Ties That Bind

Music artists BLK w/ BEAR [Washington DC] is the audio-art pseudonym for queer visual artist JS Adams. His audio artworks include both temporal turntable installations and laptop compositions utilizing forced looping technique of altered vinyl recordings and media decay along with manipulated voice synthesis and deconstructive turntablism. His recordings -- released on Kuma-Chan [USA] and Trace Recordings [UK] -- have accompanied film/video projects in NYC and London. Selections from his 'Wish for a World' collaboration with London's Rothko have been used in the Discovery Channel's poignant 'The Flight that Fought Back' docu/drama. Adams is a member of Outmusic and the American Composers Forum. He also curates the annual QUEERING SOUND event for DC GLBT arts collect, the Triangle Artists Group. Contact: www.artbear.com. RH BEAR [NYC] is bassist for industrial noise rockers BILE with an upcoming collaborative release of electro-acoustic noise and improvisation. During the NYC debut of BLK w/ BEAR, along with RH Bear will create minimal meditative soundscape incorporating recorded clips from everyday travels as a way to construct and build form to chaos.

it/EQ's Tragic Bride/Fashion Victim, a full installation performance event integrating art and social space while crossing gender divides, exposing interpersonal experimental narratives, and creating spiritual/healing rituals. From the carefully composed invitation to marry and tie the knot to invocations, projected images, meditative spiritual transformations with music, clothes, and performance, to enacted rituals of healing, meditation, and trance-work that carries the spirit onward.

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Music

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• queer
• performance
• experimental
• sound
• bile
• bear
• tragic
• bride
• fashion
• victim
• electronic