The setting is Dreamland. The theme evokes the kind of ambient, experimental content that the venue has become so beloved for amongst those that appreciate the avant-garde.

This particular exposition takes full advantage of the spatial environment, and how sound reacts within it. Bouncing and reverberating off walls, straight into your inner ear.

Proxemia is the brainchild of multimedia artist Jose Rivera. Taking full advantage of his background in architecture and music, he composes layered soundscapes by way of samples and field recordings. Be transported away to places not of this earthly realm, but inherently grounded within it. The environments that only exist in the concentrated thought patterns of Rivera and his utilities. Rivera also recorded a song with Ian Be of Bourbon and Coffee. The track has undergone multiple changes since, and Rivera says that “..this version is more representative of my interests in working with field recordings, memory, and environment. There are recordings of river water from Asheville, waves from St Pete beach, drips from Boston. In many ways it speaks to the formal mobility, location, and presence of water.”

The marriage of music and poetry is one that is not likely to soon get divorced. Word patterns meet with an eccentric cacophony of instrumentation, and even buy them dinner before consummating the relationship. Bourbon and Coffee is a group that has been cultivating such a relationship for years. They pack a ukulele, trumpet, electric bass, drone box, violin, and of course, the organic tones of human vocal cords. Always a mind opening experience.

Ethereal strains carry the feather weight sounds of Helen. Acoustic instruments and distant vocals echo like Gregorian chants, but are far easier on the ear. This is definitely a group that could post up under a large bridge or in a medieval chamber and sound as beautiful as a Vermeer painting looks.

Kevin Cain creates long form sound sculptures focused on the decay and evolution of tones within a given time frame. He has a goldfish he gives a different name each day. For this performance, he will be using 15 minutes and the key of A minor.

Stop by Dreamland to open your ears and mind, and don’t bother to wake your wallet. It only costs five bones. Everything begins at 9pm sharp. All ages are welcome.

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From the Midwest, we have Church Slut, Fanngface, and Karl Vorndran. They are all working with harsher sounds that grit and grind down the foreground and then let up to encourage space. Karl Vorndran’s latest release, Thawing, uses a modular synthesis to produce stretching tones that produce a disjointing sensation. Church Slut is heavy on the fuzz, with hints of deep thrashing drums and distorted metal. Fanngface works similarly, using the white space of white noise in songs like “Desert Lawyer Plays The Oboe Pt. 2.” After teasing in this noise for a while, he plays with shortened melodies that are perfect for a Alexander Jodorovsky film.

The venue is located on 417 Massachusetts Avenue at the Westside Laundromat. Only five dollars to get you into the frenetic zone, and BYOB to wash down the intensity.

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I’m not sure exactly what local composer/performers T.J. Borden and Kevin Cain have in store for their support sets (though the former has already warned attendees to bring earplugs for his set with Zane Merritt, Steve Baczkowski, and Jim Abramson, which will probably be noisy as fuck, and the latter is no stranger to strange acoustic experiments [as an aside, check out his upcoming Silo Sessions project, where he’s taping musicians in the abandoned and likely super-haunted grain silos south of the city]).

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In honor of the session series, Cain will host a launch party, featuring many of the Silo Sessions contributors, in addition to local acts like Mallwalkers, Jack Toft, Alex Berkley & the Atlanta Falcons, and more. The event will consist of three stages: one inside Marina A, one in the Perot Elevator, and one along side the Buffalo River.

Tickets for the event will be available at the door for $15, but if you contribute to the launch party’s kickstarter campaign, which goes live Friday, April 25th, entry will only cost $10. Follow the sessions’ facebook page for artist audio, fundraising, and further details as they become announced.

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