heART WALK _ echO park _ by DBL

heART WALK _ echO park

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soundwaves Heal cancer Two –

a sanchO art auction in multiple galleries

for 7days all on sunset strip.

bids open march 16 close march 22

independent stores are our host for this family fun exhibit. just follow your heART during regular store hours and place your bid before closing march 22. the highest bidder will be announced or contacted on march 23.

we begin with a walk and a Letter To My President with J.W. ScroGgie placing his first bid at 3pm at

Andrea's Hair Styles - 1398 west sunset

Sunset Tropical Fish - 1373 west sunset

The Happy Shirt - 1932 west sunset

E.R. Copies - 1439 west sunset

Dalilah’s - 1463 west sunset

Taza - 1825 west sunset

LA Pizza - 1498 west sunset - music food and fun 4- 9p

the buyer is on a scavenger hunt and must seek out works by fine artists in multiple stores during store hours before closing on march 22, 2014. Special thanks to GERMS and Leva Ann for the cover art. GERMS will be live painting, Karen Centerfold will duet with Doug Cox as Tramp for the Lord 7p, Luis Bunuel, Mike Meanstreets with CT assualts, Alli, and DBRP 5p, Spencer Elden, Ernesto De La Loza 3p lecture on the streets, AC The Program Director 9p, Nicholas Capaldi, Josie Basford, Colin Manning, Nora Keyes, Don Bolles, BenjaminAlejandro! Olivia Beall, Greg Gomberg, Igor Amokian, Amy Darling, Jim Priest 730, J.W. Scroogie 545 poem, Igor Amokian, Jeremy Kennedy, Buko Pan Guerra, Fenex Lopez aka Gaylord Fiend 930, Stiive Mage 530, Dix Denny, Marcel Dejure and Dani Collins.

proceeds from works purchased will be shared with the artist, the gallery with %25 to benefit Kelsea Collins, who is going through her second war on cancer due to her first. all buyers are doners and will see their name here:

www.youcaring.com/

medical-fundraiser/

kelsea-s-fan-club/137102

echo park stores, curators, artists, buyers and art lovers present and preserve history by providing a place to gather, celebrate and tell stories of what is and was. for answers to questions connect with

sanchos • 310 406 6855 • sanchOsalon@gmail.com

musiq_Potlach by DBL

 3-7-14, 7pm

Community dining amongst freaky music, performance and video.

CT ASSAULTS (free jazz punk brutallty)

PRESENT (maternal worldgrind) featuring josie j (corporal reformation)

BOBBY LONDON (post ironic noise & performance art)

DITHYRAMB (hectic beat virtuosity)ation

dj+vj Wes Johansen (synth depths and video inversions)

Bring homemade dishes to share with omnivores and reserved palates alike for a full spread!

Main courses, sides, deserts, snacks, and drinks welcome.

BYOB

6-11 PM

performances 7-10

$5 donation

@

Sancho

Brennan Lowe: Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, Ca by DBL

Most Honorable Ones,

It has been a great privilege to have the opportunity to work with Brennan Lowe.  Parallax Beach was and is the first venture into choreography for myself.  Brennan has been very patient and a worthy aide and contemporary.  Although Brennan has expressed his feelings of seeing me as a mentor, I have learned a lot from Brennan.  He has and always challenges me and pushes my view on art and art process. Because of this I am excited to share with you, fellow viewer, his solo performance.

-DBL

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Performer/ Performance Artist/ Installation Artist Brennan Lowe, also known as Parallax Beach's other performer/ dancer will be having a solo performance at Highways Performance Space this Saturday. Come and support this very gifted young artist before he goes back to the east coast to finish his BFA.

Traveling through absurd environments and alternate states of consciousness, Volatile is a multi-media installation and performance about the fragility of sanity and the contextual relativity of identity. Referencing determinism and questioning the existence of free will, both the visceral and conceptual components of cognitive processes are pursued.

