Marshall Trammell, Troglodistes, Bat Noise, Raub Roy

Fri. Jan. 10 8pm-11pm Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight, SF

All-ages, $5-$15 no one turned away for lack of funds.

Marshall Trammell

The marquee might bear his name, but amidst the rubble of art authorship or object ownership Marshall Trammell is dedicated to collective creativity where ritual and art always involve all. If the ancients imagined their lives were seen by gods, recently we pose individually to an internalized technology, the social corporate-state as impassive witness. As server farms burn then rust, the self falters then finds itself once more face-to-face, in community. Join the performing audience tonight inside the Peacock Lounge to help realize "Listen Like Lovers: The Pedagogy of the Surveilled" a developing strategy in continuum with recent gatherings of Levantine and North African immigrants living in Amsterdam who developed a visual score that will be placed in your hands, to be interpreted in real-time with all the performers on tonight's bill, and you, the avant-garde as hope for a future able to behold it.

https://sonicacts.com/archive/pedagogy-of-the-surveilled-performance

Troglodistes

Liz Allbee, Jason Stamberger, and Jake Rodriguez bear gifts of futures past, some assembly required because what's about to go down will be hard to believe unless you're inside the Peacock Lounge with them. Forged in the Bay Area underground back in 1996 when Stamberger (Crack W.A.R., Earwicker) and Allbee (Mute Socialite, Neung Phak) first performed together eventually forming the short-lived legendary band Le Flange du Mal. Then in 2003, the menacing mesomorph of Jake Rodriguez (bran(...)pos, Compomicro-Dexall) intersected their orbit which rocketed from house-show basements to mainstage theaters across decades and thousands of miles. This rare live session will be Allbee's only Bay Area show, occasioned by a visit from her home in Berlin. Since relocating, she has worked with George Lewis, Felix Kubin, Axel Dorner, Magda Mayas, and John Butcher so the labyrinth of her trumpet could be said to stretch all the way from there to golden age of Zeek Sheck, Hans Grusel, and Amber Asylum. If the past suggests the future, expect to hear superextended trumpet, plangent synthesizers, possibly a cello, tympani, or electric bass. When an ocean this deep gets churning, there's no guessing what monsterous gifts may heave up.

https://lizallbee.net/liz-allbee/projects/

Bat Noise

The duo that combines haunted doom jazz improv with musique concrète industrial deathwave, LuLu Gammaray summons sounds of theremin, analog synth sequences, manipulated live samples, vocals, and trombone. Roxy Monoxide roars on tenor sax, sounding floor tom, vocals and effects. Frenetic and passionate, theirs is a surreal soundtrack switching vocal styles projected through homemade monster masks to evoke the possessed authentic avant-garde. Don't miss these best-loved subcultural freaks who've played together now more than two decades under various monikers, circling your head tonight inside the Peacock Lounge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwEhBBkE-lQ

Raub Roy

At first, Weird Ear Records co-founder Raub Roy played music using toothbrush motors, plastic-sacked subwoofers, and balloon-driven mouthpieces set atop frame-drums creating a sound like crazed baby turtles battling the infinite friction of sand. Then his Scy1e project took those same sensibilities into a realm of post-analog instrumentation, propelling him to newfound buoyancy at breakneck speed along corkscrew sines. But what if those worlds were to combine and crazed jumbo turtles were armed with midi-controlled highspeed corkscrews? What then?! Don't miss this Important American Composer of Avant-Garde Tendencies at possibly his last Bay Area performance before putting on rouge and literally going rogue across the continent.

https://scy1e.bandcamp.com/album/important-american-composer-of-avant-garde-tendencies

Special thanks to Jerome Walker and George Golden at the Peacock Lounge for hosting us, to Chris Cooper for live sound engineering, and to all who contributed video: Theresa Currie, Spencer Decker, and Robert Collison.

Art & Music

Lather - Different Kind of Elephant, cassette 1994

Centron Films - Herk Harvey, Building His Home, 16mm film

The Hacker

Marshall Trammell, Troglodistes, Bat Noise, Raub Roy

Joseph Wolf Child

Sanderson, Joel - Fragmenten #3, experimental 1995

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YOURSELF - See, See Easy Rider

Shopping Bug

Somebody Else - Gameloff

Somebody Else - Peace Tanks

Spelecaster - Leaky Pipes