HOLOCENE’S 22ND ANNIVERSARY NIGHT 1- Quadrophonic sound featuring: Byron Westbrook Marcus Fischer Sanae Yamada – 21+
Join us as we celebrate 22 years of Holocene! ADVANCE TIX FREE WITH RSVP $10 AT THE DOOR First emerging from within New York’s experimental music scene over the last decade and a half and now based in Los Angeles, Byron Westbrook has woven intricate tapestries of sonority that bridge the worlds of sound art, installation, avant-garde electronic music and synthesis. Westbrook creates sculptural and immersive compositions, with highly acclaimed releases on imprints like Shelter Press, Important Records, Root Strata, Hands In The Dark, Umor Rex, and Ash International, presentations at the Walker Art Center, ICA London, MOCA Los Angeles, MoMA PS1, MaerzMusik, Akousma and Rewire Festivals, as well as residencies with Headlands Center, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, ISSUE Project Room, EMS Stockholm. For this evening at Holocene, Westbrook presents his work Translucents (Shelter Press, 2024), in an expanded, multi-channel audio configuration. Inspired by viewing the color panels of abstract painter Blinky Palermo, Translucents explores the concept of “audio after-image”. The piece presents a series of immersive ‘audio images’, where each consecutive scene is influenced by the residue of the previous one, in a perceptual play with memory, presence, and time. “Byron Westbrook’s Shelter Press debut is his most mesmerizing album to date – a set of electroacoustic pieces that advances the rough blueprints laid out by legends like Maryanne Amacher, Bernard Parmegiani and Luc Ferrari.. if you’re at all interested in electroacoustic music, ‘Translucents’ is just about as good as it gets.” (-Boomkat) Marcus Fischer is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon. A first-generation American artist who creates, collects, and transforms sound into immersive, layered compositions that accompany performances and exhibitions. Site-specific assemblages of exposed speakers, tape loops, and objects are characteristic of his installations, paired with melodies of restraint and tension. He has released numerous recordings—both solo and collaborative —on 12k, a label that has decisively defined and developed its own concept of minimalism in the realms of experimental and ambient music. Fischer contributed two sound works and two performances to the 2019 Whitney Biennial and has been selected for residencies at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Rauschenberg Residency, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and MacDowell. In 2024 he was awarded The Ford Family Foundation’s Hallie Ford Fellowship in the Visual Arts as well as the International Music & Composition Fellowship from the Montalvo Arts Center’s Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program.
Felly
This event is 21+ Felly Meet & Greet Experience One (1) GA Ticket One (1) Meet & Greet and Photo with Felly One (1) Exclusive merch gift One (1) Commemorative VIP laminate Venue first entry (where available) Crowd free merch shopping OFFICIAL TICKETS:ETIX is the official ticketing source and partner of Holocene. ** DELIVERY DELAY ** Your tickets will be sent to your mobile device (3) days before the performance date. Please adhere to published ticket limits. Additional orders exceeding the ticket limit may be canceled without notice. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. PLEASE, DOUBLE-CHECK YOUR ORDER BEFORE PURCHASING. NO REFUNDS.
Sharpie Smile – 21+
Sharpie Smile is the new band of Cole Berliner and Dylan Hadley who previously had the band Kamikaze Palm Tree. As life long friends and collaborators, they’re taking an entirely new approach- using the same energy and style they had for KPT with a new pop outfit under Sharpie Smile. They are releasing their debut album in June 2025, coming out under Drag City.
GLOBAL BASED PRESENTS: BANDA vs Cumbia w/ La Cosecha Internacional + Chulita Vinyl Club – 21+
This Cinco de Mayo weekend we welcome back el Rey de la Banda en Vinilo, La Cosecha Internacional + Chulita Vinyl Club for a Banda vs Cumbia sound clash POWERED BY EL JIMADOR SOUNDS BY: LA COSECHA INTERNACIONAL (MX) SPECIAL GUEST: CHULITA VINYL CLUB SUPPORT: REYES AMARGADA DOORS 9PM – $15 ADV HOLOCENE
Amapiano Is Here w/ Nayiram & Friends – 21+
Global Bounce Presents: Amapiano Is Here Sounds by NAYIRAM DJ SOLO NAZO ZYAH BELLE AMAPIANO – AFROHOUSE – 3 STEP – GQOM + MORE WWW.AMAPIANOISHERE.COM What is Amapiano?Amapiano, meaning “the pianos” in Zulu, originated in South Africa’s townships. It blends deep house, jazz, and soulful elements with signature log drums, creating an infectious groove that has taken over dance floors worldwide.
