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Concert Tue Feb 19 2008
The three ages of "The Siezer" (aka Akhkhazu a.o. @ Triage - Empty Bottle)
After an extended time at Elastic, the once-monthly Triage series (spearheaded by Chicago experimental music scions Blake Edwards, Vadim Sprikut and Brian Labycz) puts down stakes at the Empty Bottle (1035 N. Western) starting tonight (Tuesday), with a four-set lineup sure to shake the freezing rain and sleet outta your earholes.
- Akhkhazu is Seth Sher, most recently of Oakeater, and previously of the Coughs, here performing solo; ethereal, percussive, incantory, undertow.
- I Love Presets, a long-running collective (Jon Satrom, Rob Ray, Jason Soliday), make the most of re-wired versions of a variety of low-tech devices, both audio and visual. The results are like when you'd put the Nintendo cartridge not all the way in to the sytem, and everything would get really blitty and scary, and eeking noises would come out, and you'd turn it off quick for fear you were breaking it, but in this case, you leave it running, and the distortions compound and get more furious, familiar graphics turning inside out, seeking a logical pattern that is, intentionally or otherwise, denied them.
- Providence's Geoff Mullen plays guitar, but in the way that ARC is a guitar album, or Outside Pleasure or Aida or No Pussyfooting. Something lies in the way between the six strings and the ear, and that something is Geoff Mullen. (Effects too, no doubt. - ed.)
- Eli Keszler made a tape called Wolvers, which gets all my respect. He drones, he chimes, he delights.
9 p.m., $8