As October rattles to its last days, the sun scurries away quicker and leaves prune and plummet. Happy-go-lucky evenings of ambient and warm bodies curdle and hairs stand on end in a fight-or-flight readiness. The dream has ended and the nightmare sets in. Six hours of noise, digital hardcore, piercing screams, fuzzed-out drums, and everything harsh under the moon will tap on your windows and break your eardrums in Impact!’s premiere lead into Halloween.
Halting is not a happy girl. She is very mad at the world and the people around her. Halting is the vehicle she created to scream about her personal gripes and crushing despair, through a veil of intense low frequencies, piercing squeals, and violent distortion. There will be little to no respite in her set. It is noise as protest. It is not a good time.
Baphomet Sex is a former harsh noise and current splittercore producer from Port Angeles, WA. They also dabble in extratone, speedcore, plunderphonics, and digital harsh noise. Filthy will be performing exclusively both melodic and raw extratone for the night. <3
The end goal of a live performance should be to leave the audience with a sense that they got close to God. They should be equally terrified and awestruck at the presence of your art; that is Paintscratcher‘s end goal. Blending drum and bass, dub into noise and drone metal, he aims to hypnotize the audience… wanting time to be meaningless when on stage. Completely improvised set, akin to acts such as Basic Channel, Yellow Swans, Goldie, Earth, Sunn O))), and Pan Sonic. Let’s see what happens when I’m up there.
Plunging into a dark, expansive ocean of sound and melody, frrn will deliver a live, improvised sonic experience with modular synth, guitar, and tape recordings. Melodic fragments will drift like birds, over deep beds of sound, and shuddering stone slabs of bass.
Climate Pledge Fountain Band was formed in Prescott, Arizona in 2006 when 15-year old Salamander Siskin asked her youngest sibling, 11-year old Tuchma Tutor, to play drums on an album of devotional tunes she had written. Besides contributing rhythms, Tuchma was also already an accomplished oboeist and conductor in their own right, and the duo’s collaborations quickly grew far beyond their own expectations. Since forming, PSJJJJ Fountain Band has gone on nearly a half-dozen tours throughout the Midwest, Eastern Canada, the Great Lakes, upper Appalachia, the Northwoods, Bolivia, and the Great Plains, and have released several releases of albums, mainly through TwigOut Records. Their recent output focuses on circle-based compositions, with notable influence from colors.
Kole Galbraith will be combining both primitive analogue and contemporary digital techniques to renew interior Salish folklore and oral/sonic epistemologies.
Shattering the Puget Sound further still, 9-5 Hyperfuck continues their hopscotching blitz around back into Kremwerk to cave in ceilings and churn bodies into gibs. As formal officiators of the best of moshes, they shutter shouts, drum dizzy dance hypnotizers, and glitch and break noise like a miasma. If you haven’t heard them or their releases before, listener discretion is advised, you might irreparably warp a few bones in the flurry.
We are Handmaiden, a project focused on exploring how the normal becomes nightmare. This anti-musical terrornoise is intended to directly overwrite your sensations with antipathicly driven obsession, despair, despondency, dysphoria, rage, addiction, and self harm. We work largely in tape manipulation and primitive noise, creating samples from both complex prepared devices and mundane day-to-day interactions, distorting them into unrecognisablity. Each piece of custom hardware is destroyed after each project, along with all samples, but the fear and discomfort will echo in your skull forever.