On Thursday June 15th, UPEND presents a free noise gig at Zebulon as JUSTICE YELDHAM (aka Aussie noise-lifer and slicer Lucas Abela) comes to L.A. to find an appropriate shard of glass, stick a contact mic on it, and let it rip. Plus, the dramatic dynamics and threshold push of PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT, the bass and drum tumble of ELOE OMOE, and the pulse and squeak of VORTAL CURB.

“Yeldham uses glass like a wind instrument, smooshing his face against the pane as he blows, hums, bites and otherwise imitates the world’s least subtle peeping Tom. The signal runs through a small metropolis of effects pedals that amplify and expand the resonances and sputterings of his mouth against the glass. One moment you hear John Coltrane playing a volcano, the next you hear a string section being squeezed through a toothpaste tube. It’s a high-stakes, smeary embouchure that can end with Yeldham’s face covered with blood.” – David Rees, New York Times Magazine

An uncompromising force of the American Underground, PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT create live actions gripping and unforgettable. J Borges and Shannon Kennedy unfurl a dramatic interplay on instruments specifically selected – and often created – for each performance cycle: hand-rigged string instruments, various electro-acoustic interventions, cello, electronics. Though rightly known for seismic blasts of the maximally harsh, it's the duo’s deft dynamics that make their step to the threshold epically cathartic. Any PD show is auspicious occasion, particularly so in their hometown of Los Angeles. This will be their first of 2023. Via visceral vibration and splattered skins, bass and drum duo ELOE OMOE unleash a unified flow of instant composition and perpetual collapse: full-on and free.

VORTAL CURB the deep underground L.A. knob solderer and voltage controller Cole Miller brings the pulse and squeak.

This is a 21+ event

Presented by UPEND

Zebulon

Justice Yeldham, Pedestrian Deposit, Eloe Omoe, Vortal Curb

Justice Yeldham, Pedestrian Deposit, Eloe Omoe, Vortal Curb

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