Nine Inch Nails: Points On The Earth Part 7

Next stop in the NIN treasure hunt: New York City.

? 5: NYC
No map this time. The photo is the clue.

This is the first time in the Points on the Earth treasure hunt that the clue didn't show up on the NIN Google Earth map. We had just a picture of a bridge and the words above.

I read on the forums that the picture was of Riftstone Bridge near 72nd and Central Park West. My brother and I grabbed a laptop and took off. On the way, I tried to read the forums on my cell for more info, but the service was terrible. Someone posted that it may have already been found.

When we got to the corner, I jumped out of the car, and Mark searched for parking. I ran into Central Park but had no idea where to look. Somehow I didn't realize how close I was. Running aimlessly, I passed Strawberry Fields. Where the hell am I supposed to go?

I asked a couple people for directions to Riftstone Bridge. They pointed me the wrong way and I ran. About 10 minutes into my clueless run, Mark called me. He told me he was in the tunnel but couldn't see anything because it was too dark, and it smelled like urine. He was all the way back near the entrance. It turns out I had already walked over the right bridge. Damn!

I ran back and found him under the bridge. Another guy and girl were also there searching.

None of the four of us had a flashlight. Note to future hunters: If you're searching at night, bring a flashlight! We've made that mistake twice!

I broke out my iPhone and opened the myLite application which turns the phone's screen white so you can use it for light. Mark used his digital camera. He was taking pictures with the flash and checking the captured images for the hidden envelope. Later he figured out that if he pressed the shutter halfway a red-eye reduction light would shoot out. The other two people were using their cell phones to see.

We ran our hands along the walls of the tunnel, reaching into the spider web-filled crevices. The guy said he had already been searching the area for an hour. Not good. I searched about three-quarters of the tunnel and went back out to check the surrounding area. I stepped over a small fence and rummaged through the plants. The girl asked, "Are you seriously digging in the dirt?" Nothing there.

I asked which way the picture was taken, thinking it might be closer to that side. I went back under the bridge. More fruitless searching. The four of us were dying from the smell of urine. About 15 minutes in, I heard the girl scream, "I found it!"

She was jumping - shaking + super excited. We walked out of the tunnel and she opened her prize. Like in the four envelopes previously found in the recent Nine Inch Nails treasure hunts, there was an autographed numbered souvenir [005] and a letter asking the finder to email a picture. The band will send a gift to the winner at the end of the tour. It looks like this is the same envelope that wasn't found in the bathroom in Toledo.

We hung out for a few minutes taking pics. The guy left, and the girl who found the prize joined me and Mark for food and drinks. Her name is Senada [AKA splitlip]. Lucky girl!

Fun night!

Ready for more? Read on... Part 8...

Or go back to the beginning... Part 1...

NIN Google Earth Treasure Hunt Part 6

The Nine Inch Nails Google Earth treasure hunt that started last month in LA ended with fans finding 28 pairs of tickets to a private NIN rehearsal concert at The Forum. Would the geocache adventure continue during the tour?

The answer came about three weeks into the Lights in the Sky tour when a new ? popped up on the Google Earth NIN map. Someone found a letter + a postcard numbered 001 autographed by Trent Reznor at the "base of the tree" in rural Texas. The letter said, "We'll send you a gift at the end of the tour." Cool.

The treasure hunt now had a new name:

LIGHTS IN THE SKY
points on the earth: north america 2008

The next day another ? clue showed up in St. Louis "on top of the box, next to Hard Rock." Postcard 002 was found. Over the next few days, three more clues popped up in Ohio: "Steel outhouse?" [003] - "You'll recognize the tower" [004] + "ARG style..." [005].

The "ARG style..." clue was a reference to last year's Year Zero Alternate Reality Game where fans found USB sticks containing song files in concert venue bathrooms. This postcard prize wasn't found, so a note was added to the clue: "No one found it. Should have taken a closer look at the paper towel dispenser" along with a picture of it.

