Very cool. From loyal reader Stu:
The very first official meeting of the The Drone Summit of the Carolina Mountains (DSCM) will take place on January 28th, 2011, at Stella’s, 55 College Street in downtown Asheville. Three bands will play, and one projection artist will display his art. This event is open to the general public, doors open at 9pm, admission price will be $5.
Drone Music is an avant garde musical form, in which sustained or repeated sounds, notes, and/or tone-clusters are created, combined, mixed, manipulated, & layered using any number of methods, including voice, guitars, pedals & effects, keyboards, synthesizers, computers, and amplifiers.
Asheville, as the home of MOOG (the grand-daddy of electronic music), a famous weekly drum circle, and a thriving underground music scene fueled by the student population and the creative community is a natural choice as a gathering place of Drone Music enthusiasts, and The Drone Summit of the Carolina Mountains 001 will be the first of many Drone Summits to come.
The line-up is:
NOOSE (10pm – 10:30)
Jamie Hepler (10:45 – 11:25)
Zach and Abe (11:45 – 1:00 or 1:30)
NOOSE is an old-school guitars-n-pedals Ambient Doom Drone band in the vein of SUNN(0))), Earth, or UFOMammut. Band mates Eric Foster and Nate Andrews have been working on a special 30 minute piece especially for the Summit, samples of which are currently posted on Facebook.
Jamie Hepler (of the band Soft Opening) will be playing a solo set of drones and tonal washes that have, until now, been heard by very few human ears. Jaime is well known throughout the Asheville music scene as an innovator and a musician with seemingly unlimited energy and potential to produce high quality sounds.
Zach Smith & Abraham Leonard are two UNC students who employ “misused objects” and instruments in their project, dubbed The Wet Heel, to create forms and dissolves like “the dry yellow foam of salt water which collects on the banks of the world, doomed to meet the vast waters again and again.”
The evening will also feature the visual art of JSF, Projectionist.
Samples of the bands, as well as of other droning sounds and music can be heard here and here.