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E047 Milk Vetch 01/18/2011

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Jan 182011
 

left to right: Ben, Scott, Leslie. Photo by Valerie Martino.

Tonight’s episode is Milk Vetch, the first of three special podcasts recorded live at Betty’s Bar and Grill on Sunday, January 16th. Milk Vetch features Ecstatic Peace artist Leslie Keffer (The Laundry Room Squelchers), Ben Marcantel (Forrest Bride and T.I. podcast Pulse), and Scott Martin (Lambchop, Hands Off Cuba, Hobbledions, Cortney Tidwell). I’ve been trying to get these three performers on the show for a long time now, and they sound fantastic together! Scott plays percussion; Leslie, Chaos Pad and sequencer (panned slightly right); and Ben, keys and synth (panned slightly left).

Leslie Keffer is throwing a record release party at Betty’s Friday, January 21st for Give It Up, her new Ecstatic Peace record as well as Hold You To It, a split with Outmode and Silver Bridge, a reissued split with Robedoor. Give It Up also features Valerie Martino who performed in the third Betty’s Live improv as Unicorn Hard-on. We’ll release that episode, a duet with Lazer Slut, very soon. Keep your ears pricked for the second Betty’s improv with Tommy Stangroom (Square People), Lawrence Crow, and Stephen Molyneux (Horsehair Everywhere) even sooner.

Theatre Intangible interviewed Leslie Keffer a while back about the Nashville experimental music scene and her method.Here’s what Escstatic Peace has to say about her new record:

Leslie Keffer has been one of the most startling and provocative practitioners of 21st century USA noise music since her first harsh emanations on the cassette underground in the early 2000s. Ecstatic Peace released her first full length LP Feels Like Frenching a few years back and it was hailed as a cornerstone in new blood noise exploration. Boomkat.com reported, “she’s beating the noise-boys at their own experimental game and winning…Keffer had me at hello.” And Performer magazine heard the LP as “a dense series of coded subconscious messages sent from some buried cerebral cortex.”

On this new 12”, which has been waiting to be issued or near on two years, she joins forces with local Nashville rockers John Eatherly (Be Your Own Pet, Jemina Pearl), Steve Poulton (Paul K and The Weathermen) and fellow noise artist Valerie Martino (Unicorn Hard-on). These two tracks are a departure from the pure noise action Leslie is known for and present her current trajectory into hypno dance dub psychosis with waves of junk filtered radio wash and siren chants. As with the LP the artwork by Adriane Schramm is astounding.

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E046 Tim Kaiser Artist Showcase 01/09/2011

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Jan 092011
 

“Even the music that I do, it’s like folk music during the Civil War. If you wanted a banjo, you built a banjo.” — Tim Kaiser interviewed on T.I.

Tim Kaiser – -2010 Circuit Benders’ Ball. Photo by Stephen Zerne

On tonight’s show, I’m very happy to have one of the real pioneers in contemporary instrument design and experimental performance. Tim Kaiser is a Minnesota-based musician, inventor, and artist who has been making experimental art for the past 25 years. He designs and builds his own instruments, both acoustic and electronic, using toys, vintage electronic gear, and other found materials.

Tim’s work was featured in Make Magazine and presented in Germany, Brazil, Sweden, Hong Kong, Cuba, Canada, and more. He tours across America performing ambient improvised music incorporating his inventions. In October of 2010, he performed at the Circuit Benders’ Ball in Nashville, Tennessee, and today’s show features that performance in its entirety.

In the interview, we discuss the Makerbot revolution, hackerspaces, opera, the intersection of science and making, improvising, and Tim’s latest creations.

Download more audio and video from the 2010 Circuit Benders’ Ball at the CBB10 Media Repository. If you like the show, tell a friend or write a review in iTunes.

If you like tonight’s performance, check out the Circuit Benders’ Ball Theatre Intangible Live Improv w/ Tim Kaiser, DaveX, Thriftsore Boratorium, 1/2 Mang, Lola Wilson (I Am Pazuzu) & Jeremy Walker.

