THE RITA – LIVE PERFORMANCE + ARTIST TALK
May 1, 2011 
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ARTIST TALK WITH THE RITA
Wednesday June 8th 6-7pm
at Blue Sunshine – 3660 St-Laurent, 3rd Flr.
Free Admission
This artist talk in conjuction with The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies will discuss the relationship between Wall Noise (HNW) and the powerful dynamics of cinema with an emphasis on the genre cinema that has historically proven an influence on many noise artists, specifically those of the canadian online pharmacy no prescription needed 90s Americanoise scene.
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Suoni per il Popolo, Fantasia + Blue Sunshine present
THE RITA + WEASEL WALTER/JOHN BLUM DUO + AMES SANGLANTES
Thursday June 9th
at Casa del Popolo
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THE RITA
The Rita is a Canadian harsh noise project that started how to get cialis in 1996. Sam McKinlay’s sound art project has built a reputation as one of the leaders of the harsh noise genre with visceral, dynamic live performances and an equally abrasive growing discography. He has toured throughout North America and Japan utilizing custom-built analog electronic equipment. His performances connect the immediacy and corporeal power of lowest propecia price extreme frequencies, textures and volumes with a performative sensibility that reveals a towering monument to the vehement power of abstracted sound.
The Rita’s influences include Italian Giallo films, Great White and Bull sharks, the gillman, lake/sea monsters, and the female posterior; always striving for crunched out rumbling walls of noise.
WEASEL WALTER & JOHN BLUM
Weasel Walter is a composer and instrumentalist who founded the band The Flying Luttenbachers in Chicago in 1991 with late jazz cult figure Hal Russell and is a current member of Cellular Chaos, Zs and Behold… The Arctopus. Over the years, The Flying Luttenbachers included noted Chicago musicians such as Ken Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Dylan Posa, while creating an uncompromising and mercurial body of abstract music drawing equally from no wave, death metal, free jazz, gamelan, noise music, hardcore punk and modern classical. Walter moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, where he formed the latest of many Luttenbachers lineups, remaining on percussion with the addition of bassist Mike Green (Burmese), and virtuoso guitarist Ed Rodriguez (ex-Colossamite, Gorge Trio). Singular guitar phenomenon Mick propecia for women hair loss Barr (Octis, Orthrelm) joined the group in 2005. The Flying Luttenbachers ceased to operate in late 2007. In addition to leading various free jazz ensembles under his own name, currently he is a member of Burmese. On November 25, 2009, Weasel Walter announced that he was moving to New York City to join the band Behold… The Arctopus on drums and will be writing “new, more extreme material from scratch.” Since moving back to New York, he has also formed Cellular Chaos with Marc Edwards (drummer) and Ceci Moss.
Walter has collaborated with artists like Evan Parker, John Butcher, Marshall Allen, Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson, Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith, Vinny Golia, Joe Morris, Frank Gratkowski, William Winant, Marlon Magas, Jim O’Rourke, Tom Smith in To Live and Shave in L.A, and Ken Vandermark as well as many influential underground rock bands including Lair of the Minotaur, Bobby Conn, U.S. Maple, Cock E.S.P., Curse of the Birthmark, the Scissor Girls, Erase Errata, The Chicago Sound, Harry Pussy, Quintron, Sharon Cheslow, and Cheer-Accident, in addition to producing albums by The Coachwhips, Burmese, Total Shutdown, Arab on Radar, AIDS Wolf, and Glenn Branca.
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Pianist John Blum was born in New York in 1968 and has been a mainstay of that city’s free jazz scene for well over a decade, but he remains woefully under-recorded, despite an exceptional pedigree: studies with Bill Dixon, Milford Graves, Borah Bergman & Cecil Taylor. Blum’s keyboard technique is something of a free jazz hybrid of Taylor and McCoy Tyner, decidedly percussive but with relentlessly fast right-hand linear structure. Blum plays with such forcefulness and rapidity that these short-ish outbursts sound like Conlon Nancarrow’s player piano rolls, interpreted via human hands, freed up into a liquid state. His 2009 release ‘In The Shade Of Sun’ appeared on guitarist Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label, no doubt doing much to push Blum’s music towards an alternative rock audience.
AMES SANGLANTES
Ames Sanglantes is the moniker adopted by Pierre-Marc Tremblay, a leading light of Canada’s industrial music scene. He’s also known through his other solo acts: Guerre Solitaire, Cockeyed and the Teashop Madman.
Tremblay debuted in 1996, releasing two cassettes on his own Psychoelectronic Sounds Recordings label. His music was an interesting noise collage with numerous elements of power electronics. His subsequent releases had a similar sound, based on cacophonous structures made with the use of a large variety of analogue sources. Through the application of an extremely intensified sonic expression, he managed to saturate his works with the atmosphere of psychophysical violence, sexual deviations and one’s helplessness in the face of socio-technical methods of manipulation and total control exercised by social and religious state institutions.
About the author:
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
