Announcement
Thursday, September 27, 7:30 PM--yet another Toxic Spores show at Millvale Industrial Theater*!

I'm planning on debuting a new piece, "The Apparition," which is...an experiment in several senses of the word. I may also reprise an abbreviated version of the "Bar Set" (aka "Britney Spores") from Saturday's Duke's show, as well as other crowd-pleasing phenomena.

Here's the lineup:

1. Aepiphet <- well-textured experimental noise, music, and...poetry!
2. Brendan Zepp <- Pittsburgh's inimitable gothic karaoke song stylist
3. Hungry Bill
4. Leo's Operation <- They owe me a cable
5. Toxic Spores <- Your humble correspondent

Since I'm going on last, figure that's a start time of anywhere from 10:30 to 11:30...or later, but you may wish to be a good citizens and check out the other bands as well. So grab yourself a fistful of Toxic Spores tomorrow night at MIT. (Individuals or groups of individuals bringing their own, unauthorized toxic spores to the venue will be ejected.)

Future developments include Toxic Spores t-shirts for purchase, a CDR collection of the finest, hand-picked spores, and...a new collaborative project.

* Directions at http://mit.telerama.com/dirs.html. Wear old clothes, hearing protection, and an air of hipper-than-thou boredom. Expect not to be able to order food, purchase alcohol, or use the rest rooms. Soft drinks may be acquired by appeasing the Vending Idol. Use caution before touching any rusty surface, and monitor carefully any lit cigarettes Brendan may flick off the stage during his set. Be aware that my new piece may cause the jelly in your eyes to vibrate.

Report
A rather sparsely attended show. Two members of Aepiphet showed up and did a good set, more minimal than the last time I saw them, but still engaging. Brendan's set has continued to develop, although he seems to be smoking more now. Hungry Bill never showed, and Leo's Operation didn't have all their band members in the building at first, so I went on after Brendan. My set wasn't bad, but seemed a bit diffuse to me. I did a reprise of the bar set, which sounded quite different from the other night, and I resurrected a piece from the summer, which also went well, apart from my usual MIT problem of not enough Powerbook in the monitor, making it difficult to figure out what's going on with the samples. "The Apparition," the new one, didn't occur exactly as I'd hoped, because the PA couldn't reproduce the subsonic stuff that I based it on. No matter--right before my set, I adjusted my sound sources so I could use a difference tone of the right frequency. It wasn't quite the same, but it was nice to get the stage vibrating. Toward the end of that one, I got the guitar to feed back, adjusting the delay so that it was a little more varied than just a straight tone, and then I got up and left the stage while the samples played out and the feedback died away. (I almost knocked the guitar over in the process, but I recovered.) After my set, Leo's Operation took the stage to the vocal support of their group of five enthusiastic fans. And then we all left. I did, however, manage to set something up at a new space for November.