Brennan Lowe explores the malleability of the human mind from internal and external influences through meditation and performance inspired by Butoh, Fluxus, and German Expressionism. Thomas Stoeckinger examines the nature of perception by creating installations that reinterpret light and space

Saturday, January 11 @ 8:30pm

$15 general admission

Buy Tickets

My Wishes for 2014: By Guillermo Gómez-Peña by DBL

My Wishes for 2014
By Guillermo Gómez-Peña

I wish that all my artist friends find a dignified job closely resembling their dreams and obsessions.

I wish that all my activist friends find the spiritual strength to continue fighting the many necessary fights on all fronts.

I wish that radical grace and uncompromising aesthetics remain the driving forces of my troupe.

I wish that all my friends and their friends find tender lovers to survive the loneliness of the American night.

I wish for the homeless of the world to find food, shelter and friendship. These are basic human rights.

I wish that all the greedy landlords trying to evict the working class suddenly wake up with amnesia and an empathetic heart.

I wish for all migrants to cross the borders they wish to cross successfully & safely.

I wish that Obama has an epiphany while he is taking a shit and remembers who he is.

I wish for the new pope to become truly radicalized and get lost every night in the streets of Vatican City catering to the poor and destitute.

I wish for the prison industry to collapse; for black and Latino youth to find a place of dignity in America.

I wish for the global project to continue derailing ad nauseam.

I wish for America to stop fearing otherness and diversity; and for white Americans to become less self-involved, arrogant & entitled.

I wish for the masterminds and perpetrators of war and violence to experience a daily living and unbearable hell; payback can’t wait for their next reincarnation.

I wish that all indigenous peoples continue to find ways to survive and thrive against all corporate and government odds and monsters.

I wish my mother remained a little longer on this earth. So many of us still need her poetic tenderness and quantum guidance.

I wish that my inner demons make truce with themselves. They drive me crazy, especially at night, especially in the U.S.

I wish to make peace with my intergalactic orphan-hood and with each of my multiple identities.

I passionately commit to make all these wishes come true, even if only in the realm of imagination, poetry, grassroots activism and art.

(I wish to thank Emma Tramposch and Anastasia Herold for helping me to organize my poetic thoughts)



LA POCHA NOSTRA LIVE ART LABORATORY
2857 24TH STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110
pocha@pochanostra.com

Parallax Beach @ Pehr Space: Parallax Scroll Final Performance by DBL

Witnesses,

This was the last time Parallax Beach performed Parallax Scroll.  The night was filled with great acts.  I personally was hypnotized by the sounds and visuals of

Beru

.  I hope to see more of this very very talented lady.  I always gush for

Intimatchine

so...

TV Crime Lords

were fun.  Three cute boys making noise, much fun.  

Without further a due here are some stills of the night.  Brennan has got his character and moment down.  Stay tune for some audio.  

Parallax Beach @ PehrSpace Sean Carnage Monday Nights by DBL

Soft Forms,

Coming off the Epic Highways show, Parallax Beach is excited to present a much more appropriate, raw and dirty version of "Parallax Scroll".  We are honored to be performing at one of the last nights of Sean Carnage's influential Monday Nights in this City of Angels.

This show is poignant not only because of this, but because it will be the last time we will be performing "Parallax Scroll".  With the monumental departure of Brennan Lowe from the troupe we will move on to a new piece. 

I myself am excited and honored to be sharing the stage, for the second time, with

Intimatchine

Hope to see you there.

Deciphering the roots,

-DBL

*flier by Wes Johansen

Facebook Event Page

Heads: Performance Show by DBL

Viewers,

This Saturday, November 23, Members of PRESENT, BOW+ARROW & PARALLAX BEACH’s combined efforts will yet again crash their own party, and take others’ lives into their own hands. Improvisational video/puppetz/noise/synths/movement/blast beats/saxophones will scratch their own disc into bludgeoning skips while surrounding the crowd. Warehouse party.

PARALLAX BEACH: Parallax Scroll @ Highways by DBL

Friends,

Excited to invite you to PARALAX BEACH's debut of "Parallax Scroll".

