Last night’s My Dirty Drum Habits show at the Kava Lounge featured local and touring musician constructing dark, live beats with Akai Music Production Centers, Korg Kaoss Pads, and self-styled noise boxes.

Will Michaelsen, a student of the Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts major at UCSD, projected clips of black and white horror films and optical illusion spirals with an iPad app of his own design called “Psychedelic Horror Show.”

You’ll notice that just about all of the following videos start with a shot of this app, because it’s entirely awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy_Lw2OIpgU

Check out this story about an iPad app designed by beat wiz Mike Gao, a doctorate student at UCSD. The app allows Gao to make music using colors and geometry in experimental “pitch spaces.” Do take a look.

FRKSE (Boston) – industrial noise hop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMaBS88Tqno

Walter Gross (LA) - tribal doomstep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O4LXDF-2Co

Skrapez (San Diego) – avant hop nostep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27bZEGvdYWI

Check out the Kava Lounge tonight for more beats at the monthly Critical Beatdown featuring DEVONWHO (PDX/LA ), MNDSGN (Philly), local AbJo, and residents eLan, Dj Cleancut, Nino Seneris, and Dj Pound, who is celebrating the his Robot Whispers EP release on Saturate Records.

$5 before 11pm, $7 after

Kava Lounge - 2812 Kettner