Once the band reached New York City, various pictures of the city posted on nin.com blog had fans wondering if more ? clues would be revealed. Fans converged near the corner of 12th and 3rd in Downtown Manhattan - hoping there was a prize to be found at the location below:

The caption read: "Excited tourists!" The photo appeared to capture a taxicab's GPS screen. No one claimed to find anything at the location though. Later that night, NIN played an awesome concert in East Rutherford, NJ.

The next night [last night], after swimming + recording audio samples in the pool, I saw a picture posted on nin.com with the title:

? 5: NYC
No map this time. The photo is the clue.

Where was that? I didn't recognize the bridge, but members of the forums figured out it was in Central Park. It wasn't too far away, but I had other plans. I decided not to go after it and took a shower instead. After I got ready, I checked the forums, and it looked like nobody had found the treasure yet.

Decision time...

Let's go!

Read on... Part 7...

Or go back to the beginning... Part 1...

FBI Arrest GNR Chinese Democracy Leaker

The FBI raided the home of Kevin Cogill [AKA Skwerl] early yesterday morning and arrested him for leaking nine songs off the upcoming Guns N' Roses album, Chinese Democracy. Skwerl admitted to streaming the songs on his website [Antiquiet]. Now he's on a $10,000 bail awaiting prosecution for suspicion of violating US federal copyright laws.

The second big concert I ever went to was the Texas Jam in 1988 at Texas Stadium, where the Dallas Cowboys play. The lineup: INXS - Guns N' Roses - Iggy Pop - Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers + Smithereens. It was incredible. Guns N' Roses were on fire. Axl Rose was going nuts: "I apologize if I sound like shit, but too many planes and too much cocaine, but you know where the fuck you are?!"


Welcome to the Jungle.

Fast forward 18 years to 2006. I saw GNR headline at the KROQ Inland Invasion show. It was at times ridiculous and at times awesome. Robin Finck + Bumblefoot rocked on guitar. They played new songs from Chinese Democracy. It gave me hope that the new album might actually surface soon.

It's really lame how long it's taken for this record to see the light of day. It's still not even released yet.

A few months before that show, I was at Can Am, the Valley studio where GNR recorded Appetite for Destruction + Dr. Dre recorded The Chronic. One of the studios was booked for ages by GNR to record Chinese Democracy. There were Axl Rose's three mics set up next to his table of toy cars. Robin Finck's sweet Les Pauls were lined up, but nobody was there. The guys at the studio told me that all the music was done, and they were just waiting on Axl to show up and lay down the vocals. The band - engineers + producer were tired of going there every day just in case Axl decided to show up. This went on for months at a time. Sad.

So now the album is finally done - or at least super close to it. The title of the album makes all the sense in the world now. Chinese Democracy is one of the most anticipated [talked about + joked about] albums ever. How could this album not leak? It was inevitable.

Skwerl's a cool guy + a big fan of great music. His blog rocks. He uploaded the songs to his site to be streamed - not downloaded - but he went overboard on the publicity + attracted a lot of people to his website. At what cost?

I can relate to both sides of the debate: the artist vs. the fan. There is something seriously wrong with this situation. What should the punishment really be here?

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for September 17 at 4:30 PM and the arraignment for September 22 at 8:30 AM at the US District Court Building at 255 East Temple Street, Third Floor, Downtown LA. You can send messages of support - hate mail + donations to Skwerl here.

Nine Inch Nails Izod Center NJ 8/27/08

Nine Inch Nails played a great concert tonight at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

I really dig the dual Lemur action on The Warning + Vessel. This incarnation of the band is really coming together. Killer performance. Good energy tonight. The stage show is nothing short of spectacular.

Setlist 8/27/08:

999,999
1,000,000
letting you
discipline
march of the pigs
head down
the frail
reptile
closer
gave up
the warning
vessel
5 ghosts I
17 ghosts II
19 ghosts III
piggy [ghost]
the greater good
pinion
wish
terrible lie
survivalism
the big come down
31 ghosts IV
only
the hand that feeds
head like a hole

echoplex
god given
the good soldier
hurt
in this twilight

photos: mark m.

