ARTIST BIOS
Circuit des Yeux
Haley Fohr (b. Dec 16 1988) is a vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. Her musical endeavors focus around our human condition, and her 10-year career as Circuit des Yeux has grown into one of America’s most successful efforts to connect the personal to the universal. She is most distinctly identified by her 4-octave voice and unique style of 12-string guitar. Her mysterious “Jackie Lynn” project landed her on the cover of Wire Magazine in August of 2016. Her recent works include an Original Soundtrack for Charles Bryant’s silent film Salomé (1923), commissioned by Opera North, and her critically acclaimed 2021 album -io, released on Matador Records.
Space Lady
Susan Dietrich Schneider, known as The Space Lady was born 1948 in Pueblo, Colorado and raised in Las Animas, Colorado, US. She is a singer and musician in the genres space music, synth pop, and psychedelic pop. The Space Lady is an outsider music icon, known for her ethereal sound and wearing a stunning winged helmet.
https://www.facebook.com/TheSpaceLadyMusic
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/exploring-the-intergalactic-wonders-of-the-space-lady
Wolf Eyes
Wolf Eyes is an American experimental music group from Michigan, formed in 1996 by Nate Young. Currently the group consists of John Olson and Nate Young. Wolf Eyes are a prominent act within contemporary noise music. They have collaborated with a variety of artists from different countries and art forms. The group has released 297 recordings during their 21 years of ceaseless prolific activity. Recent activity in 2021 has been a residency, art show, and LP/ Instrument donation to the permanent archive at the New York Public Library For the Performing Arts. Official releases have appeared on labels including but not limited to the Lower Floors, Hanson Records, Bulb Records, American Tapes, Fusetron, De Stijl Records, Sub Pop, Troubleman Unlimited, AA Records, Gods of Tundra, Freedom From. They have collaborated with Anthony Braxton, Merzbow, Sonic Youth, Black Dice, Double Leopards, John Wiese, Mammal, FLUCT, MV Carbon, Twig Harper, Jaimie Branch, Richard Pinhas, and Smegma and many more.
Fuck U Pay Us
Fuck U Pay Us is a LA/Tongva-based, Black, Queer, Trans, Femme, Punk band demanding reparations now. Their music is experimental, unapologetic, and genre-bending. Raw, perceptive, responsive, and urgent. “This is about real people who are experiencing oppression, putting that to music” -disabled guitarist, vocalist and founding member, Uhuru Moor.
FUPU is led by vocalist, composer, fiber-artist, and art director Jasmine Nyende; creator, musician, interdisciplinary artist, organizer, and professional dominant Uhuru Moor; multi-instrumentalist, composer, and transdisciplinary artist Tianna Nicole; and blues, folk, punk musician, composer and community organizer, Sunny War.
Fuck U Pay Us has been featured in Hanif Abdurraqib’s book A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance, as well as in Vogue Italia, Dazed Magazine, i-D Magazine, Cultured, NYLON, LA Weekly, among others. “Unapologetically raw, extremely perceptive, and well-versed in intersectional ideology (obviously), FUPU is probably the group best equipped to push the conversation forward…Their music flips off male-dominated power structures most of us operate under — and with their popularity spreading like wildfire right now, FUPU are a vital antidote to patriarchy blues” - Sandra Song for NYLON Magazine
Helen
Helen is a band from Oregon with Jed Bindeman, Scott Simmons, and Liz Harris. Originally started with the intention of being a thrash band, it turned into something else entirely. Loud and dreamy; tape hiss; stormy drums, guitar haze, smeary vocals, melodic bass. In 2013 they self released a 7” called Felt This Way/Dying All The Time followed up in 2015 by a full length called The Original Faces, on Kranky.
Saloli
Mary Sutton performs as Saloli and composes music for keyboard instruments. She aims to create sonic landscapes that entrance and enthrall the listener into sweetly vulnerable introspection. Saloli's debut album of synthesizer compositions, The Deep End, was released through Kranky in 2018. The Island: Music for Piano Vol. I, was self-released as a limited edition cassette December 21, 2021. Saloli is a Cherokee Nation citizen based in Portland, OR.
