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Sunday, Feb 9th 2025 Nothing Is Sacred Presents:
Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela
Flesh Narc
Gerard Cosloy
misc.diskette
PRICE: $20 CASH ONLY
Address:
617 Red River
Austin, TX 78701
Set-times:
8:00pm: misc. diskette
8:30pm: Gerard Cosloy
9:00pm: Flesh Narc
10:00pm: Lucas Abela
Bios + links:
Lucas Abela:"Lucas is just captivating. It's incredible how they can flip the feeling of a room upside down and sonically there’s just no other sound like theirs" - ZACH HILL. - Death Grips.
"One moment you hear John Coltrane playing a volcano, the next you hear a string section being squeezed through a toothpaste tube" - David Rees - The New York Times.
YOTS Death Grips collaborator, Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela has been performing their signature instrument; shards of amplified glass for over 20 years. Their singular practice spawned from the international noise music underground, where the glass evolved from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an oddly versatile instrument producing an organic form of outsider electronica. Abela performs the shards like a bell-less saxophone, their lips subtly transmitting micro-sonic vibrations into the pane. This signal feeds a complex modular patch producing both raw audio & control voltages, so the dynamics & frequency of their performance modulates itself within varying parallel effects chains. Mixed together they create the illusion of a ghostly accompaniment, forming dense layers of anomalous music.
Copies of their limited-edition collaborative 7” with Zach Hill (Death Grips) will be available at shows for a discounted price of $10. The single Never, fuses Zach Hill’s frenetic dynamics onto Lucas Abela’s textural glass noise by generating rhythmical control voltages from Zach performance to interpolate their sounds. Each strike creates an envelope replicating its attack decay sustain & release that are used to move parameters within a complex patch, synchronising changes within various parallel effects chains to the drums, causing Abela’s sustained textural glass signal to be rhythmically torn apart by Zach’s drumming.
Link: https://granpa.bandcamp.com/
+ Death Grips Lucas Abela YOTS session:
Flesh Narc:
Flesh Narc was formed in 2013 as the core trio of Matt, Rick and Reece, with a revolving lineup of additional members. Since then we’ve released over 20 albums building a catalog that reflects a constant evolution of the band morphing through many styles, yet always continuing to grow the same character and chemistry between us where we make music without bounds.
Link: https://fleshnarc.bandcamp.com
Gerard Cosloy:
Since the early 1990’s guitarist Gerard Cosloy has performed and recorded with a number of ensembles of varying degrees of repute, including but not limited to Air Traffic Controllers. Spider Sabich, the Palin Brothers and Cradle Of Filth (editor’s note : please fact check this, thank you). For his Chess Club solo debut, Cosloy intends to flex every musical chop in his arsenal (or whatever he can cram into his 15 minute slot.)
Link: https://spidersabich.bandcamp.com/album/rider-new-flu-run
Sean Ripple (misc. diskette) is an artist, writer, and curator based in Austin, TX. His projects are often improvisational and interventionist in nature and rely heavily on social media and the Internet to frame the outcomes of a feverish dedication to an idea. Recent projects have explored a perceived lack of commitment to interactivity and participation across a number of digital platforms as well as the destabilization of meaning that seems to trail technological innovation and advancement.
Link: http://seanripple.net/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Chess Club, 617 Red River St,Austin, Texas, United States
