016. Tashi Dorji - A Bhutanese guitarist now residing in Asheville, NC, Tashi Dorji makes meticulously crafted sounds that conjure spirits, wrestle demons and tame wild beast. As beautiful as they are cerebral , his acoustic works are reminiscent of Derek Bailey`s free improvisations, flamenco and Fahey`s Americana. Marisa Anderson - Marisa Anderson’s guitar playing is fluid, emotional, dexterous and original. National Public Radio says Anderson’s playing “exposes and hides the mysteries of American music”. Pitchfork calls her recent record, ‘Mercury’, ”Brilliant” and Wire Magazine says, “Her sound has strength in restless variety…Anderson’s playing is heartfelt and utterly American, free from grandstanding and steeped in respect for the old tradition.”

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: Blevin Blectum

May 1, 2016

6:00 pm

(Immediately preceding Tashi Dorji, Marisa Anderson, Horse Lords, Wind & Ghosts)

Singing With Machines

April 29, 2016

9:00 pm

an evening of experimental, vocal, machine, and performance art with: BLEVIN BLECTUM, DOMESTIQUE, KRISTIN HAYTER, JOSS, AND: ?????? (((...A MYSTERY BAND...))) ??????

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: FALZONE & GLASSON

April 24, 2016

6:00 pm

JPA FALZONE & BRENDAN GLASSON will be performing John Cage's "ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible)." ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage and the subject of one of the longest-lasting musical performances yet undertaken. It was originally written in 1987 for organ and is adapted from the earlier work ASLSP 1985; a typical performance of the piano version lasts 20 to 70 minutes. In 1985, Cage opted to omit the detail of exactly how slowly the piece should be played. ABOUT 1/4 VOLUME NOISE LOUNGE: 1/4 Volume noise lounge is a free 3 hour lounge session. Listen to the experimental soundscape hosted by that week's artist, chat, bring a book and read or sketch, do your homework, do some experimental research, google, snuggle, practice your astral projection skills, and check out the art in the gallery 'cuz we've got OPEN HOURS, baby---breath---AND grab yourself a bomb cocktail or two.

Oneida / Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores

April 22, 2016

9:00 pm

ART ROCK CITY. You should see the meniscus on this teeming cup of radioactive sound. Oh--that snapping, crackling, racket? It's the geiger counter. +++Oneida+++ "a restlessly creative Brooklyn rock quintet" - New York Times " Brooklyn's finest (and most robustly prolific, extravagantly aliased, and relentlessly propulsive) art-rock band" - Village Voice +++Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores+++ You know these local heroes.

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: MARK & LAURA CETILIA

April 17, 2016

6:00 pm

Laura Cetilia graduated with distinction from the School of Music at Indiana University and received her Master's degree in cello performance from Wichita State University. In addition to her solo work, she is a member of the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1 with partner Mark Cetilia, and performs avant-garde chamber music with violist Robin Streb in their duo Suna No Onna. Mark Cetilia is a sound / media artist working at the nexus of analog and digital technologies. Exploring the possibilities of generative systems in art, design, and sound practice, Cetilia’s work is an exercise in carefully controlled chaos. He is a member of the media art group Redux, recipients of a Creative Capital grant in Emerging Fields, and the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1, described by The Grove Dictionary of American Music as “a complex cybernetic entity” whose “evolving, custom-built systems are as important an aspect of the duo’s achievements as their ever-innovative sound.”

Twig twig, Dan Liparini, Shape King, Antonio Forte Process featuring Joan Wyand

April 16, 2016

9:00 pm

**Funky Electronics and Analog Circuitry**

Shawn Greenlee, Lesley Flanigan, Maria Chavez, Humanbeast

April 10, 2016

9:00 pm

Immediately following 1/4 Volume Noise Lounge with Ed Osborn. LESLEY FLANIGAN is an experimental electronic musician inspired by the physicality of sound, she builds her own instruments using minimal electronics, microphones and speakers. Performing these instruments alongside traditional instrumentation that often includes her own voice, she creates a kind of physical electronic music that embraces both the transparency and residue of process — sculpting sound from a palette of noise and subtle imperfections. MARIA CHAVEZ is mainly known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist & DJ. Influenced by chance & improvisation in contemporary art, she has collaborated with Christian Marclay and the Whitney Museum of American Art, performed alongside Pauline Oliveros, Thurston Moore, Phill Niblock and worked with Merce Cunningham prior to his passing as a sound artist in residence with the DIA:Beacon Museum in Beacon, NY. With local support from Shawn Greenlee and Humanbeast.

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: ED OSBORN

April 10, 2016

6:00 pm

Ed Osborn's work takes many forms including installation, sculpture, radio, video, performance, and public projects. His works combine a visceral sense of space, aurality, and motion with a precise economy of materials. Ranging from rumbling fans and sounding train sets to squirming music boxes and delicate feedback networks, Osborn's kinetic and audible pieces function as resonating systems that are by turns playful and oblique, engaging and enigmatic. Osborn has performed and exhibited, throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South America.

Hungry Freaks, Jonah Parzen-Johnson, Dave Miller, Ryan Dugre

April 8, 2016

8:00 pm

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: WORK/DEATH

April 3, 2016

6:00 pm

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge, April 3, 2016 hosted by WORK/DEATH. A long time staple of the providence noise scene, work/death (scøtt reber) doesn't have any easy explanations for anyone. The perception of air vibrating in a room, the investment of meaning into formal constructions and abstract procedures. Organized sound, orchestrated noise, disintegrated music regenerated again.

Sponge Bath & Patrick Gallagher w/ Davey Harms

April 1, 2016

9:00 pm

Two v nice North Carolina sonic experimenters arrive @ Machines. Come one, Come all. Sponge Bath: Hardware produced techno music made by Nathan Taylor of Chapel Hill, NC. With Patrick Gallagher: Prepared guitar experimentation and light flirting with beats. Also hailing from NCs Triangle area. Local Support: Davey Harms & ONE MORE tba.