Event Info
Microdose #5 -: Paul Metzger, John Saint Pelvyn, I Am Nothing
Microdose is a monthly series that showcases a broad range of experimental music...
8:00pm - 11:00pm
$10
Event Description
Microdose is a monthly series that showcases a broad range of experimental music and other interdisciplinary performance in engaging and immersive environments.
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Paul Metzger
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQAPrbDY0qs
WEB: https://paulmetzger.net/press/
A master on a self-built 23 string banjo, Paul Metzger’s Idiosyncratic & deeply original long form improvisations bring to mind American primitive guitar, the sarod of Hindustani music, or the Chinese Erhu. But fundamentally, his music grows from a deep commitment to exploring every possible expressive sound that can be extracted from his instrument. His ‘home-made’ aesthetic has drawn comparisons to DIY mavericks like Charlie Nothing and his Dingulators or Eugene Chadbourne with his electric rake, but the depth of Metzger’s explorations led David Keenan to assert in Wire magazine that Metzger’s playing “reveals the true meaning of virtuosity”. A key voice in the world of avant-garde & experimental folk, he creates a music evocative of some magical forgotten age, but is simultaneously deeply rooted in the eternal present when fingers touch strings.
"Like Cage and Corner’s pianos, Metzger’s banjo and guitar contain multitudes. Suspended between past and future, honouring the tradition while hijacking it, listening for its voice while revelling in its inarticulacies; this is how the thing sings. And the song, in the obsessive extensions of Metzger’s instruments, truly has no ending." – The Wire.
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John Saint Pelvyn
BC: https://johnsaintpelvyn.bandcamp.com/
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W2YW24lLOQ
Guitarist, thereminist, singer, and player of some species of dismantled electrified folk, John Saint Pelvyn is a musical enigma of the best kind. At the root of his playing is something akin to traditional stride, but rich with quivering whammy bar wobble and shimmering feedback. He often plays the tailfin strings of his archtop like one would play harmonics, or retunes seamlessly mid-stream to create a shifting temperament across the length of a piece. An affinity for the likes of John Fahey and Loren Mazzacane-Connors can be heard here, but the comparisons quickly fall away as one takes in this ambidextrous musical sensibility. He will sing otherworldly vocal duets with his theremin while simultaneously accompanying himself fingerpicking, or will throw modulated feedback tones across otherwise inviting harmonic landscapes based on blues & folk motifs, overshadowing them with clouds of squelch that loom like an approaching post-noise squall, but that ultimately swell and punctuate more like the tone clusters of Henry Cowell or the lyrical saxophone of Frank Lowe.
“When wandering the stage singing into the F-holes of his electric arch top bringing forth arpeggios of feedback, or waving the neck of his guitar in the vicinity of a howling theremin, indeed, he seems to be playing the very air itself.” – Electro Motive Records
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I Am Nothing (Victoria)
Links / Bio coming soon!
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Upside Studios (18 1/2 Fan Tan Alley)
April 17th, Doors 8pm
$10 // Payment options available. PM us.
All Ages
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Accessibility Info:
The venue is up a narrow flight of stairs and is not wheelchair accessible. Please respect the space and your fellow show attendees. If you have any questions regarding accessibility, please send us a DM.
Please approach one of the show organizers if you feel unsafe or uncomfortable by any behaviour at the show.
This event will take place on unceded Coast Salish Territories, specifically of the Lekwungen and WSÁNEĆ peoples. As we focus on building artistic and cultural bridges, we acknowledge the rich cultural history of the many peoples and rituals that have been affected by the ongoing process of dispossession and colonialism. We hold this understanding in our interactions and engagements with this land and its people.
In-Person Event
Wed. April 17th 2019 + Add to Calendar
Upside Studios