Sir Richard Bishop
Richard Bishop, guitarist and founding member of the band Sun City Girls (1981-2007), released his first solo record (Salvador Kali) in 1998 on John Fahey’s esteemed Revenant label under the moniker Sir Richard Bishop. Since then he has released albums on a variety of labels: Improvika, Elektronika Demonika, and While My Guitar Violently Bleeds (Locust Music), Fingering the Devil (Southern Records, UK), Hypostasis: A Work in Three Parts (VDSQ), Intermezzo (Editions Mego), The Unrock Tapes and Road to Siam (Unrock), Polytheistic Fragments, The Freak of Araby, Tangier Sessions, and Oneiric Formulary (Drag City). “Sir Richard Bishop forces one to alter that hoary cliche to ‘jack of all trades, master of…damn near all.’ Renowned for his mercurial guitar-playing for 26 years with Seattle ethno-delic legends Sun City Girls, Bishop has wrought a distinguished solo canon as well. He combines soulfulness and advanced technique with a panache that’s nearly unrivaled among today’s guitarists. Bishop strums spiritual with incantatory ragas, free-folk excursions, crystalline flamenco flourishes, ruddy Appalachian folk, Middle Eastern-tinged fantasias and gypsy arabesques. This is eclecticism done with respect and third-eye-dilating filigree; his compositions attain a sepia-toned wistfulness and a psychedelic complexity.” - Dave Segal (OC Weekly)
https://www.sirrichardbishop.net/
ZOMES
Asa Osborne (Baltimore) & Hanna Olivegren (Stockholm) began playing together in 2012. Their 5th record "Love's Lesson" will come out this summer.
Orquestra Pacífico Tropical
Orquestra Pacífico Tropical is comprised of 11 homies who get together to share their boundless love and respect for the genre of Cumbia and what that means to them, living in the city of Portland, Oregon. Reconstructing & reimagining those gorgeous archaic jungle rhythms that span from México to Peru and to Colombia, the ensemble brings an onslaught to any stage across the nation with their own reinterpretation of this magnificent sound.
LIGHT ASYLUM
Shannon Funchess is a self-taught, interdisciplinary performance artist and the founder, vocalist, producer of internationally revered, dark electronic music project LIGHT ASYLUM. Founded in Brooklyn, New York in 2007, performances have culminated in traditional and non-traditional spaces such as underground raves, museums, galleries, music festivals and nightclubs. Her journey began in a gospel choir of a southern baptist church at the age of nine. With a passion for collaboration, Funchess has joined forces with peers and allies around the globe through multiple platforms, genres and disciplines. From recording studio vocal features, remixes and production for artists The Knife, Tv on the Radio, Elysia Crampton Chuquimia among others, she has also worked as a touring musician and dancer for the aforementioned artists The knife, supported bands the likes of LCD Sound System, Coco Rosie, !!!, Clan of Xymox, Peaches, TR/ST, toured extensively, internationally and performed improvisational live music with electronic music pioneer Laurie Anderson. Funchess has established herself as a core force in her community and is lauded for her cathartic performances as LIGHT ASYLUM and enigmatic side project HEALING CRISIS as well as DJing nightclubs, The Lot Radio and art events.
F-Space
The pyro-industrial band F-Space were formed in San Francisco, CA, in 1997 by pyrotechnic sound artist Scot Jenerik and Savage Republic guitarist Ethan Port. Chrome drummer Aleph Kali Omega joined 2002-2014. Agalloch bassist Jason Walton joined in 2020.
The F-Space's sound has been described as a “seething sepulchral sound of post Industrial-Punk. Densely subterranean tribal percussion, resonating Middle Eastern guitar, atmospheric ambience, and dissonant metallic clanging reminiscent of Einsturzende Neubauten and Throbbing Gristle immerse you into a cataclysmic realm of subtle beauty and extreme chaos.”
