This show was really fun! Pfefftiffuff and Night Trees were lovely. Martin was a great addition and it was exciting to ditch the stringed instruments for an evening. Something interesting always happens when your amplification setup is patched together in a fashion where you cannot differentiate between what you are playing and what everyone else is playing. It’s a soup that forces you to become one big instrument. Please enjoy the synthesized sounds.
This Saturday in Medford, MA at the Oxfam Cafe at Tufts University, come and join us for a lovely evening of music with our friends Night Trees and Pfefftiffuff. Martin Pavlinic will be playing with us! We’re shooting for 92% electronic instrumentation.
8PM Sharp.
Thanks to Tommey Seggers for these photos.
This was a great night! We were honored to have Ernie Kim and Forbes Graham play with us, and Jules Vasylenko with Breakfast At Penderecki’s were fantastic. We hope to post some pictures that Tommey Seggers from Artists-at-Large took soon. Please browse the upcoming shows at The Music Workshop, because it is a great space for music that has a hard time finding a home.
We were on first, and the set has a good deal of low end in it, so crank up the speakers. Breakfast at Pendereckis’ set was brilliant, so keep the levels hot for them as well. Click to download, or press play to stream.
Paper Thin Stages set:
Breakfast at Pendereckis set:
On Thursday, October 16th we will make our first stop at The Music Workshop in Hyde Park, MA. Happily, Ernie Kim will be joining us again. Also performing is Breakfast at Penderecki’s.
Doors – 8pm, Music – 8:30pm
$7 donation suggested
We’ve been doing some writing in the meantime, and might have a batch of new musical things in the near future.
Vic Rawlings and Jay Sullivan performed first. Jay played an array of tiny keyboards and prepared vinyl, while Vic attacked a prepared cello and a very interesting and beautiful homemade synthesizer(s).
We were very excited to be joined by Ernie Kim and Greg Kelley, and hope to have them join us again soon!
For the second installment we have four separate tracks recorded as we rehearsed for RUSSIAN DOGS at the Lily Pad. All of the tracks sound like improvised pop songs. The drums were amplified with contact mics and were routed through the first two modded pedals below. Many of the synthesized bass sounds came from the third:
The first night of our improv music series, Russian Dogs, will be at Lilypad in Cambridge, MA on September 18th. We’re happy to have Vic Rawlings performing with turntablist Jay Sullivan for the first time in over two years, as well as Ernie Kim and Greg Kelley, who will be playing a set with PTS.
Also ahead in October, we will play at The Music Workshop in Hyde Park. Many thanks to Forbes Graham!
Please read this article about Nate’s most recent drawing show from Big Red & Shiny.
Seriousness is on view August 23 - September 25, 2008 at the home of Nova Benway, 15 Bardwell Street #1, in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
Viewing hours are Wednesdays from 6-8pm.
This was a very coherent bill with friends Ryan Brown, Pfefftiffuff, and The Modern Voice. Ernie Kim was kind enough to join us again, and his saxophone playing added both melody and texture.
We introduced some new twists for the first time this show. Between some new sound producing gadgets and contact mics, the end result was much more sound rich. Where we sometimes have tended toward tribal rhythms in the percussion, we went more free this night. Out of the mist in Untitled II comes a great moment of clarity. Enjoy!
Untitled I
Untitled II
