Bob Ostertag, Antimatter & Heule, Philip Perkins, Anti-Ear

Bob Ostertag A criminally-rare live set from San Francisco's very own brigand of sound captured by handmade and virtual synths, samplers and a multivalent mind. Whether synthesized or sourced from across oceans, Ostertag churns sound in an ocean of acid intellect. His live performances come at you fast, well honed from a lifetime of improvisation (alongside Frith, Minton, Zorn and later Otomo Yoshide and Justin Vivian Bond) tracing the arc and velocity of a legendary artist. You have to plumb his earliest explorations on Buchla and Serge synths (as Rrose did on the recent "Surgeon General" release) to fully appreciate his expansive sensibilities. Wresting video game sound on his album "w00t", he uncorks all hell in response to hell of actual war in Lebanon. Ostertag's activism is inseparable from his aesthetic and the more you prime your mind by reading his concise and helpul prose, the less likely you'll be whiplashed once his music ensnares you. Hopefully copies of "Sex Science Self" "Encounters with Men" and "Creative Life" will be alongside his music on the merch table. Antimatter & Jacob Felix Heule Heule performs a sonic anti-aliasing in real time through micro percussion and electronics that must be heard as closely as possible to be believed whereas Antimatter summons sound from way down the block, a seeming far off source captured through minimal materialism revealing flow variances all the way to the PG&E substation where magnets lasso electrons and steer them into the room. Entangling the micro and macro requires two master practicioners of sound synthesis such as we have here, in perfect alignment. If that sounds like a lot to perceive, consider the millions of years that shaped your anatomy to do precisely that, then park your apparatus in the front row. Philip Perkins A member of The Residents' performance ensemble during the legendary Mole Show era, Perkins was mentored by "Blue" Gene Tyranny and would go on to release more than twenty albums of his own including "King of the World", "Drive Time" and "Gang of 2" with Scott Fraser. With an ear as broad as it is precisely focused, he coined the term "environmental observations" and became widely sought for ballet, opera, film, music engineering, recording outside the studio, editing, and mastering work. Yet chances to hear his most personal solo work performed live have been exceedingly rare. This is music requiring ready and mindful listeners. To sit in his audience is to drop out of your familiar attentions into another register of time itself. Just you wait and see if that isn't so, when Philip Perkins transforms the Peacock Lounge and you along with it.. Anti-Ear It's Spring again, when inmates of the Edible Bird Ranch 'scape back from whence they flappered. Anti-Ear is right this very minute corkscrewing toward our Peacocked chickencoup for a hard deck-landing. Master of sound and fury, Tyler Harwood is the notorious polymath behind the legendary labels Bent Over Cowboy and Planetary Magnetics. Prolific, spontaneous, unflappable until his arms start flapping, his music projects Brown Whornet, Chablis, Neung Phak, Tarantism, and Zebra Secrets are the stuff of epic oft-repeated noise lore. Tonight, our species having flown one more coup-d'etat must hatch again liplessly from the dark downy bosom of his synth, if ever we hope to hear beyond life's flappings.