Top Circuit Bent Kids Toy Videos

Vote for your favorite circuit bent toy videos on oobject.

Radiohead Hollywood Bowl 8/25/08

Awesome.

Setlist 8/25/08:

Reckoner
Optimistic
There There
15 Step
All I Need
Pyramid Song
Weird Fishes
Arpeggi
The Gloaming
Videotape
Talk Show Host
Faust Arp
Tell Me Why [Neil Young]
No Surprises
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
The Bends
The National Anthem
Nude
Bodysnatchers

House of Cards
Planet Telex
Go Slowly
Fake Plastic Trees
Everything In Its Right Place [True Love Waits intro]
Cymbal Rush
Karma Police
Idioteque

Sonic Chair

The sonic chair lets you sit in a sound system. Plug in an ipod or laptop and enjoy. The sonic chair starts at less than $9,000.

via dark roasted blend

Jozin z Bazin

Jožin z Bažin by Ivan Mládek was a big hit in Czechoslovakia 30 years ago. The song resurfaced and became a #1 hit in Poland earlier this year.

Yes, this song [Jozek z Bagien] actually reached #1 on the Polish music charts in 2008.

Human Echolocation: Seeing Sounds

Echolocation [AKA biosonar] is the biological sonar used by animals, such as bats and dolphins, to navigate and hunt. Human echolocation is the ability of people to sense objects in their environment by hearing echoes from those objects. Some blind people interpret echoes from tapping their canes or making clicking noises with their mouths to "see."

Ben Underwood is probably the world's best human echolocator. The boy lost his eyes at the age of three to retinal cancer [bilateral retinoblastoma]. He soon began to use his sense of hearing to identify buildings and objects around him. Now a teenager, Underwood rides his bike in the street, rollerblades and plays basketball and video games--all without his eyes--using only his ears.

Remarkable!


Extraordinary People - the boy who sees without eyes [1/5]

via ken lewis

Nose Trumpet

Mark Goodwin [AKA Yonner] on the nose trumpet.



Yonner Channel M interview. yonner.co.uk

Another nose trumpet
Another nose trumpet
Another nose trumpet

Muxtape RIAA

"Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA."

Squarepusher Delta V

The new Squarepusher song "Delta -v" is up and streaming on the Warp Records myspace. New album due later this year. Squarepusher is scheduled to play two UK concerts in December: Manchester's Warehouse Project [together with Luke Vibert] + ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas festival curated by the Melvins + Mike Patton.

Update 8/19/08: Music Radar has posted the tracklisting for Squarepusher's new album: Just A Souvenir.

1. Star Time 2
2. The Coathanger
3. Open Society
4. A Real Woman
5. Delta -v
6. Aqueduct
7. Potential Govaner
8. Planet Gear
9. Tensor In Green
10. The Glass Road
11. Fluxgate
12. Duotone Moonbeam
13. Quadrature
14. Yes – Sequitur

Echoplex Drum Simulator

The Echoplex Drum Simulator is an upcoming software recreation of the interactive stage effect being played as a drum machine by Josh Freese during the song Echoplex on the current Nine Inch Nails tour.

The software is being coded in Multimedia Fusion 2 by Mike L. of Bipolar Design.

• Any two .wav sound files can be used (even your own!)
• Beats Per Minute alterable from 1 to [Too fast for sane people]
• Volume control possible for each track separately
• Tone/Frequency control as well
• Variable loop lengths have been added (2-32 "notes" for each track)
• Saving/Loading almost instantaneous
• Both slider bars for volume and both tone/frequency bars can be dragged at once with the "dot" in between them for symmetrically OCD people XD
• "Prepare For Upload" button creates a .zip file that puts all files into one place to be uploaded to my soon to come community upload page, which will house drum loops created by people who use my software

Songs being tested:

• 1,000,000
• 16 Ghosts II
• 35 Ghosts IV*
• The Beginning of the End
• Down In It*
• Echoplex
• I Do Not Want This*
• Letting You
• Love Is Not Enough*
• Ruiner*
• The Good Soldier
• Underneath It All*

This drum sequencer is a great idea. I hope that as bands release more multitrack files more instruments like this will be created. How great would this be on the iPhone?

