UPEND Presents

MSHR
Slipper
Jonathan Snipes

MSHR upends L.A. with back-to-back nights of performance at Human Resources, each night featuring a distinct mode of the Portland, Oregon-headquartered collective’s networked visual artwork, soundwork, feedback, and shape shift.

On night one MSHR unfurls the latest iteration of their live sound-sculpture cycle. Performing in the round on a menagerie of fantastical sculptures, novel instruments that can emit light, audio signal, and data AND – through custom circuitry and software – process the emissions of neighboring sculptures, MSHR coax a wild electronic stew of chirp, click, pulse, zap, and pow, through a four-channel speaker system, fully enveloping the audience in the intermedia drama. MSHR is a collective comprised of Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper.

Chloé Marrata – formerly one half of the heroic sui generis DIY duo Odwalla1221 – shares her solo project, Slipper. Within, Maratta continues to explore an intuitive and intimate sample based language, a perfect match for her own idiosyncratic vocal style and sassy aesthetics.

No sound concept or technique is beyond the reach of Jonathan Snipes. His all-too-rare solo outings – which can take the form of ad hoc electroacoustic devices or various digital precisions – ever make the sonic seem elastic.

Also come through HR the following night to catch another mode of the Portland, Oregon-based collective’s networked visual artwork, soundwork, feedback, and shape shift, as MSHR performs Network Entity.