Thank you Family.
::LA CITA/ Los Angeles::Photos /
DivineBrick
Zero Collective
Photos by Brenn Lowe
Limited Edition DivineBrick T's /
I will have some at any of the shows on tour. I also have a nice long sleeve and a nice small hoodie.
The Búto Flúto: Reflections on Self Derived Relics /
I am Media.
I am the Media.
We are the brick wall woven into a circle. A flat sphere with no borders.
El centro es el ojo. Aqui los encontramos.
El Central, donde se cerra el ojo.
Si se manifica se repete.
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The Búto Flúto
A Self Derived Ceremonial headpiece.
Made of mahogany reclaimed from an old Baptist church/ Pentecostal Church in South LA. The Búto Flúto also consists of poplar wood, steam bent ash from the city of Long Beach, purple heart wood, a hacked Gakken Anolog Synth (SX-150), a custom pre-amp with circuit bending copper contact points, wires, a mic and speaker which is the wooden conical shape.
It has been with me since 2008. It has broken many times and can be fussy.
The sound... it does some interesting things that I am still figuring. Do to the mic and speaker in close proximity it does a feed back loop similar to most of my wooden speaker box art sculptures. Because it is a noisy circuit (not very well insulated) It is sensitive to magnetic fields and radio waves, which add interesting behaviors coupled with its SX-150 sound. The circuit bended pre-amp has a flutey sound to it and can rise and lower in pitch when finger are slid along the copper.
There is a track playing in the back ground but most of the sound is the Búto Flúto (on a loop pedal) since it was recorded through its built in mic and speaker. The recorder was held to the speakers funnel.
It has developed it own meaning which I am still understanding. Steeming from punk anarcho angst, indigenous stirrings, reflecting respect for the ancestral trees, experiments with electricity, now turning into a critique of transhumanistic ironical twist which requires me to add metal hardware (on a piece once only made of wood joinery) for speedy assembly and transportation, but mostly do to damage from performances or general use. A work in flux.
I hope you get to hear it sometime. I will be with me on tour.
Photo by Vishal Goklani
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resh and new
2008
no syth, wings were once longer
Photos by Jeremy Eichenbaum
2014
Photo by Brenn Lowe Graphics by josie j
::LA CITA/ Los Angeles :: DOMELAND/ Joshua Tree SHOWS NOV-14-18 /
What does science and religion have in common? They are both trying to figure out the growth, the mechanisms.
What do these two shows have in common? Potential for Corporeal Reformations, the Sound is the Symbol.
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Tuesday Nov 18th @
in Dwntwn LA
The Zero Collective -
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Bandito Overlord -
DivineBrick
Doors at 8, show at 9 - No Cover
Winter Tour Kick Off Show Dec. 20 '14 /
An ALL-FI multidisciplinary skirmish-locale, spring boarding Xover (Sardinia, Italy), PRESENT & DivineBrick (LA LA) up and down the coast, later to join up with FAILINGS (of Tecumseh) in the Pac NW.
Bouncing them out, our hats tip to sister weirdos CT ASSAULTS, long standing freeker-grinders BAD ACID TRIP, and the properly paradigm-shifting BANDITO OVERLORD!!
noise-atonal-performance-g
rind-improv-video-sound
BAD ACID TRIP
XOVER (touring)
BANDITO OVERLORD
PRESENT (touring)
DIVINEBRICK (touring)
CT ASSAULTS
Whereas Warehouse
1729 E 21st Street Los Angeles, CA 90058
$5 donation
Winter West Coast Tour 2014: Into the Forest of the NorthWest /
DivineBrick @ WHEREAS Warehouse photo by Amy Darling
Excited to share the Corporeal Reformation this winter. I will be traveling the west coast with a sonic wave bending into light:
XOVER
(Danilo Casti) : Electro-power-noise audiovisual performance
The project Xover is an electronic sound and visual performance that
runs around glitches, drone noises, field recordings played by digital and analogue
electronics instruments, a mixture between digital and analogue sounds, programming and
circuit bending, idiomatic shapes, abstract sound objects and absurd musical architecture.
