Tonight! California Bleeding (Makeout Weird), NguzuNguzu (Liquid Geometry), and Todo Mundo
The awesome is running thick tonight in San Diego. photo: Todo Mundo For starters, monthly Makeout Weird hosts nascent locals California Bleeding, a progy, schitzo, wiggle-ready duo featuring members of Alioth and Dead Animal Mod. Makeout Weird curators Monsterpussy (Heather …
Hosanna and Noise Beat Propaganda at Culture Beat, Ensenada
Culture Beat on Ensenada's downtown nightlife strip exhibits a similar aesthetic to San Diego's World Beat Center (Rasta/Mayan fusion, happy flowers, a shoddy Marley mural), except it's three stories high and housed inside what looks like a halved aircraft hangar. …
Moistrix: Atmospheric States - Aerial Experimentation
Last night at Suture Gallery’s East Village loft, multimedia artist Moistrix curated Atmospheric States, an altered reality of clear tarpaulin and balloon mollusks gyrating amid Wind Spirit’s self-transforming geometric projections. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbxoPLmXbPs A plastic wormhole attached to a fan wiggled from …
Accidental Form Poetry Workshop Tonight at Twiggs
So Say We All has been cultivating the local writing, performance, and story-telling scene since 2009 with regular, usually free events such as Greenroom (writers’ workshop), VAMP (story-telling), F*ck Alt. Comedy, and Long Story Short. The new Accidental Form poetry …
My Dirty Drum Habits' Dark, Live Beats
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 …
Identity Festival Draws Meme-Hep Ravers to Cricket
Last Wednesday, DJ and electronic music producer Kaskade advertised via Twitter an impromptu set at Grauman's Chinese Theatre for the premiere of Electric Daisy Carnival Experience, a documentary about a 15-year-strong music festival which drew an estimated 215,000 attendees to …
Long Story Short @ Space 4 Art
It may not seem like much, but you can get a lot done in five minutes: Beat Super Mario Brothers, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqnrHM4bUa0 pick up some rudimentary Afrikaan, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij6uz8ag3jA and ponder the unfolding of 1,000 years of European history. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxrXiO0zcVw Tonight, five …