OUTER SPACE / TELECULT POWERS / BEE MASK / GOD WILLING DUO / LADIES’ ROOM

OUTER SPACE (Cleveland) / TELECULT POWERS (Brooklyn) / BEE MASK / GOD WILLING DUO (Philly) / LADIES’ ROOM (NAGLE / LENTINI) (Philly) / Guest curated by Chris Madak.

Outer Outer Space

Established by John Elliott in 2008, the Cleveland, Ohio-based Outer Space has since blossomed into a collective of likeminded artists, operating as a sort of laboratory for the development of an idiosyncratic improvising grammar with roots extending into territories including the kitchen-sink human/machine assemblages of 1970s west coast electronics, the utopian plasticity of sound posited in the golden age of GRM, and the perfected throb of Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas.

Elliott, whose ascendant profile owes much to his work as a member of the neo-kosmiche trio Emeralds and sludge-rock heroes Puffy Areolas, as well as to live and recorded collaborations with artists including Sam Goldberg, Aaron Dilloway, John Olson, Wyatt Howland, and Max Eisenberg, will be joined on analog synthesizer for this performance by Jeff Hatfield, best known as half of Fragments, who manage a singular fusion of rust belt basement electronics and Schnitzler-esque cantankerous opacity. This is the incarnation of Outer Space represented on the recent “Stereo Constellations” cdr and the forthcoming “Lightyear Demonstrations” double cassette.