PRESENT
is a Los Angeles based quartet performing femininly heavy-experimental music since 2012.Their compositional process is shared between members with most passages crediting all four. As PRESENT is the seminal group for half of its members, their writing and style is idiosyncratically colored as outsider. The tone of their music invokes influences of 20th Century Classical, Black Metal, Japanese underground, Anarcho Punk, art and free jazz. Live shows have been regularly accompanied by performance art, live video, and improvised noise artists also performed with in non-PRESENT iterations.
Saxophonist Erin Worra is trained in classical brass, and singer Angela Gleich has studied and performed flamenco singing. Since 1997 drummer/sequencer Mike Meanstreetz has performed/shown/installed on both coasts of the US (including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles) and extensively recorded and worked in such varied forms as musical free improvisation, experimental music, installation, video, painting, costume, performance art, noise, dance, punk and metal.
PRESENT's recordings have been released on a split LP and various compilations by meta and
micro labels based in France, the Czech Republic, Oakland and Los Angeles.
Their atonal compositions abandon guitars and lyrical form in favor the angular dissonances of female saxophone, synthesizer, and vocals seated atop a hectic percussive intensity. Non-traditional linear song gives way to free form passages, often in collaboration with other artists. On this tour, Mike Glover supports performing noise.
Ian Hawk (of Tecumseh)
soundscape and drones set to film
Keep up on tour dates here
Winter tour kick-off show December 20th in LA at the WHEREAS warehouse!!
featuring:
Bad Acid Trip / Bandito Overlord / Xover (Danilo Casti, Sardinia) / DivineBrick / PRESENT
DivineBrick will be performing "Tale of a Toad". On this tour. The ritual was first performed in Long Beach. Time will only tell its growth by the end.
Teaser
DivineBrick
Research Projects traces the steps that connect all practices. The goal is to manifest a practice that informs and awakes performer and witness. An exploration in sound and movement this project continues the exploration of Corporeal Reformation. Self accompanied (drum machine, the Buto' Fluto' {a wooden head piece decked out out with circuit bends and an analog synth}, and loop pedal) josie j structures a landscape to present "Tail of a Toad" a non-linear long lost story of transformation and corruption. The product is not a performance but a ritual cleansing. An intense exchange in which something is always gained as some thing is burned.
tuesday night update /
featherfriends,
Digital voice silenced. letters withheld.
- DBL
Tuesday Update /
Travelers About,
On the road to Montana. A lovely place that has captured my Heart. Nice folks and accepting enough for me to ignore the lack of diversity but open my eyes to the natural beauty of this great nation. Enjoying this year with many friends, many fruits that have ripened, and oh so much potential.
WHEREAS HOWEVER :BONANZA 2
Oh what a ride. To soon to share with you, the non-witness, the many fotos that should arise. From the reaction of the good group of Witnesses that were there I think it was a great success.
It is great having Brenna back in the troupe. With visiting performer Grace Smith the ritual unravelled to reveal a scene common in this hedonistic culture we are breeding. For better or worse. A scene where every thing is consumed even the excrements.
CT Assaults did a wonderful job creating a space where one stepped into and was transported to an altered mindset, an open mindset. Brenna with a keen eye presented a most pleasant light to engage in. PRESENT you always rock.Much love to all.
It was an enjoyable evening of sound and ritual. Always a pleasure to see Joey Molinaro and Nagual Sun. S&Ndc&stl& and Ar'k I had never heard until then but were quite enjoyable, thats an under statement.
Until the next one.
Tour
Yes possibly in December we are gearing up for a West Coast tour. More details later in the year.
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There are more and more things to consider as I age. More reasons to organize and more critical events occurring in our world. As I find the strength and the drive to see this project delivered I thank you for your good vibrations that you send me.
