X-RAY ARCADE PRESENTS
ALL AGES / NO COVER
11AM DOORS & GEAR SWAP
12PM SHOW
Another installment of exploratory soundscapes with Milwaukee’s most daring musicians, featuring…
RS MASTERS
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Rs Masters is a Chicago-based ambient and experimental musician. Utilising hardware synths, controlled by various midi controllers, and processed through a patchbay pedalboard, Rs Masters' live performances and recordings are a combination of improvisation and controlled chaos via chord progressions. Often pairing synthesized sound with nature-based field recordings, samples from the library of congress, and pedal-processed foley instruments, Rs Masters aims to use layers and textures to create organic polyphony.
A midwestern native plant enthusiast and gardener, Rs Masters draws inspiration from lives lived by the local and migratory pollinators and birds often lost in the juxtaposition of natural habitats in urban environments.
Rs Masters is a founding member Kayaks Collective (a Chicago-based tape label and creative collective). Major influences include: Loscil, Oneohtrix Point Never, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Brian Eno, and Laraaji.
MERE OF LIGHT
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Dreamy psych influenced electrofolk from Milwaukee. Balances pastoral imagery with dark undertones and interwoven synth, harp, and guitar loops. She tells a tale of decay intermingled with new life, of intricate creation inseparable from fertile death.
CATHEDRAL BECOMES TOMB
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Cathedral Becomes Tomb is an audio and visual media expression from Wisconsin based artist Barry Paul Clark (adoptahighway, Tontine Ensemble, Field Report)
The expression includes double bass in combination with effected audio signals. It draws inspiration from his lived experiences in conjunction with mental health therapy. The catalyst is an attempt to sonically manifest living with anxiety and major depressive disorders. Live performances are multimedia improvisations that utilize a mixture of projection imagery, film pieces and Barry’s own video footage, with a visual signal affected by the sounds being produced in the performance.
Genre can be implemented as a tool of organization and for the comfort of an unknown, so for genre category purposes, Cathedral Becomes Tomb shares sonic spaces connected to drone, improvisation, glacial maximalism, deep listening, and experimental electronic, with techniques derivative of contemporary chamber/classical music.
PLUS! DJ poorjr. all afternoon!
