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TONIGHT Pedestrian Deposit

(photo taken from pedestrian deposit's Bandcamp page)
Tonight Buffalo’s Sugar City will be graced by one of Los Angeles’ finest noise acts. Halfway through a two month, full U.S. tour, Pedestrian Deposit, an experimental harsh noise act, dives headfirst into nearly facet of experimental music, creating a horrifying and gorgeous canyon of both panic and peace. The duo, Shannon A. Kennedy and Jonathan Borges, uses a variety of homemade instruments and electronics, and produce sounds by scraping metal hooks, bowing metal cables on pulleys, and even cellos (both the kind you’d find in a music store and others made from tree branches and string).
        Teetering between harsh noise, musique concrète, and sound collage, Pedestrian Deposit is sure to offer a variety of sonic and oral pains and pleasures in equal doses. Their most recent release, Dyers’ Hands, provides a preview of both the beautiful and horrible sounds that will be summoned tonight on the West Side.
        Kennedy and Borges will be supported by an all-star array of Buffalo and Rochester noise vets, including harsh noise wall builder Deceiver, punishing power electronics acts God of Gaps and Dead Weight, and the pulverizing drones of Andy Czuba’s Hoarding project. The soul-crushing begins at 6pm with a prompt Sunday curfew of 10pm so you can exorcise your weekend demons in a bath of terror and static but still get a good night’s sleep before clocking in tomorrow.

more details on the facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/263856961161477/


Written by Jesse James Kaufman

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