Urban Honking

Wednesday, December 8

7:30pm Music, Movies, and Movement Micro-Fest @ Holocene

Featuring live music by:
Jeffrey Jerusalem
Brainstorm
billygoat
Death Worth Living
Dance by:
Lucy Yim & Jin Camou
Sarah Johnson
Video art by:
Grand Detour featuring Opticnoodle!
Jesse Malmed
Rebecca Steele & Posie Currin
Plus a video installation synced to music by Hoop Dreams (Aaron & John from Nurses)

Music:
Jeffrey Jerusalem
Fresh off a rigorous year of touring the globe with bands like YACHT and Brainstorm, Jeffrey Jerusalem is readying new material for a late-night boogie. As always, he will be recreating his brand of electronic dance music onstage with live instruments and equipment, supplementing it all with dance moves, endless energy, and appropriately enough, video art he will create himself.

Brainstorm
Having just released a brand new 7″ and garnered loads of local buzz, Brainstorm will once again be gracing Holocene with their hyper brand of pop, which skips through and pulls from genres in a powerful way. With just two members, Adam Baz and Patrick Phillips, Brainstorm has an art rock sound that feels larger than the two of them alone. Visuals provided by Jesse Malmed will further boost the band’s swaggering neons, and they will take the opportunity to experiment with a new set!

Billygoat
Combining a rich live score with a masterpiece in DIY stop-motion animation, each Billygoat performance is entirely unique. With the addition of a new drummer, Corey Nelson, the band will perform using no pre-programmed material, allowing for pure, live musical accompaniment to the film. Says Kat Gardiner about the performance: “Using only a cheap point-and-shoot digital camera, found objects, handmade props, a printer and lights, David Klein and Nick Woolley hand-craft a dreamscape and live soundtracks with drummer Corey Nelson. Billygoat’s all-instrumental sound is a perfect match for the eerie animations.”

Death Worth Living
With a 9-piece Arkestra, Death Worth Living will give an 4-year anniversary performance featuring dancers Alyssa Reed and Jennifer Knipling, alongside a 7-piece band comprised of Jean-Paul Jenkins, (electric guitar, percussion) Shane Ronet (voice, percussion), Anthony Thomas Schatz (ipads, electric guitar), Ryan Stuewe (percussion), Pete Bryant (tenor sax), Jerry Soga (bass), and founder Sean Ongley (keyboards, percussion). The Arkestra will perform themes from DWL’s upcoming cassette release, Popped, which was recorded this summer in 2 days of pure improvisation at The Wail. It is currently available in a trilogy of new BandCamp releases.

Film/dance:
Yim+Camou/Steele+Currin
Making a special pit stop at Holocene, this collaboration will combine a video piece by Rebecca Steele and Posie Currin and a dance number by Lucy Yim and Jin Camou. This is a limited edition treat you do not want to miss. Yim describes the performance, saying, “[The video is] a collection of images such as shadows and faceless bodies. They play a lot with light and use soundscapes that are dissonant and mysterious. The dancers may be masked and wearing plastic ponchos (partial nudity possible). Our movements are inspired by George Gurdjieff… We are creating a ritual space and sculpture with our bodies… It will surely be of a peculiar nature.”

Sarah Johnson
Performing a self-titled piece named after herself, Sarah Johnson is one-of-a-million.

Grand Detour & Opticnoodle
Still glowing from the success of a recent international tour, a successful Summer Screening Series, and a Summer Squash event — which pulled in more than 500 guests for a hybrid celebration of film and music — Grand Detour is a relatively young organization which helps foster growth and support in the experimental filmmaking community. They will be utilizing Holocene’s available projectors and working with OpticNoodle, an interactive performer, who will open the MMMicroFestival with “gentle performances with audio, video, me, you.”

A/V synthesis:
Video synthesis to a song by Hoop Dreams – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Inspired by Grand Detour’s SOUNDabout project, where select filmmakers were invited to create works of video art to a sound clip from musician Brian Yazzie, this evening at Holocene will feature a side room installation revolving around the music of Hoop Dreams. Hoop Dreams is an experimental music project which includes Aaron Chapman and John Bowers of Nurses; the trio will offer up a track from their forthcoming debut release for artistic inspiration. All established video artists, as well as dabblers in video art, are invited to participate in the community-based project.