FRAQTURED SOUND
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Friday, Sep 29 › 8pm › $5
ST VITUS DANCE CLUB: This week’s St. Vitus features Seattle environmental dance troupe Dead Bird Movement, illbient dub maestro RuDement, Ryze-n-Fall, Fraqtured Sound, and DJ Fur Purse.
STREAMING LIVE SEPTEMBER 29th!
About the artist
in the quiet and cold winter of 1999, c.norris spent a majority of his time wandering around the lower and outerlaying comercial and industrial districts... collecting scrap metal, odd hunks of steel, loose tools and fixtures in the smaller hours of the morning... amongst some of his most favorite activities were writing, smoking cigarettes, and listening to his headphones sitting in odd vantage points across the city, ontop of buildings, hanging from fire escapes far above the city floor, and along the waterfront of the shipping ports and railyards. he had spent a length of time volounteering with an organization called the Liberation Collective, even travelling with them across the US holding and attending humane education workshops, protests of breeding practices, vivisection, for labor and worker rights, fair trade and participating in active civil disobediance and active non passive protest. he found the apathy, and self serving attitudes that were common place amongst the majority of all whom he encountered within the working world and sadly amongst the sub cultures of Portlands political, and art communities to be revolting... he slowly removed himself from the things that he saw in his life as counter productive, negative, or distracting, and focused his attentions on other ways in which to create change, to create art, an outlet, the change of consciousness or thought. thus was born the idea of fraqtured : sound.
chris began working on a live showcase of industrial arts, and Industrial music. Alix did welding/grinding, blascksmithing and casting/pouring while chris manipulated his equipment in sequence to Alix’s work, Jenny (Alix’s girlfriend) wandered around hitting sheets of steel with hammers, breaking glass, singing out loud, and engaging the audience. the area in which they played was an unfinished basement, with low exposed ceiling, and two drain vent/grates at the end of the room in a building built in 1890. eventually being dubbed Industriot, the shows began to incorporate a few more synths, more and more metal percussive instruments, more interactive metal work, and live vocals sang through a gasmask with a mic where the canister would have gone. a very close friend of chris’s named Kristin came to play bass and guitars. thus began a long tradition of others coming to join and bring instruments, some homemade, some dug out of dumpsters, some found at the local thrift store bins. Alix began developement of several new additions to the live effects, a working electric chair (from the "capital punishment" first thursday) which doubled as my keyboard stand, a crossbow that shot bolts into the TV’s and, an endless supply of broken TV’s running static or blinking oddly as they died. chris started playing in a gasmask and old millitary rubber poncho he had painted black. near the 4th of july one year he secured an array of fireworks for a DIY pyroteknics show since his idea of a gasoline fueled flame thrower burried in the ground was not met with nearly as much excitement by the others as he would have hoped, he spent some of the shows lighting off fireworks, smashing and kicking out TV’s, and making liberal use of the multiple grinders and piles of scrap steel making giant nails. Industriot had become much more than it was in it’s inception, video and audio recordings survive to this day, giving a vivd reminder of the many examples of live electrocution, branding, blood, smoke, sparks, and in one experiment with casting in an insulated mold that melted... a cyanide gas outbreak. look in the right places, or ask the right people and you can find some of this material for yourself.
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