Events . MICHAEL JOHNSEN + MARGARET COX, MEZZANINE SIMMERS, MOONBEAM TERROR and FARRAH FAWCET

MICHAEL JOHNSEN + MARGARET COX, MEZZANINE SIMMERS, MOONBEAM TERROR and FARRAH FAWCET

an evening of live electronic sound performance
Concert by Edgar Um
Collision PIttsburgh
All Ages $10

Wednesday July 19th 2023

tcrps prsnts

an evening of live electronic sound performance
featuring

MICHAEL JOHNSEN + MARGARET COX [Pittsburgh, PA]

with

MEZZANINE SWIMMERS [Already Dead/Fire Talk records: Michigan/NYC]

MOONBEAM TERROR

and

FARRAH FAUCET


all-ages welcome

8:30pm doors open
9pm live music (approx.)

$10 or so (no one turned away for lack of funds)

COLLISION OF NOISE IMPERMANENCE
email collisionpgh@gmail.com for the venue address


MEZZANINE SWIMMERS

Mezzanine Swimmers is the solo project of Mike Green, born off the banks of the Mississippi near St. Louis-- and Midwestern dweller in Ohio and Chicago-- before settling in NYC. He has cycled through every instrument in numerous bands. First, he tackled the drums, then moved on to guitar, next electronics, and finally ended up with an amalgam of everything. His approach to music is completely individualistic; it can barely be taught, let alone imitated. The rhythms and repetitions are prominent-- a labyrinth of winding beats, from vaguely familiar samples to distorted sound bites, but never hesitant. Each song has a wildly catchy hook, and is dressed in woozy, garbled, and psychedelic textures. Like Container, he takes a tactile approach; the sound is sculpted from the mad combination of overdriven electronics and loose improvisation. You’ll never see a laptop on stage, but a pile of wires connecting synths, samplers, pedals, and a microphone. The result is a wonderful album of deranged pop songs which would be quite comfortable in a playlist with Black Dice or Michael Jackson.

https://mezzanineswimmers.bandcamp.com/


MICHAEL JOHNSEN

Instrument builder and performer Michael Johnsen was born in 1968 in Pennsylvania. Drawing on the rich American tradition of experimentation and cobbling, he has built up an integrated menagerie of devices specifically for live performance whose idiosyncratic behaviors are revealed through their complex interactions. His work is characterized by a relative lack of ideas per se, and an intense focus on observation, the way a shepherd watches sheep. The extensive patching of large numbers of devices produces teeming chirps, sudden transients and charming failure modes; embracing the dirt in pure electronics. Most of what he might have learned has come from the natural world, like watching robins run. He is particularly fond of sounds that end. His work has been shown (or heard) at MoMA, SF Cinematheque, Radio France, Idiopreneurial Entrephonics, Issue Project Room, Margaret’s House, Musique Action, and Bitche.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWJvilXy7PE
https://pittsburghmodular.com/


MARGARET COX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2ThkT9hjxo
https://www.instagram.com/marzsipan/


MOONBEAM TERROR

https://summerinterluderecords.bandcamp.com/album/overwhelming-alive


FARRAH FAUCET

https://iamjustaghost.com/
https://farrahfaucet.bandcamp.com/album/pain-body

Related Entities: Collision Margaret Cox Michael Johnsen
Tags: Electronic Experimental Improv