Special Events March 2017

Friday, March 3, 8-11pm
Fuse Factory Frequency Friday:Aaron Dilloway, Cher Von (KY), Chalet Endure, Mike Shiflet, Jeremy Purser. 

Our March 2017 Frequency Fridays show features experimental musician and composer Aaron Dilloway (OH), sound and performance artist Cher Von (KY), Jeff Chenault and David Reed’s experimental/dark ambient project Chalet Endure (CMH), and a duo performance by experimental electric guitarist Mike Shiflet (CMH) and experimental musician Jeremy Purser (CMH). Date: Friday, March 3 2017. Location: It Looks Like It’s Open (13 E. Tulane Rd., 43202). Admission: $10, $15 for 2. Doors open 8pm. BYOB, all ages. Our Frequency Fridays 2016-2017 season is supported by a grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council.

About the performers:

Aaron Dilloway is an experimental musician born in 1976. He is an improvisor and composer originally from Brighton, Michigan who works with the manipulation of 8-Track tape loops in combination with voice, tape delays and various organic and electronic sound sources. A founding member of the industrial noise group Wolf Eyes (1998 – 2005), Dilloway now resides in Oberlin, OH where he runs Hanson Records and Mailorder.

Cher Von is an avant garde performer who incorporates wordless vocalizations, free movement, and natural found materials into profound performance pieces. Her work draws from such influences as Butoh/expressionist dance, Mary Wigman, Meredith Monk, Shelly Hirsch, and Bobby McFerrin, often serving as an exploration of spiritual and naturalist concepts. Formerly known for looping her voice with a pedal, her artistic focus has shifted into minimalistic, unamplified expression, making great use of silence and pauses. Her instrumentation varies, usually including found drift wood, handmade instruments, even the room itself. Von is embarking on a US tour from 2016 to beyond, traveling from city to city with only one bag, her voice, and open expectations for artistic growth, meeting new collaborators as well as performing in unique sceneries, with and without invitation.

David Reed’s work has a deep, long and dark trail. His numerous recordings and collaborations are legendary. Recording under the name of Lupine, Luasa Raelon and Envenomist, his sound can be extremely dark and challenging. His latest project as Chalet Endure is an ambient collaboration with Jeff Chenault.

Jeff Chenault is a non-musician who has been recording in Columbus since 1983. He is a cassette culture guru who has released music on his Exoteque Music cassette label for just as long. An early pioneer in the Columbus electronic music scene, his many musical projects include 10-Speed Guillotine, Central Inhabitants, Resonance and The Weird Lovemakers. He is a true underground artist who also writes books and releases rare exotica music in his spare time.

Columbus, Ohio-based guitarist Mike Shiflet started Gameboy Records in the late 1990s, releasing limited tapes, 7″s, and CD-Rs by dozens of noise and experimental artists, including John Wiese, Cock E.S.P., Lasse Marhaug, Sudden Infant, and Crank Sturgeon. Shiflet’s myriad recordings and performances explored harsh noise and drone, often focusing on high frequencies. He joined violinist C. Spencer Yeh’s ensemble Burning Star Core in 2004, appearing on several of the group’s recordings, including Operator Dead… Post Abandoned and Papercuts Theater. Shiflet relocated to Japan in 2006, continuing to operate Gameboy Records until 2008, when he moved back to America. He released collaborations and splits with a number of artists, including Aaron Dilloway, Daniel Menche, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and Ryan Jewell, and released a pair of solo albums on Type, 2011′s Sufferers and 2012′s Merciless. He returned to Type in 2015 with his most atmospheric, melodic album to date, Awake, a collaboration with Rhode Island-based High Aura’d.

Jeremy Purser is an Ohio-based artist, designer, and musician. His sound practice is based around iterative processing and imaginary internal spaces. His recent output includes “Levain,” a collection of improvisations with Nathan McLaughlin released by Cabin Floor Esoterica, and “Music for Indoor Cats” a self-released tape of ambient meditations. His bandcamp page can be found at: http://jeremypurser.bandcamp.com/

Sunday, March 5th, 7:30-10:00 pm 
Witch Pins & Friends

Join illustrator and cartoonist Leela Corman (Gainesville, FL), multimedia artist Maddie Fix (Cols. OH), and a host of Columbus’s filmmakers, cartoonists, librarians, poets, and professors for a night of staunch no-nonsense performance arts & media. Proceeds benefit CRIS (an independent non-profit organization that serves the growing refugee and immigrant populations in Central Ohio). Bring your fears, angers, and anxieties about politics and the state of our state [of mind] for our bubbling cauldron of resistance.
$5 suggested donation 

Participating artists:
Witch Pins
(covers)
Roger Beebe
(SOUNDFILM, The Creation Remixes)
Gabrielle Burton
(Kings, Queens & In-Betweens)
Leela Corman
(Unterzakhn, We All Wish
for Deadly Force)
Maddie Fix
(The Sliver of Light)
Nancy Kangas
(Preschool Poets)
Laurenn McCubbin & Jenna Rochelle
(Rent Girl, Speaking to Las Vegas)
Hannah Stephenson (In the Kettle, The Shriek)

Saturday, March 11th, 1:00-3:00pm 

Workshop: A Beginner's Guide to Mitigating Physical and Digital Surveillance

Workshop fee: $10-$20 sliding scale, $28-$38 sliding scale with Yubi Key 

Effective surveillance used to be an extremely expensive proposition. What once took a team of professionals and physical access to the spaces that they wished spy upon, can now be achieved with the aid of the very devices we carry on our person and place in our homes. Social media has made it exponentially easier to uncover information that can be used against you in employment, legal, and personal settings. While the type of surveillance NSA surveillance described by Edward Snowden is problematic, in reality all surveillance is local. Adversaries range from federal, state, and local police forces, to corporations, and an increasingly effective group of amateurs. 