Early performances were chaotic and involved an excessive amount of fire from Jenerik’s hand built pyro-infused percussion instruments. Port kept pace with a sonic monotone guitar wash, tinged with middle eastern references. Needless to say, they were a mainstay of the late 90’s Burning Man scene. Their first live performance was at Burning Man on August 28, 1997. In 2002 Chrome drummer Aleph Kali Omega joined the band to provide a solid foundation to the chaos produced by Jenerik and Port. Omega was unavailable for a US tour at the end of the year. Joel Connell of Man Is The Bastard joined on drums for the tour and is featured on “Charity And Hope’ from their 2003 debut album “Preliminary Impact Report”. The album was described as “an apocalyptic, feral, destructive trance state implying a catastrophic act of nature, a march through the desert on the path to war, or an offender's mental state during a crime of passion.”
Red Dons
Red Dons are a nomadic outfit that formed in Portland, Oregon in 2006. For the better part of the last fifteen years their members have been spread out across Europe and the United States. Despite living in different locations, they continue to record and tour internationally.
Pure Shit
Pure Shit is a punk band based in and around Los Angeles, but biographies are not important. Revelations and regeneration is what Pure Shit is all about.
Hidhawk
Haydeé Jiménez (1981) is a transdisciplinary artist, cultural activist and curator based in the Southern California - Northern Baja California region. She is co-founder of nettnettradio and nettnett space Tijuana. Haydeé is an explorer in the realms of artistic and holistic approaches to healing through sound frequencies, vibrations and computer music. She also composes / produces / performs experimental and electronic music in solo projects as hidhawk and AyDD and occasionally participates in bands like Pure Shit (keyboard), Godblink Goblin (electronics) and Traviesas y Milagros (drums). Haydeé also promotes experimental and electronic musicians and artists through Borderlandnoise.
Million Brazilians
“Exotica avant-garde mystical music that is impossible to classify,” as described by Mississippi Record’s co-founder, Eric Issacson, Million Brazilians have continued to exemplify their imagination into new sound works that “drift between boundless compositions, focused energetic improvisations and experimental collaboration that embrace a weird sort of transcendence." The band has carried out a distinctive interpretation of their genre-bending ethos forming an unparalleled musical language throughout the evolving American underground for over 15 years. For one night only Dundee Lodge Campout is featuring a rare appearance of the full ensemble of Psychic Sound’s label all-stars Grant Corum, Suzanne Stone, Sam Jones, James Shaver and Idaho Joe Winslow presenting "the ecstatic music of 'Aster Flow'" that recently premiered at Kraakfest in Belgium.
Jefrey Brown
Originally from Columbia Maryland, Jef has lived many places including Boston, Baltimore, Portland, Los Angeles, Brooklyn and now currently Kingston, New York. He is a multi instrumentalist who plays guitar, bass and saxophone. He is associated with Jackie o Motherfucker, Evolutionary Jass Band and Gospel of Mars. He currently is working on a solo guitar record to be released in the near future (Inshallah!) and performs around the Hudson Valley.
Avola
Veronica “Vern” Avola is a composer, multimedia artist, instructor and champion of friendship, born in Italy and based in Portland, Oregon. She founded EMS Records. Avola’s solo sound works uses deep electronic sounds to geomap the hidden layers that also come with a given “present moment”; from the guttural subterranean or the hallways of the earthly punk and DIY culture to consensual abduction and flight. Avola’s compositions hold space for these physical stretches that become emblems of safety when society faces a truth in zero control within a political predestination. In this process Avola brings an ability back to the listener to think and exist outside of man’s algorithm. Avola performs this work internationally and has released several albums on Sige Recordings, An Out Recordings, Accident Prone Records, Gravity Records and Nadine Records. Avola has other collaborative works with Daniel Menche (Bear Spray), Ian Gorman Weiland (Elrond), Vo Vo and Dead (Castlemaine, Australia). She also has a bi-weekly radio show on UK based Repeater Radio.
