Initial Shock

Thank you to everyone for helping make Initial Shock III a success. Full footage from the weekend is now up on the Initial Shock YouTube channel!

Tomorrow, Initial Shock commences at La Sotterenea. On Sunday, come for After Shock at P’tit Ours.

Saturday, July 5, $30. Set times:*

2:00 DOORS OPEN
2:45 Eunuch God
3:05 Mother Mary
3:25 Kahraba
3:45 Widdershins
4:05 Grkzgl
4:25 Lyndsie Alguire
4:45 Nauseous Ejector
5:05 Taskmaster
5:30 Anne-F Jacques
6:00 BREAK / VENUE CLOSED

7:30 DOORS OPEN
8:00 Primitive Isolation Tactics
8:20 K.M. Toepfer
8:50 Apologist
9:20 Matriarch
10:00 Death Kneel
10:30 Mass Marriage

Sunday, July 6, $10 or PWYC. Set times:

2:00 DOORS OPEN
2:30 Quivering / Nausiate
3:00 Girl Circles
3:30 Generic Fatigue
4:00 Windshear
4:30 Amarior
5:00 S.D.

*set times subject to change

Poster designs by Heater Ross. Advanced tickets still available to secure your spot. See you soon!

Girl Circles is the martial-industrial project led by Fae Sirois, also known for her work in the industrial dub project, Orchid Lodge. Fusing somber electronics, violin, and folk experimentation, the project delves into the art of spite, a history of curses, and wxmenly sexual energy. A sound obscured in shadow, embraced by a solitary light.

Widdershins emerges with moss-laden dungeon electronics, suffused with damp breath of ancient echoes, and the distant murmur of forgotten rites. Drifting shadows and dying embers at summer’s close, planting seeds of winter’s woes. Widdershins draws the listener into mist betwixt the ruins, hinting at something just beyond the veil.

Co-organizer of Initial Shock, and Scream & Writhe head honcho, Taylor Geddes’ Primitive Isolation Tactics burrows into the subconscious via “rusted arteries of industrial noise fracturing off into constricted microchannels of impacted debris and silt.”

Advanced tickets available!

TASKMASTER is a solo harsh noise project currently based in Montreal, QC. TASKMASTER has been active since 2005; has released on labels such as Troniks, Harsh Head Rituals, Trash Rituals, rundownsun, Militant Walls, Absurd Exposition and White Centipede Noise, etc.

Kahraba (previously “sotemm/ⲥⲱⲧⲙ”) is a demonstration that music and performance has no barrier for entry. With a focus on No Input Mixing Board (NIMB) techniques and brandishing a worn-through hand-me-down mixing board, Michael Boulos has cut their teeth over the last two years facilitating, attending, and performing experimental and noise shows in and around Ontario and Montreal. With an understanding and appreciation for the performance of noise and experimental music, Kahraba consolidates what appeals to Boulos the most. The result is a focus on ebs, flows, hums, pulses, blares, and shrieks.

KARL MICHAEL TOEPFER is a sound art and noise performer inspired by intrapersonal and interpersonal communication, social cognition and sensory perception processing, and intuition. KARL MICHAEL TOEPFER’s creative process involves hardware and software sound synthesis and processing, misappropriation of non-sound producing circuits as sound or sound-control sources, initiation and exploitation of feedback systems, and re-contextualization of pre-recorded sounds into abstract, visceral collages and auditory events.

“funeral dirges for a burning world.” amarior (members of jetsam, pamphleteer, and alsarath) uses transverse flute to build and deconstruct drones and ambient soundscapes, sometimes incorporating spoken word or vocal elements.