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With More Noise Please!
Australian amplified glass noise legend Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela returns to Toronto on June 21st at The Jama! Death Kneel, Nimmie Amee, and industrial sound art trio Triptych open the night!

LUCAS ‘GRANPA’ ABELA
Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela’s performances on their signature instrument; shards of amplified glass are the stuff of legend. Their singular practice spawned from the noise music underground, where over twenty years the glass evolved from a means to create ecstatic free-noise cacophonies into an outsider instrument that produces some kind of organic electronica. Abela vibrates the pane vocally to control a modular patch that uses no traditional syntheses techniques, instead the glass acts as both sound and modulation source. The patch extracting control voltages from the glass’s dynamics and frequency in order to modulate itself in synchronicity with the performance, shaping six parallel stereo effects chains that merge into dense layers of anomalous music.

DEATH KNEEL
Death Kneel is the primary recording outlet of Toronto based musician Max Klebanoff. His output is characterized by unyielding binaural manipulation and unapologetic octatrack abuse. Incidental sound and electroacoustic automatic drawings dismantled and deconstructed to be recycled, again and again. New releases forthcoming on Students of Decay.

NIMMIE AMEE
Patient and incidental noise from Toronto. Dynamic sound collage mustered through field recordings, carefully plotted melodies, and slow-swelling intensity. Deeply personal and spirited audiographic experimentation.

TRIPTYCH
Colby Richardson, Colin Cudmore and Kristina Guison are experimental sound artists working with minimalist, acoustic and low-tech methods. Richardson’s work “Dimmer Switch” involves producing sound from malfunctioning light bulbs. Cudmore is a versatile percussionist utilizing ready-made and found objects, while Guison creates metal sound sculptures / instruments which incorporates time-keeping devices, tools and other materials. Together, their trio amalgamates their individual practices into producing suspenseful, brooding, resonant and cacophonous sounds.

Visuals by Colby Richardson

Coming up this June! 6 concerts & 3 record releases! Tickets on sale now in the linktree! Details below!

Thursday, June 4th
Glissandro 70 “Bones of Dundasa” LP Release
Khôra & Mas Aya “Primordial Mind” LP Release
Sweet Lips
STANDARD TIME (165 Geary Ave. Unit A)
8pm, $25 Adv / $30 Door, All Ages

Friday, June 12th
co-presented with Wavelength Music
Luge “Miarklez” LP release
So Perfect
Bag
@ Wavelength @ St. Anne’s (651 Dufferin St.)
8pm, $20 Adv / $50 Adv with LP / $25 Door, All Ages

Tuesday, June 16th
co-presented with Not Dead Yet
Afrorack
Phèdre
Arc & Texture
BSMT 254 | Live Music • DJ Venue • Bar (254 Lansdowne Ave.)
8pm, $25 Adv / $30 Door

Sunday, June 21st
co-presented with More Noise Please!
Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela
Death Kneel
Nimmie Amee
Triptych (Colin Cudmore / Kristina Guison / Colby Richardson)
Visuals by Colby Richardson
The Jama 961 (961 College St.)
8pm, $15 / $20 Adv / $25 Door

Wednesday, June 24th
Setting
High Alpine Hut Network
Shabason/Gunning
The Jama 961 (961 College St.)
8pm, $20 Adv / $25 Door

Thursday, June 25th
The Ex
not a band
Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides
UPSTAIRS (1650 Dupont St.)
8pm, $35 Adv, $40 Door, All Ages

Graphic by Andrew Zukerman