Events . Attorneys General with Else Collective and Patrick Breiner

Attorneys General with Else Collective and Patrick Breiner

Matt Byars of the DC band The Caribbean was inspired by Mission of Burma's Martin Swope to process improvised musicians live on stage.
Concert
Bantha Tea Bar
All Ages $7

Tue Mar 15 7 pm $7 all ages welcome
Bantha Tea Bar 5002 Penn Avenue
tea drinks and light fare available
experimental sound & free-improvisation featuring Washington, D.C.'s
ATTORNEYS GENERAL
(Matthew Byars of The Caribbean)
https://westmaindevelopment.bandcamp.com/track/3-wmd013
with Else Collective
https://pjroduta.bandcamp.com/album/else-collective
and Patrick Breiner
https://www.patrickbreiner.com/
Attorneys General is a project led by Matthew Byars of DC-based band The Caribbean. A formative experience for Byars as a listener was hearing the work of soundman Martin Swope of Mission of Burma on their seminal 1985 live record, "The Horrible Truth About Burma," in which Swope, using a reel-to-reel tape machine, captured, looped, manipulated, and destroyed elements of the band’s sound in spontaneous and unexpected ways.
Byars has adapted this approach to having three people (different players every time, mostly) generate utterly improvised sound through a mixing board he controls, which allows him to capture, loop, manipulate, and destroy the sounds they create. Results vary from the transcendent to the disastrous, but the inherent risk involved is, ultimately, the point.


Tags: Ambient Avant Electronic Experimental Improv