More info here: http://thefusefactory.org/events/digital_surveillance_ws/

Saturday, March 11th, 7:00 - 10:00 pm.
Full Moon Dance Party, Sacred Shimmy

The Full Moon in March is known as the Sap Moon or the Worm Moon, the time of year when winter starts to recede and the sap begins to flow in the maple trees. Join us for a dancing and drumming celebration to say goodbye to the cold and hello to Spring! 

Dancers, musicians, and movement artists are invited to perform, and audience members and onlookers are invited to applaud, ooh, and aah to your hearts' content. 

Our live musicians will be available to make spontaneous magic for those who would like accompaniment, and recorded music is also welcome if that's what moves you best. This supportive halfa-style environment is suitable for dancers of all levels from beginner to experienced. Please contact me if you would like a spot in the show. 

Open dancing and drumming will also be offered for those who might not like to perform but still want to make an offering to the moon. 

Open drumming will welcome you into the party from 7:00 to 7:30 PM. Show begins promptly at 7:30 PM. 

Admission: $5. All attendees are required to pay admission, regardless of participation in the evening's performance.

Sunday, March 12th, 10:00 am - 12:00
Mud Lotus: Steadfast Attention

Our ordinary self is perfect and needs nothing extra. Yet, if we lose contact with this understanding, we fall--at the speed of thought--into self-doubt, judgment, and confusion. 

Zen teacher, Dogen wrote, "The essential way flows everywhere; how could it require practice or enlightenment? ...And yet, if you miss the mark even by a strand of hair, you are as far apart from it as heaven from earth." 

Meditation practice, in my experience, is a cycle of constant renewal: Bring the world and ourselves into a relationship of intimacy, retreating into ignorance, and returning once again to the life that I have been given.

Meditation has been called, a practice of "pure steadfast attention."(Washburn 1988, 143) To have steadfast attention is to return again to the task at hand. Attention can contain the whole world, and it can be as narrow as a pin-prick. To be steadfast is to become unwavering in our resolve to meet this present moment, this place, this body, this friend in front of us, this universe of which we are a part.

Steadfast attention is the basis of compassion. It is fundamental to any practice of care--whether care of another person, an object, or the whole earth. 

Please join us! We gather this Sunday to renew our practice of attention and to support one another by building a community of awareness. 

We will sit quietly for two 20-minute periods divided by walking meditation. 

Mud Lotus is anchored by Seth and Sara to promote the values of stillness, belonging, and engagement. We believe meditation practice should be accessible to everyone, all bodies, body types, and abilities. Folks can stay 5 min. or the whole time and move in whatever way best supports their practice. We welcome folks of all religions, races, sexualities and gender identities. Please let us know if there is something we can do to support your practice. 

Mud Lotus meets every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 8:00 AM; Thursdays at 6:15 AM; and the 2nd and 4th Sundays at 10:00. We charge no money for our sessions (donations warmly accepted).

Saturday, March 18th, 8:00-11:00pm
Maria Chavez (UK) + DetroitBureauofSound (MI) + Aaron Michael Butler (OH) + galen tipton (CMH)

On the evening of Saturday, March 18th, we are proud to present sound artist/DJ Maria Chavez, 5-piece techno ensemble DetroitBureauofSound, experimental percussionist Aaron Michael Butler, and experimental electronic musician galen tipton. The performance will take place at the It Looks Like Its Open gallery (13 E. Tulane Rd, cmh 43202). Admission: $5. Doors 8pm. BYOB, all ages.
More info at http://thefusefactory.org/events/performance_chavez_dbos_butler_tipton/

Sunday, March 26th, 10:00 am - 12:00
Mud Lotus 

[This week's topic to be anounced] 

Please join us! We gather this Sunday to renew our practice of attention and to support one another by building a community of awareness. 

We will sit quietly for two 20-minute periods divided by walking meditation. 

Mud Lotus is anchored by Seth and Sara to promote the values of stillness, belonging, and engagement. We believe meditation practice should be accessible to everyone, all bodies, body types, and abilities. Folks can stay 5 min. or the whole time and move in whatever way best supports their practice. We welcome folks of all religions, races, sexualities and gender identities. Please let us know if there is something we can do to support your practice. 

Mud Lotus meets every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 8:00 AM; Thursdays at 6:15 AM; and the 2nd and 4th Sundays at 10:00. We charge no money for our sessions (donations warmly accepted).