The Somethin' Else #3 Recap

Last night, the Rogue Buddha Gallery was the epicenter of Freaky Friday electronic weirdness in the Twin Cities. Despite a few last minute cancellations, The Somethin' Else #3 went off without a hitch!





Danny Sigelman










Pelzwik












Derek Haglund






Lighted










Speakerthrone vs. Visionquest

Bios for The Somethin' Else #3

The Somethin' Else #3 features six multimedia performances which will dazzle the eye and dizzy the ear. Here's some information about the artists!

Danny Sigelman
Danny Sigelman is a visual artist, musician and DJ who lives and works in Northeast Minneapolis. Primarily a drummer and percussionist he's spent the last few years performing as the Self Sound Orchestra and with the Minneapolis Free Music Society. He has slowly developed a sound and approach using mostly analog electronics and found sounds which will have visual accompaniment as well.

Hot Tony
Tony Biele is a musician, instrument builder, sound and set designer whose great humility is dwarfed only by the magnitude of his accomplishments in the Twin Cities music and theatre communities.

Pelzwik
Nicholas Heimer as
Pelzwik> Tree Sprite, Sounds Caper, Hyperdimensional Channeler of Universal Wisdom. Pelzwik is an
earthbound experiment in animate resoursefullness. Together we are cultivating lands, crafting sounds, building and sharing sustainable ideas withcommunity. This performance is called Botanical Grandeur. It is a project consisting of a collective of local artists, including Philip Mann, Ryan Reber, Rick Ness, Andy Kjellin, John Dinger, Kristin Boehm, Callie Swedberg, Lauren Schira, and others.It is our first attemt at combining experimental sound with theater. The act focuses on our current struggle to transform agriculture from the fossil fuel enterprise it has become, back to sustainable practices that stress the superiority of the symbiotic relationships
found in nature.

Lighted
Lighted is John Marks, Jason Millard and Patrick Benjamin. Lighted is expressive, expansive and experimental. Lighted is...

Domino
Domino Davis is the dynamo behind Minneapolis electro/artngroup Dearling Physique. Adding an element of suspense to everything he does, Dom's performances are always above and beyond what the audience expects!

Speakerthrone vs. Visionquest
Jungle collagist Speakerthrone and eyeblender Visionquest will throw down some seizure-inducing eye/earquakes that will leave you rattled for life.

DJ Derek Haglund
Derek spins choice idm & jungle, expressing his wide-ranging and excellent taste in blips and breaks.

Rogue Buddha/Nicholas Harper
Founded by artist, Nicholas Harper, in January of 2000, the Rogue Buddha Gallery is an award winning contemporary art gallery located in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District and is home to the visual arts, dance, film/video and music..

The Rogue Buddha has been featured in dozens of local, national and international publications. Named best gallery/museum in the Twin Cities and number 8 in a list of the top 20 essential galleries in the nation, the Rogue Buddha has earned it’s reputation by showcasing the best in local, national and international art. Most recently, GQ Magazine featured the RBG as one of the best galleries from around the world!

Dedicated to providing its clientele with the best in contemporary art, the Rogue Buddha focuses on raw and edgy work from such internationally renowned artists as Don Ed Hardy, Marc Hauser, Gronk and Jon Langford as well as local rising stars.

As well as visual art, the Rogue Buddha Gallery has also earned a reputation for its support of the local dance, film and music community. We are proud that we are able to showcase the best locally celebrated and award-winning performers.

Jason Wasyk & Mark McGee @ Artery Twentyten

This last weekend, at the Soap Factory, artists of every ilk gathered for a comprehensive creative extravaganza called Artery Twentyten. One of the featured performances was that by visual artist Jason Wasyk and musician Mark Mcgee. The two artists dressed in contamination suits and deposited cassette players throughout the room, perplexing some and delighting others. By the end of the show, all the sound was brought back to home base, and Wasyk crouched holding the last cassette recorder as though it were his child. As the videos attest, the kids are alright.