Dixon Place Introduces Circuit Bending Wednesdays

Every Wednesday at 7:00pm, the Lounge at Dixon Place will host an evening of free music performances featuring Circuit Bending, a new music series where artist turn toys, electronics, and gadgets into far out musical instruments! The series is curated by Craig Flanagan. All shows in The Lounge begin at 7PM - there is no cover charge and no minimum drink purchase.

Circuit bending is the creative short-circuiting of electronic devices such as low voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and small digital synthesizers to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators. The Dixon Place Circuit Bending series features Matt Choplick, vocal transformer Löwenzahn, Endless Endless Endless, Craig Flanagan, THREEP and more.

CIRCUIT BENDING SERIES SCHEDULE

Wednesday, March 31 at 7pm, FRREE in the Lounge
ENDLESS ENDLESS ENDLESS
Returning to the series, are Endless Endless Endless performers Brett Renfer (guitar, vocals, and pedals) and James Tichenor (Korg Gameboy DS). Splitting their time between triumphant post-noise and stretched out bummer-wave, Endless Endless Endless creates music from the sounds of shimmering guitars, squiggly synth lines, filter sweep synth washes, slow-mo 8-bit drums, and infinite layered vocal harmonies all mushed together into a psychedelic, blissed-out smoothie.

Wednesday, April 07 at 7pm, FREE in the Lounge
AMANDA ERVIN
Known for her minimal but ferocious 555-chip oscillator/sequencer instruments, which she teaches in workshops at Brooklyn's Third Ward, Amanda also performs in the vaudeville/electro band The Drunkard's Wife. Tonight she will present a new instrument she's working on, and it might incorporate muscle wire!

Wednesday, April 14 at 7pm, FREE in the Lounge
CRAIG FLANAGAN - ELECTRONICA CASEIRA
The curator of our Circuit Bending series takes the stage on this special CB night! Electronica Caseira Craig Flanagan has been making instruments from contact mics, phone coils, and electric motors since 1978. He continues to do so, as you will see this evening.

Wednesday, April 21 at 7pm, FREE in the Lounge
THREEP
Threep, fishers of sound, cast their nets into spectral seas and deep canyons of circuitry and code. Armed with a bewildering array of bakelite knobs, patch cables, software and custom made controllers and instruments they explore parallel worlds within sound and circuitry. Fusing field recordings and granular textures with analogue rhythms and hardware hacked sound ignoring the boundaries of conventional musical composition. Whilst carefully crafting compositions in the studio with meticulous attention to detail, they take an entirely improvised approach to live performance, effortlessly navigating between the delicate and the brutal, minimalism and complexity. Threep are Chris Cousin and Stu Smith; co-directors of music / art collective Bathysphere.

MORE CIRCUIT BENDING ACTS TO BE ANNOUNCED!

ABOUT DIXON PLACE
Dixon Place is a non-profit organization founded in 1986 to provide a space for literary and performing artists to create and develop new works in front of a live audience. While other venues of its kind have since died off, or now only present established artists, Dixon Place remains at the heart of the New York experimental performance scene. Taking risks is crucial to the life of Dixon Place, its artists and audiences.

For these artists, the only way to experiment and test ideas, is to perform them before an audience: to feel the reaction of a live group of people, without the pressures of production costs and premature press exposure. Dixon Place has grown out of a direct need for more support of the artistic process. In spite of the growing visibility of performance art, it is still difficult for emerging artists to find venues in which to test new ideas and performance techniques. The financial and professional risks for producers or presenters are too high. Dixon Place, therefore, provides an organization that facilitates these artistic experiments.

TICKET INFORMATION:
The Dixon Place Circuit Bending Series is free to the public.