Desert Drone

We have great local support for Tuesday, October 15th, at The Screening Room for touring artist Ceremonial Abyss. Grant Beyschau will be accompanied by Chelsey Lee Trejo and Dimintri Manos, and Lid Ismuth will be performing as well.

Doors 7:30 music starts at 8, all ages, $10

Very special show at The Screening Room on Tuesday, October 15th. We welcome Ceremonial Abyss alongside Grant Beyschau and Lid Ismuth. Doors at 7:30pm, music starts at 8, all ages, $10.

Ceremonial Abyss Plays Tony Conrad presents a live collaboration based around an unknown, found mixtape of Tony Conrad’s work. Transcending the fixed constraint of the medium, the cassette will be acting as a Present Source, (e.g. as an instrument in the room), byway of generative modular processing from the performer. The performer (Abyss) will be responding to the tape with additional live electronics as a secondary musician in an improvisational setting, letting the ghost of Tony Conrad completely lead the way.

Ceremonial Abyss (1987–) is an aleatoric tape artist, curator and writer based in the Pacific Northwest. He has toured the U.S. extensively in support of his releases 23, Betrayal, and Tape Study for Four Variants. Along the way, he has performed with musicians and authors such as Pete Swanson (Yellow Swans), Jennifer Soong, Zan da Perry, Vi Khi Nao, DIIV and Will Alexander.

Tony Conrad (1940–2016) was a multidisciplinary artist known for his groundbreaking art, music, films, and videos, although his work doesn’t fit comfortably within any of these disciplines. He eschewed categorization and actively sought to challenge the constraints of media forms, their modes of production, and the relationships of power embedded within them. Conrad was an early member of the Theatre of Eternal Music, along with La Monte Young, John Cale, Angus Maclise and Marian Zazeela.

Tote bags and restocks of the black Sonoran Sounds shirts are in the bandcamp, or come see us in person October 15th at The Screening Room! Link in bio or desertdronetucson.bandcamp.com

Dollblood, performing Friday, October 4th, at The Screening Room, is another group new to Desert Drone.

Dollblood is a two-piece (as of now) band based in Tucson, AZ interested in exploring various tensions— between softness and heaviness, structure and disorder, Object and Subject, melodic progressions and discordant digressions. Combining haunting vocals, romantically macabre lyricism, and a broad palette of instrumental textures, they hope to invoke alternating states of fragility and terror.

mmra makes his first Desert Drone appearance Friday, October 4th, at The Screening Room as part of our special presentation with Wave Archive.

Shapeshifting electronic confrontations — those between past and future — secret and known — faith and evidence — sound and person.

Mutating sub-aquatic instrumentation, dubby pulses, hard stippled percussion, and damaged strands of manipulated voice mark Tucson artist and musician Dominic Valencia’s work as mmra. Equally at home in worlds of both murky ambience and blistering club-adjacent experimentation, Valencia’s intricate compositions are never content to rest in one place for long, continually piling upon and consuming themselves as if they feel an unrelenting pull to break from their own bodies.

Excited to have Cecyl Ruehlen make his first Screening Room Desert Drone appearance on Friday, October 4th. He's been a consistent presence at our Owls Club shows, so we're happy to see him on the big stage.

Cecyl Ruehlen (b. 1984) is an intermedia artist and woodwind player who grew up in the rural high plains of western Kansas. Many of his undertakings focus on collaborative efforts, chimeric instruments, and prolonged projects within variable landscapes across the western United States. He melts feral actions and archives into a sonic ooze using an array of objects and recording processes. Ruehlen’s abstract approach, becoming ever increasingly interested in cycles of transformation and spatiality, take root as iterative, topographical devotionals.

Twig Harper performs live at The Screening Room Friday, October 4th, for our collaboration with Wave Archive.

James Twig Harper Johnston is a performer and electronic sound artist (among other things). His music and performances have been characterized generally by an incredible sense of trickery and playfulness - even foolishness - but in earnest and with careful consideration.

