SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2025
High Line Brewing: 1318 9 Ave SE, Unit #113
(access via Minh Chau parking lot off 9th Ave SE)
7-10pm, 18+, $10 cover at the door, CASH ONLY

KAIDEN JACKMAN'S AD HOC ENSEMBLES EVENING:

The idea for this came from a combination of the usual Bug Incision ad-hoc ensembles with the game Exquisite Corpse, where artists continually contribute to each other’s pieces to create an often surreal piece of artwork. The setup for the evening is the following:

Performers set up in groups of 3, chosen at random and play for an indefinite period of time. One by one, as the timers run out, a performer is swapped off with a new one also chosen at random until we cycle through all the performers and end up where we started. The music continues through the entire duration with performers adding and evolving the piece with their own spin. The lineup:

Jennifer Crighton - harp wrangler extraordinaire, leader of Hermitess with new album due in May
Devin Friesen - ambient music maker specializing in manipulated guitar work
Eric Hamelin - primo drummer and percussionist for bands like Ghostkeeper, Sleepkit, Nomoreshapes
EZ HD - experimental musical wizard for bands like Dial Up, Kue Varo and the Only Hopes, and many more
Andrew Hume - drummer and electronicist of Burro, Friesen/Hume/Waters, and Seizure Salad fame
Kaiden Jackman - harsh sonics sound-slinger, known for The Furnace and RATFUCK
Rob Oxoby - forward-thinking double bassist, of Not Now Hamelin/Eating Speed and Bobby Kork fame
Gus Rendell - multi-instrumentalist, here on synth, for acts like Brain Bent and Cheer
Jill Shannon - Ninkilim and Body of the Oppressor string player, drop-tuned doomy RATstortion blues
Matthew Springer - founder of the Phanerozoic Eon Ensemble and percussionist for Dial Up and Radioactive Vampire Teeth, multi-limbed mayhem

+ in-between set music by DJ Jeremy Curry