01.09.10 - 8:30pm

Concord Ballet Orchestra Players + FORMA + A.R. Plovnick

Concord Ballet Orchestra Players

Avant-kraut-psych-improv collective from Somerville MA utilizing synths, guitars, keyboards, theremin, drums and more. Members of Most Bitter, Bobb Trimble’s Flying Spiders, Reports, The Lothars, The Shrinking Islands, Abunai!, and more.

Originally convened to perform a one-time live tribute to (German group) Faust — but then enjoyed playing together so much that they decided to carry on together with original trout-stream-of-consciousness performances.

Members met while playing in other bands who shared the same rehearsal space — a space that was once occupied by a “Concord School of Ballet”. A cracked, hand-painted sign for the school still hangs on the wall there.

Sometimes informally referred to as “C.B.O.P.” (pronounced SEE-bop).

http://CBOP.wordpress.com

http://www.facebook.com/ConcordBalletOrchestraPlayers

FORMA

FORMA began a year ago as a new project of recording artist Mark Dwinell (Bright, Nonloc) and pianist Sophie Lam. Starting with electric combo organ, various analog synths, reverb chamber and a steel string-driven drone instrument designed and built by Mark, their improvisations explore a sonic territory that has much in common with the melodic beauty of early Kraftwerk, Cluster and Harmonia combined with the rhythmic rigor of the American minimalists Glass, Riley and Reich. George Bennett joined in on drums over the summer and along with Dwinell and Lam’s spontaneous compositions created a sound at once hypnotic, expansive and urgent.

http://www.formasounds.com/

http://www.myspace.com/formasounds

A.R. Plovnick

” A.R. is Andy from Astronaut and Healing Feeling.  Astronaut was his project with Daniel Lopatin (now of Oneohtrix Point Never) and Lee Tindall. With A.R. let loose on his lonesome, expect some kosmische synthworkouts, unholy space echoes, and brain-tingling video projections.

http://www.myspace.com/hcisolation