S*Glass / Sailor Beware / id m theft able & Angela Sawyer duo
S*Glass / Sailor Beware / id m theft able & Angela Sawyer duo
Thursday, May 30, 2024, at 8pm
Washington Street Art Center
321 Washington Street
Somerville, MA, 02143
Music at 8pm
Admission: $15 (suggested donation) - cash preferred
Pay what you can / No one turned away for lack of funds
For information about accessibility email susanna@nonevent.org.
Non-Event presents an evening of improvised music featuring a rare appearance by S*Glass along with Sailor Beware and a duo by id m theft able & Angela Sawyer.
S*Glass’s solo sets are live collages of different batches of selected audio that combine electroacoustics, processed found sound and noises, voice, and chance operations. The playing of non-musical objects is sometimes incorporated (dental floss, aluminum foil, wind-up toys, metal lunch box, cabbage). Self-shot backing videos are mostly textural, made with multiple layers that slowly wobble out of sync, jump cuts, and primitive animation. The overall effect is one of surreal disorientation. He is a founder of Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble (a large non-musical music group begun in the early 1980s), and Glands of External Secretion (a duo with rock musician Barbara Manning since the early 1990s). From the late 1980s until 2004, he was the main driver behind the magazine Bananafish.
Lara Allen's solo work under the name Sailor Beware combines sound collage, spoken word, and vaudeville in a kaleidoscopic portrayal of her experiences in Cincinnati public schools, a troubled teen industry cult, and a children’s psychiatric hospital. She was a member of the group Caroliner and also fronted Heavenly Ten Stems, who specialized in covers of Asian pop and rock tunes, has appeared on an album by Secret Chiefs 3, and was the off-the-hook screeching front-person of legendary Ohio psycho-rock band Manwich. She currently teaches at Pratt in Brooklyn.
id m theft able performs within and without the realms of noise, avant-improvisation, sound poetry, performance, et c. et c. et c. using voice, found objects, electronics, and whatever else is available......
Angela Sawyer is a professional middle-aged nice-lady, very artsy, who has run a boatload of weekly and monthly comedy shows in terrible bars around Boston. She has an album of zoom stories on bandcamp. She also used to own a record shop named Weirdo. She has done festivals like Limestone Comedy Festival and the Boston Comedy Festival and the Blue Ridge Comedy Festival. And she has opened for famous people like Eugene Mirman and Gary Gulman. She has also done things like released two albums at the same time, fronted a hardcore band, hosted shows right inside her house, gone to school for philosophy, performed throwing cake at a lady who was throwing cake back, recorded an album inside a car, drank an absurd amount of diet coke, and a bunch of other silly stuff she has mostly forgotten because she is quite old. She still plays music around town sometimes too.
