Attendance is mandatory

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Thursday, August 21, CCB Plaza, Durham, 5:25 pm, Free: Savage Knights with the Future Kings of Nowhere.
Come mill about in an Antonioni-esque emotional vacuum in the stark industrial landscape.
CCB is a subsidiary of SunTrust.
Savage Knights is a subsidiary of Blue Coal. — myspace.com/savageknights
Future Kings of Nowhere is a subsidiary of Erewhon. — myspace.com/thefuturekings

Saturday, August 23, Nightlight, Chapel Hill, 8:30 pm, donation $5 to $5000 suggested: Cy Rawls benefit time: Crowmeat Bob, Inspector 22, Clang Quartet, Roxann Spikula, Yohimbe, USA Baby, Secret Boyfriend.
When I did a weekly Death Jazz series at Bickett Gallery Cy almost rivaled Steve Burnett’s attendance record. I think breakdancin’ Jay came in third.

Look for me possibly joining in on the Pine State reunion show in a couple of weeks. Even though my only knowledge of them is through whispered legend. And now Youtube videos.

–Robert
retroactivedynamics.com
“Building you a better yesterday…tomorrow.”

blowin in the idiot wind

Bob Dylan meant what he said — “Nothing really matters much. It’s doom alone that counts.”

So I’ll be throwing down some doom, blowing my futile horn and giving you a lethal dose of salvation, this Friday and Sunday with a cohort of good people. I call them Judge Schreber’s Avian Choir:
drums: Mike Isenberg
electric bass: John Farrell
violins: Sarah Griffin; Mietek Glinkowski; Hollis Brown
viola: Dan Ruccia
celli: Chris Eubank; Josh Starmer
bull fiddles: Christopher Thurston; Nic Slaton
guitar, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, composition: Crowmeat Bob

performing a piece called “Molt.”

Friday, July 11, Nightlight: Judge Schreber’s Avian Choir with Bicameral Mind and Hem of His Garment.
Two of these band names are oblique references to hearing voices. The third one is a perverse Jesus reference. What more do you want?
Bicameral Mind are Bryce Clayton Eiman and Shaun Sandor: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=333635839
Hem of His Garment are Hem of His Garment. http://www.myspace.com/thehemofhisgarment

Sunday, July 13, Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School Auditorium: see below
224 Polk St. Raleigh (919)834-4001 (burningcoal.org/venue-murphey.html)
I’ll copy Steve Burnett’s handy account of the happening:

Tickets: Available at the door, box office opens at 6pm. Show at 7. Tickets $10.

Poster: http://www.subscapeannex.com/pics/murphey_school.jpg

Performances for the evening:

* Subscape Annex processing foundsound timescapes in “About Last
Night….”
http://www.subscapeannex.com/

* Craig Hilton performing on the Chinese juzheng and laptop processing
http://www.myspace.com/chilt

* Bicameral Mind hybridizing two very different approaches to live
electronica
http://www.myspace.com/bicamind

* Tomas Phillips and Dean King, playing minimalist ambient pieces with
electronics and laptop
http://www.incursion.org/phillips

* Judge Schreber’s Avian Choir performing “Molt” by Bob Pence, described
as “a doom metal chamber-snuff piece for rock’n'roll trio and 8 string
players.”
http://www.retroactivedynamics.com/

I’ll see y’all out on the ancient empty street too dead for dreaming.

-Robert
Regional Senatspräsident
retroactivedynamics.com

Worldlines of Flight

The hole in the Arctic Ocean has been posited as an entrance or thoroughfare to the interior of the hollow earth, but it more likely corresponds to the idea of a navel of space-time, or a wrapping-around point for the folding continuum. Consequentially, or supersequentially, there is no directionality to the movement of time, just as there is no directionality in space other than approximations based on magnetism and paranoid scientific theories like “gravity.” And a worldline is better conceived as a worldcircle or maybe a worldspiral. No?

Two 506 shows this weekend. Links to all bands at local506.com.

Friday, June 27, Local 506, 10 pm: Dexter Romweber and the New Romans with Rat Jackson.
On their website Rat Jackson says something about having needed “to tone down their live shows to make them more digestible to the crowds they were playing to.” How respectful of them. Sort of like a lover who keeps asking if it feels okay.
The New Romans wouldn’t really want to presume anything about our crowds. But we do believe in putting on a dang good show. I believe we’re second of the two acts.