-DBL

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Severed moments of macrocosmic balance routinely underline human evolution. These moments intrigue, as modernity has alienated us from the immediacy of life. Perceptions of time become mercurial and subjective depending on perspective. Parallax Scroll will take the audience on a revisit through the emergence of life. A trip that re-exams light, language, and the development of society, ending in a space unresolved and recycled. All points can viewed when wading on a Parallax Beach.

PARALLAX BEACH's "Parallax Scroll" is a multi-media performance piece that bridges the abstract landscapes of sound, light, time, and movement. A collective of artists, each utilizing different mediums, come together to make this unique work. Wes Johansen creates a visual representation of abstract thought through digital video projection, edited live and synchronized to synthesizers. Mike Meanstreetz uses avant-garde percussion and composition techniques tangling the participants of this ritualistic performance in a web of synesthesia . These elements are accentuated as josie j conveys transformation to witnesses through ritualism/ meditative movement, influenced partly by Butoh training and a background in performance art. Also performing in this piece are Zachary Vidal (saxophone/sampled noise) providing textured mood, and Brennan Lowe (movement) setting the wheel of this cycle into motion.

Invoking the zeitgeist of the night's multi-disciplinary performance,

        elle mehrmand opens with a solo piece

divined of haunting sing-song and movement, foreshadowing what is to come.

Passing through the theater's entry way, the night's performances will be initiated both spatial and temporally by a traversable light and sound installation by the artist Lazer Blade.

PRESENT: MATERNALWORLDGRIND (single) by DBL

Listener,

A latest global acquisition given to us by PRESENT, a Mike Meanstreetz lovingly hypnotic production. 

Included in this tasty track is PRESENT's new saxophone player. 

Angela Gleich - vocals

Holly Spirit - electric piano & synthesizers

Erin Worra - saxophone

Mike Meanstreetz - drums, midi, backing vocals

Recorded (with child) September 2013 @ Women of Crenshaw, Los Angeles

www.facebook.com/PRESENTbandLA

For booking, please contact

viejobajo@yahoo.com

released 11 November 2013

-DBL

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<a href="http://mikemeanstreetz.bandcamp.com/track/maternalworldgrind-single">MATERNALWORLDGRIND (single) by PRESENT</a>

Hell D3C0D3D by DBL

Recall,

On November 2 I realize Halloween at this point in my life has no meaning just like Christmas it has the stench of a sales man with nothing to sell, but an all consuming idea.  But I do feel I need a time to explicitly remember the dead and face death as a mortal that I am. 

On this day I was lucky to be part of Highways Performance Space Dia de los Muertos Celebration.  It was a performance that stemmed from a workshop conducted by La Pocha Noestra at Highways.

The Performance itself was a variety of talented performers showcasing a variety of styles.  Ranging from dance, singing, to performance, some including all three.  Sneak peek pictures coming soon.

After the show I was honored enough to be invited by Mike Meanstreetz to be part of a jam performance at a house in Echo Park.  It was a Zombie Day of the Dead Party.  I was happy enough to freak out some more and channel some ancestral wisdom to freak out the locals.  Didn't quite get enough at Highways I guess.  In the end it was a wonderful piece.  Lazer Blade on keys/ sound/ mythical puppet performance, Mike Meanstreetz on drums and triggers, Zac Vidal on sax, and a new one I just met (groove guy) ARCHITECT on sax...SAX, duo it was monstrous. 

Here are some lovely pics via Amy Darling.

Don't forget to water your Roots.

Much too Weird for your scene.

-DBL

<a href="http://mikemeanstreetz.bandcamp.com/album/dia-de-los-muertos-performance-d3cod3d">Dia de Los Muertos performance @ D3COD3D by Lazer Blade + Zachary Vidal + Architect + Josie Jay + Mike Meanstreetz</a>

Dia de los Muertos @ Highways by DBL

Friends,

On November 2nd, For Día de los Muertos, I along with other very talented performers will be performing at Highways Performance Space, in Santa Monica, Ca. 

I will be doing my solo piece "Research in Religious Self-Cybernetics: Pruning the Rose, Eating the Thorn".  A Neo-Shaman exploration in sound, movement, And self deconstruction.

