Saturday, November 12, 2022
7pm doors / 7:30pm show
Tickets $25 (discounted or free for members)

The multidisciplinary artists MV Carbon and Charlemagne Palestine recorded two hours of improvised music in June ‘15 at Palestine’s Brussels studio; this would later become the album Liquiddd Changesss (5 Rue Christine). Carbon describes it as “having a mysterious, ambient quality to it that is dreamlike and haunting.” Charlemagne describes his process for this recording as “very much like a somnambulist… a sleepwalker in a trance.”

Charlemagne Palestine’s approach to creation is about intuitingg the moment,,,,enteringg a trance and then ridingg the nowwwww like a funambule !!! During his decades of creation adventuress he has found his magics as a sleepwalking sonambulistic ritualist bumping into countless unusual unknowns and wigglewagglingg through them as a slipperyy slideryy human animal inspired by his own bodyy with all its diversitiess and contradictionss,,,,He is alwayss accompanied on these multifarious adventuress with his cornucopic family of animistic divinitiess,,,, costumess,,, and elixirss,,,,!!! A Multi-ShMulti Carnivalateria!!! Charlemagne has presented performed installed and interacted in numerous residencies, festivals and exhibitions worldwide for more than half a century. Born and educated in New York City, he has lived in many other lands. Since 1999 he resides in Brussels and Oostende Belgium.

MV Carbon (NYC) focuses sonic feedback, sound morphology, media manipulation, and the transformative interrelationship between sound, image, space, and place. Carbon's music unravels lucid abstractions, weaving dreams into tangibility. Electric cello, voice, magnetic tape, field recordings, oscillators, and synthesizers form alluring and unsettling sonic experiences. Sculptural objects function as musical instruments, amplifying the ritual, rhythm, and momentum embedded in music. Carbon taps into the mystery of the human mechanism, exploring themes such as interchangeability, regeneration, and the transmogrification of mind and matter. Carbon interprets sound as a living organism which can heighten our senses. Carbon has performed and exhibited work nationally and internationally and has records released on a multitude of independent labels.