Name: Illusion of Safety / Karl J. Palouček / Eager Green
Start: 2026-07-10T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 1163 24th St, Unit B Des Moines IA 50311

$Illusion of Safety \/ Karl J. Palou\u010dek \/ Eager Green$

xBk presents
Illusion of Safety / Karl J. Palouček / Eager Green
@ xBk Annex

FRIDAY, JULY 10
Doors: 7pm | Show: 7:30pm
All Ages
TICKETS: $10 + fees

*Limited seating available on a first come, first served basis*
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•• Illusion of Safety ••
Since 1983, Daniel Burke and his many conspirators under the Illusion Of Safety banner have over the course of 40+ full length releases traversed most every facet of the avant sound plane, from early industrial pop deconstruction to blindingly minimal sound art to densely surreal found-sound collage, each unique approach bending and reconstituting the expectations and possibilities of each realm, creating uneasy music that is dense and dystopian and yet also beautiful. Performing over 300 live concerts throughout Europe and the states included No Fun 2008, the Wroclaw Industrial Music Festival 2009, Sonic Circuits in 2010, with Shen Wei Dance Arts in 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, and at the Crisis Data Transfer PreParty October 2023. Outside of IOS Burke has collaborated with Jim O’Rourke, Jon Mueller, Randy Greif, Darin Gray, Z’EV, Cheer-Accident, Thomas Dimuzio, Kevin Drumm, Bill Horist, and others.
It’s a surreal trip mixing outsourced sounds from all over the world and encompassing everything: abstract analogue synthesizer explorations, chaotic digital noise and voltage fluctuations, generating excitement in the bowels of analog equipment, raucous guitar improvisation, rattle and chilling moan of iron sheets, the creaking floorboards, resonances, fluctuations, scraps of samples is in perpetual motion background- Driven with all this by some miracle , the author creates a monumental music, nervous, anxiety-soaked, but at the same time, disturbing & attention-grabbing, creating a powerful hypnotic effect.
https://linktr.ee/illusionofsafety

•• Karl J. Palouček ••
Karl J. Palouček has been pursuing his artistic vision for nearly 40 years. Fifteen of those years were spent in various “industrial” ensembles in Milwaukee, most notably with the groups Shrilltower, Impact Test and Fuckface. Promoting abundant releases, he toured regionally and nationwide, playing venues as storied as New York’s original Collective: Unconscious and the Knitting Factory, Chicago’s Lounge Ax and Empty Bottle, and San Francisco’s Maritime Hall. He established an aesthetic in these years, working with metals and other repurposed objects, combining them with conventional instrumentation to form something new, and establishing the foundation for his current work.
As a solo artist, Palouček is a self-described “reluctant” performer, preferring to remove his person from his expressions when possible. While the pieces he weaves onstage typically involve instrumentation such as piano, organ, metals, sewing machines, electric fans, clock gongs and other machinery and artifacts, they often invite comparisons to pastoral scenes rather than to anything emanating from a factory floor. Over the years, he has executed numerous acclaimed performances and installations in Chicago and Minneapolis, and a memorable performance/installation event at Milwaukee’s Borg Ward Art Gallery. His arguably signature album Sail (Latest Flame Records) features Palouček well in command of his own arsenal of materials, as well as performing on the second-largest pipe organ in Wisconsin.
In addition to his performances and studio work, over the years Palouček has collaborated with and facilitated the release of many recordings by other artists, including pioneering percussion artist Z’EV, Minneapolis-based artist Eric Lunde, Milwaukee industrial stalwarts Boy Dirt Car, Violent Femmes, and Germany’s Einstürzende Neubauten. Recent musical collaborations have included a shellac 78 rpm for Irish composer Daniel Figgis, and contributions to the 2025 release by Colorado artists Biota, Measured Not Found.
https://karljpaloucek.bandcamp.com/