Singer and Songwriter Lovage has a duo with avant computer-loving Jon “Wobbly” Leidecker…
This is that DUO!
Please come to see and hear them!
Phipps Pt. is a sound-based project of Canadian artist and conduit, Lovage Sharrock.
What began as a series of one-off performances pairing her hypnotic guitar patterns and vocals with rotating collaborators has evolved with the addition of Jon Leidecker (Wobbly). Each conjured performance is unfiltered, distinct and unrepeatable. Their debut album, Kiss You So Many Times You Can’t Count My Love, was released on Sanity Muffin Records. The follow-up album, Songs We No Longer Sing, is set to release later this year.
Lovage writes beautiful and mysterious modular songs for voice and acoustic guitar which are then spontaneously processed in the moment, arriving at shapes that aspire to, well, Dory Previn produced by Bernard Parmegiani, Linda Perhacs produced by Biota, Joni’s runthrough tape of ‘Mingus’ where David Tudor was sitting in for Jaco, or Judy Collins doing a cover of Robert Ashley’s ‘The Wolfman’. Their second album will be released later this year on Seeland, world permitting.
Jon Leidecker (aka Wobbly) is a human in the loop, making music with people and machines that listen. By improvising with recordings as readily as people, and through the use of sampling, feedback and automation, the goal is to produce sounds that seem to be asking questions – hopefully the right ones. A long and winding list of collaborators blurs the line between solo and group work – current touring projects include Negativland, the Thurston Moore Group, Jennifer Walshe, Zoh Amba, and Cheryl E. Leonard. Talks on the secret histories of electronic music have been presented at Oxford, Stanford, Mills, UC Berkeley and Peabody, and his nine hour overview of sampling and collage, ‘Variations’, is hosted online by the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. Radio remains his home medium, with Negativland’s Over The Edge livemix broadcast continuing to emerge out of KPFA FM, Berkeley.
Opening will be Baltimore’s own Soft Pink Truth in the person of Dr. Drew Daniel and his computer.
Possibly both of these sets will be in quadraphonic.
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PLEASE JOIN US! Tuesday October 21th! Doors at 8pm, music at 8:30!
