New Media Contemporary Presents: Live Sound and Visuals Series
OBSCURESS | BITCHES SET TRAPS | SUZANNE TERRY + STEPHEN LUCAS + RACHEL WEAVER
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OBSCURESS
Obscuress, the duo of Christina Carter and Spencer Dobbs, is a daedal blend of veiled minimalism, auditory portière, and vested text. Having long supported each other’s individual work, Obscuress brings Carter and Dobbs together for the first time, working through their distinct voices, electric guitars, lap steel, mouth organ, keys, and sampled noise to compound original songs for this dedicated project.
Christina Carter, a founding member of Charalambides, is known for her improvisational vocals and guitar work, which have been central to her solo career and numerous collaborations. Her music often explores themes of solitude, spirituality, and emotional sonority, incorporating elements of poetry and visual art. Carter’s discography includes both solo projects and collaborative works that push the boundaries of conventional song structures. Her latest release is For Want of Walls (Unifactor 2024), a book of watercolor paintings and writing.
Spencer Dobbs' eremitic work in song has been described as "beautiful, deep, desperate, drunken late-in-the-night folk music." His releases are collected under the Texas Archives imprint.
Obscuress is recording their first album and will tour the US East Coast, Midwest and South in August of 2024.
BITCHES SET TRAPS
The virtuoso musicians of Bitches Set Traps push the boundaries of improvisation by exploring current events, feminism, misogyny, and performance taboos, in theatrical and comedic performances. Using instruments, voices, and common household items, BST recycles and questions everyday tropes of American culture, from tampon commercials to heavy metal power ballads, Eminem to Supreme Court briefs, Joan Didion to Frank Sinatra.
The Bitches crossover venues and genres bringing together ideas between subcultures; they set traps in concert halls, nightclubs, theaters, and galleries with equal intensity. As an improvising group they sometimes collaborate with additional guest musicians. BST formed in 2018 as the North Texas Feminist Improvising Group, inspired by the original Feminist Improvising Group of the late 1970’s.
SUZANNE TERRY + STEPHEN LUCAS + RACHEL WEAVER
Suzanne Terry:
Writer, pianist, singer, dancer, noisemaker, but not always in that order.
Stephen Lucas:
Stephen Lucas is a musician, intermedia artist, and programmer based in Denton, TX. As a keyboardist, he specializes in contemporary music with both piano and electronics performance. His primary solo project, Stephen Lucas: Live at Brussels explores technical synth playing and Dogmus arrangement — he also performs in the prog/zeuhl band Vaults of Zin and the Sounds Modern concert series, among other projects in North Texas. His multimedia compositions are known for combining starkly cartoonish and abstract elements with computer generated audio and video via custom-created software. His other major interests include cybernetics, metaphysics, and baking.
Rachel Weaver:
Rachel Weaver (blendways, Python Potions) uses electronics, field recordings, samples, sound art, radio, collage, and other found media to create. Weaver has participated in Mixed Media Performance Art showcases around Denton-Dallas-Ft. Worth galleries and venues since 2016, including the dallas contemporary museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Interference Fest, Sonic Murals, KUZU Community Radio, Denton Zine & Art Party, Thin Line Festival, Speedbump lil d, University of North Texas, Texas Woman’s University and in virtual/online spaces.