Shows
Hip Hop Roots – May 26th – The Sugar Space
Longest running hip hop night in Las Vegas has expanded to Salt Lake City! This will be the 3rd month ever in SLC! -last month was nearly sold out with 300 people, this month we’re doing it even bigger & better! Come get involved in Utah’s vibrant art community!
Haystak with SEM – June 7- Club Sound
Utah Arts Festival – The Blue Distance – In the Round (Outside Library Auditorium)
Thus. June 21st, 9pm
The Blue Distance is a sacred, interactive performance that’s like nothing you’ve ever seen. Join the priestesses that will generate text in real time in conjunction with the audience, and combine this text with live projected video and audio soundscapes. Live narrative generation by Melissa Bond, Rachel Marston and Amie Tullius. I will be providing the visual projection and music. Check a preview
Utah Arts Festival, June 22 and 24th Big Mouth Stage
I will be performing on the Big Mouth Stage with DJ Electronic Battleship Friday June 22 at 6-7pm and Sunday June 24 also from 6-7pm. We will be promoting songs and videos off of our upcoming album “Stop and Break”. Come prepared to dance! Also, I’ll be debuting work off of my solo album “Bargain Books and B Flicks”. Perfect setting for the literary stage!
George Life’s CD release party @ Bar Deluxe – June 22
Dusk’s CD release party @ Urban Lounge – June 29th
Stay tuned for details! This is gonna be balla!
Save the Children Benefit @ the K2 Church – June 30th
BeatShot 4 Hip Hop Festival – Albany, NY July 6, 7
Vjing this fine music festival.
“Bargain Books and B Flicks” Raw Xtract Album Release – Sept 21
@ Ken Sanders Bookstore
More 411 to come….
Past Shows:
Liquid Joe’s Ladies Night, Thursday April 12th 9pm-Close.
Come check out some live visuals and dance tunes at Liquid Joe’s this Thursday! DJ Dao on the turntables! Me on the visuals. I’ll be throwing down some of my tunes as well.
Benefit Concert “Save the Children” K2 Church 193 W. 2100 S. SLC 7pm $5 suggested donation
This is a all age event..with positive hiphop and rock music! This Benefit Concert is for Gina & Adam Echol’s Adoption of 2 beautiful little boys-to help with Traveling Expenses and Child Care for the 2 boys until they can bring them home. There will also be an Art Auction and more. All donations will go to their adoption expenses . If you are unable to come you can still help with an tax deductible donation: Check written out to Life Song for Orphans/ mailed to Life Song for Orphans/ P.O. Box 40 / Gridley,IL 61744/ Echols Adoption #2212(very important to add this so the donation will go to Gina & Adam Echols Adoption Expenses)
Record Store Day @ Uprok – April 21st
Doin visuals and a music set at Uprok to support record store day. Roll through and buy a record.
Liquid Joes – BoomBox Release Party Fri April 27th
5$ pre-sale Tickets, 10$ at the door! Show starts @ 10! Vjing the screen!
In the Venue – Twista & Mz. Maliciouz CD Release Party April 28th
15 presale tickets! SEM music, Mz Maliciouz and Twista! Vjing the show! Dont miss it!
Def Letter release party w/ Yze, Pat Maine & Task Rok – May 1st
10$ @ Urban Lounge to see Dumb Luck and Linus Stubbs long awaited album “Social Introduction” It’s Linus’s Bday!
Download it here!
4th Annual Beat Society @ The Hotel – May 2nd
Vjing this live beat exhibition for some of Utah’s finest producers!
Batter’s Up – Cinco De Mayo – May 5th – George Life & Padrino
Show starts @ 9! 8$ tickets! VJ’ing the show~
Siento Bueno
Welcome to “Stop and Break”. Here’s the first official video from an album of beats meant to dance to! Each of the tracks from Stop and Break will feature a different dance form; Bboy’s, Hoola-Hoopers with streaming fire, and modern dancers will appear in videos of sampled material from Dusty Springfield, The Doors, Massive Attack and many more! Thanks to Gage for letting me use his amazing Bboy skills for this video. Thanks to TSR for filming inspired shots. And thanks to Uprok for letting us film there. The beat is something I conjured up for the Scrambled Crates 7 project and appears courtesy of Them Fighting Words and will appear on the Stop and Break release.
Stop and Break
STOP! and Break!
