Wild Torus

FINALLY. a chance to *almost* fulfil the X-files Reboot bill raincheck. In other words: a damn fine night of spooky happenings, unresolved sexual tension, and interplanetary takeout.  

The Alien Autopsies Covered In Cat Hair and the LSD Vending Machine Ensemble From Colubus OH:
"some kind of extraterrestrial business-dad performance ensemble with synthesizers, saxophones, garbage instruments and leafblowers"

Michael Foster/David Grollman
http://michaelfostermusic.blogspot.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IYlcX9-1_w

WILD TORUS
http://wildtorus.tumblr.com/

Kaia Gilje
the one, the only, she's immortal

Define Solitary Confinement
Alex Cohen & Valerie Kuehne
https://dreamzoo.bandcamp.com/album/define-solitary-confinement

feedback, spectacle, suffering. we are in constant need of healing but how to heal what we cannot feel? can we heal what we see/hear/speak or is this only re/dislocation?
the path of greatest resistance and the path of greatest intensity are not the same path. intensity passes quickly. resistance doesn't. however they are bound and to truly understand wherein and why rebirth is necessary:

installment 7 :

Chris Carlone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo3DpgsBbAE

WILD TORUS creates ritual-happenings that activate a liminal space-time, which allows the artists and audience members alike to collectively regard the state of contemporary reality in a single, charged instance. The coming together of WT's clashing identities, invented tools, and cryptic semiology erupts into an extreme, dystopian spectacle. Indeed, this can be a wild and traumatic experience. Yet, following the toroidal energy flow of the universe, the effects of a WT ritual come full circle to ultimate healing and rebirth.
http://wildtorus.tumblr.com/

DYBBUK, what is it Leon? I left the door open. We elected him President. They named her Jane. Prepared percussion and saxophone by David Grollman and Nathaniel Morgan.

TRASH STACK is Ed RosenBerg (Bass Sax), Jay Sorce (Electric Guitar) and Dennis Sullivan (Percussion/Voice). This new power trio will present a new 3 movement work composed in June of 2015. Using a text (Still Electric) written by Providence hip hop artist, B Dolan, this work deals in themes of loss of loved ones, self, faith and rebuilding your space in the world when it all burns down. Part spoken word, part electroacoustic exploration, part earsplitting thrash. Our generation is apocalypse ready.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW14oynIzYZozKgLG-qv-9A
http://eddie3.com/
http://www.jaysorce.com/

OCTOBER 25-26 VV/LD TØR∇S D1G1TAL SHAMAN L0DGE

24-HOUR PERFORMANCE >> main site

donation entry

SATURDAY 8-10p Opening Ceremony ◑ ALL NITE OPEN / INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE + nxt morning/afternoon ◑ SUNDAY 6-8p Closing Ceremony

______ Live Worldwide on TORUS.TV

:::: F E A T U R I N G ::::VV/LD TØR∇S // Select Shamans // ☞☞ YOU!?!

Channeling hidden spiritz >> Esther Neff > Brian McCorkle > Sherry Aliberti > Devlin Goldberg > Kim Fatale > Mike Esperson > Brandon Fisette > Robert L Pepper > Raquel Du Toit > Kino > Jenna Kline > Molly Sterlacci > Joakim Almgren (◑_◑) join the kunst kult _ ingest strange things _ act out your spirit _ interact _ move _ build / destroy / rebuild _ street view too ◑

This is HIGH-ly experiMENTAL! D1G1TAL SHAMAN L0DGE is a 24-HOUR ritual enactment of digital consciousness, enacting virtual into real and spiritual into the virtual. The Digital Spirit Cycle will begin with a departure ritual in the early evening and end with an arrival ritual at the same time the next day. The greater public is encouraged to attend the opening and closing event. Individuals are able to stay for the hours in between, but must participate with the shamans. For some activities the PPL wall will be opened for a viewing from the street. Throughout the night, following morning, and afternoon WILD TORUS & Select Shamans will enter altered states of being, second lives, and second selves in an elongated happening / performance ritual. D1G1TAL SHAMAN L0DGE will make contact with the spirtual core of the Net and build a repository of psychic energy. Together, we will create a unique church of digital nativity.

PROMO VIDEO>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl-vcXvD9jE&feature=youtu.be

LESIONREAD http://lesionread.com/ http://lesionread.bandcamp.com/ http://youtu.be/LoeAdFJPvXQ

KRISTACHUWAN Buffalo, NY based electronic musician & producer. Kristachuwan creates beats and complex chord changes, and mixes in live improv saxophone with analog fx to build a lush colorful atmosphere with glitching textures. http://kristachuwan.bandcamp.com/ kristachuwan.com

VV/LD TØR∇S is the eccentric brainchild of female and male counterparts and their collaborating spawn, on a descent into an apocalyptic abyss of digital and sculptural artifice, working out of Capitol Beltway inbreeding, in a post-Cold War malaise, between clashing Russian bloodlines, mental contortion in the American South, abandoned wormholes in Castilian language, gradual suburban numbing, urban hyper-stimuli, etc, etc..

led by:: amy alma corazon www.amymathis.com & mike vladi voztok https://picasaweb.google.com/102808460061865835242

A two-day exhibition of music and sonic art, hacked objects and electronic elements, voiceover and videotaped performance, performance art, and hybrid performance dealing with objectivity, subjectivity, and "Sobjectivity"****

DAY ONE: THURSDAY APRIL 25

Alejandro Acierto--http://www.alejandroacierto.net/

Sasha Desree--http://www.soundcloud.com/sashadesree

Ellie Holiday Stamp--http://www.stampcollective.com/

Dennis Sullivan---http://www.reverbnation.com/dennissullivan

The Illegal Dads---http://www.ellenomeara.com/ and http://themoneyjungle.tumblr.com/

Ken Butler--http://www.mindspring.com/~kbhybrid/

Paige Fredlund and Kaia Gilje

DAY TWO: FRIDAY, APRIL 26

Impatience Machine--http://www.soundcloud.com/impatience-machine

Richard Kamerman--http://www.richardkamerman.com/

Nick Woodbury--http://www.nickwoodbury.com/

Cory Bracken--http://www.soundcloud.com/cory-bracken

Adam Cuthbert--http://about.me/adamcuthbert

WILD TORUS--http://www.wildtorus.tumblr.com/

If you dare, leave your cell phone with us for the duration of this mini-fest. Set it to vibrate. We will hang these sobjects from the ceiling, subtly vibrating moons, commemorating the focus of performances past, present, future (anterior)

****"The Sobject exists in perpetual procedural loop: the ideal sobject is Dante's manturningsnaketurningman. The Sobject exists in perpetual substantive eclipse: more s/object by turns and degrees" --NOTES ON CONCEPTUALISMS, Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013. p. 38 (7b.)