RYOSUKE KIYASU (TOKYO, JAPAN):

In 1995 he started his career as a drummer and experienced live performances in various bands. In 2003 he moved to Canada in North America in order to gain experience as a drummer and began to play solo with snare drums. Perform solo live mainly on the local jazz bar. Also, while living in Canada, he started hardcore band THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE and worked as a drummer.

From 2004 after returning to Japan, he started grindcore band Sete Star Sept and free jazz band Kiyasu Orchestra, and has released numerous works and has performed various tours to countries around the world. From 2012, he is also working as a band of Keiji Haino, a drummer of Fushitsusha.

As a solo snare drummer, the countries that have performed in the past span the United States, Canada, Indonesia, Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Mongolia.

Web: http://www.kiyasu.com/

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dr.kiyasu/

twitter: https://twitter.com/RyosukeKiyasu

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VICTORIA SHEN (BOSTON)

“Victoria Shen is a visual artist and musician hailing from San Francisco and working out of New England.

Shen’s sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Shen’s music floods its location acting as a form of sculpture. Her music features analog modular synthesizers (Flower Electronics), contact microphones, and other hand-built electronics. These instruments are designed to electronically reproduce chaotic systems, systems which are highly sensitive to small changes in their initial parameters. The resulting music eschews conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of the extreme textures and gestural tones.

Shen’s live video performances produces visual palimpsests and digital residues. Shen achieves this by using software she has authored in order to generate visuals combining real-time video with found footage thematically linked by sexuality, violence, and art history through a process of exaggeration/effacement.

Shen has performed solo across North America, Western Europe, and Japan as Victoria Shen and under the pseudonym Evicshen as well as with the duo TRIM in North America and the UK. She has also been an artist in residence at Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm, Sweden and WORM Rotterdam Netherlands.”

TOTAL MOM (NO RENT RECORDS):: Blistering noise, immersive performance. NOT to be missed.

MICHAEL LAROCCA (BROOKLYN):: Drummer of Foxtails and Controlled Bleeding, amongst other projects. Solo improv percussion. A wild ride.

PRINTER INSURANCE – New duo comprised of Jacob Forbes and Jack Williams

GREASE RELEASE – Tim Johnson (Turntable & scrap metal) Mary Staubitz (Turntable & scrap metal) Sean Christian Fennessy (Cornet)

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