The Lodestones // Village of Spaces
The Lodestones and Village of Spaces have been collaborating for a handful of years now, but this summer they will finally melt into one. As a trio, they will be performing songs by The Lodestones and Village of Spaces, sharing the stage and passing their songs back and forth.
Methods Body
METHODS BODY (Portland, OR) is a performance duo that creates original sound art and music using custom tunings systems, polyrhythms, and the cadences of language. Longtime collaborators Luke Wyland (keys, electronics) and John Niekrasz (drums, percussion) use bespoke live-sampling technologies to create compositions that inhabit waves of subliminal melody and deep, uncanny grooves. They're currently working on the follow-up to their critically acclaimed self-titled debut record (New Amsterdam Records/Beacon Sound 2020), forthcoming in 2022.
Cexfucx
Mark Kaylor: "Cex Fucx began as a "party band", the 1st show being in the Northeast Portland basement where I was living during the early 2000’s. The original lineup consisted of JP Jenkins (guitar), Kelvin Pittman (piano), Gabriel Saloman (vocals/effects), Eva Saelens (vocals), Shane "Papa Sweat" Schneider (bass), and Mark Kaylor (drums). The name Cex Fucx originated from the phone number of the newly opened 411 space in the industrial section of inner SE Portland. The digits corresponding to the phone number of the space were CEX FUCX. Over the years the group shrank to a trio (Jenkins/Kaylor/Schneider) and expanded to an octet or more.
Opossum Sun Trail
Originally out of Humboldt county California, and most recently the Mojave desert, comes trio of nomads Opossum Sun Trail. Equal parts western film soundtrack, Bakersfield twang and over the top psychedelia, these desert weirdos have run the gamut of gigs from major urban psych festivals to backwoods dive joints. Their unique live instrumentation includes Nola Pierce (Moon Pine) on Wurltizter piano, vocals and moog synth bass, Michael Dieter (White Manna, DDT) on guitar and vocals as well as John Daren Thomas (ex-Nik Turner's Hawkwind, Albert Lee, Idaho). Most recent works recorded with Tim Green have been bio-regional compositions that seek a connection to place. One half written and reflecting the great Mojave desert snd the other the tangled forests of the Klamath mountains of northern California and southern Oregon. After sheltering in various wild environs for the past couple of years the band is thrilled to start playing these new works for new ears.
ZAH
ZAH is an electronic producer and vocalist. Recognized by the likes of i-D Magazine, Avyss Japan, COLORSXSTUDIOS and TimeOut, they have become a voice for underground queer and trans communities worldwide. A self-taught musician, ZAH is also known to perform among visual elements such as paintings, installations and multimedia work all by them, creating immersive full fantasy experiences from multiple mediums. They have hosted an inclusive queer, all-night dance party at MoMA PS1 and Dazed Magazine dubbed ZAH “the non-binary artist waking up the fashion industry.” “By existing outside the gender binary and on the fringes of society as a mixed race individual I create without boundaries inherently,” says ZAH. “In this world my identity is a grey area and my art is a reflection of the way I blur boundaries as a person.”
Apeiron
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VISUAL ARTISTS
Shana Palmer
NEOGLYPHIC MEDIA
NEOGLYPHIC MEDIA is a visual media studio dedicated to publishing and promoting work from unique and visionary artistic innovators at the intersections of art, comics, and music.
Roger Peet
Anthea Zeltzman and Jo Temple
Anthea and Jo have been collaborating artistically since 2006. In each other, they have each found their co-conspirator, their Goto wing person, invariably on board for a wacky idea. Multitaskers (as artists and parents who Involve their children in their work must be), Anthea and Jo understand that creativity doesn't die with parental responsibility. Instead they allow for evolution and embrace the belief that there is value in creating without perfectionism, and creating despite the often ephemeral nature of artwork made from trash or, say, food.
