From Greg Earle Sent Sun, May 31st 1998, 10:03
From Greg Earle Sent Sun, May 31st 1998, 10:03
This was so low-key it almost slipped beneath the radar ... but it looks like
us low-culture Angelinos get an event worthy of "The Wire" ...
While perusing the latest L.A. Weekly (free paper), after getting past all of
the normal music adverts (pausing briefly to scratch my chin at the sight of
a full-page ad for the Bauhaus reunion gigs), I stumbled upon a half-page
advertisement for something called "Resistance fluctuations - a festival of
new & unpredictable music". It begins this coming Tuesday, June 2nd and runs
through Sunday, June 7th. At first glance the names all looked unfamiliar,
save for Carl Stone on Wednesday. But then I stumbled upon Saturday night's
lineup and found a veritable Austrian invasion ... (check out the 11 PM
listing):
Saturday, June 6th
No Noise Reduction
at Ace Contemporary Exhibitions - 6:00 PM
Niveau
G.X. Jupiter-Larsen [Author; worked with Organum; put out Haters CD - Ed.]
Winfried Ritsch
Andrea Sodomka, Martin Breindl, Norbert Math
[3 Austrians who apparently work in the fields of
"radio art, electronic music, art installations,
photography, intermedia, video" and Net stuff]
at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions - 9:00 PM
Klaus Lang
Peter Ablinger [2 Austrian composers of some note, apparently - Ed.]
If it wasn't noisy enough before ... - 11:00 PM
Pan Sonic
Pita
Christian Fennesz
Russell Haswell
Tickets: $10/$7 students [Dunno if this night is considered 3 seperate shows]
Info: xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx, or call wires @ (310) 577-4684
Shit howdy, as they say. I don't know a whole lot about Pita, Fennesz and
Haswell other than they all have one thing in common, they've all released
records on the Mego label (Haswell, from London's Disobey club, did a record
with Merzbow on Mego, and a Merzbow remix on that Blast First thingy). I'm
aware that Fennesz is a mutant post-modern guitarist of sorts and that Pita
is one guy, who, if the Real Audio samples I heard are any indication, likes
to make minimal tracks of record needles skipping at the end of the run-off
and shortwave blips (well, on his Mego album, at least ... I hope his other
stuff is better than that (-: ).
Unfortunately, due to work and my aging addled brain I forgot about the
Oval/Jim O'Rourke show 2 nights ago. I hope not to make the same mistake
this time.
(It *would* have to be on the same night as the best desert rave - Dune IV -
we have here all year though, damnit ... grrrrr)
Panasonic, Kraftwerk, and Kraftwerk again in 3 consecutive nights. Phew ...
- Greg