Human Resources Chinatown Los Angeles

Doors at 8pm, Music at 9pm

For the West Coast Civilization Shuffle Tour, Buerhaus will be playing her Frankenstein guitar, a rebuilt electric guitar, as well as manipulating field recordings of public + private transportation modes, and controlling Shiraishi’s field recorded rhythms. Shiraishi will be playing his saxophone, and both members vocalize.

Felix Bernstein will join the performance, reading sections from his second book, Burn Book.

Shiraishi stays in the highest register possible, while Buerhaus’ guitar maxes out at the lowest end. DaiKyoFuroShiki makes large sounds with minimal instrumentation in order to slice the room.

Sonically unhinged but physically + spatially deliberate, this is will be a measured investigation of liminal space and tension, using strategies of improvisation developed over years of rehearsal and site specific performances across NYC’s five boroughs.

Cammisa Buerhaus is a sound artist and actress who lives in NYC. She runs the record label Wild Flesh Productions, is a member of the theatre company NYC Players, cofounded the band 大凶風呂, and writes fanfiction about American politics. Her sound art and performances have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the CDG Cultergeist Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal and as sound designer for Felix Bernstein's Bieber Bathos at The Whitney Museum of American Art.
https://vimeo.com/140238008

Tamio Shirashi needs no introduction; he was a central figure in the Club Minor scene in Japan, jammed in Taco and A-Musik, helped form Fushitsusha, and has released various works of site specific saxophone playing. His style is some of the most atom splitting minimalism to ever locate your body in space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc_4m0v--OY

Thus, the sound of 大凶風呂敷 is a tense drama whose nerve chilling minimalism literally encodes the space for terrifying truths to appear all around you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SA4-AHFPvw

Felix Bernstein is the author of Burn Book (Nightboat) and Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry (Insert Blanc Press). His writing has been featured in Bomb, the Believer, Poetry Magazine, The Awl, and Hyperallergic. His performance, Bieber Bathos Elegy just wrapped at the Whitney Museum.

heres a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhT6lgi9Zms

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