The bad news: It's Windows only.

More info

Update 8/29/08: Download now.

QOTSA Natasha Shneider Tribute Concert

Queens of the Stone Age paid tribute to the memory of Natasha Shneider with a great concert at the Music Box in Hollywood last night.

Natasha is best known for playing keyboards in QOTSA and fronting the band Eleven with her husband Alain Johannes and Jack Irons. It saddens me to think that I met Natasha briefly in April and now she's gone. She died of cancer last month.

Last night started with a DJ playing a rock mix with majestic visuals from the subtitled film Russian Ark on the stage's screen. Jack Black + Kyle Gass came out and rocked a few Tenacious D songs: Kielbasa Sausage - The History of Tenacious D - Wonderboy - Fuck Her Gently + Tribute. Jack Black's mic cut out so he and Kyle sang together through the same mic for "Tribute." Jack worked it into the song and blamed Satan. Nice.

Then the screen came back down for a slideshow of pictures of Natasha and friends to her song “Howling Book.” It was a beautiful memorial for a beautiful woman.

The screen came up and Queens of the Stone Age took the stage. The set started with a stripped-down version of "Go with the Flow" that kept building up. The band tore through many QOTSA favorites - rarities + a healthly dose of Desert Sessions gems. PJ Harvey came out and sang "Desperate Kingdom of Love." The band threw in a couple covers, including Cream's "I Feel Free" with Tenacious D on vocals and "Not to Touch the Earth" by The Doors.



It was definitely a unique concert experience. Hangin' Tree with Alain Johannes on vocals was great. Matt Cameron played the second drum kit on several songs. Josh Homme + Joey Castillo both played drums on the Eagles of Death Metal song "Speaking in Tongues" with Jesse "The Devil" Hughes on vocals. Chris Goss - Brody Dalle + Serrina Sims also joined in the celebration. There were so many great moments.

Setlist:

Go with the Flow
Turning on the Screw
Misfit Love
The Blood Is Love
3’s & 7’s
Desperate Kingdom of Love [PJ Harvey]
There Will Never Be a Better Time
Powdered Wig Machine
Crawl Home
I’m Designer
Not to Touch the Earth [The Doors]
Little Sister
Hangin' Tree
Making a Cross
I Feel Free [Cream]
Rickshaw
Run Pig Run
Don’t Drink Poison
Driving Song
Make It Wit Chu
Burn the Witch
Sick, Sick, Sick

Alain acoustic
The Fun Machine Took a Shit and Died
Speaking in Tongues [Eagles of Death Metal]
Long Slow Goodbye

Last night's celebration concert was an amazing show and an emotional tribute to a remarkable artist. Proceeds from the benefit concert will help pay her medical bills. You can also help by donating to the Natasha Shneider Memorial Fund.

More on the 8/16/08 QOTSA & Friends show at the Fonda:
antiquiet review
rekords rekords forum 1
rekords rekords forum 2
matthew field flickr pics

Alessandro Cortini Buchla 200e + EAR

Alessandro Cortini Electronic Musician video interviews:

Alessandro Cortini and the Buchla 200e, pt. 1
Alessandro Cortini and the Buchla 200e, pt. 2
Alessandro Cortini and the EAR Synthesizer
Alessandro Cortini in his Personal Studio

Cortini talks about his Buchla 200e + EAR modular [Plan B + Livewire] and his work with NIN + Modwheelmood.

EM article here.

Cauliflower Ear

Cauliflower ear is a condition caused by blood clots and repetitive trauma to the ear. The outer ear may become permanently swollen and deformed. Also known as hematoma auris or perichondrial hematoma, cauliflower ear is common among mixed martial artists, boxers and wrestlers.

