POSTHCON2008

Last night was a wonderful time. Ari and I would like to thank all the folks who put in their time and made it monumental. Thanks to Hans, Monique, Michael and everyone else who came and helped at the Current Gallery, the performers and artists: Convocation, Microkingdom, Jared Fischer, Andy Abelow, Small Sur, Gene Gregorits, Be Blank Consort & Post Neo-Absurdist Anti-Collective, Gaybomb, Dog on the Loose, Hot Guts, Beans, Krista Faist, N.O. Smith & Human Host, the labels who contributed to the impressive spread of CD-Rs, records, cassettes, and etc.: Terra Firma (special thanks to Scott for bringing the tables), Media False Death Fun, Spleen Coffin, FirecrackerFirecracker, MT6, Defective Bat Records, Isle of Man, Badmaster, Jon Bevers & N.O. Smith for filming the event, Swill, & everyone who came, went, stayed, and wandered, watched and listened. Number four was the best one yet... stay in tune for HCON2009 - New Year's Day 2009...

HCON2008

HCON2008: The Human Conduct Musical Spectrum
Saturday November 8
at the Current Gallery
30 S. Calvert
Event begins promptly at 7pm
$5 suggested donation
featuring:

The Convocation
Formed by driving force/ co-founder George France, Tonie Joy (formerly of Moss Icon, Universal Order of Armageddon, Born Against...) and original bassist Guy Blakeslee (now Entrance/ The Entrance Band) 2007/2008- Playing again after another hiatus, now with Jason Stevens on bass. ".......epitomizes the union of ancient and futuristic urges"
myspace.com/theconvocation

The New Flesh
On hiatus since late 2007. This will be their only show of the year. New CD-R compilation will be available at the festival. "That menacing kind of rusty and gray and hazily oppressive feeling that is hard to shake off" -Terminal Boredom
myspace.com/thenewflesh

Microkingdom
Basically: guitarist Marc Miller (Oxes) & percussionist/composer Will Redman. Usually Baltimore reeds legend John Dierker (New Volcanoes). Sometimes other intense musicians. Through slightly less-than-judicious use of skills and non-skills, and noise and non-noise, beats and non-beats, Microkingdom's music becomes imperceptibly complex noise Jazz of zone variances of extra-cognitive spiritual magnetism. Ears on fire, mind full of water and a skull in between.
"A hyperactively burrowing noise excavation which displays a squally belligerence before slowing to a crawl...." -The Wire
microkingdom.com

Wax & Wane
A collaboration of several musicians spread out all over the world. They have many different iterations, but are always centered around one unified theme: personal songs about humans - relationships, nature, time, life & death. Began with Danny Costa and Ari Schenck (members of the Organ Donors) & eventually spawned into the collective of writers that currently includes Sine Jensen & Justin Kwash.
myspace.com/waxandwane

Hollywood
Super swaggering mid tempo dirt mongrels riffing at the altar of garage and grunge, as amusing as Looney Tunes and sonically sound as the Pretty Things.... Perform miserable rotten rock numbers like "Big Mouth" and "Toucher". Fronted by Hollywood Slim, with ex members of Flowers in the Attic: Stonewall Jack, K.B., & Big Mang Ken, lineup completed by Riggy "The Rod" Rito (Dactyl).
myspace.com/theehollywoods

The Ruined Frame
The Ruined Frame's constant is singer/songwriter Rick Weaver (Human Host, New Flesh). The variables have included Tracy Conway (Clancy 6), Kevin Bernsten (Triac), Ari Schenck (Wax&Wane), Brian Litz, & Nick Podgurski (Extra Life, Yukon). "Angular, cerebral, and vaguely menacing" - cinematic folk/rock vocal/instrumental surreal/real.
myspace.com/theruinedframe

Small Sur
Whether paying homage to the pastoral, lucid rhythms of summers in South Dakota or times spent with friends on the beaches and cliffs of the Pacific, their music is deeply personal -- bathed in seas and sunsets, reservoirs and rivers, forests and fields. Singer/songwriter Bob Keal, now 26 and residing in Baltimore, Maryland, has spent the past couple of years teaching kindergarten by day and sharing his songs by night alongside a rotating cast of friends, including current co-conspirators Andy Abelow (Saxophone/Banjo), Scott Dennison (Bass), Julianne Nelson (Vocals), and Austin Stahl (Percussion)
“A quiet force to be reckoned with…this is one of the best live bands in Baltimore right now.” -SĒN Baltimore Magazine
smallsur.com

Fun Dogs & Hot Guts (Philly)
"The best way I can describe the Fun Dogs...is an auditory cock-block" -Pitchfork
A rare and special meeting of two psychedelic experimental rock bands from Philadelphia. Competent, proficient, and fetching, these guys will most likely deliver one of the heaviest sets of the night. Multiple drums, handful of guitarists, assload of pedals. These two bands put out a mean split cassette recently worth checking out. Fun Dogs demonstrated their ability to write repetitive, infectious, and noxious tunes. Hot Guts delivered an eclectic unpredictable side which ended in cold synthetic loops.
fundogs.biz
myspace.com/hotguts

Gaybomb
Gaybomb is the solo product of Andrew Barranca, film maker, visual artist, teacher, founder of Isle of Man records, former member of/collaborator with Pukeattack!, Wake Up Snake, Occasional Detroit, and Half Japanese. He's just moved to the D.C. area from Charleston, SC where he threw wonderfully wild house shows. His solo sets are cosmic thick milky and spiked.
myspace.com/isleofman

Jim Swill
Swill is/was a vital organ of the noise punk/contemporary hardcore collective Realicide (RRR), a collaborator with surreal hip-hop artist Evolve (Heresee), and a member of the Get Born crew (an outlet for the various creative endeavors of young local poets in the city of St.Louis). His mediums are of collage, xerox, self published zines, and his voice.
myspace.com/jimswill

Beans
Beans is Sine Jensen's (Wax & Wane) solo guitar/vocal/violin/glockenspiel music which involves the Jensen sisters, Liz and Tasha, as well as occasional contributions from Woody, Lauren, and Clayton. Beans is playful, gentle, intimate, and melodious. AS light and airy late 60s Beach Boys without the psychotic tendencies.
myspace.com/sinebean

Gene Gregorits
Gene Gregorits is the author of the comprehensive Midnight Mavericks (interviews with John Waters, Lydia Lunch, Abel Ferrara, Andrew W.K., etc.), editor of the culture zine Sex & Guts, and a columnist for Brutarian Quarterly.
Midnight Mavericks review: "A rallying call for the world's outcasts courtesy of Gene Gregorits. His sheer evangelical zeal for all that is good and right in the world had me speaking in tongues by the end of the first page alone." --Bizarre magazine
"In my opinion, Mr. Gregorits is severely delusional. The subject believes that he is a published writer, claiming repeatedly to have written 3 books. His replies were incoherent, often completely unrelated to my questions. He frequently became irate and used foul language." - Detroit P.D. psychiatrist, 2004.

more TBA

plus
-viewing of short film "Mall Crawlers" filmed by N.O. Smith scored by Human Host
-sound installation of terrifying cut-ups by Krista Faist
-local label table feat. MT6, Terra Firma, Firecracker Firecracker, Spleen Coffin, Defective Bat, Isle of Man, Media False Death Fun, Megaphone, Ehse, more
-live remote performances in New Brunswick, NJ from Be Blank Consort (performance poetry group) & the Post Neo-Absurdist Anti-Collective
+more

www.currentspace.com
www.myspace.com/humanconduct