Mentioned in this episode: Harry Partch, Brian Eno, Yoko Ono, King Crimson, Adrian Belew, Reed Ghazala, Circuit Ben, Low-Gain, Paul Metzger, Makerbot Industries, Cupcake Makerbot, Make Magazine, Open Lot Nashville, BT, Duran Duran, Throbbing Gristle, Peter Christopherson (AKA Sleazy), Pogo Studio, DJ Marco Ricci, Short Circuit Festival, Bent Festival, MEECAS, The Circuit Benders’ Ball, and The Transistor Gallery in Chicago.

Upcoming Tim Kaiser gigs:

Teatro Zuccone Short Circuit Duluth, Saturday January 22nd 7:30 pm w/ Low-Gain & Talking Computron, $6

First Avenue w/ Woody McBride, Minneapolis MN Feb. 18, details forthcoming

Franconia Sculpture Park June, details forthcoming

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Free New Years Download — THE ROVING SCONES Play the Songs of the ROLLING STONES

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Jan 022011
 

When Chris Murray, Richard Harper, Matt Jernigan, and I got together to do an T.I. improv around the concept, “Cover Rolling Stones songs so obfuscatingly that they become unrecognizable,” things didn’t go as planned. While idiosyncratic, our covers are also VERY recognizable. Instead of mystifying your ears, we rocked your socks off. And because (as T.I. participant Pimpdaddysupreme once told me) The Rolling Stones are litigious bastards, we can’t put this out as an improv, entertaining as it is. The last thing we need right now is to get kicked off iTunes. So instead, we’re releasing the songs as a New Years Special FREE DOWNLOAD. Our gift to you.

Thanks to Chris Murray for mastering the songs and coming up with the band name.

The Roving Scones are
Chris Murray (Square People Jazz Maturity) — Vocals, Bass, Piano on Ruby Tuesday, Electric Guitar on I Know It’s Only Rock & Roll
Richard Harper (Fly Golden Eagle, Sunshine Brothers & Sisters) Drums, Acoustic Guitar on Ruby Tuesday
Mathew Jernigan (Sunshine Brothers & Sisters) — Synthesizers, Drums and vocals on Ruby Tuesday
Tony Youngblood (Theatre Intangible) — Electric Guitar, Bass on I Know It’s Only Rock & Roll & Ruby Tuesday

You can download or stream the individual songs below or download all songs in this convenient zip file.

01. Jumping Jack Flash
02. Shattered
03. I Know It’s Only Rock n’ Roll (But I Like It!)
04. Ruby Tuesday
05. Let’s Spend the Night Together

E044 Knocking Space 12/23/2010

 All Podcasts, Anthony William Herndon, Charlie Rauh, Chris Rauh, Craig Schenker, Dave Maddox, Gordon Roque, Jamison Sevits, Joe Hudson, Melody Holt, pimpdaddysupreme, Post-WRVU Era  No Responses »
Dec 232010
 

Kandinsky “Several Circles”

Today’s episode Knocking Space saved Theatre Intangible. It was August 2009, and Theatre Intangible just got banned from WRVU radio for the episode Get It On With Dave Cloud. We had no home. Everything was in limbo. I didn’t know what to do. I only knew that we had to keep recording, keep the momentum. So on 8/2/2009, eleven of us piled into my basement, armed with accordions, saxophones, trumpets, tubas, windsticks, harmonicas, toy flutes, real flutes, melodicas, shop vacs, air pianos, and voices; turned on the reel to reel; and kept Theatre Intangible alive.

With no place to broadcast the episode, I released it as a Mediafire download on our now-defunct Myspace page and kept recording new shows. In December of 2009, we premiered the podcast and website TheatreIntangible.com. Knocking Space remained unreleased in podcast form until now.

The episode was original titled On Air Volume 2, named after the first all-wind instrument improv, On Air. (Check it out here.)

Knocking Space features Charlie Rauh, Chris Rauh, Jamison Sevitts, Joe Hudson, Craig Schenker, Pimpdaddysupreme, Dave Maddox, Melody Holt, Gordon Roque, and Anthony William Herndon. I did the live mixing, some editing, and post production. This was the first thing I ever recorded on my Tascam 80-8 ½ reel to reel tape machine. We recorded in four 15-minute increments, mixing live, using two left/right tracks for each section.

If you like the show, tell a friend or write a review in iTunes.. Want to play on Theatre Intangible? Send an e-mail to tony@theatreintangible.com for information on how to participate on one of our improvs.

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