"In mixed martial arts, a deformed ear is a badge of honor"

Indaba Music Online Collaboration

Indaba Music is a social networking site for musicians with online music collaboration features built into the interface.

video: discovery-news

BoC Music Is Math Mandela Processing

The 'Mandela' Variation from glennmarshall.

Glenn Marshall used Processing to create this animation to the song Music Is Math by Boards of Canada. The Mandela Variation uses the number 46664, Nelson Mandela's prison number, for the random seed number. This number is the basis for all the random code generated in the animation. Marshall picked 1973, his birth year, for the seed number of his original version of Music Is Math.

via processingblogs

Update: finished version

Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame NYC

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum will open a 25,000-square-foot annex in New York City at 76 Mercer Street in November.

via NYT

Worst Keytar Videos

Vote for the worst keytar video on oobject.

Krampf Experiment Videos: Doppler Effect

Robert Krampf's Experiment of the Week videos explore the mysteries of the scientific world.

Here are a few of his explanations of sound-related phenomena:

why things go bang
noisy string
hear the ocean
the singing glass
grass whistle
doppler effect [video above]

More Krampf sound experiment videos are available in the krampf.com members section.

Echoes Of Bats And Men

Echoes of Bats and Men 16mm animated short by Jo Dery via global burger.

I like the sound work, particularly the sound of the bat.

Bat exodus score: Jodi Buonnano
Location sound: Jung-Il Hong
Mix: Jonathan Schwartz

Knight Rider KITT Jacked Up in Hollywood

Last night I fulfilled a childhood dream: I sat in KITT. Too bad I couldn't drive it.

The Knight Rider KITT car was one of over 100 Gumball 3000 cars on display last night on Hollywood Blvd. in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. KITT broke down coming off the freeway and had to be pushed for blocks by over 20 people, including men dressed as King Kong and Iron Man.

This is the KITT car that David Hasselhoff bought and shipped to Austria when Knight Rider was cancelled back in the day. The car just underwent $40,000 worth of restoration and upgrades after being in storage for years. KITT now sports a new DVD navigation system [not this one].

KITT's taken a beating so far in the Gumball rally. When it came off the truck in San Francisco, the right mirror was knocked off. Then on one of the first drives, the power steering locked up and KITT dangerously veered into two lanes of traffic before reaching the shoulder. KITT's also been pulled over by the police twice this week.


The Hoff:

The voice of KITT:


More sounds of KITT:
KITT .wavs
Steven's Knight Rider Samples [all theme songs + Super Pursuit Mode]

Jim Bumgardner Whitney Music Box + Mandala

Jim Bumgardner's Whitney Music Box is a super cool collection of flash musical interpretations of John Whitney's motion graphics ideas published in 1981. Check out the goodness on coverpop here. He used actionscript, syd, ChucK, perl, nyquist, p5, midi and swf. Read more on Sequence 15.

There are 21 different variations so far. It's hard to pick a favorite. Variation 12 [prime numbers only] is pretty nuts. Put headphones on for var. 16. Turn the hand crank on var. 17. Var. 18 [stereo drone] includes a Halloween surprise. They're all awesome!

Bumgardner's Mandala of the Day is also sweet. Fullscreen it and get ready to trip balls.

808 Day

Happy 808 Day!

Roland TR-808 photo: eskimokaka

Reconfigurable House

Reconfigurable House from haque d+r.

"The Reconfigurable House is an environment constructed from thousands of low tech components that can be "reconfigured" by its occupants. Any sensor/actuator can be connected to any other sensor/actuator -- it is the occupants of the house who determine the systems that run inside it." - http://haque.co.uk/reconfigurablehouse.php

"The house consists of walls and devices that respond to sound, light, touch, footsteps, phone calls, mp3 players and even distant remotely connected spaces. Through elements like the Cat Brick Wall, Mist Laser garden, Monkey Corridor and Radio Penguin Ceiling, constructed from hacked low tech toys and gadgets, the house can be inexpensively recreated by even those who are not experts in electronics. This means that not only is the software of the House open, but the hardware is too.

