Last Year at Maryland

All about the garden dead and dumb statues give blind-red screams at having been aught but traces of ones who may never have been aught at all. And the vines creep their steady way along the exteriors of the shells that keep our phantoms vaulted in their private hauntings and crawl their stealthy way up the limbs of the sentries of impermanence to abet a soulless marble entropy.

Thursday, March 19, 8 pm, Badgerhaus, Raleigh: Tom Whitelock and Crowmeat Bob with The Magick Report.
Another house show at the home of Mr. Burnett. The Magick Report are sort of a buzz-bowl-hyper-spin-out-thrift-tube act from NYC, if you’re familiar with the genre.
After we play, whatever is left in Tom’s and my psyches will twitch as it leaves.
Email me if you need directions to Badgerhaus.

Sunday, March 22, 112 Hanna St, Carrboro: Night and Fog with Eastern Seaboard and Inspector 22.
Night and Fog will be a chamber-improv group with Carrie Shull on oboe & english horn, Craig Hilton on guzheng, Todd Hershberger on bassoon, Chris Eubank on cello, and meself on reeds.
Inspector 22 is Todd Emmert’s evolving project.
Eastern Seaboard is some good old-fashioned free jazz with Brent Bagwell, Jordon Schranz, and Seth Nanaa.

That will be all.
Robert
retroactivedynamics.com

omnii

Dear stockholders, honorary trustees, and close acquaintances:You’ll be ecstatic to be informed that the boys over at R & D have finally isolated the elusive substance of Osmium, so experiments can begin with altering the very nature of reality to suit us whenever it suits us.

Friday, March 13, Nightlight, 10 pm, $5: Kolyma with In the Year of the Pig and Altamira.
nightlightclub.com (there are links to the other bands there)
Kolyma will rock you until you are quite dead.
In the Year of the Pig will stomp on your corpse.
Altamira will resurrect you and beat you down again.

Sunday, March 15, 4 pm, WXDU, 88.7 FM (wxdu.org): Savage Knights
We will play live on the air. It will be a perplexing and incontrovertible pancake of a spectacle.
And that evening I’ll be spinning songs about shakin’, twitchin’ and nervousness on “Who’s Got the Cuckoo?” from 9 to 10 pm, also on WXDU.

Thursday, March 19, 8 pm, Badgerhaus, Raleigh, donation: Tom Whitelock and Crowmeat Bob with The Magick Report.
For you what ain’t hip to it that’s Steve Burnett’s domicile, the Badgerhaus. The Magick Report are a synth-freak-beat band from NYC. Tom and I will play squirrelly and tentacled improvisations as part of my Badgerhaus series of guitar/reed duets.
Email me if you need directions to Badgerhaus.

If that don’t take you to the fair, I don’t know what will.

-Robert Pence

don’t mind

All employees are hereby notified that the official period of Indentured Volunteer Status will commence at noon today. We all have to make sacrifices in these times of budget crisis, and the latest word from the Board of Directors Martian Colony is that they share your pain.
As an added measure of security in these troubled times, we have reopened Project Bluebird, but this time as a private enterprise so there’ll be no pesky government oversight.

Friday, March 6 (First Friday), Marsh Woodwinds, 8 pm, donation, BYO: Tatsuya Nakatani with Project Bluebird.
Tatsuya is a master percussionist who’ll mesmerise you with his wide variety of techniques, including bowed gongs, Japanese bowls, and cymbals — an intense multiphonic cacophony.
http://www.hhproduction.org/TATSUYA_NAKATANI_WORKS.html
He’s going to do a solo set and then collaborate with Project Bluebird…

Project Bluebird is a collaboration of folks from Charlotte, Durham and Raleigh. A chamber-style free jazz group with compositions by the various members:
Ben Kennedy - cello, violin; Ron Brendle - double bass; Brent Bagwell - reeds; Carrie Shull - oboe, english horn; Crowmeat Bob - reeds.

Marsh Woodwinds has a great little performance space upstairs. Stop on by during your first Friday outings and check it out.
Also, if you happen to be in Charlotte on Thursday, we’ll be doing the same line-up at Century Vintage, 8 pm.

Saturday, March 7, 313 W Martin St, Raleigh, Noon, $10: The Bain Project Fundraiser
Our little ensemble, Razor Wire Safety Net, will be kicking things off at noon, there in the warehouse next to Design Box. (http://www.reverbnation.com/razorwiresafetynet)
That’s Christopher Thurston, Brian Donohoe, and me.
The Bain Project is an enterprise to convert an old water treatment plant in Raleigh into an art installation.
The overall schedule for the day is:
12:00 - Razor Wire Safety Net
1:00 - Tomas Phillips
2:00 - Subscape Annex
3:00 - Craig Hilton
4:00 - Benito Crawford
5:00 - [one hour break]
6:00 - MG3+One
7:00 - The Tender Fruit
8:00 - Old Bricks
9:00 - Ivan Rosebud
10:00 - Mount Weather

also coming up:
Sunday, March 15, WXDU 88.7 (wxdu.org), 4-6 pm: Savage Knights
We will play live over the air for you on Ross Grady’s local music show.

And tune in to XDU at 9 pm that same night when I’ll be featuring songs about shakin’, twitchin’ and nervousness as I take the helm of “Who’s Got the Cuckoo?”
(I’ll also be doing my fortnightly “Polyphonic Perversity” show at noon that day.)

Sleep well,
Robert Pence
Regional Accretionist
Retroactive Dynamics, Inc.
“Your window to the world you’ll never have.”
retroactivedynamics.com