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To help kick off a West Coast and Southwest tour, Works on Paper and Passages Bookshop are pleased to present Ceremonial Abyss plays Tony Conrad. Opening for Ceremonial Abyss on this occasion will be Portland-area poets James Yeary and William Erickson.
Ceremonial Abyss plays Tony Conrad focuses on a live collaboration based around an unknown, found mixtape of Conrad’s work. To transcend the fixed constraint of the medium, the cassette will be acting as a Present Source, e.g. as a live instrument in the room, with generative processing from the performer. The performer (Abyss) will respond to the tape with live electronics as a secondary musician in an improvisational setting, letting the ghost of Tony Conrad completely lead the way.
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James Yeary is a poet, author of a few chapbooks, one full-length poetry collaboration _The Do How_ with Kyle Schlesinger, and many installments and performances with Nate Orton and Chris Ashby for the site-based and peripatetic _my day_ series. He dabbles in collage and mail art, and is involved in experimental music as a member of noise duo dana jnnfrsn and solo project s.l.n.
William Erickson is the author of a few chapbooks and the full length collection _You Don't Have to Believe In The World_ (April Gloaming 2024). He edits the outcast literary and art website notmy.style, and lives with his wife and two pups in Southwest Washington.
Ceremonial Abyss is an aleatoric tape artist, curator, and writer based in the Pacific Northwest. He has toured the U.S. extensively in support of his releases 23, Betrayal, and Tape Study for Four Variants. Along the way, he has performed with musicians and authors such as Pete Swanson (Yellow Swans), Jennifer Soong, Zan da Perry, Vi Khi Nao, DIIV, and Will Alexander.
Tony Conrad (1940–2016) was a multidisciplinary artist known for his groundbreaking art, music, films, and videos, although his work doesn’t fit comfortably within any of these disciplines. He eschewed categorization and actively sought to challenge the constraints of media forms, their modes of production, and the relationships of power embedded within them. Conrad was an early member of the Theatre of Eternal Music, along with La Monte Young, John Cale, Angus Maclise and Marian Zazeela.
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