VLSC Records & Face of Knives Productions proudly present an evening of live electronic music featuring special guest Patricia on Saturday July 30th at Eyedrum. Local support from TWINS, Flohr, and Abby Dear. Expect a healthy mix of retro futurism, modular synths, drum machines, analog synths, digital synths, sad acid, happy hardcore, breaks, glitch, ambient, drone, and all manner of bleeps, boops, and beats.
Max Ravitz (Patricia)
For over a decade, Max Ravitz has been obsessively working in his home studio, crafting electronic music under various guises. His primary solo project, Patricia, has been a mainstay in New York's DIY electronic music scene, with releases on labels such as Opal Tapes, Nona, Ghostly International, and Spectral Sound imprint.
Ravitz is a life-long musician with a passion for collecting, studying, and using all types of electronic music equipment. This focus on hardware lays the foundation for both his recorded music and live sets — two distinct entities with a similar flavor. He is a process-driven artist who values creative constraint, improvisation and collaboration with others. Over the years, his numerous collaborative projects include Inhalants (with Jahiliyya Fields), Masks (with Arp), DSR.MR (with Cloudface), and Ociya (with Tin Man). Ravitz's love of synthesizers has recently led him from Brooklyn to Asheville, North Carolina, where he works as the Product Development Director at Moog Music.
https://soundcloud.com/patriciaaa
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7Czyyo31ZyZL1VLtYaTkW0
TWINS
TWINS (an acronym for That Which Is Not Said) is the industrial-strength synthpop and cold wave project of Atlanta-based producer, label operator, and visual artist Matt Weiner. Since founding TWINS in 2008, Weiner has spent more than a decade reveling in a moody myst that intersects seductive synth-pop, melancholic new wave, and grotesque industrial-dance grooves. With more than 15 records and hundreds of performances bearing the TWINS name coming out since 2010, Weiner has more than proved his sincerely sinister and auspiciously artful finesse of synth-based music. Operating from his home studio, arrayed with various tools of the trade, Weiner tempers his subtle scourges of sound with an unending sense of bold exploration, processing tracks of pulse-heavy aural catharsis. When performing these songs live, he brings an array of hardware to back up his flooring vocal performances, using his entire being to work the audience into a frenzied trance. When not making music as TWINS, Weiner also DJs and co-runs the DKA label.
Flohr
'“A student but also a teacher. I am interested in being affected by sound, responding to it and being led by it. Recently I have been drawn more towards real time performance than "production". My first instrument was guitar. My latest is modular synthesizer. One half of Fictions. Atlanta Synthesizer Club organizer. Affiliated with VLSC Records and the Whisperbrick art collective.”
Abby Dear
Abby Dear is an Atlanta-based producer and DJ who makes experimental dance music. She got her musical start DJing as a child and quickly found a knack for it which she continues to refine to this day. Later, in her early 20’s, she began releasing original music covering a wide range of genres under the name “Deku” and produced records for herself as well as the Atlanta band, Waking Astronomer (as well as a flurry of remixes for friends and others). A renowned performer, she has also had the honor of playing alongside Dabrye, Shigeto, Samiyam, MONO/POLY, MNDSGN, James Blake, Astronautica, Martyn, Lord Raja, Daedelus, Prefuse 73, Big Gipp, Taylor McFerrin, Young Fathers, Blue Sky Black Death, Com Truise, Deantoni Parks, Richard Divine, LSDXOXO and Free the Robots (among others). She is a member of the VLSC Records, Psych Army and Controllerise crews.
Earlier that day at Eyedrum we will also be having a workshop featuring talks from Patricia and Flohr, as well as Dustin Ragland from Ableton, RSVP for the workshop here