Press release from the organizers…

Montague Phantom Brain Exchange #21
Wednesday, October 28th, 9pm Five Bucks!
at the Rendezvous
78 3rd St
Turners Falls, MA 01376

Sord
Erin Schneider
video by Torsten Zenas Burns + Darrin Martin
lecture on OULIPO by Laura Duetsch
DJ Scott Seward

Hello! Please forgive our badly-needed, two month pause, but Phantom Brains are back with this stack of wild cards, greasy with the excitement of french fries. I implore you to read on:

Sord:
Brattleboroan bad-deal-sufferers Sarah and Zach are turning their
lives around with music, stage-play, and antic participation games. Of
the two, Sarah suffers the worst. Their debut cassette “REBUKING THE
DESPOILER” on the OSR/Dax Bills imprint is a flush with panic-rock and
crumpled postcards from faded ecuadoran villas. When i think of
telling you to look at myspace or say anything about Gerty Farish, i
become despondent. Build your own models of utopia & stick to them.
Zach did a wonderful job curating the September MPBE Replacement
Night, so expect nothing more than excellence.
http://www.myspace.com/sordord

Erin Schneider is a westcoast accordioniste who rips inna northern
swedish folk stylee, occasionally banking into doowop/gurlgroup
vocalese & improvising over spilt flower vases. Last year, she was
subjected to stereoscopic visions of life in Northern Sweden while
living an actual life in Northern Sweden. She also happens to be half
of the driving force behind the Snaps & Claps phenomenon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYk-pVwjFV0
http://www.myspace.com/snapsnclaps

Video artist, curator, & emerging local troublemaker Torsten Zenas
Burns is coming upstream from Holyoke to share with us what appears to
be a pleasantly processed gob of process video. If the tongue ain’t
in the cheek, then it’s definitely making some unsettling slurping
noises, from his spiel:
“‘Learning Stalls: modular syllabi and organic exchange’ A unique
edit of the artists’ 33 chapter installation Learning Stalls: Lesson
Plans, modular syllabi… utilizes video as a trans-disciplinary
curriculum exploring diverse speculative fictions and reimagined
educational practices. Psychic surgery meets physical therapy as
matter and anti-matter merge under the guidance of astral professors.
In the search of new mind/body experiences, Burns, Martin, and other
workshop participants enact paranormal interactions, intersexual
dynamics, pseudo-testing methods, and staged quasi-therapy sessions.”
http://holyokeresearch.blogspot.com/
http://www.darrinmartin.com/recallathon.html

Part-time Grey Matter Scholar Laura Deutsch will be delivering a
sure-to-be-rousing lecture on ‘Potential Literature.’ She told me
this: “The OULIPO, or Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle, is a group
founded in France during the 1960s, which produces strict constraints
that writers may use to construct their literary products. These
logical constraints are used to generate creative pieces, which end up
leaving the final piece with multiple ways of being understood. The
infinite potentiality of literature lies at the heart of this
combination of logic and chance. What systems are authors forced to
follow when they attempt to extract a piece of fiction from the
continuum of universal literature? Is it truly possible to experience
creative freedom when applying constraints constructed in a
mathematical paradigm onto the process of creative writing? As an
Oulipo member has said, the drive behind this sort of work is “to
build the maze from which we will attempt to escape.” And, in my
opinion, it is only in the escape that true freedom is felt.”
http://lauradeutsch.com/

Our esteemed guest DJ this month is Scott Seward, a complicated man
who recently moved here with his family to escape some horrible
honky-and-tick-infested island. He ha been improving the vibes in
Greenfield by setting up the best damn record (and flotsam) store
north of Rte 116: John Doe, Jr. He also writes a column reviewing
noise releases in a glossy metal magazine called Decibel. (bring/send
him your tapes!)
http://www.johndoejunior.com/

It’s good to be back & husbanded.

Montague Phantom Brain Exchange is a place where bodied & disembodied
brains & nonbrains can safely gather to deconstruct solutions & create
problems while soaking in an envigorating bath of provocative
entertainments. Last wednesday of every month, 9pm to midnight, at the
Rendezvous (bar with food!) 78 3rd St Turners Falls, MA. A typical
evening will include 2 – 3 performing acts, a 15 minute lecture and a DJ.

http://phantombrainexchange.suchfun.net/