Sunday, June 29, Local 506, 9 pm: Savage Knights with Silver Apples and Loto Ball Show.
Legendary Silver Apples are headlining. Their first two records in the late ’60’s are unique, forward-thinking and just darn good music. And they continue to press in strange directions.
Loto Ball Show is an excellent, hard-driving, no wave outfit with a large ensemble of players.
Savage Knights will blow your fucking mind. Please note the 9 pm start time. That’s about when we’ll go on.

Coming in July: Judge Schreber’s Avian Choir peforming “Molt,” a doom metal chamber-snuff piece for rock’n'roll trio and 8 string players.

Robert Pence
Beekeeper General
retroactivedynamics.com

The Best of All Possible Worlds

All right all you god-pissin varmints out there let’s get two things straight right off the bat and then we can all go about whatever it is that we’re calling our business these days except for there’s less and less of a way to tell whose bid’ness belongs to whom what with virtuality claiming immanence to all the spheres of experience but that’s neither here nor there nor everywhere but it is nowhere in particular and always-already present and unaccountable for but I digress.

Wednesday, June 18, Nightlight, 10 pm: Savage Knights with Grasslung and Pelerine.
Yup. Your worst fears are realized. Double Muslims have canceled.
But I’m sure it’ll still be a bang-up show. The Savage Knights will treat you the way you deserve to be treated as a citizen of this here United States.
Grasslung are from Baltimore and bring some atmospherics and dronishness.
Not sure what John McCusker of Pelerine has in store for us, but he’s in Southern Man if that gives you an idea.

Friday, June 27, Local 506, 10 pm: Dexter Romweber and the New Romans with Rat Jackson.
Another throw down with Dex and the gang.
Rat Jackson are some full-bellied rock and roll.

More show announcements soon.

-Bob
retroactivedynamics.com

sales techniques

The best way to sell Bibles is to make them believe that you believe.

Friday, June 6, Marsh Woodwinds, Raleigh, 8 pm, $5: Slicnaton; Shesha.

Here’s what Nic Slaton (Slicnaton) has to say about the evening:

“Come for an evening of Electro-Acoustic music in a listening room
setting. Expect compositions and improvisations which combine
electronic signal processing and sound manipulation with violin,
double bass,
clarinet and drums.

Performers are:

:::Trio slicnaton::: Mietek Glinkowski-Violin and Electronics, Bob
Pence- Bass Clarinet and Bari Sax, Nicholas Slaton-Electronics.
Ambient
Noise with Instrumental Improvisation www.slicnaton.com
www.myspace.com/slicnaton

:::Shesha::: Steve Burnett- Signal Processing and Looping of Bass,
Christopher Thurston- Acoustic and Electric Bass
“A Hundred-Headed Naga of Electro-Acoustic Double Bass”
http://www.subscapeannex.com/shesha/index.html

:::JMRD::: Members of Trio slicnaton and Shesha combine with
Drummer
Jon-Mark Ryan Dale and Percussionist Andrew Munger for a completely
improvised set.

Marsh Woodwinds, located at 707 N Person St (near Peace St.); is
Raleigh’s best new listening room.

The CD release party is from 8-10pm with a $5 cover that includes a
copy of the CD. It’s BYOB though some refreshments will be provided.

Thanks for reading and we hope to see you there. If you know of
someone
who might be interested in this sort of thing please forward it onto
them.

slicnaton Publishing.”

And on June 12, I will be playing with Dexter Romweber and the New Romans at The Station.

–Robert Pence

New Rome

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Since the Bush administration’s executive order decreeing Mother Nature a terrorist organization, we here at Retroactive Dynamics, Inc., are gearing all production toward the War on Terror effort. Let’s bomb Her back to the Cambrian age, gentlemen.

Oh, and check it out:

Dexter Romweber and the New Romans are playing tonight and Saturday in Chapel Hill/Carrboro.
–Tonight (Thursday) at the Station, next to the railroad tracks off the Weaver St Market parking lot. Starting around 9:00 or so.
–Saturday night at the Reservoir. Probably more like 10:00 or so.
Good old-fashioned rock’n'roll.

And then myselves’ll also be joining The Hem of His Garment (big loud drone freak) at Bull City HQ in Durham on Friday night around 10:00. Opening for west-coasters The Dead Science (”pop noir”/Xiu Xiu spin-off), who oughta be interesting.

-Robert
retroactivedynamics.com
“We bring dead things to life.”

