Nightlight Bar and Club will host its monthly 919Noise Showcase on Wednesday, featuring performances from noise artists 80KV, HyMettus Woods, Provisional and Isotroposphere.
All ages are welcome to attend the showcase. The entrance fee is $5 for Nightlight members and $7 for non-members. Doors will open at 8 p.m., and performances will begin at 8:30 p.m.
Each artist will perform a unique set of noise and experimental music for an equally unique audience.
919Noise Showcase has been hosted monthly in the Chapel Hill area for 13 years, attracting a loyal fan base. Doug Francis, otherwise known as Isotroposphere, said it is his favorite monthly event.
“You can go there and do anything you want,” he said. “Everybody’s having a good time.”
Noise music is a category of music distinguished by its expressive use of noise and unconventional song structure.
“It is intentionally against these rules, structures, conventions about what music should sound like,” noise artist 80KV said. “It is on the cutting edge of musical innovation.”
Noise music has long contributed to film soundtracks and sound design, but it is still growing in popularity as a performance art. Noise music sound designer and audio artist, Christopher Thurston of HyMettus Woods, said there was a packed house for the noise performers at Moogfest, a spring music festival in Durham, this year.
Thurston has performed in many noise performance events as a solo artist and as a member of a band. Last year, he released “The Storm Dance,” a piece commissioned by the North Carolina State University dance department. It was composed in conjunction with NC State Dance Program director Tara Mullins’ choreography, “The Storm.”
