Ettrick, irr.app.(ext.) & Commode Minstrels November 5, 2006

Commode Minstrels in Bullface (http://profile.myspace.com/commode)
Ettrick (http://ettrick.org -- freshly back from US tour)
irr.app.(ext.) (http://www.holocenesound.org/irr/menu.html)

Sunday, Nov 5 2006 8:00 PM

PLAySPACE Gallery @ California College of the Arts
1111 8th Street (at 16th and Wisconsin)
SF

presented by
Echo de Pensees Sound Series
in conjunction with
The Museum of Viral Memory and PLAySPACE Gallery

Commode Minstrels in Bullface was originally formed around the phallus
statue of liberty "America the Beautiful" compilation in 1993. First
live show was in Osaka 1994. The following show was in Seattle at the
Rabid God Innoculator 2 day festival. When opening for Deer Hoof in
July 1995 at the Impala Cafe the set was mostly composed with tennis
balls hitting a tin plate. They focus on doing soundtracks to homemade
movies, the latest "Weet Wet Weet: A Winged Explosure" which can be
seen here:

Ettrick is a self-destructive free jazz/black metal assault featuring
two multi-instrumentalists rotating through every permutation of their
drum and sax duo. Jacob Felix Heule and Jay Korber explore the extreme
sounds that can be wrenched from their instruments through brute force
– screaming through saxophones, throwing drums and other such impolite
extended techniques. The doubled instrumentation provides a situation
to explore playing contrasting and complimentary styles on like
instruments.

irr. app. (ext.) is the work of California-based sound artist Matt
Waldron, whose collected body of work is far too important to continue
to be forgotten. During the past decade, only two full albums -- Dust
Pincher Appliances (2003 on Crouton) and An Uncertain Animal,
Ruptured; Tissue Expanding in Conversation (1997 on Fire, Inc.) --
have seen the light of day despite the fact that perhaps a dozen
albums have been completed. The public silence for irr. app. (ext) was
never by Waldron's design, as numerous recording deals collapsed, one
after the other. The story becomes all the more of conundrum as these
misadventures of neglect and ignorance occurred despite Waldron's
high-profile collaborations with Nurse With Wound and Stilluppsteypa.
If a humble organization like the Helen Scarsdale Agency can have its
say, then we speak to remove whatever curses that have haunted irr.
app. (ext.) in the past and provide the world with the opportunity to
revel in the spectacle and the beauty that is Matt Waldron's art

doors open at 7:30
shows starts at 8pm

for more information and directions:
http://www.cca.edu/academics/graduate/gradgallery.php

PLAySPACE Gallery is located on the 2nd floor of California College of
the Arts, 1111 8th Street (at 16th and Wisconsin)

Echo de Pensees Sound Series:
An ongoing series of sound performances and installations at
California College of Arts offering a venue for experimental and
contemporary media artists.
Echo de Pensees is a curatorial collaboration between Marcella
Faustini and The Museum of Viral Memory.

contact: [email protected]

Official Website: http://ettrick.org