Thursday, May 23 - May 26
Queering Sound 2024
6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC 20012, USA
$10 - $100
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QUEERING SOUND 2024 performances are scheduled for Thursday 23 and Friday 24 May evenings (7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.) and 'all-day' (2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. blocks) on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May.
Individual events: $15-20 sliding scale (except Sunday 2pm $10-15)
Festival pass: $100 (50% of festival pass sales benefit Rhizome DC)
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Thursday May 23 * 7pm
Pet Names is a Maryland-based folk-rock duo. Camila (guitar) and Maggie (bass) draw on their affinities for classic rock, folk, and alternative music, as well as their backgrounds in classical vocal performance (and college a cappella).
This Could Go Boom! is a nonprofit organization that supports gender diversity in music and strives for gender equity in music through record label services, professional development, community outreach, education, and performance opportunities for musicians and music industry workers whose genders have long been underrepresented, marginalized, and excluded.
Marcus Webb’s recent endeavors predominantly reside in the realms of ambient and drone music, their artistic journey began with a rich background in rock and jazz bands.
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Friday May 24 * 7pm
charlee scythe (Baltimore) - From a void near you comes this hybrid, crossbreed, experimental artist.
Pearie Sol (Gauche/Teen Liver) plays lo-fi loner jams that sometimes recall the work of Half Japanese and Suicide.
An independent Hi-NRG electronic artist, Safety Bear weaves together pulsing beats and immersive atmospheres with subject matter typically alien to the dance floor.
Blood Family Reunion - Washington DC dream pop quartet.
Juels Bland - Singer, songwriter with original lyrics and music full of rich tones that have a sad + soulful yet uplifting and far-away sound.
Ari Voxx - DC’s Dreamy Pop Princess. Well-versed in many different music worlds, she focuses on writing music that is eclectic and authentically her, transcending genres.
Sea Griffin is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist writing and performing carousel punk cabaret music.
Multimedia storyteller Kerri Sheehan is currently obsessed with finding ways to use AI creative tools for good.
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Saturday May 25 * 2pm
BEAU BEV DeJOE - Bev Stanton, electronics; Joe B Wall, electronics; Beau Finley, electronics
niki afsar - A nonbinary/femme, Iranian-American writer, and interdisciplinary artist, niki’s work explores ideas of fluidity and longing within language, hybrid/myriad identities, and mental health. Their art and politics are shaped by questions of identity and liberation.
Marlena Chertock (spoken word) writes about growing up with a rare skeletal dysplasia. Other common themes in her work include identity, intersectionality, queerness, chronic pain, accessibility, science fiction, and how climate change impacts disabled people.
OUTBOARD - Ambient drone + noise duo, Chris Mathews-Larsen (Grave Nature/Youth in Government) + Greg Mercer.
THAT MAJEURE - The continuing Deconstruction of Popular Classics: Promenade I-IV (Modest Mussorgsky "Pictures at an Exhibition," 1874 + orchestral adaptation by Maurice Ravel, 1922). The first performance of the Massed Narration composition, "tiny tragedies of human frustration" (Louise Bourgeois "He Disappeared into Complete Silence," 1947). JS Adams, electronics + prepared vinyl; Christopher Mathews-Larsen, guitar + euphonium; Chris Videll, electronics; CK Barlow, sampler; RA Martini, bass + violin; Josh Maxwell, bass
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Saturday May 25 * 7pm
LIFE IS PRICELESS - Rotating improvisational collective from members of the DMV experimental + free music communities. Jeff Barsky / Jim Thomson / Kamyar Arsani / Ty Russell / Nico Castleman / Rob Smith
M. Kluzek (The Doomed Bird of Providence/BEL) contributes his video interpretation of Les Sataniques/The Satanic Ones by Félicien Rops (1882).
JA$ is a conceptual artist and DJ who works with sound and light as material. Her research and practice questions the relationship between humans, plants, and organisms through the lens of philosophical, scientific, interdisciplinary, technological, in-situ methodologies, using time-based media and systems of chance to engage with space.
p cain’s electronics are one-half of the DC experimental hip hop duo, model home.
Sir E.U - “…idiosyncratic, innovative, relentless Aquarian leaning contrarian. As a multimedia artist, he has spent over half his life designing sound, specializing in rap music and performance that shapeshifts on his whim and refuses to landlock itself.” (VinylMePlease.com, 2020)
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Sunday May 26 * 2pm
Eyerolls - No sound left unprocessed.
BLK CHRISTIAN - Deconstructed industrial turntablism … Christian Marclay vs Survival Research Laboratories. JS Adams & Jeff Carey.
TL0741 - Structured improvisations on analogue modular synthesizer + effects that create an alchemical multiverse.
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Sunday May 26 * 7pm
Té - Was MUZAK the first “Sound Healing” of the Industrial Age? What is the connection between Muzak and Noise Music?
Sad Veiled Bride - Ukelele Weltschmerz; lo-fi + beat-heavy with a sprinkle of 80’s melancholia.
Switched on Sousa - Electronic marches + questionable facial hair.
Fibbing (Baltimore) - Fibbing is: a band. Fibbing is not: evil.
Depression Cherry - Shoegazer + ambient soundscape loops from Markus Meier + Kate Muser (All Her Muses).
Jan Swinburne’s intermedia practice overlaps images, sculpture, and experimental moving image art. Her thematic focus revolves around words, language as landscape, degenerated and regenerated images and sounds.
