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Our Jesters' Tryst event (held at Uptown/Downtown Bar on April 6th, 2008 in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA) generated considerable interest on the internet especially on myspace and facebook. Thus, Jesters now has its own news section accessible from the homepage of the www.frequencymutineers.org site. Jesters was the first event in our highly successful "Machinery Sundays" series.

On June 29th, The Frequency Mutineers present a continuation of our Machinery Sundays. This Machinery will run from 10pm to 2am at Uptown Bar in downtown Bowling Green. Age 18 and over to get in, 21 and over to drink. Cost $2 in advance, $3 at door. We’re focusing on Industrial and Electronic dance music from 10pm to 2am with Dr. Thanatos, Evoke, SteveO, Rage, Darkfalz + Prime, PsysiX, Knife, Widget, and Storm Crow performing across the night. (We're also expecting unannounced special guests.) As always, your contributions and requests are what make it special. So join us before (we are leaders, not followers) Independence Day to celebrate the beginning of Summer :-)

Time DJ (Affiliation)

1000 Widget (Frequency Mutineers)
1030 Storm Crow (WBGU FM @ BGSU)
1100 Knife (Chaos Unit, Bowling Green)
1130 Darkfalz + Prime (Trifektid)
1200 PsysiX (Electronic Enlightenment)
1230 Rage (Scarred at Best, Toledo)
0100 SteveO (Rewired, Bowling Green)
0130 Evoke (Rewired, Bowling Green)
0200 Thanatos (A4mation, Ann Arbor)

Decorations by Chaos Unit
Giveaways by Fist Full of Comics
Animated Videos by Whisper Friend
Recording by SteveO and Widget
Industrial Arts and Crafts
Bartending by Kristen
VJing by The FM

Here's the history of Machinery Sundays (The Only Goth Night on Sunday in the Local Area) at Uptown Bar in Bowling Green.

Machinery_00 (04.06.08) The Jesters' Tryst: Honoring the Mysterious Past of April Fools' Day with Audio and Video
Machinery_01 (05.25.08) Music, Video, and Dance Celebration of Memorial Day Weekend with Goth versus Rave Scene
Machinery_02 (06.29.08) Multi-Sense Performance to Begin Summer with Light, Sound, and Movement for Independence
Machinery_03 (08.24.08) Welcoming Back Students (Because We Need Fresh Blood) with Multi-Media Performance Art
Machinery_04 (09.21.08) Industrial Equinox: Respecting the Last Night of Summer and First Day of Fall with Music
Machinery_05 (11.23.08) Appreciating Goth, Rivet, and Rave Culture with Electronic Music instead of Needless Slaughter
Machinery_66 (03.22.09) Steampunk Looking Glass: Giant Mushrooms Make the Dance Floor a Biological Hazard but Taste Good

We're recording the live sets of Evoke, SteveO, and Dr. Thanatos at Uptown's Rewired Wednesdays, a weekly Goth Industrial club night focused on using music and dancing to bring people together. We're also occasionally performing at (and broadcasting live from) that location. (Rewired is the "Goth Nite" in Bowling Green and it's held at Uptown Bar in Downtown Bowling Green every Wednesday Night / Thursday Morning from 9pm to 2am.) Parts of these sets are re-played on our weekly terrestrial/internet shows especially Frequency Mutineers Radio which is "Every Friday Night at Midnight" on WBGU. Find more data at www.rewiredbg.com.

This week, Rewired presents the 8th Edition of Hard Trance/Dark Tribal Night with Dr. Thanatos on the turntables. In addition, SteveO and Evoke will be playing Classic (as well as Current) Gothic, Industrial, Electronic, Metal, and Alternative music. We'll also have another edition of Midnight Montage, a special audio/video set by Dr. Thanatos and Whisper Friend. But the focus is always on YOUR REQUESTS. So please meet The FM at Rewired this Wednesday (07.03.08).

Do you want to be part of our Machinery and Rewired club nights? Then join our street team! It's called the Chaos Unit and it's run by Knife and Forensics. There's further details at www.myspace.com/chaosunitbg.

The FM can be heard "Every Friday Night at Midnight" on WBGU (88.1 fm, WBGUfm.com). The resident Mutineers (Dr. Thanatos, Whisper Friend, DJ Forensics, DJ Drache, Storm Crow, SteveO) focus on conscious turntablism, performance art, experimental music, and multi-sense DJing with additional contributions from Sniper, Knife, Em, and Widget. We also present field recordings of live sets from Spare Parts, What the Bleep, PsysiX, Shadowcast, Nixphonic, Evoke, SteveO, Cable, Jinx, DarkFalz, Prime, Rage, and Audioflesh. Then from 2am to 4am, we (Thanatos, Forensics, Em) perform on WFAL, Falcon Radio (Cable Channel 21, WFALradio.com). This show focuses on electronic forms of Reggae music (Ragga Jungle and Dub Step).

In addition to our crew's shows ("The Frequency Mutineers"), several Mutineers have their own radio show. Storm Crow (Industrial, Metal, Goth) can be heard every Thursday at 10pm on WBGU. Drache (Industrial, Metal, Covers) can be heard every Saturday Night / Sunday Morning at 12mn on WBGU.

Our Turntablism Course will soon be offered for credit at Bowling Green State University. We will, however, continue offering it for free to anyone who wants to learn Advanced DJ Skills. If you are interested in learning Turntable Performance Art right now or if you want to join our Turntablism Club, please come to our next meeting (07.03.08) anytime after 8pm.

DJ Forensics has initiated an exciting series of live audio experiments inspired by Alvin Lucier's "I am Sitting in a Room". With that recording, Lucier was able to show the "sound of a room" by recording tapes of spoken words over and over until the words become music. We have extended this seminal work using a delay unit thereby showing the "sound of a circuit". The aural results of our experiments will be posted here soon.

Our mashup work has led us to the concept of "nonlinear" or "perpendicular" DJing. Most DJ sets are simply a repeated parallel movement from Track A to Track B; that is, the DJ segues the two tracks in order to keep the dance floor "moving". With perpendicular DJing, additional layers are added atop these parallel movements creating interesting (and more cerebral) nuances. For example, tracks "echo off" vertically as the mix moves forward horizontally.

In order to complete Eclectic mixes using various genres, we've developed a DJ technique called "Harmonic Overlay". This skill allows us to easily move from slow (e.g., Trip Hop) tracks running at 85 BPM to fast (e.g., Hard Core) tracks running at 170 BPM. Whisper Friend has extended these simple Overlays using idea behind the "triplet" pattern of drummers. Thus tracks whose tempos are mathematically related can now be interestingly "beatmatched" with Harmonic Overlay. For example, since tracks running at 100 BPM and 150 BPM will converge at when played at 300 BPM, it is possible to produce unique "beatmatches" with the tracks running at their normal speed. Such Harmonic Overlay mixes can be heard weekly on Frequency Mutineers Radio which is "Every Friday Night at Midnight" at BGSU (WBGUfm.com, 88.1 fm, WFALradio.com, Cable Channel 21).

Thanks to Nixphonic, The Frequency Mutineers now have a music video and it's available on YouTube. The video begins with graphic work by SteveO and features live performances by members of our crew (Dr. Thanatos, Psysix, Shadowcast, Whisper Friend, and Nixphonic) at the Common Grounds Music Fest in Bluffton, Ohio. That fine event was assembled by Nixphonic and Electronic Enlightenment last Summer (07.13.07).

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