unSOUND Music Series featuring Electric.Kitchen
Eugene Contemporary Art is pleased to be kicking off unSOUND – our quarterly new music performance series – by hosting San Francisco’s Electric.Kitchen (Mark Lentczner) who is touring the west coast with video artist Bill Waitroski (a.k.a. Dirty Bill) in support of their collaborative project (re)connect.
Also performing that night will be Casual Decay from Portland, and Eugene’s own Woke-Ass Messiah.
(re)connect is electric.kitchen’s evening of experimental electronic music and visuals exploring reconnecting after two years of isolation for performing artists. The whole evening connects its parts into a journey, newly traveled every night.
Mark Lentczner works with electronic sonic elements – analog synthesizers, sampled sounds, drum boxes, handmade electronics, effects boxes – using them in ways that skirts the line between recognizable musical forms, and journeys in sonic space. The music is all conceived for live performance, using many different ways to interact with electronics, building on the energy of live creation with an audience.
Bill Waitroski uses modular video synthesis and video feedback to create abstract visual interpretations of the hidden energy fields that surround us. The live performed visuals expose a secret, subtle, sometimes unruly world, lying just outside our normal field of perception.
Casual Decay is the expansive ambient project of Portland resident Jon Nasrallah. Modular synthesizers, keyboards, field recordings, and effects create generative soundscapes inspired by the complex emergent systems of natural life from microscopic to ecological scales.
Woke-Ass Messiah (Karl Benedek) lives in Eugene, Oregon. He makes music using a modular synth and a small family of semi-modular desktop synths. His focus is on building playable patches for live performance. His influences include kosmische drones, drifting vaporscapes, industrial squelch, chaos, and psychedelia.
The evening will close with a panel discussion and artist QA hosted by ECA’s director Courtney Stubbert.
(re)connect
March 5th, 7pm at ANTI-AESTHETIC, 245 W 8th Ave, Eugene, OR
Tickets are $10 and will be on sale February 20th via Eventbrite.
For more tour information go to https://electric.kitchen/tour-2022.html