Happening Tonight - Immersion II: [The Cube] [Show Preview]

Immersion II: [The Cube]
Sunday, November 27
Salvage Vanguard Theater (2803 Manor)
$5, B.Y.O.B, 8pm-11pm
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Church of the Friendly Ghost is going through a reformation of sorts - it seems that the organization has reached an impasse. Thoroughly exhausting the possibilities of serving as a platform for every knob twiddler and noise noodler this side of the Mississippi, the new director has seemed to have nailed their own artistic 95 theses to the door of the Salvage Vanguard. According to the 87th thesis, the Church will focus on more engaged multimedia events—think Waco Girls playing during an execution in Huntsville or Henna Chou playing a stringed instrument constructed out of Rick Perry’s hair.

Nevertheless, while the programming this season might just re-define the word adventurous, COTFG is taking us on a quadraphonic journey into ourselves tonight.

Titled Immersion II: [The Cube], the show will push sound-wizard Matt Burnett’s multi-channel, spatial sonic environment into bold new territories. Burnett’s will rig SVT’s gallery with some of the most consciousness shattering audio equipment available to homo sapiens. Testing the limits of the sound system, and the listener’s patience is a slew of different local sonic alchemists and agitators. According to the press release, dronelord Thomas Fang will employ a broad ”palette of glitches, noise, and feedback, Christopher Petkus will debut his piece entitled “Mantra” that will focus on “repetition and volume”, while, harsh noise purveyor, Jonathon Cash’s performance will surely induce hemorrhages, hemorrhoids, and hernias. In addition to other sound artists, local video artists, and shamans, Katie Rose Pipkin and Laurel Barickman will serve as midwives to the sensory overload.

Whether you’re a faithful parishioner or a neophyte, Sunday’s Quadrophenia will surely be a night at the opera.

Thomas Fang: [Soundcloud]

Christopher Petkus: [Website]

Matt Burnett: [Soundcloud]