Poster: Theo Eastwood.
WARP CHAMBER -- noun (SPACE)
/wɔːp/ /ˈtʃeɪm.bər //-bɚ/ n
[C] an enclosed, specialized environment in which sound and vision take full control of the senses.
[see also:] surround-sound audiovisual theater, psychedelic arena, synaesthetic cascade.
With the inception of Warp Chamber, the Velvet Lounge will be converted into a fully-fledged audiovisual theater, with windows facing the street entirely blacked out, couches rearranged in rows facing the stage, two additional speakers set up to create a surround-sound environment, and an array of visuals displayed over projectors and TV monitors, as well as oscillating light rays and slowly morphing clouds of smoke.
Four musicians will be performing, including
KYNAN TAN, who composes music through a combination of instruments, electronics, computers and improvisation. His live performance works are based on a combination of scored and improvised instrumental parts and real-time manipulation with Max/MSP, the latest shows featuring vocals processed into slow moving ambient textures, with schizophrenic no-input mixer and extended guitar, often in multi-channel speaker environments. (www.myspace.com/kynanmusic)
SALAMANDER manipulates sounds via a laptop, FX pedals and an electronic sampler, shifting through a variety of twisted, sense-distorting soundscapes that either bubble and simmer in a digital-organic ooze, or else escalate violently in layers of manic tribal-electronic percussion and industrial noise. Recently he has been adapting beat patterns from dubstep and ambient house music, turning these familiarities on their head by filtering them through what could best be described as the sonic equivalent of a space-station emergency siren pooled in cosmic radiation. (www.myspace.com/salamander85)
SOLAR BARGE was conceived in 2009 as a musical representation of the mythic journey of the Egyptian sun god Ra and his crew aboard their celestial boat. Each Solar Barge performance or recording is a unique permutation of this concept, embellished and reimagined through improvisation and fluctuating arrangements. Musically, the project evokes epic krautrock jams, interspersed with abrasive noise interludes, guitar-loop ambience and minimal polyrhythmic grooves. WARP CHAMBER presents a setting for Solar Barge to expand into its intended form - as a venture that conflates experimental rock music with performance art and sonic installation. (www.myspace.com/solarbarge)
ADAM TRAINER uses laptop, field recordings and various organic and electronic instruments and with these forges a hypnagogic, mind-lifting ambience, often intersected by bursts of noise. Although his approach to solo composition is constantly changing, he is interested in the intersection between texture and melody, between the musical and the non-musical, between sound and space. (www.myspace.com/adamtrainermusic)
ENTRY is $8
DOORS OPEN at 7pm, with the show starting at 8pm SHARP – please try to arrive on time. The environment will be fully seated, and once those seats are filled, the doors will close. There will be an intermission between the first two acts at around 9pm.
/wɔːp/ /ˈtʃeɪm.bər //-bɚ/ n
[C] an enclosed, specialized environment in which sound and vision take full control of the senses.
[see also:] surround-sound audiovisual theater, psychedelic arena, synaesthetic cascade.
With the inception of Warp Chamber, the Velvet Lounge will be converted into a fully-fledged audiovisual theater, with windows facing the street entirely blacked out, couches rearranged in rows facing the stage, two additional speakers set up to create a surround-sound environment, and an array of visuals displayed over projectors and TV monitors, as well as oscillating light rays and slowly morphing clouds of smoke.
Four musicians will be performing, including
KYNAN TAN, who composes music through a combination of instruments, electronics, computers and improvisation. His live performance works are based on a combination of scored and improvised instrumental parts and real-time manipulation with Max/MSP, the latest shows featuring vocals processed into slow moving ambient textures, with schizophrenic no-input mixer and extended guitar, often in multi-channel speaker environments. (www.myspace.com/kynanmusic)
SALAMANDER manipulates sounds via a laptop, FX pedals and an electronic sampler, shifting through a variety of twisted, sense-distorting soundscapes that either bubble and simmer in a digital-organic ooze, or else escalate violently in layers of manic tribal-electronic percussion and industrial noise. Recently he has been adapting beat patterns from dubstep and ambient house music, turning these familiarities on their head by filtering them through what could best be described as the sonic equivalent of a space-station emergency siren pooled in cosmic radiation. (www.myspace.com/salamander85)
SOLAR BARGE was conceived in 2009 as a musical representation of the mythic journey of the Egyptian sun god Ra and his crew aboard their celestial boat. Each Solar Barge performance or recording is a unique permutation of this concept, embellished and reimagined through improvisation and fluctuating arrangements. Musically, the project evokes epic krautrock jams, interspersed with abrasive noise interludes, guitar-loop ambience and minimal polyrhythmic grooves. WARP CHAMBER presents a setting for Solar Barge to expand into its intended form - as a venture that conflates experimental rock music with performance art and sonic installation. (www.myspace.com/solarbarge)
ADAM TRAINER uses laptop, field recordings and various organic and electronic instruments and with these forges a hypnagogic, mind-lifting ambience, often intersected by bursts of noise. Although his approach to solo composition is constantly changing, he is interested in the intersection between texture and melody, between the musical and the non-musical, between sound and space. (www.myspace.com/adamtrainermusic)
ENTRY is $8
DOORS OPEN at 7pm, with the show starting at 8pm SHARP – please try to arrive on time. The environment will be fully seated, and once those seats are filled, the doors will close. There will be an intermission between the first two acts at around 9pm.
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