I like when people dance to my beats. It’s as simple as that. So, I made a bunch of beats from danceable/movable songs, and added some of my own layers of piano on top. I’m fortunate that DJ Electronic Battleship is down to mix them up and add some scratch work. Made some videos that correspond to the tonality of the music, and I perform the songs live and mix the video with Resolume Avenue 4. This kind of work is called VJ’ing. VJ stands for Video Jockey, which is the process of mixing video in a live environment. I make my own video content though searching public domain films, and shooting my own clips. It’s a long process of creating the beat in Ableton Live, recording my keyboard compositions over the top of the beat using a Korg N1, searching out and editing the video clips, and then creating a VJ composition syncing the audio and visual clips in Resolume Avenue. It’s a long and fun process that ultimately culminates in a live presentation where I hook up my MacBook to a projector, and using Resolume and Ableton, I project these images and sounds onto a screen and into speakers so that an audience and experience the entire composition. VJ’ing is an art form in its infancy, and each VJ has his own process. I say HIS because its true, I’m the only female VJ I’m aware of. I’m also in the minority of females involved in producing hip hop beats, and through my long career as a jazz improvisational performer and composer, I’m also in the minority. Truly, it’s neither here no there about gender. BUT, I think it makes me unique, and unique is valuable. Not all VJ’s create their own music, which also makes me unique. Not all VJ’s create their own content, so there’s another gold star. The reason I’m taking the time to comment on my skills is because of the nature of the world of the VJ. It’s in its fledgling stages and everyone has a different skill set. For the Stop and Break project, Battleship is handling the beats and scratch, I’m playing along to the beats with the piano, and manipulating the visuals. This won’t always be my process. There’s many other ways to sync the audio and visuals together. Watch the video to see what we’re capable of.
Check out some other singles from Stop and Break. We’re in post production on the project, so very soon there will be an Electronic Battleship/Raw Xtract VJ mixtape as well as a full Bandcamp release with all the complete songs.
Requiem 4 Dreams
I know everyone under Heaven and Earth has their remix on this track. But whatever. I like it. I can also push rank for having an excuse to beat it with the dead stick. The visuals that accompany this creepy emo soundtrack infiltrate your brain like that ear wig thing from Star Trek, lay down some horror eggs, and instantly conjure images of hacked junky arms. I cant resist. This is getting filed underneath my VJ project, FBI Fines. The idea of FBI Fines is that by using pirated material both in audio and visual format, I’ve got all my bases covered for some unsaid party winning in a copyright lawsuit against me.
“Fi-Ah!” -A Mixtape of Epic Proportions
“Fi-Ah!”
-A Mixtape of Epic Proportions-
This is exactly as the title says it is. Know this in your heart, it IS the truth! It seems every other Facebook post I see from an underground hip hop artist claims that their new track is “Fire”. This claim of having “Fire” is as common as someone saying you “Killed It” during a performance. All this fire and murder would be concerning and fairly interesting if there was any truth to it. But, it’s only a phrase people say. Like “I’m fine” or “See you soon”. The haphazard usage has started to irritate me. Say what you mean and mean what you say. So I did, and here it is, an 8 min inspiration from the most common word in the underground. Please enjoy. It’s Fi-Ah!
Fi-Ah! by Raw Xtract
This is What I look Like Bored in a Motel Room
Where are the Hookers and Blow?! Fuck it. Here’s a Beat. I’ve accumulated a fair amount of beats I’ve made from Movie Soundtrack music. It dawned on me a few days ago that this is several steps in the direction of an incredibly ill VJ set (taking into consideration I use the accompanying movie footage). This set will not only copyright infringe in the traditional hip hop audio format, it will expand the corporate FUCK YOU of royalty entitlement into the film industry as well. Oh the ever impending interests of adding audio and visual together. * that’s sarcasm you dry fucks*
I’ve officially crossed the line into Rx rated. Children shouldn’t be reading this. Put your pipe down and put them to bed. Here’s a sample from one of the sound bytes I’ve been day dreaming about. I finished this today in a Sacramento motel room. There are no Hookers N Blow to be found, so I needed to occupy myself with something. It feels oddly empty to be in a motel room with no coca. Sad Panda. Listen to my beat. It will make me feel better. If you really care though you’ll send me over a Latino chic in red panty’s with a good line of traffic control. Thanks for your support.
I’m a big fan of Darren Aronofsky. My fan-ish started with Pi, moved along reluctantly into Requiem for a Dream, came to a complete stop with The Wrestler (but that’s beside the point) and culminated in The Fountain. Music=stellar. Images=stellar. Metaphor and Narrative=Stellar. Im excited to mesh his world with my VJ mind. Take a peek.
