I Hear A New World, Day 1.

Awesome times at the Elevens the other night. George of Breaking World was kind enough to put together a two-day mini-festival of noisy musics. Totally different sounds from all sorts of totally rad people.



Keith Fullerton Whitman, Boston's chameleon of improvised electronic music, built some alternatingly soothing and terrifying arpeggiated tones.



SQRM yelled and screamed and moshed around. Highbrow punx. Forward-thinking hardcore.





Okkyung Lee and Bill Nace played off each other beautifully. Noise cello, believe it. Killed my ears, enthralled my brain.









Parts and Labor, back to trio status, brought some new material to the stage. First time performances, I think? The anthemic noise pop sounds better than ever. New album on the horizon, they say.

I missed last night's half of the event, meaning no Ducktails, Fat Worm of Error, Noise Nomads/Id M Theftable collaboration, and more. Bummer, but I instead caught Neon Indian at an art museum in Hartford. Photos of that soon.