Doors 7:00pm
Music 7:30pm
$15 all ages

This week we welcome White Boy Scream to Arizona. We're excited to have such an accomplished artist and musician grace the stage for a series of special shows.

"Micaela Tobin—a Los Angeles-based vocalist and composer—uses her classically trained voice to slash through the hissing static, clangorous percussion, and punishing noise that she employs in
White Boy Scream. Her latest album, BAKUNAWA, is also a gesture of preservation: she invokes the pre-colonial mythology of her Philippine ancestry in songs that pivot between sublimity, contemplation, and terror...”
— Steve Smith, The New Yorker

11.28 Phoenix - Linger Longer Lounge
11.29 Flagstaff - Kickstand Kafe
12.1 Tucson - The Screening Room

Desert Breath, appearing at Linger Longer Lounge on Tuesday November 28th.

Desert Breath formed in 2019 as an avenue to elaborate on Jessie Demaree’s experimental and more intimate musical tastes. Jessie Demaree is more well-known as the founder and clarinetist in the ten-piece Psychedelic Klezmer Funk band, Jerusafunk, however Desert Breath has been leading the path for experiences in alternative venues throughout Arizona and in her hometown of Phoenix.


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November 28th. 7pm $12 21+

Desert Drone Presents: Quiet Night

A night of ambient/drone and experimental music at Owls Club on December 5th. A night for contemplation and peace. All door proceeds will go to Doctors Without Borders for their current work in the Palestinian humanitarian crisis and other parts of the world desperately in need of aid. Pay what you can. No one will be refused entry at the door.

Chelsey Lee Trejo and Patricio Coronado
Beck Rose
Lid Ismuth
Steev Hiise

8pm 21+ Owls Club

Our first Phoenix Desert Drone is coming up on November 28th at Linger Longer Lounge. Very pleased to be presenting this incredible lineup of experimental artists.

White Boy Scream
Lana Del Rabies
Amethyst Seer
Desert Breath

Tuesday November 28th
Linger Longer Lounge
7pm $12 21+

Coming up at the end of the month! We are bringing celebrated noise/opera artist White Boy Scream to Arizona for 3 special shows presented alongside Head In The Clouds Presents and Interference Series.

November 28 - Phoenix, AZ - Linger Longer Lounge
November 29 - Flagstaff, AZ - Kickstand Kafe
December 1 - Tucson, AZ - The Screening Room

We've had to change the November 30th Desert Drone event to December 1st and we're happy to be returning to The Screening Room, a lovely and accommodating venue with great seating for our events.

Same lineup as before, featuring White Boy Scream, R.A Sanchez, Super Ethereal Champion World, and Slán. This is an all ages event now as well.

We have 2 amazing touring acts coming through Tucson tonight, including NYC based vocalist and musician Samantha Riott.

November 4th, Owls Club
8pm doors | $10 | 21+
w/ Sarah Ruth (TX)
C.J. Boyd
Julio Lopez

Appearing at Owls Club Saturday, November 4th with Samantha Riott, C.J. Boyd, and Julio Lopez.

Denton, Texas’s Sarah Ruth Alexander – often sounds, alternately and simultaneously, like a harp, an untuned violin, a space heater, a barge approaching port, a Star Trek effects bank. Sarah Ruth harnesses the power and stark beauty of the natural world around her to weave a distinctive sound and narrative at turns haunting, poetic, and autobiographical.

November 4th Owls Club
Sarah Ruth
Samantha Riott
C.J. Boyd
Julio Lopez

8PM $10 21+

Tonight! 100% industrial.







Doors 7PM $12 21+

Celebrate Realize's new album Two Human Minutes out now on

Coming up Saturday November 4th at Owls Club.

