"Here for the now" 3/7/25
eugene oregon uo vistiting faculty show closing
My friend Gabie Strong runs a label , teaches art, and makes art and noise. I got to attend the closing of a group show she was involved in as a visiting faculty member of the University of Oregon’s Art Department.
The art was great…….. but i was really there for the music to be honest. (and bubbly waters (multiple)).
Caspar Sonnet opened the show with a sick set using two reel to reel tape machines with long loops, magnet, and a razer blade. It was visually striking. I appreciated the medium choice of manipulating the tape. The large tape loops made it easier to understand how physical manipulations effect the sound. Eventually he started to demagnetize the tape and also scrape it with a razor in certain intervals as it looped. It sounded rad like a lot of sounds were inbetween percussion and noise getting interrupted muffled, cut off, or looped over. He runs a label called Andromache Records check out here
Gabie Strong dropped a killer synth heavy set. It started quiet and the dynamics built up subtly until I noticed myself feeling the “head cleaning feeling” only live noise at a loud volume provides me. I want to play w volume more in my own work (yoiiinkkkk).
I was lost in my own mind for a lot of this set in a good way.
She whipped the sound into undulating circular movements in a part i really enjoyed; a lot of elements would be perfectly interlocked and start either drifting apart o,r just disappear into feedback-obscurity only to return to the fold in a way that made sense. At one point she lowered her head onto this one synth that is very reactive to human touch and any type of signal which produced some bonkers sounds in the mix. Gabie runs the label Crystalline Morphologies
It was my first time meeting/seeing Carousel play live. I loved it. It started with a nice frog and or ocean type sound. He gradually mixed more than a dozen sound sources together; minidisk, cd, but mostly tape. Its an indescribable sound that also involved lots of heady panning. I felt like i was inside of a cinematic experience that was extremely “sound designed” in a purposeful way. In the technical sense it was pretty simple and streamlined, technologically (once everything was on its media and going into the mixer.
Check out Carousel’s newest release on Bud Tapes here .
I had a thought stony baloney in the middle of his set…….
A lot of tape based noise music can be looked at as essentially dub music. We just mosh it up so insane it becomes noise. or whatever u want!
The cookies were pretty good! Last time at this gallery they had Falafel so my expectations were way too high.
Nice woke bathroom (; bubbly water! What more can a girl want.
great night thanks for putting that together
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