1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: CHRISTOPHER SADLERS

March 13, 2016

6:00 pm

This week's host: Christopher Sadlers Chamber noise, minimalist improvisations, and maximalist compositions on solo string bass. Member (past and present) of: The Eyesores, Death Vessel, Barnacled, Denimvenom, Shamanic, Shambing Mound. also, cookies and board games!

It Stays With You Closing, Cyst, Lvmmvx, Sugar Pie, Fall Risk, Rita Repulsa

March 11, 2016

9:00 pm

Closing Night for IT STAYS WITH YOU: new work by Johnny Ray, Gyna Bootleg and Joseph Mauro. CYST, LVMMVX, SUGAR PIE, JOhnny Ray and the Vomit Arsonist (self flagellation, purging, going to the shrink), FALL RISK (collaborative performance by Gyna Bootleg and Joseph Mauro), RITA REPULSA (two homies performing the world's 1st auditory rendition of crab dreams). 1st show. provoking work. stiff drinks. hellion tunes.

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: AKIKO HATAKEYAMA

March 6, 2016

6:00 pm

Akiko is a composer, singer, and audio-visual performer / artist who is a native of Yokohama, Japan. She is interested in crossing boundaries between traditionally written music, improvisation, electronics, computer based live interactivity, and visual components. Storytelling, memories, and nature often play an important role in Akiko's work, and she most often finds beauty in simplicity. Designing and building instruments/controllers is a part of her current study as well. Akiko obtained her BA in music from Mills College and MA in Experimental Music/Composition at Wesleyan University. Since September 2011, Akiko has been engaged in PhD study in the MEME program at Brown University. Her instructors include Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton, Ronald Kuivila, Maggi Payne, Chris Brown, Jim Moses, Todd Winkler, and Butch Rovan. Akiko is a founding member of OPENSIGNAL, a collective of artists concerned with the state of gender and race in experimental electronic-based sound and art practices.

GOSH PITH with Illsnafu, JJAAZZ, Favourite

March 5, 2016

9:00 pm

Jungle labelmate GOSH PITH comes to Machines with Magnets with tour bud Illsnafu and local crooners Favourite and JJAAZZ. GOSH PITH (B3SCI Recs, Detroit). ::Gold Chain Tour:: Future R'n'B / Cosmic Trap duo bringing heat from motor city. With locals JJAAZZ mems of Math the Band, The Kolour Kult, & Favourite.

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: ANIMAL HOSPITAL

February 28, 2016

6:00 pm

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge hosted by ANIMAL HOSPITAL. Animal Hospital is a project created by Kevin Emil Micka :: A live performance of Animal Hospital consists of Kevin alone and is based on the idea of building a piece of music up from scratch into a completely fleshed out arrangement often containing enough parts to employ many musicians. The music often references many familiar aspects of contemporary rock and pop music but is open to venture out into much more experimental territory. You might remember his work directing Animal Hospital Ensemble performances - like the 30-Guitar-Strong performance under the bridge for the first DOT AIR.

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: DIAL PAINTERS

February 21, 2016

6:00 pm

Okay, so contrary to printed posters and calendars, Dave Public isn't playing this noise lounge. We wish him the best on his trip to a memorial in NJ and look forward to his RETURN. In his stead we've got another act with the initials "DP." 6-9pm | NOISE LOUNGE | 1/4 Volume | FREE | not a show, come play checkers and mind games | Gallery Hours DIAL PAINTERS (Steven W. Greco and Marcel McVay) will rip three hours of lounge noise, recalling the tragedy of the Radium Girls aka Watch Dial Painters who painted ever-glowing Radium paint on the numbers of watch dials in and around 1917. Pointing their brushes with quick lashes of their tongues and nimble lips, these teenage wage workers rapidly poisoned themselves - their buried bodies still cranking gieger counter clicks to this day. Also apparent will be a Tralfamadorian sense of timelessness, time warping and the simultaneous experience of birth, death and the passion inherent between them.

TRANSIENT CITIES : LUCKY UNITED : PUBLIC POLICY : COREY STROFFOLINO (from The Attending)

February 17, 2016

9:00 pm

Hiroshi Hasegawa • Desiccant • God Willing + Noise Nomads • Suicide Magnets

February 14, 2016

9:00 pm

Hiroshi Hasegawa (from Japan), Desiccant (Andy Borsz of Slasher Risk + Newton), God Willing + Noise Nomads, and Suicide Magnets.

1/4 Vol. Noise Lounge 4: WILTED WOMAN <3

February 14, 2016

6:00 pm

1/4 NOISE LOUNGE! 6-9pm and free!! It's VALENTINES DAY! Come and hang, talk, play cool games, kiss in public. This is not a show, so feel free to take a seat and have some fun with your friends.

Alina Simonova, Westeryear, Leiko

February 12, 2016

8:00 pm

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: TIME BASE CORRECTOR

February 7, 2016

6:00 pm

This guy is nuts. Utterly freaking nuts. With both hands on both joysticks. Audio / Visual experimentation abound... expect serious flittering visual stimulation behind an assembly of sensuous sound. Matthew Underwood everybody, aight?

Champagne Mirrors, Thorn, Apathy and Steel, Drekalo, PPG, DJ Shawn O'Sullivan

February 5, 2016

9:00 pm

Touring from Chicago -Champagne Mirrors: Alex Barnett - drum machine, synthesizer, tapes, vocal, c30 on the Scrapes label. Touring from NYC- P.P.G. Rose E. Kross + 51717 // Gynoid Exotica (members of further reductions, 51717). With local support: Apathy and Steel (Mark Cetilia), Drekalo (Kristin Hayter), Thorn (Tay la), and V Special Guest: Shawn O'Sullivan (DJ sets between acts).

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: HOUSEBOY!

January 31, 2016

6:00 pm

The SECOND of the revived edition 1/4 Vol. Noise Lounge. A true class act, HOUSEBOY's Rebecca Mitchell (House Red, Whore Paint) and Dylan Going fashionably bring SWANK and ELEGANCE to the room while you sip ultra cool martinis and slowly fill your cheeks with sexy olives. We will be hosting GALLERY HOURS during the noise lounge, so you can check out the real artwork in there.

TENTH ANNUAL (AND FINAL) YANKEE SWAP

December 12, 2015

8:00 pm

Last one. For real. Xina hasn't lived in RI for years. Jef moved to Michigan. But we are making it back to do the last one right... which means you can get the night off work. RULES: Bring a wrapped present. Odds are you aren't as funny as you think you are, so better aim for bringing a /good/ present. Take a number. When you are called, unwrap the present. Keep it or trade it once. STAY TIL THE SWAP IS DONE. Once the swap is done, you can go home and complain on social media about how you always get screwed. DOORS 8PM SWAP BEGINS PROMPTLY AT 10PM In all seriousness. We are very excited for this reunion of friends and family. We hope you make it out for the final Yankee Swap... and we may have Guiness there too, to see if we can set a world record (it's legitimately a little iffy. Don't count on it).

L.O.T.I.O.N (NYC), V Sinclair, Ligature, Savage Blind God

December 11, 2015

8:00 pm

The NEW SHIT with The Quahogs and Convergence

December 10, 2015

8:00 pm

THEY'VE GONE ELECTRIC. THE NEW SHIT. That's right, The Sugar Honey Iced Tea returns to us in a new, electrified form. Playing along are our swamp-yank rock heroes The Quahogs and Convergence (Florence+James Falzone duo!) A truly magnificent event.