WHEREAS- HOWEVER- a Bonanza 2 /
Lighting by josie j and Brenn Lowe
heavy improvisation, desert dirging, angular arabesques & fleeting spectrums
WHEREAS HOWEVER summons the shamanistic landscape of a sonic arc lit by video projection and traversed by a troupe of performers whose movement tells the tale.
Constituted of the seamless procession several groups, each piece gathers momentu
m overlapping into the next in moments of collaboration between like and un-like.
Happenstance erodes whilst invigorating contrasts galvanize.
The night also heralds release of CT ASSAULTS' and PRESENT's cassette split on Sanity Muffin Records!
performances by:
Joey Molinaro (NY)
S&ndc&stl&
A'rk (Joshua Tree)
CT ASSAULTS
PRESENT
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Nagual Sun
DivineBrick performance troupe
+Present setting the landscape, DivineBrick Troupe will be performing
Ritual: "Dinner for the Peasant Dog
"
with
performers Grace Smith
(WI), Brennan Lowe, and josie j
$5 donation
Tuesday Post Now Tuesday Updates /
Evening,
Due to works in process Tuesday Night Post will now be Tuesday Updates.
This will include works in process, writing on art and theory, updates on future shows, and thoughts on past ones. I hope the creative drive in the posts remain active.
There are a few shows now in process. July 4 and July 11 are ones approaching.
On July 4 the DivineBrick Troupe will see the return of Brennan Lowe. Since his last performance with us in Parallax Beach he has graduated from school and will be performing with us until his next path in life opens.
LIBERTY D3(0D3D: July 4 /
Yes, this friday night a psychedelic observance of your state of liberty. Experimental Audio/Video
movies booze and bands
PRESENT W/DIVINEBRICK TROUPE
TRANSCENDENTAL HYGENE
BOMH
CYPHLON
7pm
811 n. Beaudry Ave
Come join us as we celebrate 4th of July at the top of chinatown over looking with clear skies all of DTLA. We will be grilling and rocking sonic.. serving various libations and of course lighting fireworks.
A group of us will take a short walk to Grand Park to watch the fireworks that go off at LA city hall at 9PM. Here is what last year looked like
Tuesday Night Post # 3.5 /
Workers,
Work is a way to live for death.
-DBL
I misalign go home on my back I realign.
This vehicle of growth even in death does it find a way to dine on misfortune.
This is the irrational growth that I fine myself wanting to explore
This is where phenomenon we still don’t fully understand relate. From this comes seemly chaotic growth. Cancerous on one end, self healing on the other.
a genetic pattern, a fractal existence, a war unending.
A bread crumb deliciously place at the end of surrender. Allowing Wealth to unwind. Towers that tall they fall with vengeance, adding numbers to the body count. Punishing as it loses stature.
A glitch in your terms. numbers deconstruct as they reconstruct adding distant to the equation. They do not fully explain a multi-dimensional phenomenon.
A larger arch that I don’t see but sense its there. That is my hopes to find and explore. A bit vague this descriptions are. My hopes is to leave the space that is need for ideas to Growth.
Tuesday Night Post #3.6 /
Dear Visitors,
Options are there, third party System.
Creation
Evolution
Ancient Astro-not
-DBL
Musings on DivineBrick
Any good start begins with a solid under-structure. What keeps the pieces together is the frequency the negative thoughts trigger the self replicating behaviors. As before,... the Ouroboros, the irrational numbers, the wheel of life, the cycle of abuse. Positive feed back methods to induce the basic structure, decomposed.
DivineBrick methodology (at this state in time) is to deconstruct the self, which represents the collective self, in doing so belief should be expelled. Attacking the collective self, ripping it wide open, exposing faults and control mechanisms.
Building brick by brick encasing the blue gem. This is not a wall nor a pyramid. It is a path way flat and endless. No hierarchy can represent life energy manifested.