Kelli Frances Corrado (Chicago) is a singer, songwriter, wanderer and a witch, a quilt of memories and mysticism.
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Individual events: $15-20 sliding scale (except Sunday 2pm $10-15)
Festival pass: $100 (50% of festival pass sales benefit Rhizome DC)
============================
Thursday May 23 * 7pm
Pet Names is a Maryland-based folk-rock duo. Camila (guitar) and Maggie (bass) draw on their affinities for classic rock, folk, and alternative music, as well as their backgrounds in classical vocal performance (and college a cappella).
This Could Go Boom! is a nonprofit organization that supports gender diversity in music and strives for gender equity in music through record label services, professional development, community outreach, education, and performance opportunities for musicians and music industry workers whose genders have long been underrepresented, marginalized, and excluded.
Marcus Webb’s recent endeavors predominantly reside in the realms of ambient and drone music, their artistic journey began with a rich background in rock and jazz bands.
============================
Friday May 24 * 7pm
charlee scythe (Baltimore) - From a void near you comes this hybrid, crossbreed, experimental artist.
Pearie Sol (Gauche/Teen Liver) plays lo-fi loner jams that sometimes recall the work of Half Japanese and Suicide.
An independent Hi-NRG electronic artist, Safety Bear weaves together pulsing beats and immersive atmospheres with subject matter typically alien to the dance floor.
Blood Family Reunion - Washington DC dream pop quartet.
Juels Bland - Singer, songwriter with original lyrics and music full of rich tones that have a sad + soulful yet uplifting and far-away sound.
Ari Voxx - DC’s Dreamy Pop Princess. Well-versed in many different music worlds, she focuses on writing music that is eclectic and authentically her, transcending genres.
Sea Griffin is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist writing and performing carousel punk cabaret music.
Multimedia storyteller Kerri Sheehan is currently obsessed with finding ways to use AI creative tools for good.
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Saturday May 25 * 2pm
BEAU BEV DeJOE - Bev Stanton, electronics; Joe B Wall, electronics; Beau Finley, electronics
niki afsar - A nonbinary/femme, Iranian-American writer, and interdisciplinary artist, niki’s work explores ideas of fluidity and longing within language, hybrid/myriad identities, and mental health. Their art and politics are shaped by questions of identity and liberation.
Marlena Chertock (spoken word) writes about growing up with a rare skeletal dysplasia. Other common themes in her work include identity, intersectionality, queerness, chronic pain, accessibility, science fiction, and how climate change impacts disabled people.
OUTBOARD - Ambient drone + noise duo, Chris Mathews-Larsen (Grave Nature/Youth in Government) + Greg Mercer.
THAT MAJEURE - The continuing Deconstruction of Popular Classics: Promenade I-IV (Modest Mussorgsky "Pictures at an Exhibition," 1874 + orchestral adaptation by Maurice Ravel, 1922). The first performance of the Massed Narration composition, "tiny tragedies of human frustration" (Louise Bourgeois "He Disappeared into Complete Silence," 1947). JS Adams, electronics + prepared vinyl; Christopher Mathews-Larsen, guitar + euphonium; Chris Videll, electronics; CK Barlow, sampler; RA Martini, bass + violin; Josh Maxwell, bass
============================
Saturday May 25 * 7pm
LIFE IS PRICELESS - Rotating improvisational collective from members of the DMV experimental + free music communities. Jeff Barsky / Jim Thomson / Kamyar Arsani / Ty Russell / Nico Castleman / Rob Smith
M. Kluzek (The Doomed Bird of Providence/BEL) contributes his video interpretation of Les Sataniques/The Satanic Ones by Félicien Rops (1882).
JA$ is a conceptual artist and DJ who works with sound and light as material. Her research and practice questions the relationship between humans, plants, and organisms through the lens of philosophical, scientific, interdisciplinary, technological, in-situ methodologies, using time-based media and systems of chance to engage with space.
p cain’s electronics are one-half of the DC experimental hip hop duo, model home.
Sir E.U - “…idiosyncratic, innovative, relentless Aquarian leaning contrarian. As a multimedia artist, he has spent over half his life designing sound, specializing in rap music and performance that shapeshifts on his whim and refuses to landlock itself.” (VinylMePlease.com, 2020)
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Sunday May 26 * 2pm
Eyerolls - No sound left unprocessed.
BLK CHRISTIAN - Deconstructed industrial turntablism … Christian Marclay vs Survival Research Laboratories. JS Adams & Jeff Carey.
TL0741 - Structured improvisations on analogue modular synthesizer + effects that create an alchemical multiverse.
============================
Sunday May 26 * 7pm
Té - Was MUZAK the first “Sound Healing” of the Industrial Age? What is the connection between Muzak and Noise Music?
Sad Veiled Bride - Ukelele Weltschmerz; lo-fi + beat-heavy with a sprinkle of 80’s melancholia.
Switched on Sousa - Electronic marches + questionable facial hair.
Fibbing (Baltimore) - Fibbing is: a band. Fibbing is not: evil.
Depression Cherry - Shoegazer + ambient soundscape loops from Markus Meier + Kate Muser (All Her Muses).
Jan Swinburne’s intermedia practice overlaps images, sculpture, and experimental moving image art. Her thematic focus revolves around words, language as landscape, degenerated and regenerated images and sounds.
Kelli Frances Corrado (Chicago) is a singer, songwriter, wanderer and a witch, a quilt of memories and mysticism.
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