Come see dance/noise at its finest Thurs/Fri/Sat at 6PM!
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)
Clairaudient will be bringing their dance/noise styles to the 5th Anual Solar-Powered Dance Series on the outdoor stage at Stuyvesant Cove Park Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of next week, July 23-25th. The shows are free and start at 6PM each night.
Check it out! The stage is made of recyclable materials and everything runs on solar power. I.B.N. sonns the sun.
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)
From the Press Release:
Solar One Presents 5th Annual Solar-Powered Dance Series
July 23th-25th (Rain Date July 26)
At 6:00pm
Free and kid-friendly
At Solar One
23rd St and the East River
New York, NY
(212) 505-6050
www.solar1.org
6 “train” to 23rd St, east via B23 bus or foot to Ave C, cross under the FDR Drive and walk south to Solar 1; L(train) to First Ave, walk north to 20th St, then east to Ave C, cross under the FDR Drive and continue north through Stuyvesant Cove Park to Solar 1
This summer marks the 5th season of the Solar-Powered Dance Series in Stuyvesant Cove Park. Curated by Arts Coordinator Tamar Rogoff, with assistance from Arthur Aviles (BAAD) and Dina Elkan (Solar One), this free event will span two weekends, (July 23rd- 25th & July 30th – Aug 1st) and will feature new works from fourteen emerging choreographers. The outdoor Solar 1 performance stage is located at the northern edge of Stuyvesant Cove at E. 23rd and the East River, adjacent to its green energy arts & education center.
The Solar-Powered Dance Series will feature programs by choreographers from an eclectic mix of emerging dance companies that work in a variety of styles, ranging from circus to post-modern to urban contemporary. This juried selection features dance that is theatrical, energetic and suitable for all ages. The series is funded in part by the generous contributions of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. This program is also supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.
Past participants have included Christopher Williams, Parul Shah and Christal Brown.
Program A (July 23rd – 25th) features:
Sara Joel, Sahar Javedani, Gabriel Forestieri, Jamal Jackson Dance Company, Kristy Lewis, Clairaudient, Jessica Chen
Program B (July 30th – August 1st) features:
Julie Troost, Debra Wanner, Catch Me Bird, Faye Lim, Alexandra Joye Houston, Sharon Mansur, Adelka Polak
Over the past few seasons, Solar One has steadily worked to establish Stuyvesant Cove as a creative center for green performance in New York. With the Solar-Powered Dance Series, solar electricity generated onsite at the Solar 1 building powers the audio components of the programs. Our recycled stage, located at the water’s edge, provides the perfect setting for these early evening performances.
Solar One’s mission is to empower people of all ages with the vision, knowledge and resources to attain a more environmentally sound and sustainable future.
Ticket reservations are not necessary. For more information please contact Dina Elkan (646) 576-5664 or dina@solar1.org. More information is also available at www.solar1.org.
Blind Moany Wat is a porch techno project from the David B. Applegate collective. Track 3, “Hanging,” features Jim Kaznosky of Miss Ohio on guitar & track 6, “Creaky, warped,” features Christopher Trull on the same.
Herein, you’ll find the finest dirt dog tech-step juju. Herein, you’ll get lost in the wooden maze & find the orb at the center.
Traveling through time is exhausting, but you’ll be rewarded through hearing these tracks born from lap-steel clang, oscillator smash & bass-drum batter.
Never has techno music danced so far from the club. This techno was created & exists for the porch. Embodying the spirit of experimentation, “Blind Moany Wat” includes elements of doom, noise, folk-tech splat, bass warble & tremolo.
Please listen at top volume while enjoying your afternoon bourbon outside.
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)
Hey, our boy Speak Onion will be bringing the drum’n’noise and the I.B.N. flava all over NYC this summer. Or, at least Brooklyn and Manhattan. Check it out!
Speak Onion shows:
6/20 @ Wreck Room, 940 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, w/ peopling, Animental, GDFX, $5
7/3 @ The Tank, 354 W 45th St, Manhattan, w/ peopling, Orphans (not sure the price on this one, yet)
7/31 @ Coco66, 66 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn, w/ Xrin Arms, GDFX, Digit216, Insect Deli, $5
8/13 @ Goodbye Blue Monday, 1087 Broadway, Brooklyn, for John Balance Electronic Music Festival, FREE!
These will all be some spectacular shows. The 7/31 show is presented by Immigrant Breast Nest, and is the release party for Speak Onion’s split relese with Xrin Arms which will be coming out on I.B.N. for download and on CD. Basically, this is the summer to see Speak Onion. Check out the video if you don’t already know what Speak Onion shows are like.
Check out the flyers:



Be there and act like you know!
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)
I had the gentlemen from Thermometerometer out to my mansion in the Hamptons over Memorial Day Weekend so I could executive-produce one of their battery-powered outdoor jams.
Dan arrived armed with a contact mic’d football to throw in the ocean & a laptop full of mad FX to process the signal. David carted a supernaturally powerful Orange speaker, a strange oscillator from Britain & a delay pedal which allowed him to manipulate the fabric of time itself.
Gale force winds buffeted us at the ocean’s edge & the football refused to stay tethered in the breakers. Meanwhile, the contact mic was picking up more hurricane-whipped sand than ocean. Undaunted by the adverse conditions of the experiment, Thermometerometer recorded until the battery in the laptop died. I present you the audio document of this experiment not because of its perfection, but because it’s interesting to hear what can happen when two weirdos with a handful of electronic instruments try to wrangle the elements into some form resembling ‘music.’
The next day the wind continued & instead of making another attempt at recording the ocean, I had T-MOM set up in my little sister’s bedroom. Inspired by the spirit of Lil’ Miss Tibs, they recorded two truly sick bedroom jams. It quickly became apparent that bedroom jams had become droom jams, doom jams & finally Dume Jams. Keep an eye on this page for those massive tracks – I plan to release them as part of a Thermometerometer E.P. in the very near future.
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)
We are very excited to announce an upcoming collaborative release between our boy, Speak Onion, and good buddy, Mercy Choir. These two have decided to work together and that the best format for them to collaborate would be for Speak Onion to record and heavy-handedly produce a few of Mercy Choir’s songs. We are expecting Mercy Choir’s psychadelic folk to sit interestingly, if uncomfortably, with Speak Onion’s rough, soundscape-y production style. Or perhaps, Speak Onion will bring nasty textures to Mercy Choir’s quirky compositions. Ok, honestly, we don’t know what’s going to happen, but we know these two madmen spent a Saturday together making sounds, and we’re pretty pumped up about it.
The final product will be co-released by us here at I.B.N. and the good people at Dead Language Records. Downloads will ensue.
Stay tuned for more updates! There are more pics in the Visuals section.
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)
DANG!!!! There were some intense jams going down last night. Spatterface, Clairaudient, Speak Onion, Digit216, and Realicide ALL brought their A-game without a doubt. Many eardrums were shredded and many pizzas were eaten. Yum.
Were you there? Throw up a comment to tell all the trick-ass busters who missed out what it was like.
There’s lots of videos on our youtube channel and in the visuals section along with some pics of Spatterface.
Can’t wait for the next one. Thanks again to Digit216 and Realicide for coming out to play with us, and everyone who came out to check out our styles.
Stay tuned for more Immigrant Breast Nest activities, because we are blowing up Brooklyn Famous right now!
Derek Tibs (CEO, Immigrant Breast Nest)