Friday, COMPACTOR begins the Northern Campaign of Live Shifts presenting the latest Document, Institutionalized Genocide [ bit.ly/CPTRIG ]. Details for each stop at bit.ly/CPTRSK

TONIGHT in #philadelphia @ Pageant:Soloveev
COMPACTOR compactor.bandcamp.com
PROFESSOR A woodroomcollective.bandcamp.com/album/kill-y...
PERPETUAL OYSTER perpetualoyster.bandcamp.com/music
[venue is wheelchair accessible]

Marie has toured across the United States and Europe. She has worked in a variety of mediums, including cello, visual art, and dance. She has released albums on Tripticks Tapes, zOaR Records, and Radical Documents.
mariecarroll.org

MARIE CARROLL brings her unique koto-based experimental noise to SLABFEST this weekend, May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
Marie is a koto player, improviser, and sound artist based in New England.
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COMPACTOR COMPACTOR is an interconnected set of mostly obsolete machinery that is manipulated by an anonymous, representational figure known as The Worker, for the Waste MGT corporation. The machinery creates ...

Each Document and series of Live Shifts focuses on aspects of work, technology, and society. Active since 2011, the project has seen Documents on labels such as Phage Tapes, Annihilvs, Black Ring Rituals, Ohm Resistance, and most frequently shadowy corporation Waste MGT.
compactor.bandcamp.com

COMPACTOR returns for the final SLABFEST May 17-18 with power electronics performance art for the people. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
A shifting array of obsolete noisy equipment is operated by a figure known as The Worker, who is always masked and in a generic uniform to emphasize dehumanization.
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FRICKER (PA) brings glitchy CD-manipulated Plunderphonics to SLABFEST this weekend, May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
Jon E. Nielsen's Philadelphia-based experimental noise project utilizes sample sequencing and wounded CDs through no-input feedback to alter your mind.
fricker2.bandcamp.com

Eric has played all over Europe, America & Japan, as well as in Minibeast w/Pete Prescott (Mission Of Burma). The new Baylies Band record "Madonna" has guests from Fugazi, Acid Mothers Temple, Morphine, and Captain Beefheart.

ERIC BAYLIES brings his noisy synth and theremin experiments to SLABFEST this weekend May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
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BIT ROT (NY) brings over-engineered laser noise to the final SLABFEST this weekend, May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
This Rochester NY-based experimental artist combines analog drone with a 3d-printed laser visualization system.
Hear some of what they do at bit-rot.bandcamp.com
[photo: Justin Szoll]

Retribution Body M Azevedo (b. 1977) is a Providence, RI based composer, mastering engineer, and acoustician. Their work as Retribution Body uses custom subwoofers and modular synthesizers to auralize the architecture...

Although their music is best experienced in person, check out their recordings at retributionbody.bandcamp.com

They have built a custom sound system based on a 14,000-Watt 30” subwoofer capable of producing sound over an octave below human hearing.
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Professor, acoustician, and engineer M. Azevedo creates subsonic meditation drone as Retribution Body. Their performances are site-specific improvisations tuned to excite the architectural resonances of the performance space.
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RETRIBUTION BODY (RI) returns for the final SLABFEST, this weekend May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
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Clew Of Theseus since 1997

Clew has released material on Cathartic Process, Chondritic Sound, Cipher Productions, Hermitage Tapes, Verlautbarung, Tape Fiend, Husk Records, Harsh Noise and Deadline Recordings.
clewoftheseus.bandcamp.com

Brucato has journeyed through varied terrain in industrial music, from harsh noise to death industrial, dark ambient to drone. Returning to their roots in psychedelic harsh noise, Clew performs using electronics they designed and built, creating rapid cuts between varied textures and tones.
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CLEW OF THESEUS brings industrial noise to SLABFEST this weekend, May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
Founded in 1997, Ben Brucato's project returned to live performing last year, after a ten-year absence.
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Scrotal Tear Things better left unspoken and undone.

scrotaltear.bandcamp.com

Over the past 3 decades, Remy Brecht's project has appeared on numerous labels, compilations, split releases, and has remixed artists such as Snog, Skintape, Roughhausen, and others. The project performs live sporadically as the fates demand, so this is a rare occurrence not to be missed.
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SCROTAL TEAR brings a synthesis of dark ambient, death industrial, and experimental noise to SLABFEST this weekend, May 17-18. Tix @ slabfest.com.
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Dead Door Unit Dead Door Unit is the solo alias of K. Geiger (Blemish, Master Grave Services).

Most releases have come out in minuscule editions on Geiger’s own French Market Press label, where the emphasis on packaging and presentation is of equal importance to the noise being presented. Others have been on labels such as Fusty C*nt, Tribe Tapes, and American Tapes.
deaddoor.bandcamp.com

DEAD DOOR UNIT brings intense tape manipulation to SLABFEST this weekend, May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
K. Geiger's project primarily works with broken electronics to create its awkward and ethereal soundscapes.
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Murderous Vision Murderous Vision is the solo project of Stephen Petrus. Murderous Vision’s style ranges from dark ambient to death industrial to martial industrial and neoclassical music. Murderous Vision has release...

MV has released many full length albums and has been featured on numerous classic compilations on several labels such as Dunkelheit, Difficult Interactions, Annihilvs, Chthonic Streams, and Petrus' own Live Bait Recording Foundation. Rare East Coast US appearance!
murderousvision1.bandcamp.com

MURDEROUS VISION (OH) brings Death Industrial to SLABFEST May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
Stephen Petrus' project has been active for over 30 years, ranging from dark ambient to death industrial to martial industrial and neoclassical music.
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Model Of Malehood, by Max Julian Eastman 10 track album

One of the more radical voices in collage and noise tape-manipulation, Eastman is also the founder of Tribe Tapes. He has been recording music under his own name as well as Greathumour and Tantric Death.
tribetapes.bandcamp.com/album/model-...

MAX JULIAN EASTMAN brings his idiosyncratic harsh noise to SLABFEST May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
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GT promotes freedom of expression and love of craft. Recent performances have also occurred in Estonia with Non Grata, and at the Anarchist Art Festival in NYC.

Guerrilla Theater was founded in 2020 to promote extreme costumed theater in the public square. Since then, they have been able to unleash harsh noise and masked ritual in parks around New York City.
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GUERILLA THEATER brings Harsh Noise Masked Rituals to SLABFEST May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
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Check out the music at prettygirlproblems.bandcamp.com