MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with a life-like current. They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects. MSHR was founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper in 2011 in Portland, Oregon, as an offshoot from the collective Oregon Painting Society. The name MSHR is a modular acronym designed to hold varied ideas over time. It can be pronounced as an acronym or like one who meshes.
The Tenses is a duo comprised of Ju Suk Reet Meate and Jackie Oblivia, core members of legendary group Smegma, founded in 1973 and veterans of the infamous sonic arts collective known as The Los Angeles Free Music Society. The duo was founded in 2008, using musical concepts developed over 40 years of organized and spontaneous sound making, with a focus on “live performance” in which the room has a major effect on the unfolding sounds. Instrumentation includes Record Player, Lap Steel Guitar, Pocket Trumpet , Electronics, Toys, etc. The name “The Tenses” is a title of a story in the book “The Dream World of Dion McGregor” from 1964. It is a unique book in that the stories are not “written”, but transcribed from stories told while asleep! website:
https://smegmamusic.com/site/?cat=3
As ‘The Garbage Man’, Liz Harris of Grouper DJ’s odd tunes and scavenged mash-ups of obscure pop, classical, noise, and field recording on vinyl and cassette.