Bricks are square but bricks are made of bare earth. Human hands forcing shape, earth obliges. Human children played with mud, shaping, wishing, playing. Playing and Ritual, that is what we do. Breakthroughs or Beautiful representations. This is what we do. Pretend. We role play the Maker, the Grower, we replicate what we do not understand, our external world. External forces wakes us, teaches us, shaping us. This transformation no matter the method is a privilege and some how a birth right we have.
This Belief methodology is an alternative choice that I choose to choose, a cozen gift to not take lightly. My re-search lead me to the simple building block.
the brick
the cell
the room
the space
the net
the fabric
the self
the unit
the piece
This is the DivineBrick Methodology. Searching from the roots pulling on vines.
Tuesday Night Post #3.5 /
First drawing in a series entitled "uni0n":
3mbr4c3
Tuesday N[ight Post #3.4 /
Well Rested,
I am not. A short half awaken thought.
-DBL
To some the obvious selection for failure is the fool. Shrouded with fabric that only children can see, this idiot surmised quick with no mistake. A fault on a jagged cliff side gets lost in rhythm of the irregular.
A hat to signal approach, in the fools walk you can see, stumbles fluidly. Just a laugh is a iron steaming hot bent on spreading this embedded joke. Clinging to concepts desires left alone, abstracted, detached the fool seems malnourished of everyday foes. Just a joker to twist-a-side the truth, in the corner the fool ties the shoe.
In the moments you try to find clarity in the actions that border on obscurities, there the fool traces what can be seen. Picture pleased, there the fool hides in actions.
Tuesday Night Post #3.3 /
Programs,
System Reformation. Belief Reformatting. Corporal Reformation.
-DBL
can systems really be about destruction?
de-constructing what is not understood
breaking apart what needs to stay
exploring touching reaching for a core that does not substitute
voices recall the past reformed
tongues collided fire revolves
center to the draft of senses
of need
of taste
of knowing and recalling
systems feel
do they feel?
does human well being involve feeling?
feeling is core?
this narrative of sight belongs to us
me the vision seeker-the Light bouncer
deforming planes confusing eyes
deceiver of the Light
efficient divider grower of worth
on this dividing line that she sensed
cubs were lost blood lines severed
her four legs knew this rhythm well
its the constant motion that delivers this sense of vast space
space so vast there is only self
the outer reached it limit
the inner reached a depths profound
Deliverer of Light she will never forget your smell
She tasted you once, strike you down
severed member searcher of Light
She sees no road
She sees no inner end
She pounds on pavement, crumbled glass
soft sands of beaches along the coast
tracking lacking worth
Parallax Beach-Parallax Scroll @ Highways Performance Space- Santa Monica, Ca /
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.
Tuesday Night Post #3.2 /
Lovers,
Its tuesday
-DBL
At this moment I am frustrated. Dealing with caves of pastured hills I resist but I enter, knowing what will occur will be a sense of being outside in the darkness. Just as the walls are moist, so are the chilled blue blades of grass. This is where I end up tired and achy. On trips to wild reactions and decisions I take my naps in institutions. Naturally the seeds that germinate from this conclusion share the same commitment as my execution. Dialing the proper number to call the doctor, to fill the prescription that murders the patient, in this proof your fail is the solution. Redialing context of dissolution I stand proud on broken and swollen legs. Tree trucks left to spoil, finding necks long and hard, wheels in mud stuck, the child cherishes his freedom.
With growth and pain rounded fingers feel around as wealth regains.
With repetition I find nostalgia when nothing changes assuring I remember the following.
With repetition I lay my head at the feet I adore without no standards.
With repetition I assure the memory deforms in dome or shelter bending as needed for the assault.
Gems, found in beds left for dead.
Tuesday Night Post #3.1 /
Fanatics,
#c0z3n
Man has taken from a womb. Destroying as he creates.
Stealing as he rapes.
A newer thought of a feed back loop that spreads thin
evenly across a surface
Of a man given a gift which he sees it as that
the structured thought was the first to notice
Repetition makes the group
Consumption closes the loop
In this act in his behavior he climbs
only to end up face down
People seed in their weight
end for them left in a gram of ash