Jim Haynes, Brendan Murray, Pollen Sisters
Thursday June 9 | 8 PM – 12 AM | $8–10 sliding scale
Blim and The Scrapyard Forecast are proud to present two predominant figures in the American experimental music underground: Jim Haynes and Brendan Murray. Haynes will be performing a variation of his honed excursions into decayed drone music while Murray, with help from specific electronic devices, will be presenting a piece possessing rarified harmonics and subtle sonic textures. The two have chosen Vancouver as a first stop in a brief west coast tour that includes performances in Seattle, Portland and Albany. Vancouver twopiece The Pollen Sister will be opening the evening’s events.
Brendan Murray is a self-taught musician living in Somerville, MA. He has actively recorded and performed with electronics since 1999. He regards his music as a balance between spontaneous sound making and compositional rigor, with an emphasis on drones and repetition. He records and processes instruments and tapes until all traces of instrumentality are blurred, leaving only large blocks of pure sound.
Using shortwave radio static, electric field disturbances, controlled feedback, and textural scrapings, Jim Haynes’ sound installations and performances manifest a broken minimalism in which magnetic drone convey the impression of timelessness within an active environment. He has exhibited and performed internationally at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, Electric Works (San Francisco), The Exploratorium (San Francisco), WestSpace (Melbourne, Australia), Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), Eyedrum (Atlanta), and Diapason (New York). He has published his work through the Helen Scarsdale Agency, 23five Incorporated, Intransitive, and Elevator Bath.
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