An uncompromising force of the American Underground, PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT create live actions gripping and unforgettable. J Borges and Shannon Kennedy unfurl a dramatic interplay on instruments specifically selected – and often created – for each performance cycle: hand-rigged string instruments, various electro-acoustic interventions, cello, electronics. Though rightly known for seismic blasts of the maximally harsh, it’s the duo’s deft dynamics that make their step to the threshold epically cathartic. Any PD show is auspicious occasion, particularly so in their hometown of Los Angeles. This will be their first of 2023.

VORTAL CURB the deep underground L.A. knob solderer and voltage controller Cole Miller brings the pulse and squeak

SAM ROWELL opens the show, reprising a live version of her SPECIAL COLLECTIONS radio project with an audio interrogation of intense sounds anomolous and obscure – bugs, wildfires, wolves, geysers, sounds of space, volcano infrasound, plus live electromagnetic field (EMF) readings of the venue… and metal detectors, radio broadcast data systems, shortwave anomalies, HAARP, and spirit radios.