Subterranean homesick party for introverts

Presented by Co-Lab Projects, Neosho, and Antumbrae Intermedia Events

Co-Lab Projects 721 Congress Ave., Austin, Texas 78701

9pm-2am

Free

Doors at 9, doors locked and performances start at 10pm. Enter the door on 8th St near the alley.

Lineup:

Colin Sheffield and James Eck Rippie

Robert Turman

Neosho

Join us for a night of tasty curated sound, created for your entertainment.

Neosho Jackson Bennet – vox, guitar, bass, sampling, synth, sequencing Justin Bernard Williams – saxophone, guitar, sampling, synth, sequencing. Jackson and Justin have been making music together since 2009

From an early age, Robert Turman experimented with record players, and developed an interest in instrumentals, novelty records, studio tricks, and multitracking, as well as playing guitar. By the mid-60s, he started making crude recordings with tiny reel-to-reels and cassettes, field recordings, feedback, loops, with microphones stuck inside an acoustic guitar, using an old reel-to-reel as an amplifier. He continued through his teens with electric guitar, playing rock & roll and studying jazz. 

In the 70s, he started experimenting with electric guitar, organ, piano, and an Ampex reel-to-reel with sound-on-sound and tape echo. Later that decade, amidst the punk rock music scene, he met Boyd Rice. Rice played Turman some tapes he wanted to put out on vinyl, and Turmanmastered what later became known as the Black Album. Rice and Turman proceeded to start performing as NON. After a couple of years playing in San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, the first NON single Knife Ladder/Mode Of Infection was released in 1977. Turman’s eventual departure from the group, saw him shunning almost all noise and electronics and releasing the nearly all acoustic FLUX as a very limited edition cassette. 

The 80s brought a return of noise, loops, and rhythm, and collaborations with THRT with Timothy Hendricks (of 23 Degrees), David Therrien of Comfort/Control and Scott McCarter, in the experimental rock project FZ13. Experimentation with the guitar and new crude technology and source material led to the production of Turman’ album Way Down in 1987. He also recorded and performed with Z.O. Voider (featuring avant-percussion artist Peter Z.O.) During the 90s, Turman recorded pop, reggae, house, techno, and world music with co-conspirator, Paris Treantafeles and continued to play in FZ13.

In 2008 a collaboration CD Blizzard was released with Aaron Dilloway (tape performance master, ex-Wolf Eyes) followed by a limited edition box set of Turman’s earliest recordings, Chapter Eleven, re-issued by Dilloway’s Hanson Records. Late 2010 saw DAIS Records vinyl LP re-issue of the obscure 1988 Way Down cassette, and Actual CD’s release of Beyond Painting, rare unheard recordings from the early 90s. 

Turman started doing solo performances in 2009, and since then has done numerous shows in Denmark, Italy, Germany, England, Netherlands, Belgium, and various cities in the U.S.

Performing together for the past 16 years, Colin Andrew Sheffield (samples, processing) & James Eck Rippie(turntables, samples, processing) are an improvising duo who sculpt primarily with commercial recordings to create works interested in turning aspects of plunderphonics, glitch, and sound art into a form of abstract beauty. Their work together has always been about their dialogue within a given piece, unfolding dreamscapes and hints of musicality within a form rewarding for the meditative listener. Their debut LP, “Variations” (Elevator Bath), originally released in 2001 (with a 2016 reissue), was recorded “live” with no additional production. Each of the album’s pieces utilizes sounds from a single acoustic instrument as its sole source material. These sources are manipulated and shattered in multiple ways inside the performance. Since the release of their album, Sheffield & Rippie have continued to perform and to record, expanding the concepts utilized in the “Variations” cycle, along with similarly themed installation recordings. They will be preparing new work for NMASS. After a hiatus of nearly 10 years of performing, Sheffield/Rippie are gathering new concepts, aesthetics, and thrift store records to transform.

James Eck Rippie (b. 1977) is a visual/sound artist originally from outside Nashville, TN, spending the last 6 years in New Orleans, and has recently returned to Austin, Texas. His recorded work has been as a turntablist . But has also worked extensively with other instruments and mediums. His focus with turntables has been creating abstract sound and concrete assemblages from various records while utilizing altered needles, turntable feedback, effect pedals, damaged records, resampling,etc. While decomposing the original sound source, Rippie’s intentions are to understand the transcending possibilities of sound as well as testing the capabilities of the turntable as an instrument. He releases his work for the Cronica Electronica (Portugal) and Elevator Bath (US) labels. And has collaborations with sound artist’s Simon Whetham (UK), Paulo Raposo (PT) and erikM (FR).

Colin Andrew Sheffield (b. 1976, ?El Paso TX) is a sound artist focusing on the strict re-contextualization of other commercially available recordings. His aim is to distill the essential qualities of these works and to then utilize that essence for new recordings. Usually only very brief sections of the original works are selected. These raw components are then contracted, expanded, layered, and/or otherwise processed until something new is forged. The resultant music is an atmospheric soundscape, gradually shifting and unfolding. In 1998, Sheffield founded the Elevator Bath recording label which has continually issued experimental works from a variety of artists from the United States and abroad (including Rick Reed, Tony Conrad, Merzbow, Francisco López, and many more). Sheffield has released a number of solo recordings, including 2005’s “First Thus,” his debut long-player, as well as 2009’s “Signatures” (via the Invisible Birds label), 2010’s “Slowly” (on the Mystery Sea label of Belgium), and 2012’s “Time Will Tell” (on the Quiet World label of the UK).