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Take a psychonautical sonically cosmic trip with us this December - from the snow-dusted caps and icy scenic highways of the Appalachian foothills, through the overgrown fields and dilapidated sheds of Georgia's Piedmont, down to the muddy tidepools and shell-scattered sandbars - the soundscapers found here take the textures beneath their feet to paint entire universes in the sky.In November local boutique label Hooker Vision released a compilation of experimental music artists based in the southeast. Over half have been or still are label heads, representing longstanding curatorial efforts from Housecraft Recordings, Watery Starve Press, Headway Recordings, Kimberly Dawn Recordings, Hymns, Permanent Nostalgia, Diatom Bath, and of course Hooker Vision. The release serves as a field guide, cataloging a loose knit group of psychonauts that have inspired one another, performed together, and often released together on one another's labels or in splits appearing on labels far beyond our region. This Sonic Space event presented by ATHICA will feature 5 of the compilation’s sound artists:
Quiet Evenings (Winterville, GA) - featuring Grant & Rachel Evans of Hooker Vision
Pile Scraper (Athens, GA) - featuring Jeffry Astin of Housecraft Recordings with Sean & Chase
Heirloom (Gainesville, FL) - featuring Andrew Chadwick of Ironing & Action Research
Farewell Phoenix (Marshall, NC) - featuring Lynn Fister of Aloonaluna & Drones in the Garden
Doors at 7, music at 8
$ 10 Suggested Donation OR buy some merch from one of the artists!
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Farewell Phoenix
Farewell Phoenix is the experimental music project of Vietnamese-American artist, video animator, writer, composer and synthesist Lynn Nguyễn Fister. She often combines layered and processed choral vocals, sampled with granular and modular synthesis techniques, feedback noise and field recordings. Prior to Farewell Phoenix, Lynn recorded as Aloonaluna, often on her own now defunct label Watery Starve Press. It was featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered and Pitchfork’s the Out Door. Reviews describe her work as angelic, fuzzy soundscapes like moss-covered feathers, stretching and breathing with atmospheric beauty. Currently based in Marshall, NC she co-runs Drones in the Garden in Asheville, since 2021. Lynn is now recording her second full-length album as Farewell Phoenix, processing a Celtic harp through her modular synthesis system and pairing it with her dense vocal work and field recordings.
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Heirloom
Since 2005, Andrew Chadwick has performed as Ironing in hundreds of shows all over the USA, and even in Europe. Andrew started playing as Heirloom in 2011 as a means to satisfy droney & meditative impulses outside of his typically more frenetic Ironing sets. While much less active than Ironing he has played about 40 shows, including opening for William Basinski in 2016. This is his first show as Heirloom outside of Florida.
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Pile Scraper
Since 2005 Jeffry Astin has been true to one of his most original and renowned monikers, Xiphiidae, migrating as the swordfish in that family of marine life do. The bulk of his discography, like the majority of his equally legendary label Housecraft, was captured and let loose across the South and the world from his humble residences in Gainesville, FL. Xiphiidae is the long-running solo project by Jeffry Astin, label head of underground cassette institution Housecraft. His highly abstract style, spanning over 40 releases, draws from modern and ethnic drone, tape music, musique concrète, kosmische, and lo-fi aesthetics, creating work that defies easy categorization. In the last few years he's been joined by collaborator JP Wright as Ahem and Brian Kinkaid as I, Conduit. Currently residing in Athens, GA, Pile Scraper is a new trio effort between Jeff, Chase and Sean. If it’s anything like what we’ve come to expect from Jeff’s various solo and collaboratory projects, it’ll likely include loops of samples pulled from the outskirts of funk, soul, jazz, and pop treated with massive doses of warped pitch, delay and distortion. And you’ll likely be left feeling like you just tuned into someone else’s head trip, cause you did, and it is all the things it should be: sweaty, disorienting, blurred patterns pulsing, and most of all downright beautiful.
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Quiet Evenings
Active since 2009, Quiet Evenings is the longtime ambient project of Grant and Rachel Evans. With releases on Preservation (Australia), Aguirre Records (Belgium), Tranquility Tapes (NYC), and their own boutique label, Hooker Vision, the pair have developed a hazy, synthesizer-driven sonic stew, often enriched by field recordings, guitar, cello, & Rachel’s vocals. Grant and Rachel are also each successful solo recording artists. Together their shared discography includes more than 200 musical works on vinyl, CD and cassette labels across the globe since over the close to two decades since e they met. Their releases have been reviewed in The Wire, Pitchfork, the Quietus, Time Out New York, NPR, and Brainwashed.com to name a few. They have also performed at prestigious venues like John Zorn’s The Stone, and been invited to participate at festivals including Hopscotch, SXSW, and Slingshot. Locally they have performed at the GA Museum of Art, and had visual works and musical performances exhibited at ATHICA, Cine, and Tiny ATH galleries.
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This event serves as the official release show for the compilation “Creek Drift Mosaic: A Field Guide to Southern Cosmic” available now from Hooker Vision
https://hookervision.bandcamp.com/album/creek-drift-mosaic-a-field-guide-to-southern-cosmic
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Athica: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, 675 Pulaski St, Athens, GA 30601-2378, United States
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