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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · Jul 7

Friday, COMPACTOR begins the Northern Campaign of Live Shifts presenting the latest Document, Institutionalized Genocide [ bit.ly/CPTRIG ]. Details for each stop at bit.ly/CPTRSK

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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · Jun 19

TONIGHT in #philadelphia @ Pageant:Soloveev
COMPACTOR compactor.bandcamp.com
PROFESSOR A woodroomcollective.bandcamp.com/album/kill-y...
PERPETUAL OYSTER perpetualoyster.bandcamp.com/music
[venue is wheelchair accessible]

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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 16

Marie has toured across the United States and Europe. She has worked in a variety of mediums, including cello, visual art, and dance. She has released albums on Tripticks Tapes, zOaR Records, and Radical Documents.
mariecarroll.org

marie carroll

mariecarroll.org

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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 16

MARIE CARROLL brings her unique koto-based experimental noise to SLABFEST this weekend, May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
Marie is a koto player, improviser, and sound artist based in New England.
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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 16

Each Document and series of Live Shifts focuses on aspects of work, technology, and society. Active since 2011, the project has seen Documents on labels such as Phage Tapes, Annihilvs, Black Ring Rituals, Ohm Resistance, and most frequently shadowy corporation Waste MGT.
compactor.bandcamp.com

COMPACTOR

COMPACTOR is an interconnected set of mostly obsolete machinery that is manipulated by an anonymous, representational figure known as The Worker, for the Waste MGT corporation. The machinery creates ...

compactor.bandcamp.com

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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 16

COMPACTOR returns for the final SLABFEST May 17-18 with power electronics performance art for the people. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
A shifting array of obsolete noisy equipment is operated by a figure known as The Worker, who is always masked and in a generic uniform to emphasize dehumanization.
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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 15

FRICKER (PA) brings glitchy CD-manipulated Plunderphonics to SLABFEST this weekend, May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
Jon E. Nielsen's Philadelphia-based experimental noise project utilizes sample sequencing and wounded CDs through no-input feedback to alter your mind.
fricker2.bandcamp.com

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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 15

Eric has played all over Europe, America & Japan, as well as in Minibeast w/Pete Prescott (Mission Of Burma). The new Baylies Band record "Madonna" has guests from Fugazi, Acid Mothers Temple, Morphine, and Captain Beefheart.

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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 15

ERIC BAYLIES brings his noisy synth and theremin experiments to SLABFEST this weekend May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 14

BIT ROT (NY) brings over-engineered laser noise to the final SLABFEST this weekend, May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
This Rochester NY-based experimental artist combines analog drone with a 3d-printed laser visualization system.
Hear some of what they do at bit-rot.bandcamp.com
[photo: Justin Szoll]

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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 14

Although their music is best experienced in person, check out their recordings at retributionbody.bandcamp.com

Retribution Body

M Azevedo (b. 1977) is a Providence, RI based composer, mastering engineer, and acoustician. Their work as Retribution Body uses custom subwoofers and modular synthesizers to auralize the architecture...

retributionbody.bandcamp.com

chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 14

They have built a custom sound system based on a 14,000-Watt 30” subwoofer capable of producing sound over an octave below human hearing.
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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 14

Professor, acoustician, and engineer M. Azevedo creates subsonic meditation drone as Retribution Body. Their performances are site-specific improvisations tuned to excite the architectural resonances of the performance space.
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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 14

RETRIBUTION BODY (RI) returns for the final SLABFEST, this weekend May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 13

Clew has released material on Cathartic Process, Chondritic Sound, Cipher Productions, Hermitage Tapes, Verlautbarung, Tape Fiend, Husk Records, Harsh Noise and Deadline Recordings.
clewoftheseus.bandcamp.com

Clew Of Theseus

since 1997

clewoftheseus.bandcamp.com

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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 13

Brucato has journeyed through varied terrain in industrial music, from harsh noise to death industrial, dark ambient to drone. Returning to their roots in psychedelic harsh noise, Clew performs using electronics they designed and built, creating rapid cuts between varied textures and tones.
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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 13

CLEW OF THESEUS brings industrial noise to SLABFEST this weekend, May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
Founded in 1997, Ben Brucato's project returned to live performing last year, after a ten-year absence.
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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 13

scrotaltear.bandcamp.com

Scrotal Tear

Things better left unspoken and undone.

scrotaltear.bandcamp.com

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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 13

Over the past 3 decades, Remy Brecht's project has appeared on numerous labels, compilations, split releases, and has remixed artists such as Snog, Skintape, Roughhausen, and others. The project performs live sporadically as the fates demand, so this is a rare occurrence not to be missed.
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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 13

SCROTAL TEAR brings a synthesis of dark ambient, death industrial, and experimental noise to SLABFEST this weekend, May 17-18. Tix @ slabfest.com.
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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 12

Most releases have come out in minuscule editions on Geiger’s own French Market Press label, where the emphasis on packaging and presentation is of equal importance to the noise being presented. Others have been on labels such as Fusty C*nt, Tribe Tapes, and American Tapes.
deaddoor.bandcamp.com

Dead Door Unit

Dead Door Unit is the solo alias of K. Geiger (Blemish, Master Grave Services).

deaddoor.bandcamp.com

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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 12

DEAD DOOR UNIT brings intense tape manipulation to SLABFEST this weekend, May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
K. Geiger's project primarily works with broken electronics to create its awkward and ethereal soundscapes.
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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 12

MV has released many full length albums and has been featured on numerous classic compilations on several labels such as Dunkelheit, Difficult Interactions, Annihilvs, Chthonic Streams, and Petrus' own Live Bait Recording Foundation. Rare East Coast US appearance!
murderousvision1.bandcamp.com

Murderous Vision

Murderous Vision is the solo project of Stephen Petrus. Murderous Vision’s style ranges from dark ambient to death industrial to martial industrial and neoclassical music. Murderous Vision has release...

murderousvision1.bandcamp.com

chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 12

MURDEROUS VISION (OH) brings Death Industrial to SLABFEST May 17-18. Tix @ slabfestnh.com.
Stephen Petrus' project has been active for over 30 years, ranging from dark ambient to death industrial to martial industrial and neoclassical music.
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chthonic streams @chthonicstreams.bsky.social · May 10

One of the more radical voices in collage and noise tape-manipulation, Eastman is also the founder of Tribe Tapes. He has been recording music under his own name as well as Greathumour and Tantric Death.
tribetapes.bandcamp.com/album/model-...

Model Of Malehood, by Max Julian Eastman

10 track album

tribetapes.bandcamp.com