Matmos – 21+
Based in Baltimore, Matmos is Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt. The two have been making music as Matmos since 1997, first in San Francisco, and then relocating to Baltimore in 2007 when Daniel began to teach at Johns Hopkins University. They are respected, innovative auteurs in the world of electronic music and sampling culture whose very first album was hailed as “entering electronics Valhalla” by the WIRE magazine for sampling highly unusual sound sources such as the amplified nerve tissue of crayfish. Ever since, they have made music out a wildly heterogeneous set of objects and sources, including the sound of the pages of bibles turning, water hitting copper plates, liposuction surgery, cameras and VCRs, chin implant surgery, contact microphones on human hair, rat cages, tanks of helium, a cow uterus, human skulls, snails, cigarettes, cards shuffling, laser eye surgery, whoopee cushions, balloons, latex fetish clothing, rhinestones, Polish trains, insects, life support systems, inflatable blankets, rock salt, solid gold coins, the sound of a frozen stream thawing in the sun, a five gallon bucket of oatmeal, snails interrupting the path of a laser and altering the pitch of a light sensitive theremin, a PVC police riot shield, silicon breast implants, and their own washing machine. These raw materials are manipulated into surprisingly accessible forms, and often supplemented by traditional musical instruments played by internationally celebrated guest musicians from their circle of friends and collaborators. The result is a model of electronic composition as a relational network that connects sources and outcomes together; information about the process of creation activates the listening experience, providing the listener with entry points into sometimes densely allusive, baroque recordings that have the direct sensory immediacy of pop music.
KLUB NOCTURNO: DARK KUMBIA (Rock en Espanol / Cumbia / New Wave / Post-Punk / Dark Wave dance party) – 21+
Klub Nocturno returns with Dark Kumbia: A night of Rock en Espanol, Kumbia, Spanish Pop & 80’s New Wave!
Spirit of the Beehive
This event is 21+ OFFICIAL TICKETS:ETIX is the official ticketing source and partner of Holocene. ** DELIVERY DELAY ** Your tickets will be sent to your mobile device (3) days before the performance date. Please adhere to published ticket limits. Additional orders exceeding the ticket limit may be canceled without notice. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. PLEASE, DOUBLE-CHECK YOUR ORDER BEFORE PURCHASING. NO REFUNDS.
Silicon Radio & Bed of Roses present Sound Metaphors – 21+
On Friday, May 23rd in Portland, OR, Silicon Radio and Bed of Roses are extremely excited to bring Sound Metaphors to Holocene, for a special night of dancing and community. Arguably one of the hardest working entities in Berlin’s underground, including running one of the most renowned record stores in the heart of Kreuzberg and hosting some of the most unforgettable parties in the metropole – such as their recent 10 Year Anniversary throwdown at Berghain/Panorama Bar – it’s fair to say that Sound Metaphors are fully immersed in their dedication to music. And all this is undoubtedly manifested in their vision of dancefloor beliefs when it comes to DJing. With over a decade of experience, it’s very obvious they’ve honed and crafted a sound that is unmistakable, and they’re no strangers to taking a crowd on a meaningful journey. Local support provided by Batom and Palm Pilot. See you at the dance!
WELCOME TO THE C*NTRY CLUB: Femme Country & Pop hits 💅 – 21+
WELCOME TO THE CUNTRY CLUB Now playing your favorite femme country & pop hits! Holocene – Portland Thursday, June 26 9pm 21+ EVERY QUEEN IS INVITED / TIX @ WHATTHEDANCE.COM Giddy up to all the bangers from Chappell Roan, Kacey Musgraves, Reneé Rapp, Shania Twain, Dasha, MUNA, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Dolly Parton, Fletcher, Kelsea Ballerini, Lady Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter, The Chicks, Kesha, and more! Sounds by @djsappho We get the job done @thedanceparties