I will also be part of a group collaboration that was the result of the La Pocha Nostra workshop that occurred at Highways. 

Michael Nannery :: DBRP :: Intimatchine @ AHC by DBL



Lovers,

The Show at Almost Holden Collective was intimate, tasty, and seductive.

Intimatchine was a lovely hypnotic landscape of dreams.  Michael Nannery was a memory trip of textures and primal awakenings.  AHC thank you for your hospitality. 

Everyone was open to the freakers we are.  Thanks for your support.

It was a treat to further explore this experiment of self deconstruction which is "Research in Religious Self-Cybernetics: Pruning the Rose, Eating the Thorn".  The ritual object which you see was finally named that night.  Pronounce in Spanish, Butó Flutó.  Thanks Wes.  My need for smirks and giggles in my work is much needed.

Enjoy this peek behind the veil... If you were not present.


Intimatchine








D.B.R.P.
























*photos by Christopher Steven Wormald and Brian David. Video by Jacqueline Li and josie j

Update: SoundWalk, Other Performances by DBL


Family,

This year has been a very eventful year.  Many performances and many artwork has yet to be made, but the opportunities I have had this year I have been grateful for.

I have lost my mailing list do to my computer failure but hopefully new social media will add in communication.  Also the few die hard fans can always keep up to date here and on the events page.

Any yes the new computer is on its way... finally.

More shows coming this month (more DBRP performances), in November (as part of the La Pocha Nostra Workshop at Highways) in December (Parallax Beach Debut of Parallax Scroll 2.0 At Highways).  List of events HERE.





This Past weekend Parallax Beach had an opportunity to run though the beginnings of Parallax Scroll in marathon form.  Five 45 min performances in a four hour block.  we finished exhausted, cleansed and accomplished.  Here are a few snippets of the performances. 




via SoundWalk




Instagram photo by @greeniebeanies (Ryan Lampert)













Photos by Hannah Maynard via LB Post


Instagram photo by @chakosroughdraft

Parallax Beach @ SoundWalk October 5, 2013 by DBL





Parallax Scroll is a multi-media performance piece that bridges the abstract landscapes of sound, light, time, and movement. A trio of artists, each utilizing different mediums, come together to make a unique piece.  Wes Johansen creates a visual representation of abstract thought through digital video projection, with live editing and synchronizing directly to the soundtrack.  Mike Meanstreetz uses avant-garde percussion and composition techniques tangling the audience in a web of Synthesia.  These elements are accentuated as josie j conveys transformation to audience through ritualism/ meditative movement influenced partly by Butoh training and a background in performance art.  With additional assistance from Zachary Vidal (audio) and Brennan Lowe (movement).

Parallax Scroll will take the audience on a voyage through the emergence of life. Starting with imagining first sight, the emergence of language, and the development of society -- all the way to the end of time. Severed moments of macrocosmic balance routinely underline human evolution. These moments intrigue, as modernity has alienated us from the immediacy of life. Perceptions of time become mercurial and subjective depending on perspective. All points can viewed when wading on a Parallax Beach

Parallax Beach will be performing Parallax Scroll on October 5, 2013 as part of Soundwalk in Long Beach CA.

Parallax Beach at SoundWalk

EVENT DETAILS

● WHAT: A multi-media performance piece Parallax Scroll, performed as part of the 10th annual “SoundWalk 2013” festival, a one-night event of installations by 40 local and international sound artists.

● WHERE: Artwise 408 1 st. st. and throughout the area encompassed by 4th St, Linden Ave, 1st St, and Elm Ave.

