XFest

XFest 2016

Open Field Initiative and 119 Gallery present XFest 2016, a festival of improvised music, visuals and movement.      

Fire Museum Presents: Bill Nace + Steve Baczkowski

Fire Museum Presents Bill Nace + Steve Baczkowski

Bill Nace is one of the premiere avant-garde guitarists active today. He has one of the most personal and unique pallets of sound ever to be culled from an electric guitar. Nace creates a distinct, mind-bending cacophony and focuses his textures with intense precision and control. He works under various guises (Body/Head with Kim Gordon,… Continue reading Fire Museum Presents: Bill Nace + Steve Baczkowski

R5 Productions Presents Mono at Johnny Brenda’s

R5 Productions Presents Mono at Johnny Brenda's

Mono was at Johnny Brenda’s where they performed a set of their music to an enthusiastic crowd: Within the rage of distortion and bombardment of feedback, you are just as likely to experience sadness and beauty, light and darkness, chaos and peace, happiness and melancholy. It is MONO’s ability to combine, intertwine and swing back and forth from… Continue reading R5 Productions Presents Mono at Johnny Brenda’s

R5 Productions Presents Holly Hunt

R5 Productions Presents Holly Hunt

Drummer Beatriz Monteavaro and Guitarist Gavin Perry capture the meditative power of repetition; the ecstatic joy of tempered variation; infinitely undulating riffage; psychedelic drone paired with rock n’ roll rhythm in full splendor. Though stripped down to the most bare essentials, Holly Hunt produces a sound and style far beyond rudimentary tags like “heavy,” “hard,”… Continue reading R5 Productions Presents Holly Hunt

Garguad + Gomez + Wright

A trio of: Guillaume Garaud. Guitar + Objects Jack Wright, Saxophone and Jean-Philippe Gomez, Synthesizer Analog + Voice Performed at Pageant: Soloveev Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.

A trio of: Guillaume Garaud. Guitar + Objects Jack Wright, Saxophone and Jean-Philippe Gomez, Synthesizer Analog + Voice Performed at Pageant: Soloveev Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.

Fire Museum Presents: Helena Espvall + Bardo Pond

Fire Museum Presents: Helena Espvall + Bardo Pond

Helena Espvall started to play electric guitar as a bored teenager in northern Sweden, and went on to take cello lessons and was never bored again. After having played in rock bands, a silent movie orchestra, an Arabian ensemble and being inspired to play free improvised music by a shocking Eugene Chadbourne performance, she moved… Continue reading Fire Museum Presents: Helena Espvall + Bardo Pond