Julio Lopez (they/them) is a creative musician living on Tohono O’odham land / Tucson, AZ. They are interested in song, cherished knowledge, ornaments, and emptiness

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8PM $10 21+

We celebrate the release of Tucson industrial metal act Realize's third full length album Two Human Minutes, released by celebrated underground label To Live A Lie Records, on Thursday November 2nd at Club Congress. A special night of industrial filth, noise, and heavy drone.

Realize came gasping into the world seven years ago, crawling through the muck and filth to sew together pounding drum machine chortles with down-tuned bass, dissonant guitars, interweaving synth electronics and noise throughout. The result is a guitar heavy industrial maze for your mind.
FFO: Godflesh, Jesu, Pitchshifter, Nailbomb

November 2nd, Club Congress
W/ Lana Del Rabies
Machine Oil
Ettkhett

7pm $12 21+

Thursday, November 2nd at Club Congress we present the Realize record release show with special guest Lana Del Rabies.

Lana Del Rabies is the dark electronic, genre-bridging solo project of Phoenix based musician, producer and multimedia artist Sam An. The project originated as experimental music that referenced the more ominous aspects of modern pop music made by women (like that of Lana Del Rey). Lana Del Rabies’ music currently incorporates industrial, gothic noise and metal, with experimental, darkwave and ambient sonic elements. Her work embodies discordant spaces between the occult and the political, personal trauma and collective grief, and brutality and benediction.

Also appearing:
Machine Oil
Ettkhett

Club Congress November 2nd
7pm 21+ $12

Phoenix! Desert Drone presents White Boy Scream at Linger Longer Lounge. With support from Lana Del Rabies, Amethyst Seer, and Desert Breath.

November 28th at Linger Longer Lounge. 7PM $12 21+

"Micaela Tobin—a Los Angeles-based vocalist and composer—uses her classically trained voice to slash through the hissing static, clangorous percussion, and punishing noise that she employs in
White Boy Scream. Her latest album, BAKUNAWA, is also a gesture of preservation: she invokes the pre-colonial mythology of her Philippine ancestry in songs that pivot between sublimity, contemplation, and terror...”

We are ecstatic to announce the November Desert Drone showcase, the R.A Sanchez (Lost Tribe Sound) album release show on November 30th at Club Congress, featuring White Boy Scream, Super Ethereal Champion World, and Slán.

We are especially thrilled to feature Los Angeles based artist White Boy Scream, the experimental classical project from opera singer and composer Micaela Tobin. On her latest release, 'BAKUNAWA', she dissects her voice through the use of electronics as a means of exploring identity and ancestral trauma. “BAKUNAWA” is an homage to the pre-colonial mythology of her motherland, the Philippines. Part sonic ritual, part diasporic storytelling. Of the album, Steve Smith of The New Yorker Magazine asserts that “opera would do well to pay attention”.

November 30th Club Congress
7PM $12 21+
R.A Sanchez
White Boy Scream
Super Ethereal Champion World
Slán

Tonight! The October edition of Desert Drone at Club Congress. Doors open at 7PM, music starts around 7:45PM.

Kage Krol
Skullfolk
Lauren Sarah Hayes
Music For Connection

$12

21+

Lauren Sarah Hayes makes her first Desert Drone appearance at Club Congress on Tuesday October 24th.

Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish musician and sound artist who builds and performs with hybrid analogue/digital instruments. She is a “positively ferocious improvisor” (Cycling ‘74), her music refusing to sit nicely between free improv, experimental pop, techno, and noise. Over the last decade she has developed and honed a deliberately challenging and unpredictable performance system that explores the relationships between bodies, sound, environments, and technology.

Also appearing
Music For Connection
Kage Krol
Skullfolk

Tuesday October 24th Club Congress
Doors 7pm, music 7:30pm
21+
$12

Skullfolk at Club Congress October 24th.

Skullfolk: The world has a lot of sounds, these are the ones i choose to remember.

With
Lauren Sarah Hayes
Music For Connection
Kage Krol

Doors 7pm 21+ $12

Desert Drone fall schedule. Wonderful October so far with much more to come.