The software is constructed using open source programming language, Processing, and the electronics are controlled by Arduino, an inexpensive open source micro-controller. All code used in the project can be found on this site." - http://house.propositions.org.uk/

Originally built last year in Tokyo's ICC by Usman Haque - Adam Somlai-Fischer + the Reorient team, the house was reconstructed as version 2.0 at Z33 in Belgium in March.

Via rekkerd.org: Wired article.

Another musical house.

Sound Memory Flash Online Game

Here's a little sound memory flash online game to test your memory. You can play this and many other musical games at Serge Mikhailov's AbabaSoft.com.

VTOL Noise Bleep #1

Noizzze Bleep from VTOL.

For more VTOL circuit bent creations by Moscow's Dmitry Morozov, click here.

Eclectic Method Bootie LA Echoplex

Eclectic Method played a VJ mashup set at Bootie LA at the Echoplex in LA on Saturday. I had never seen the UK duo in action before. I can't say their song choice was always right on, but they definitely showed skills on the Pioneer DVJ decks.

Bootie LA is the first Saturday of the month. All-mashup DJ sets. Next one: Sept. 6.

The Stone - John Zorn + JG Thirlwell

The Stone is John Zorn's not-for-profit club at Ave. C & 2nd St. in NYC. The East Village performance space is dedicated to the experimental + avant-garde.

Zorn selects a different musician each month to curate the events. Most shows are $10. All proceeds go to the musicians.

JG Thirlwell [Foetus - Manorexia...] has handpicked and booked the artists for September:

9/2 Tuesday (TD)
8 pm
Loud Objects
Tristan Perich, Kunal Gupta, Katie Shima (objects)
Wielding soldering irons above an old overhead projector, the Loud Objects construct their electronics live in pursuit of lo-fi electronic noise. Starting with punctuated silence, their performance explodes into noise when the initial circuit is assembled, modulating as new hand-programmed microchips are added and rewired. http://www.loudobjects.com

10 pm
Carla Bozulich
Carla Bozulich (voice, guitar)


9/3 Wednesday (CB)
8 pm
Child Abuse
Oran Canfield (drums) Luke Calzonetti (keyboards, vocals) Tim Dahl (bass)
Child Abuse will be performing a one-time/one-off piece for The Stone which will collage covers, originals and improvisations.

10 pm
Gibby Haynes
Gibby Haynes (electronics)
Lead singer from the Butthole Surfers presents a solo electronic set.


9/4 Thursday (JC)
8 pm
Toby Driver & Kayo Dot Auxiliary Unit
Toby Driver (bass guitar, vocals) Dan Means (alto sax) Tim Byrnes (trumpet) Terran Olson (piano) David Bodie (percussion) Patrick Wolff (tenor sax) Yuko Sueta (projections)
WORLD PREMIERE of a new full-length piece by Driver, with lyrics and film fragments by Yuko Sueta.

10 pm
The Psychic Paramount
Drew St. Ivany (guitar) Ben Armstrong (bass) Jeff Conaway (drums)
Intense power trio making their first NY appearance in over a year.


9/5 Friday (JAW)
8 pm
Steven Bernstein
Steven Bernstein (trumpet) and guests

10 pm
Christopher Tignor/Judd Greenstein
Christopher Tignor (violin, interactive electronics), Colin Jacobsen (violin), Nadia Sirota (viola), Peggy Kampmeier (piano)
Composers Christopher Tignor and Judd Greenstein present a collaborative evening of their most intimate chamber work. A distinctly new generation of chamber music in New York.


9/6 Saturday (JC)
8 and 10 pm
Matmos and friends
M.C. Schmidt (electronics) Drew Daniel (electronics)
Matmos will present improvisations with some of their colleagues.


