October 2
8 PM
Racquetball Court, Des Moines Social Club
Five Dollars
Bob Bucko Jr. (Dubuque, IA)
“Perhaps more so than any other musician living under the #experimental umbrella, Bob Bucko’s scope of variety from release to release is vast. It’s an idea that’s hinted at in the musician’s label, Personal Archives, itself used as a kind of categorization and documentation system for Bucko’s own artistic output. Just hit the “more releases” link on the label’s Bandcamp page, and you’ll notice 26 of the 64 entries in the discography involve Bucko in one form or another, whether it be a single for a comp, a collaborative set of recordings, live improvisation, or simply a BBJr album. And the list of instruments, electronics, software used are about as different from release to release as you could possibly imagine, jumping from vocal manipulation to minimal guitar improvisation to a kazoo run through a table of effect pedals.” –Tiny Mix Tapes
Moulttrigger (Des Moines, IA)
Moulttrigger finds 4/4 beat pop songs in the throbbing low end of harsh noise. Though the changing nature of the feedback happens below the surface, the subterranean swells still manage to bubble over at times, and the rarity of those moments are what keeps his music breathing.
mediumPENIS (Des Moines, IA)
The last time I saw mediumPENIS play was on the balcony in the entryway of the Vaudeville Mews. Until walking into the venue and hearing the buzz of radio noise billowing out over walls of distorted drone cascading from above, I wasn’t really aware that the entryway had a balcony. The impromptu nature of the performance was a fitting one for the band, which seems to pull its waves of noise from the very movements of the Earth itself, channeling radio waves and vibrations through whatever machines seem to communicate its vastness most closely.