Name: Drew McDowall / Nadir Smith at Off Broadway
Start: 2023-11-10T20:00:00-06:00
End: 2023-11-10T22:00:00-06:00
Location: Off Broadway

Drew McDowall  / Nadir Smith at Off Broadway

New Music Circle

Despite a lineup change this evening of immersive electronic music will  happen: with performers Drew McDowall (NYC) and Nadir Smith (STL)

Off Broadway

Attention: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Hiro Kone is unable to perform as scheduled. Scottish-born, NYC-based electronic musician Drew McDowall will be performing in her place. If you would like a refund please email us at newmusiccircle.info@gmail.com, otherwise all tickets will still be honored, and the concert will run as scheduled. New Music Circle presents:solo performances byDREW MCDOWALL (NYC)Drew McDowall - electronics / synthesizers NADIR SMITH (STL) Olan Osunsami - electronics/samplersNovember 10, 2023 I 7pm doors / 8pm concert Off Broadway ( 3509 Lemp Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118 )$20.00 regular admission / $10.00 students and struggling music supportersOnline ticket sales will be available until 2pm day of the event. Tickets will remain available at the door evening of the concert. Additional info: NEWMUSICCIRCLE.ORG ______about: DREW MCDOWALL (NYC)https://www.daisrecords.com/collections/drew-mcdowallDrew McDowall&#x27;s works are sacraments to alterity. An artist who has refused to conform in music and in life, McDowall mines the hallucinatory spaces that exist between reality and celestial otherness. His meditative compositions are haunting and spiritual, melding intricate modular soundscapes with cut-up samples, and deconstructing sounds into their most basic shuddering structures and shapes. The disorienting ambient mirages that result elicit terror, tender melancholy, and heavenly flickers of expansive beauty.His backstory reads like a primer of psychedelic fiction woven into statements of the unbelievable, superhuman, and outright insane. Growing up in the gangs of 1970’s Scotland, McDowall-fatigued by years of daily violence and the chaotic madness of that life- sought aggressive self-expression in punk and found a home in Glasgows rich underground music community. After a stint with The Poems, a band he started with his then-wife Rose McDowall, he joined the ranks of UK avant-gardists Genesis P-Orridge, David Tibet, Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, John Balance, and countless others who would come to define the industrial music&#x27;s blossoming experimental vanguard. McDowall eventually collaborated with Psychic TV and became a full-time member of the cult outfit Coil, where his influence shaped the group&#x27;s later output: exercises in magical practice and music-as-psychoactive effect.____NADIR SMITH https://nnncook.bandcamp.com/track/h-p-n-s-pt-2“When I think about [the music] too much, it just really doesn’t work out. I try to keep things as intuitive as possible. I see it as me building a riddle in a live setting,” says electronic sound artist Olan, short for Thomas Olanrewaju Osunsami, the figurehead behind Nadir Smith.Using two samplers, Olan’s approach depicts a musical stream of consciousness, often drawing on music from lost or long-forgotten sources. The result is a seamless movement of maverick, dance-music tricks and musique concrete textures, touching on elements of Detroit’s futurist electronic pioneers Drexciya &amp; Octave One collective, and referencing the underground maverick obscurities of the Nurse With Wound list.Olan’s streamline approach feels most akin to a journey, like soundtracking for psychological realms. His spontaneous sets play on a surrealist collage of discovered sounds and digital effects. Emerging from the underground music scene of Peoria, IL, Olan has since relocated to St. Louis where he has become an established performer on both experimental and punk shows. On top of a busy performing schedule, he is part of the St. Louis collective, MATERIA, a monthly underground DJ rave, bringing out massive, enthusiastic crowds, often at secret locations.

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