9/7 Sunday (CB)
8 pm
Alexandra du Bois
Various ensembles
The Chamber Music of Alexandra du Bois: Distant Occupation, including String Quartet: Oculus pro oculo totum orbem terrae caecat (An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind) and String Quartet No. 3: Night Songs (Nachtliederen). Fifteen Dollars.

10 pm
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Keith Fullerton Whitman (electronics)


9/9 Tuesday (JAW)
8 pm
Boris Savoldelli with Elliot Sharp
Boris Savoldelli (voice and vocal noises, loop station, electronics) Elliott Sharp (guitar, sax and electronics)
The Italian singer performs, for the first time in New York, his vocal solo album Insanology. His music starts from a mantric vision of each song, where overlapped loops of small harmonic and rhythmic patterns create the songs in an exquisite and complex balance. Special guest the charismatic sound of Elliott Sharp. www.borisinger.eu - www.myspace.com/borisinger

10 pm
Okkyung Lee Solo
Okkyung Lee (cello)
Okkyung will present a solo cello concert.


9/10 Wednesday
8 and 10 pm
Mercury Rev's Trip Over the Light Fantastic
Jonathan Donahue, Grasshopper, Jeff Mercel with special guests Alex Chechile and Feedtank
Mercury Rev will perform two musical sets featuring all kinds of bizarre, unreliable electronic, spontaneous musical note generators: unbelievable futuristic brain-wave spatial arrangements in collaboration with the oblique quantum riddler Alex Chechile http://alexchechile.com and otherworldly musical interfaces in collaboration with the playfully enigmatic Brooklyn based duo of Feedtank http://feedtank.com/, who use the light-based interactive instrument Transpose. They will be playing and improvising around motifs from the Mercury Rev back catalog as well as the two imminent MR releases "Snowflake Midnight" and "Strange Attractor".

Fifteen Dollars.


9/11 Thursday
8 pm
Hahn Rowe
Hahn Rowe (violin, electronics, guitar)

10 pm
Brian Chase
Brian Chase (drums)
The drummer from YeahYeahYeahs and Seconds in a different guise.


9/12 Friday (MP)
8 and 10 pm
John Zorn Improv Night—A Stone Benefit
John Zorn (sax) Ikue Mori (laptop) Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) and many special guests
A NIGHT OF MUSIC AND MADNESS TO SUPPORT THE STONE—TWENTY DOLLARS


9/13 Saturday (NYYT)
8 pm
Erik Sanko
Erik Sanko (bass, guitar, voice) Thomas Bartlett (keyboards)
Erik Sanko (Skeleton Key) performing a haunting solo set with Thomas Bartlett (Doveman)

10 pm
David Grubbs
David Grubbs (vocal, electric guitar)
Playing material from the forthcoming album "An Optimist Notes the Dusk," which will be released on Drag City at the end of September.


9/14 Sunday (RK)
8 and 10 pm
International Contemporary Ensemble
Daniel Lippel (guitar) Tony Arnold (soprano) and members of the ICE ensemble.
To coincide with the release of their new album, ICE will present two different sets featuring highlights from the disc. http://www.iceorg.org/index.html


9/16 Tuesday (IQ)
8 pm
Aa (Big A Little A)
Aa
Percussive mantras and mayhem. ONE DOLLAR

10 pm
Z's
Sam Hillmer (tenor saxophone) Ben Greenberg (electric guitar) Ian Antonio (drum set)
Zs is primarily concerned with making music that challenges the physical and mental limitations of both performer and listener. Manipulating extended technique, unique instrumental synthesis, and near telepathic communication, Zs aims to create works that envelop the listener and unfold sonically over time, evoking unspoken past, present, and future rites and ritual.


9/17 Wednesday
8 pm
Paul Lansky
Meehan/Perkins (percussion) David Starobin (guitar) Paul Lansky (electronics)
Paul Lansky presents a new percussion piece, Travel Diary, performed by Meehan/Perkins duo, four guitar pieces performed by David Starobin, and some electronic work.