Inspired buy the electric colors and variety of form in the fungi kingdom, this project, tentatively nicknamed The “Mush” Room is an interactive, educational, mixed media woodland respite area consisting of oversized sculptural varietals of exotic mushrooms. A cozy seating area for cards or tea by day, a refractive glowing psychedelic experience by night. Learn about the wonder of fungi while taking a load off!
VCR TV - Kyle Reese
VCR TV is the catch-all title for the work produced by multimedia artist Kyle Reese. Weekly radio shows, and video art installations and production are the most consistent manifestations. VCR TV is directly influenced by 1980’s cable television, old commercials, movie soundtracks, video rental stores, neon lighting, synthesizers, VHS as a format, televisions as a medium. Ultimately the main idea is intersecting movies & music, to create an immersive, familiar, and fun experience for the viewer.
@vcr_tv
Aubrey Nehring
I have a chip in my brain that makes lights and colors for various occasions.
Midori Hirose
Midori Hirose (born in Hood River, OR) is a Japanese American interdisciplinary artist currently based in Portland, OR. Hirose explores themes of memory, transformation, and connection using playful nuance to discover new modes of communication. In her work, community bonds, recognizing space as a necessary part of the generative process through collaborations, historical narrative, perception (physiological and psychological), and storytelling are interchangeable with physical objects and materials. Research, materials, and techniques become animate models of emergent taxonomy. Hirose calls her relationship to this history "material storytelling." She sees her sculptures as dimensional illustrations of these investigations. They are metaphors for the complexity of knowing.
Sam Wolf-Wolf X Dog
A doorway, a portal to walk through to celebrate and honor the sun and the moon we have within and around us.
Cinema Project
Cinema Project is a collectively run, non-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon since 2003, that works to promote public awareness of avant-garde and experimental cinema from the past and present.
Gabriel Luis Perez &
Arta Marie Powers
The loss of an animal can affect one as deeply as the loss of a friend or family member. We sympathize with each other upon these losses as we have all lost someone or something. To collectively celebrate the lives of things or life forms we have lost can be cathartic, pleasurable, or even transcending. Let’s dissolve our sadness together by entering The House That Jax Built for celebration or simple reflection.
Locust
Locust is a San Francisco multimedia artist that deals with topics such as science, metaphysics, life, and struggle. His paintings juxtapose digital forms with anatomical themes often linked to technology, death, and decay.
His art gives aesthetic pleasure and thus attracts attention as a form of art provocation. He was born and raised in Michigan but later shifted to San Francisco where he proved himself as an eminent street artist. His work is free from perceived confines of the formal art world. Locust feels circuitry and that is how he expresses the energy that he moves through things. Through his imagination and creativity he brings to life the circuitry and anatomy for the viewer which would otherwise be invisible to normal eyes.
Erin Aquarian Audiovisuals
Erin Aquarian makes hypnotic video collages to enhance the audience's sensory experience during live bands and DJ sets.
Erica Meryl Thomas
Muffie Delgado Connelly and Tahni Holt
Muffie and Tahni are collaborators who work in the material of improvisational dance scores and choreography that is responsive to the multiplicity of their location in real time. We dance with our land bodies, with ancestor bodies, with no bodies. We invite ongoing states of mystery and unknowing to destabilize knowledge as this is the place when something else gets to exist. Our work is a transmission and seeks to expand through networks of underground, invisible and sensorial pathways--assuming forms of shared experiential knowledge and lineage passed through the cells of every person and the mother body. Dance making is a way to imagine and question and reside in the liminal space, where unraveling is not a marker of failure but one of great power and intrigue. We believe that the body—from cells to mind to limbs—is the site of revolutionary possibility in terms of telling stories and re-envisioning what this world might be. Muffie and Tahni have been working together in a constellation of multiple forms since 2016. Currently they are working on Pulse Mountain, a performance to premier in fall of 2022. Pulse Mountain quantum leaps into the Dundee campout. We invite you to join us here, in this moment, and revel in the sensations of our togetherness. This is for you.