International Noise Conference

I’m cloning this missive for y’alls’s edification.
-Bob

Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:50:43 -0400
From: nightlight@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: {–0–} INTERNATIONAL NOISE CONFERENCE + + this Tuesday the 29th! CHAPEL HILL + + +
To: crowmeat@hotmail.com

INTERNAT’L NOISE CONFERENCE : CHAPEL HILL : : : :TUESDAY APRIL 29th : : : :@NIGHTLIGHT
No Cover / donations encouraged

In lieu of a No Future Fest this year, one stream-lined grab-bag of local weirdos curated by Scotty
“Clang Quartet” Irving + Ryan Martin, plus the famous LAUNDRY ROOM SQUELCHERS. 18 bands, multiple stages, fifteen minutes-or-less sets (no joke, bartenderess Ainsley will be wielding a timer + a gong), NO DRONES / NO MIXING BOARDS / NO LAPTOPS = no safety nets / TOTAL NOISE saturation LOVE OVERDOSE

Stage 1
Lord Satisfaction - 8PM
Subscape Annex - 9PM
Lopez Attitude - 10PM
Todos Somos Ninjas -11PM
The Bramble Ramblers - 12:20AM
Relay For Death - 1:20AM

Stage 2
Yohimbe - 8:20PM
Thirteen Fingers - 9:20PM
Doug Ferguson - 10:20PM
Clang Quartet - 11:20PM
Crowmeat Bob - 12:40AM

Alley-way
I AM OK - 12AM

Bargain-bin outdoors
Jim Capps - 8:40PM
Flippin Idiots - 9:40PM
Vaginateeth/Jesusteeth - 10:40PM
Bryce Clayton Eiman - 11:40PM
Secret Boyfriend + Jeff Rehnlund -1AM

Inside/EVERYWHERE
THE LAUNDRY ROOM SQUELCHERS - 1:40AM

Once again, this is free but you should bring some donations to help cover the Squelcher’s astronomical continent-wide tour expenses. more infos: http://squelchers.net/inc2008tour.htm

NIGHTLIGHT is located at 405 1/2 W Rosemary St Chapel Hill
nightlightclub.com + + + + +

Love

last minute

So but try and stop by “Dorkfest” this Saturday at Broad St Cafe in Durham if you’re of a mind to.
Dexter Romweber & the New Romans and Calabi Yau (Charlotte) and the Late Viriginia Summers (Lynchburg) and a bunch of other bands that I can’t remember right now.
We’re playing around midnight.
myspace.com/dorkfest2

And on the 29th of April I’ll be playing a little set at the Rat Bastard International Noise Fest at Nightlight. Should be a pip.
–Bob

funny how secrets travel

A little remind about things to come.
And, as always, if you want to be removed from this list, just drop me a line saying “Stop pestering me, you barley-totin’ scudhopper.”

Project Bluebird CD Release
Marsh Woodwinds, 707 N Person St. Raleigh
8 pm — 5 bucks gets you entry + a CD (’cause let’s face it, music ain’t worth shit.)

I’ll quote a promo e-mail Brent Bagwell sent out about our show in Charlotte tonight, ’cause he says it better than I could:

“As a refresher, Project BLUEBIRD is the Charlotte-Triangle collaboration featuring:

Carrie Shull – oboe, english horn
Bob Pence – alto and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet
Brent Bagwell – tenor and baritone saxophones, clarinet
Ben Kennedy – violin, cello
Ron Brendle – bass

In a delightfully subversive move from the Fourth Estate, we find/found ourselves as Creative Loafing’s Best New Band of 2007: “Project Bluebird’s shows are a study in deconstruction – the finished “product” a free-floating (there’s no drummer to act as anchor) vibe that’s variously exultant, or gloriously exhausted, but never exhausting. Queen City folk rarely consider that a jazz band could be the most indie thing we have going, but guess what?”

So, $5 gets you a CD and 2 sets of fresh music….a good deal, I say.”

More shows to come.

–Robert
retroactivedynamics.com

Runnin’ Things

We’ll packup where we liftoff in the overeazy times to be, withwhat the subjuncated sensoria prolificatin’ ary which whir in the feargrounds of our fancies. Clubfooted bedraggers won’t herald our passing neitherhow.
Don’t ya know.

Friday & Saturday (Charlotte and Raleigh), April 11 & 12: CD release for Project Bluebird.
$5 gets you entry and a CD.
Friday at Century in Charlotte, 8 pm.
Saturday at Marsh Woodwinds (707 Person St) in Raleigh, 8 pm.
A joint coalition of Charlotte, Raleigh, and Durham folks.
“Avant garde chamber jazz” is how they describe us in the World Book Encyclopaedia.
Sorta composed improvisation, with occasional lack of composure. I think you’ll dig it.

And be sure and keep your ears peeled for Dexter & The New Romans at Dorkfest in Durham April 19th. Broad St Cafe.

–robert
retroactivedynamics.com