This friday PC//MM is performing at Gay Gardens. I’m excited about this because when it comes to DIY house shows, Gay Gardens is one of the places in Boston- hosting free shows for years. Kind of like Dekum Manor in Portland. An incredible venue for the public.
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/194274893992523/
I will be presenting PC//MM alongside Joey at 17cox on Saturday, December 3rd. Joey and I have been performing music together for about a year and a half. Having the context of a presentation will allow us to discuss our influences and our process for composition and performance.
This will include the ideas and inspirations in the evolution of our setup, performance style, and equipment, as well as the development of WHIRL and the intersection of art, music, and community we’ve found in our execution.
So if you’ve seen us perform and wonder who is doing what, or how I’m getting the monomachine to make sounds, or where Joey finds his samples, swing by.
Yup, you guessed it- that's a breadboard synth there. Three oscillators and ring modulation.
The event is produced by 17cox, and is designed to explore collage techniques in the creative process:
In tandem with Continuity, 17 Cox is hosting events engendering collage to all forms of cut and paste media; not just 2D collage, but film, turntables, and other devices/methods that arrange prefabricated media samples like sound bites, film stills, track cuts, et al. into larger compositions.
17cox: 17 Cox Court, Beverly MA 01915, December 3rd, 6pm.
Weekly Dig names Pico Picante at the Good Life the best friday night party:
Joey and I (PC//MM) started rockin this with Pajaritos this past summer at the Lilypad. Its amazing to see how Sara and Ernesto have grown it in beautiful ways.
Playing a halloween show at Midway Cafe in JP. No cover.
Links to PC//MM music : Soundcloud page. Web page.
Details from the event posting:
WIGS x MASKS x GOLD REQUIRED
No more wasted time arguing about where you will spend halloween, only to end up somewhere shitty. DOPE BOI FRESH is ready to scare you stOOpid with monster beats. This is a party dedicated to DANCING + MASKS + WIGS + GOLD + HIP HOP
DJ ELVIS JAMES
PC//MM
BATHAUS+NICKY ROMANCE+MAGZILLA_
MARS JUPITER
MESSIAH
Visuals all night brought to you by: HEXbeam
http://templeofmessages.com/HEXbeam/ [WITH SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCES BY: DEAD ART STAR< CLASSY SPINNER< ALEX TISDALE]
Home is where the heart is, let’s party at the midway.
Put up a few PC//MM tracks from the last couple months.
From Pico Picante Vol. 2, in the basement of Good Life. They have incredible bass down there.
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And a second Joey and I recorded, Sessions. Here are B and C. They are much more cerebral.
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PC/MM (Joey and I) will be rockin out tonight at the Lilypad in Inman square, at a show produced in collaboration by Golden Arrows (Alex Hage and Nerissa Cooney) and Pajaritos (Sara Skolnick and Ernesto Morales). This will be great. Last time Pajaritos and PC/MM performed together, Alex Hage of Golden Arrows was there and totally upped the excitement/immersion of the event with dancefloor facepainting. I can’t even imaging whats in store for tonight.
So on the lineup alongside PC//MM and Pajaritos will be DJing by Oxycontinental (Ricardo De Lima) and live visuals by Arthur (Nickolas Chelyapov). Ricardo is the force behind downtown’s DIY esque venue Spectacle- though I haven’t been there it, it was sister/brother/cousin venues with HMSPutnam when Putnam was around, so its mad cool in my books, and by transitivity Oxycontinental will throw down a good show. I’m pumped Nick is VJing, I saw a clip a few weeks ago of his live visuals for the Beaux Arts Ball at Harvard and it was just incredible.
Harvard GSD Beaux Arts Ball from Nickolas Peter on Vimeo.
Some press coverage by the weekly dig:
There’s a new Tabasco-fiery nightlife series going on in Inman Square. The Lily Pad is pairing up with local graphic design collective, Golden Arrows, to pay homage to Latin American music via DJs stylings. This Saturday Cambridge is getting down to DJ pair Pajaritos and El Oxycontinental with a performance by PC // MM. Best of all, it’s free and free things are the best things. And the name Pico Picante? It just sounds delicious. Like I want to be eating it accompanied by a margarita. Who doesn’t love to eat, drink, and be merry?
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and the Globe as part of their ‘Nightlife: The Week Ahead’ section:
PICÓ PICANTE Organizer Sara Skolnick describes Pico Picante as the first of a series of nightlife events that pay homage to emerging genres that celebrate staples of Latin American music through electronic reworks, such as tropical bass, Moombahton and digital cumbia.’’ DJs Pajaritos and Oxycontinental, perform, along with live electro act PC//MM. July 2, 7 p.m. No cover. Lily Pad. 617-395-1393, www.lily-pad.net
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Here is a link to the facebook event.
A clip by the boundlessly awesome Alex Wiltschko:
Rooftop Dance Party from Alex Dubya on Vimeo.
A few weeks ago plastic color // math magic performed a rooftop gig with the sick DJ see em , produced by EDP- experimental dance party. EDP has previously played machine rooms, and basement tunnels.
On 2/14/11, Joey and I performed at the Enormous Room as part of Beat Research, a Monday night series based on the class at MassArt. It was a pretty awesome show with Puppy performing his heavy glitch dubstep and a chill hip hop set by Greene Macheene. The crowd got pretty into the music during our set, which is always a great feeling, and DJ Flack spun some great beats afterwards. Some pics from the show,
Joey and I, picture taken by Matt
Puppy
Flack in the back booth.
[current] If you are in the Boston area, you can see my recent installation Lighthouse by the Aquarium T-Stop. It shows until mid March.
2/17/12: PC//MM performing at Future bass themed Pico Picante, The Good Life.
2/23/2012: opening reception for Urban Bloom, New Media Public Art piece, Boston Convention Center
Spring 2012: When we felt the infinite at TBD, produced by Sprout
