10:15pm Crystal Quartez

9:30pm Jan Julius and Blue McCall

8:45pm Saroon

8pm Amenta Abioto, Darian Patrick, and Mike Gamble

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Darian Anthony Patrick

Darian Anthony Patrick is a multi-instrumentalist based in Portland focusing on percussion, with training in classical and jazz voice as well as electric and bass guitar. Darian performs a broad range of musical styles with specialization in African diasporic traditions, including Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian styles.

https://darianpatrickmusic.com/

Amenta Abioto

Amenta Abioto is a singer, songwriter, producer, performance artist from Memphis, TN. In her one-woman show, she builds vocal and instrumental loops from kalimba, synthesizer, drum machine, and guitar creating atmospheric textures. Weaved into syncopated rhythms and dichotomies of comedic proportions, Amenta surprises and tantalizes audiences with mind bending ideas while skipping vocally from soul-shaking gospel to smooth jazz. Boldly mystical and soul-fired, and her raw live performances invoke elements of both theatrical surprise and magic through ancient African diasporic sounds and stories. Amenta studied drama and was familiarized with the stage. Amenta moved to Portland, OR in 2010 with her family (mother & 4 sisters). There she began her musical chapter. After many jams and the forming of band, dopebeds, Her solo project made debut in at house show in Spring of 2012. Since then, Amenta has released three projects and toured with The Blow, Secret Drum Band, Typhoon, and The Ghost Ease. In 2020 she plans to release her third record. Amenta is involved with projects KILEO and NOMADR. 

https://amentavera.bandcamp.com/

Mike Gamble

Mike Gamble is an adventurous guitarist and multi-instrumentalist whose work with electronic modes of composition are integrated endlessly into his setup. Gamble has spent the last 15 years immersed in the creative jazz, experimental rock and improvised music scene primarily in NYC, with close ties to New Orleans, Burlington, Boston, San Francisco and now in Portland OR, where he currently lives

https://mikegamble.bandcamp.com/

Saroon

With a belief that genuine expression of vulnerability has the power to resonate others towards actualization, Saroon’s intimate and existential approach to sharing music has transformed into deeply personal performances, albums, and tours around the world. Varying between albums, Saroon’s sound transcends through acoustic compositions and illustrious harmonies and blooms into a hypnotic and energizing electronic psychedelia.

https://saroon.bandcamp.com/

Jan Julius and Blue McCall

Jan Julius and Blue McCall are Portland-based nonbinary artists whose is work concerned with power play, queer fantasy, and life under/against capitalism. Blue McCall’s interdisciplinary practice includes work in textile, soft sculpture, poetry, and choreography, and Jan Julius is a hyperpop singer and producer. Their collaborative relationship began with a radio broadcast for International Workers Day, a reading of McCall’s in-progress novella Factory Erotica with sound design by Julius. Following that, McCall choreographed and danced with Julius in a livestream to accompany the release of their debut album, Meat Shot Idyllic. They are very excited to present their ongoing collaboration at the CMG Improvisation Summit.

https://noumenalloom.bandcamp.com/album/meat-shot-idyllic

www.slipwip.com

Crystal Quartez 

Crystal Quartez is a sound, installation artist & creative technologist based out of Portland Oregon. She is also a professor of Creative Coding & Sonic Arts at Portland Community College. As someone who never saw herself represented in computer music or creative tech her work focuses on the empowerment of underserved populations gaining access and knowledge around technology. In 2019 she co founded whateverSpace, a maker space offering free and sliding scale workshops and technology rentals with priority going to the BIPOC community. Under her performance moniker Crystal Quartez, she transforms field recordings, uses synthesis, audio programming, data sonification, and 3D sound spatialization to produce sonic realms for reflection and release. Her practice has recently involved the development of interactive sculptural interfaces and wearable technology that monitor movement and other corporeal methods to liberate the performer from their interfaces. Her art has been shown at NIME, PNCA, Disjecta, PICA, Navel (LA) and more

https://crystalcortez.com/

https://crystalquartez.bandcamp.com/

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13 Doors: | 8pm // Show: | 9pm $15 Holocene

 PLEASE NOTE: For the safety of our customers, we will be requiring proof of full COVID vaccination to enter the venue, until further notice. More details at holocene.org/vaccine

Holocene is excited to partner with Creative Music Guild (as part of their annual festival, the Improvisation Summit of Portland) to present a line up of three visionary local artists: Methods Body, MSHR, and Patricia Wolf.

METHODS BODY (Portland, OR, USA) creates original sound art and music using custom tuning systems, involuted polyrhythms, and the cadences of language. John Niekrasz (Ecstatic Peace, ESP-Disk’) and Luke Wyland (The Leaf Label, Hometapes, Crammed Records) use bespoke live-sampling technologies and meta-cognitive compositions to inhabit waves of subliminal melody and deep, uncanny grooves.

Methods Body builds on the non-traditional tunings of Terry Riley, the experimental energy of Éliane Radigue and Silver Apples, and the refracted electronics of Aphex Twin to create a sonic language completely their own. Together, Wyland and Niekrasz have been pushing the bounds of rhythm and melody for more than a dozen years. Their duos, AU and Why I Must Be Careful, were lauded as groundbreaking and breathtaking. Both Niekrasz and Wyland are idiosyncratic innovators on their instruments and use performance as an arena for legitimate connection and energetic exchange. Methods Body’s first full-length album (released in 2020) is born from long-term composing and recording sessions held in old-growth forests and remote deserts. 

MSHR is an art collective that builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their practice is a self-transforming entity with its outputs patched into its inputs, expressing its form through interactive installations, immersive performances and audiovisual compositions. MSHR was established in 2011 by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper. Their name is a modular acronym, designed to hold varied ideas over time.

Patricia Wolf is a musician, sound designer, and curator residing in Portland, Oregon. Wolf uses electronics, voice, and field recordings to produce non-linear compositions that draw listeners to a hypnotic inner world. Her use of melody and repetition manipulate the listeners’ perception of time, conjuring vivid textures, and atmospheres. 
Tonight’s set from Patricia Wolf will feature animation by Jeremy Rotsztain.