Cor Ardens Presents: Sonoscopia Phobos, Dysfunctional Robot Orchestra + Hermit Thrushes
Friday, February 21, 2020 | 8 PM | $7-10 | No one turned away for lack of funds
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Sonoscopia: Phobos
Dysfunctional Robotic Orchestra (Portugal)
Performed by Gustavo Costa and Tiago Angelo
Phobos is a set of small robots and automatic music generation devices that form a Disfunctional Robotic Orchestra, an orchestra with strange instruments with defects, genetic mutations and erratic behaviors.
Phobos represents a critique of the technological overlapping over human thought, the function of labour and modern forms of slavery, as well as an historical retrospective of the various attempts of human liberation through machines, its technological utopias, the advances and retreats of freedoms. Its name comes from greek mythology, where Phobos is the incarnation of fear, and is also the name of the largest moon of Mars, doomed to disappear due to the proximity of its orbit to the planet.
Hermit Thrushes (Philadelphia):
“Philadelphia’s Hermit Thrushes are happy to confound and challenge. Their latest album, Potsherd Gold Meadow, is part noise collage, part field recording, part deconstructed folk music, part experimental-jazz-weird rock potpourri. If you hear a little bit of unconventional, hard-to-categorize groups like God Is My Co-Pilot, Marmoset and U.S. Maple in what they do, you are not alone. (Album) Potsherd Gold Meadow is forever falling apart, strange sketches, ideas expanding, but it doesn’t feel unfinished. Its refusal of polish, refusal to capitulate, is its ethos.” – Jes Skolnik/Impose
COR ARDENS
Cor Ardens (flaming hearts) is a label and performance series initiated by artist, Jim Strong. Since 2011, under shifting monikers strong has hosted hard to categorize events in locations from Graveyards to School Auditoriums drawing on his interest in Improvisation, Deep Listening and Quaker Silence.
ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT
Please note that Vox Populi is located on the third floor of a historic warehouse building at 319 N. 11th Street and that there are five steps leading from the street-level to the first-floor landing where the passenger elevator picks-up/drops-off. The entry into/out of the elevator is 29-inches wide, so may not accommodate all wheelchairs or motorized chairs. Any individual requiring a ramp to navigate this entryway is encouraged to get in touch with Vox Populi ahead of time to coordinate ramp-access and discuss accessibility details. Our ramps may not be suitable for all wheelchairs or motorized chairs, so we strongly encourage anyone requiring a ramp to be in touch at: events@voxpopuligallery.org or 215.238.1236