● WHEN: Saturday, October 5th, 2013 from 6–10 pm

● ADMISSION: Free

● PARKING: Metered parking is available on the street; additional parking is also available in the parking lot at the NW corner of Broadway and Elm Ave.
Facebook event at: http://www.facebook.com/events/192642767577120/

Artist Sites:

josie j
www.dbrp.blogspot.com

Wes Johansen
www.blowupyourcar.wordpress.com

Mike Meanstreetz
www.mikemeanstreetz.tumblr.com

josie j of DBRP on Ear Meal Webcast, Season Five by DBL

Via Alan Nakagawa:


Ear Meal is an art webcast documenting the experimental music and sound arts scene in Los Angeles

September 25th, josie j of DBRP will be performing a new solo research piece entitled "Research in Religious Self-Cybernetics: Pruning the Rose, Eating the Thorn" afterwards there will be an interview.

Wednesday night September 25, 2013 9:30 PM PST

http://laartstream.com

NEXT:
Bret Nicely at Deluxe Burrito/ Shangrila, September 18
Josie J, September 25
Slanguage, October 2
Chris Reilly, October 9
Ace Farren Ford and John Wiese, October 16
Kraig Grady, October 23
Soundwalk 2013 (10th and Final), October 30
Carole Kim, November 6
TBD, November 13
Jeremy Morelock, November 20
Sounds of Barcelona, November 27

You can now link directly to each of our past webcasts at:
www.collagecollage.com

TWITTER: @alan_nakagawa

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THE EAR MEAL ARCHIVES:


SEASON ONE:

Joseph Hammer

Drew Lesso with Peter Watkinson and Alan Nakagawa
Dwight Trible with Alan Nakagawa
Michael Whitmore

Kyungmi Shin & Todd Gary

Joe Potts

Department of Real Estate

Carl Stone

Mark Wheaton

Steve and Jeffrey Roden

Ronit Kirchman & Torsten Müller

Renee Petropoulos with Marya Alford and Sojung Kwon
Hans Fjellestad

Alan Nakagawa with Steven M. Irvin and Jeffrey James Mohr
The Clouds

Robert Crouch

Gregory Lenczycki

Anna Homler with Jorge Martin and Alan Nakagawa

Alicia Vogl Saenz with Peter Watkinson and Alan Nakagawa
Tatsuya Nakatani

Rick Potts

Emily Hay

Morton Subotnick (SKYPE Interview)

Albert Ortega
Ear Diorama Ear

Devin Sarno

John Wood

Glenn Bach

Michael Mc Millen

Chas Smith

Scott Cazan

Joe Berardi & Motoko Honda

nowcloud

John Schneider and the Partch Ensemble
Integratron

Ian Henderson

Andrew Featherston

Smgsap

SEASON TWO:

Scott Cazan

The Worlds Biggest Bike Song; Midnight Ridazz
Rick Cox

Mooey Moobau

Corey Fogel

Harrison House with Eva Soltes

Chris Kallmyer

Dorian Wood

Scott Fraser

Mark Trayle

Mooey Moobau and Alan Nakagawa
Tom Watson

Ezra Buchla

Michael Winter

Liam Mooney

Ulrich Krieger

Laura Steenberge

Omayumi with Steven m Irvin and A. Nakagawa
Gabie Strong
Mitchell Brown

Michael Jon Fink with Brian Walsh and Alex Iles

MLum (Chung Shih Hoh, Michael Raco-Rands, Marco Schindelmann, Scott Vance)
Jessica Catron

Lewis Keller

G.E. Stinson

Sandy Yang

Catherine Lamb

James Klopfleisch

Antony DiGennaro

Steuart Liebig

Scott Vance & Dave Tohir

Andrew Pask & Jim McAuley

William Harrington

Brian Walsh

Dan Clucas

Steve Gregoropoulos & Petra Haden

Mari and Julia Holter

Heather Lockie

Ear Diorama Ear
Haruko Tanaka

SEASON THREE:
Daniel Corral
William Roper
Rick Bahto
Matt Barbier
Marty Walker & Erik Leckrone

