Washington Street Art Center will host an evening of experimental music with Oakland, California's Voicehandler, a set of beautiful drone from Worcester's Abdul Sherzai and Hypnagogue duo, and a solo guitar set from Ollie Becker:
Below is more information about Voicehadler and youtube videos of all of the artists. We hope to see you there!
Danishta Rivero: voice & electronics
Jacob Felix Heule: drum & electronics
Voicehandler plays intuitive, incantatory music grounded in the most primitive and somatic instruments -- the voice and percussion -- juxtaposed with contemporary, disembodied electronics. We situate ourselves in our physical and social environment through our music. Our improvisations are shaped by their setting and context.
The performance is loose and exploratory, at various times energetic and meditative. Rivero’s voice embraces noise, with the lines blurred between electronic processing and extended vocal techniques. Heule has a special interest in friction techniques, and embraces limited instrumentation - like a single drum and a single cymbal - as a commitment to exploring the depth of his instruments.
“…bizarre glossolalia, witch-like chattering, deliriously stuttering as an obsessed medium, as a distorted mouthpiece of Latina experiences. Heule… patters on predator paws or becomes very meek when the ghosts whisper as if with paranormal tape voices or increasingly only sizzling pure noise or switching off the human factor in waves of hum.” - Rigo Dittmann / Bad Alchemy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcpdfv7eZ7k&list=PL_HPASqyjYfKMW8R2sV6xM-3-8qGu4Wb4&index=3