WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

PERFORMANCES FROM BOTH ARTISTS AT 8 AND 10 PM

ONE NIGHT ONLY

ATHENS ROUGH CUT FOR MATTHEW MULLANE
Dir. C. Spencer Yeh, 2015
USA, 20 min.

CAIRO ROUGH CUT FOR TOM CARTER
Dir. C. Spencer Yeh, 2015
USA, 20 min.

Music and movies, movies and music.  Unless you’re of Stan’s (Brakhage) Blood, you’ll agree that film has Milo’ed (or Oti’ed) organized sound since pretty much the beginning.  What is cinema’s favorite instrument?  I see you back there, waving to namedrop the Russian ANS Synthesizer.  For the purposes of this evening, I’m going to go with the GUITAR.

Join us for an evening of live scores by two of the finer contemporary slingers around (insert blues lick here) Matthew Mullane and Tom Carter.  We absolutely promise you no silly string – these sick fretted sounds guarantee a ride into the sunset most avant.  As added assurance, this evening is co-organized with the fine purveyor of dudes plus guitars on wax, Vin Du Select Qualitite (aka VDSQ) – http://www.vdsqrecords.com/

Cult hero Tom Carter returns to Spectacle, having washed brains with his PHANTOM MALLE live score a fistful of moons back.  Riding alongside the seasoned vet is young gun Matthew Mullane.  This evening they will be accompanying travel home videos shot recently by C. Spencer Yeh – Athens Greece and Cairo Egypt, to be specific.

BIOS:
Few figures are literally and figuratively instrumental in the contemporary underground musical landscape as Tom Carter.  Heads know the deal with Carter, from his longtime Texan legend Charalambides and solo explorations on Kranky, up through more recent ventures Eleven Twenty-Nine, Sarin Smoke, and collaborations with Martha Colburn.  And new ears are always welcomed into his inimitable take on the United States of Altered.

Matthew Mullane is a fingerstyle guitarist whose electric/acoustic solo performances are noted for their intricate beauty, unique phrasings, and idiosyncratic technique. His debut album was released on VDSQ Records in 2011, as part of the label’s Solo Acoustic series. Mullane’s second LP on VDSQ, Hut Variations, is forthcoming this year and features six new works for acoustic and electric guitar. Mullane last appeared at ISSUE in Winter 2014, debuting new and forthcoming work under his solo electronic moniker, Fabric. His 2011 album under said name was released by Spectrum Spools/Editions Mego.