Southern California Soundscape Ensemble
Vinny Golia

Danielle Adair

Impossible Moon

Archie Carey

Daniel Rothman with Ashley Walters

Claire Chenette

Brad Dutz

Eric KM Clark

Inouk Demers

Roxanne Varzi

The Tenses at the LAFMS/PST at The Box
Douglas Goodwin

Nicholas Deyoe & Clint McCallum

Leslie Ross

Daniel Eaton

Odeya Nini

Stephanie Smith

Trio Kobayashi

Casey Anderson
Tom Recchion

Vetza and Ted Byrne

Alex Sramek

Toomai String Quintet

FINALE part one

Weba Garretson and Ralph Gorodetsky

Paul Stapleton & Ted Byrnes

FINALE Part Two

Jake Rosenzweig; Lumber Party with Archie Carey and Mike Lockwood
Chobraty

Sam Lopez

Devin Hoff

Grampus

Royal US

Alan Nakagawa: Royal Rife 3.0

SEASON FOUR
:
California Indian Soundscape; Georgiana Sanchez, Cindi Alvitre, Craig Torres
Urban Indian Soundscape; John Dawson, Craig Stone, Les Peters and Larry Smith
Stephen Speciale
Micol Hebron with Michael Hanson
Lauren Pratt and the James Tenney Archive
William Leavitt & Paul Tzanetopoulos
Yann Novak & Robert Crouch
Michael Pisaro
Mika Soma & Shinichi Ono
Antony DiGennaro & David Tranchina
Eric Potter
Jim Fox
Alex Wand with Odeya Nini, Heather Lockie, Brendan Byrnes and Jake Rosenzweig
Geneva Skeen & Mathew Timmons
Karla Diaz & Spew
Raquel Gutierrez and Gabie Strong
Joanna Demers
MLuM
Alexis Disselkoen
Wet Power
William Basinski
Guru Rugu
Andrew Choate
Hi My Name Is Ryan
John Galvin & Dan Kapelovitz
Philip Mantione
Mike Sonksen AKA Mike The Poet
Ian James
Lucky Dragons
Brad Dutz & Chris Wabich
KCHUNG Radio
Jennifer Moon
Experimental Music and Sound Art Friendly Venues in LA
Christine Tavolacci and Eric KM Clark
Joshua Carro
Sesshu Foster
Ted Byrnes, Michael Foster & Nicholas Deyoe
ATLAS SETS; Alan Nakagawa & Glenn Bach
Kristy Baltezore


 

Parallax Beach: Call for Performers by DBL



Call for Dancers/ Performers:


Performance group Parallax Beach is looking for dancers/ performers for up coming shows. Performers will participate in shows at the SoundWalk of Long Beach (October 5), Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica (December 6), and others TBA.

A trio of artists, each utilizing different mediums, come together to make a unique multi-media piece. Wes Johansen creates a visual representation of abstract thought through digital video projections, with live editing and synchronizing directly to the soundtrack. Mike Meanstreetz uses avant-garde percussion and composition techniques tangling the audience in a web of Synthesia. These elements are accentuated as josie j conveys transformation to audience through ritualism/ meditative movement influenced partly by Butoh training and background in performance art.


New performance piece Parallax Scroll will take the audience on a voyage through the emergence of life. Starting with imagining first sight, the emergence of language, and the development of society -- culminating to the end of time. As part landscape, characters, and elements performers will transform self and space. Performance will have a ritualistic/ transcendental format with the goal of causing change to audience and artist. 
For more info please contact josie @ divinebrick@gmail.com

Artist Sites:
josie j
www.dbrp.blogspot.com

Mike Meanstreetz
www.mikemeanstreetz.tumblr.com

Wes Johansen
www.blowupyourcar.wordpress.com
 

Don't Perish the Rose by DBL



There are still those that gaze upon the rose bush and only see the thorns. I see it, your beauty is still there. Even if the blooming follows repair. In the action that nurtured hope, sharpen thorns choked each resource. In different ways we look for Truth. Don't second guess that quest you choose.


Found Fortune by DBL

A delicious track Via Mike Meanstreetz...  I get the chills just listening to it.


A new recording by spooky aboriginal spirit shaking FOUND FORTUNE -- a project with Libby O'Flaherty of Montana -- is now up on my band camp! Check it!

http://mikemeanstreetz.bandcamp.com/album/found-fortune