The second perimeter of Molten Plains!
A monthly series of adventurous sounds and further music experiences.
Tom Carter and Rachel Orosco are coming from Houston for a far-out guitar and light projections duo, Andrew May will join the Gonzalez brothers for a first time trio of violin, bass and drums; butoh dancer Rosemary Candelario along with environmental/emotional soundscape explorers Blendways and Pinson will open the night.
doors 8pm
music starts 8:30
tickets: $5-$15 sliding scale.
TOM CARTER + RACHEL OROSCO
Tom Carter is an improvising musician working in the medium of rock and experimental music. His electric guitar work weaves strands of melody, drone, fuzz, and charged silence into intricately detailed instant compositions. Best known for his continuing work with iconoclastic acid-folk improvisers Charalambides, Carter currently focuses on live performances and recordings both solo and with a variety of improvisers. His record Long Time Underground was selected as the number-one experimental album of 2015 by Pitchfork.
https://tomcarterguitar.bandcamp.com/
Rachel Orosco is a multimedia artist, DJ and musician. As a visual artist, Orosco uses mirrors and light projections to expand perception beyond architectural boundaries, creating illusory realms without borders inside of confined spaces. As both a projectionist and a musician, she has performed frequently with a number of collaborators, and as a member of Houston guitarist Sandy Ewen’s freewheeling ensemble Lady Band (a rotating cast of female-identifying performers, sound artists, and musicians).
https://www.mantecahtx.com/profiles/rachel-orosco.html
ANDREW MAY + AARON GONZALEZ + STEFAN GONZALEZ
Andrew May writes music, improvises on violin and other instruments, programs computers to play music with people, and teaches music (since 2005, at UNT). In between times, they also cook, garden, and take long walks.
Stefan Gonzalez is a drummer, auxiliary percussionist, and vocalist from Dallas, TX. Has played and toured extensively with their family trio Yells at Eels with their brother Aaron Gonzalez on bass, and father Dennis Gonzalez on trumpet. Other important bands and projects to note are Akkolyte, Unconscious Collective, Imperial Slaughter, Humanization 4tet (Lisbon/Dallas), and The Young Mothers (Norway, Texas, Netherlands, and Mississippi). Important collaborative musicians to note are Mars Williams, Eugene Chadbourne, Luis Lopes, Rodrigo Amado, Damon Smith, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Famoudou Don Moye, Akira Sakata, Jonathan Horne, Remi Alvarez, and the late Alvin Fielder.
https://stefangonzalez.bandcamp.com/
Aaron Gonzalez plays all kinds of bass, he is a composer, a musical teacher and a performance artist. Elder son of Dennis Gonzalez and older brother of Stefan. Together, the three of them, they are Yeels At Eels (beautiful melodies, explosive rhythm fluxes and bursts of dynamics that borders and passes through countless possibilities in contemporary jazz), with just Stefan they are both Akkolyte (an intense experimental grindcore duo) and both of them plus Gregg Prickett are Unconcious Collective, an avant fusion maximum-power trio. Also with Stefan but adding the extraordinary portuguese guitarist Luis Lopes and saxophonist Rodrigo Amado they have been Humanization Qtet. Lately he has been developing the intense vocal performance solo Deflowered Electric Flesh Bride and, along with Wyatt Rosser, Sarah Ruth Alexander and Stefan sometimes become Asukubus, a haunting, cold blooded and blunt affair.
https://bandcamp.for-tune.pl/album/in-quiet-waters
https://tofucarnage.com/album/unconscious-collective
ROSEMARY CANDELARIO + BLENDAYS + PINSON
Rosemary Candelario is a scholar and artist specializing in butoh, which she has studied, taught, and performed across the United States and around the world. Her books and articles on butoh and butoh-related forms have been published in English and Japanese, and she was awarded the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research in 2018.
http://www.rosemarycandelario.net/
blendways is mixed media multisensory ecological reveries including soundscape ecology, sound collage, ambient music, field recordings, zines, fiber arts, future news, and nous news.
https://blendways.bandcamp.com/
Z Pinson Hopgood (mononymously “Pinson”) is an experimental composer and multimedia installation artist active in DFW since 2019. His work across mediums explores intimacy, memory, and self-discovery through folk-authored histories on home media. his recent site-specific performances involve computer-processed cello, guitars, and voice messages from loved ones.