8:30pm doors, 9pm music
$15 GA / $10 Student, All Ages
Tickets:
https://www.rhythmplex.com/all-colors-present
In early 2025, All Colors Present was performed in ten cities throughout the midwestern and southeastern US, and will reach more cities throughout the east and west coasts before the year’s end. A collaboration with photographer Tom Lecky, it’s a nearly 60-minute sound and visual meditation.
I am very grateful to have worked with Tom on this and to have his photographs involved. They are an integral part of the performance, offering their own detail and mystery in such a complementary way to the sound.
Table of the Elements plan to release a physical edition of it. Here are some of their words about it…
“Here, recorded in real-time and with no overdubs, two crisp beats repeat and reverberate—one, then two; two, then one—in a confluence of hand and stick, drumhead, and heartbeat. Yet, from this seemingly metronomic exercise blossoms every possible tint and hue of infinite spectral sound.
An apt reference point resides within the broad, decades-spanning catalog of Table of the Elements. Like Tony Conrad’s surging Outside the Dream Syndicate, the aural and conceptual headwinds are real, but the perceived affronts of provocation are not. These works are not endurance challenges, nor are they threadbare minimalist upholstery. They are not obstacles. They are invitations. Within their simplicity and formalism await a sympathetic repose, a comfort. These are gestures of generosity.”
P//G//C Is an ever morphing acronym. A vehicle for exploring experimental soundscapes, ugly and ephemeral, harsh and haunting. Always improvised and unexpected.
Stnic — (pronounced ‘Saint-Nic’, or ‘Satan-ic) — is an experimental music project from Iowa City, IA. Based in a regular practice of free improvisation, they defy categorization by choosing to play without predetermined styles or goals; there is a constant sense of searching shared by the performers and audience. Embracing absurdity, their music carries elements of noise and postmodern collage while maintaining, or attempting to maintain, sincerity of expression. They emphasize the creative documentation of their process, recording all their sessions on tape and experimenting with different forms of media and production.
Sitting in a nest of splitter cables and extension chords, Patrick O’Connor outputs various toy keyboards, drum machines, a sampler, and numerous media players through a 4-track recorder.
Meanwhile, Levi Brown wrestles with a combination of drums, found percussion, and other acoustic instruments in a never-ending rotation of untested sounds.
Stnic’s secret weapon really-cool-rock is the voice of Jordan Decker, projected through an antique microphone. He tells stories, improvises poems, and utters non-sense, or, I should say, stuff that only makes sense to you.
The most recent addition to the group is Charlotte Leung on saxophone and other wind-blown instruments, fed through a pedalboard and creating varied sounds ranging from squawks and wails to melodies and dense soundscapes.
Together they conjure the weird and wonderful from the ether, like radio-movies from, not just the past, but the deep-sleep-dreams of some whack-o from those days.