10 pm
David Lang
Meehan/Perkins (percussion)
The Bang On a Can co-founder and 2008 Pulitzer Prize recipient will present new percussion works performed by Meehan/Perkins duo, plus some surprises.


9/18 Thursday (MP)
8 pm
Jacob Kirkegaard
Jacob Kirkegaard (electronics)
Danish sound artist will present a site specific performance inspired by the sounds of The Stone.

10 pm
Lary 7
Lary 7 (objects)
Lary 7 is an audio explorer using self invented sound producing objects involving the detritus of the twentieth century. With special guests.


9/19 Friday
8 pm
NOW Ensemble
NOW Ensemble
NOW ensemble will be premiering new works including a piece by Ryan Carter, plus some music from their catalogue. This show is a preview for their tour of Northern Mexico that we begin the next day.

10 pm
USAisamonster
Colin (guitar) Tom (drums)
The USAISAMONSTER is a brilliantly fried two-piece guitar and drums band of sun spotters hailing from Brooklyn, NY. The band has roved the planet with instruments strapped to their backs playing the tops of mountains, skin-melting deserts, and rusted out America.


9/20 Saturday (JAW)
8 and 10 pm
League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR)
Lemur Robots with special guests
LEMUR will present an 8pm concert w/the Gamelatron and a 10pm concert with trumpeter Ben Neill incorporating an array of their robotic instruments.


9/21 Sunday (GG)
8 pm
Tony Conrad

10 pm
Paola Prestini/Jeffrey Zeigler
Paola Prestini (voice) Jeffrey Zeigler (cello) with guests from VisionIntoArt Helga Davis (voice) Milica Paranosic (voice) Erik Carlson (violin)
Performing electro-acoustic works with new multimedia by Michael Gordon, Annie Gosfield, and Paola Prestini, Fred Frith, and Milica Paranosic.


9/23 Tuesday (RK)
8 pm
Caleb Burhans
Caleb Burhans (viola, voice) Virginia Warnken (voice)
Caleb Burhans will present Nadia Sirota playing his complete viola works, as well as his 1998 song cycle performed by Virginia Warnken, and a piano work, In Time of Desperation.

10 pm
Petra Haden and Yuka Honda
Petra Haden (voice) Yuka Honda (keyboards)


9/24 Wednesday (JAW)
8 pm
Jay Wasco
Jay Wasco (fractal harp) and special guest
Mr Wasco performs compositions for his bizzare and unique fractal harp with a guest percussionist.

10 pm
Andrew WK Solo
Andrew WK (piano)
Andrew WK will perform piano improvisations.


9/25 Thursday (IQ)
8 and 10 pm
JG Thirlwell's Manorexia
Manorexia
JG Thirlwell's avant-chamber ensemble will present arrangements from the first two Manorexia albums.


9/26 Friday (CW)
8 pm
Captains Sons and Daughters
Drew McDowell, Kara Bohnenstiel (electronics)
Featuring Drew McDowell (Coil) and Kara Bohnenstiel.

10 pm
Elysian Fields
Jennifer Charles (voice) Oren Bloedow (guitar)
Jennifer and Oren bring the ever evolving mystery that is Elysian Fields to the concentrated confines of The Stone. Expect other great players, sinuous melodies and poetry to pour from their dark waters.


9/27 Saturday (DB)
8 and 10 pm
Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore (guitars)


9/28 Sunday (JG)
8 and 10 pm
Ted Hearne
Chris Coletti (trumpet) Ted Hearne (piano) Nathan Koci (horn/accordion/electronics) Taylor Levine (guitar/electronics) Eileen Mack (clarinet/bass clarinet) Ron Wiltrout (drums) Miki-Sophia Cloud (violin) Matthew Wright (trombone)
World premieres.


9/30 Tuesday
8 pm
Bridget St John
Bridget St John (voice)

10 pm
Michael Gira Solo
Michael Gira (Guild antique burst electro acoustic guitar and a Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus Guitar Amplifier)