LUCKY DRAGONS (Usa) w/ SCHOOL TOUR & more - Thurs 24th June - Joinery - BYOB (1 Viewer)

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Skinny Wolves Presents:
LUCKY DRAGONS (Usa, Marriage / Upset! the Rhythm)
SCHOOL TOUR
& More
TBA

THURSDAY 24TH JUNE
THE JOINERY, ARBOUR HILL, STONEYBATTER, DUBLIN
DOORS 8PM - 11.30PM
---BYOB---
TICKET INFO TBC

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LUCKY DRAGONS
http://www.hawksandsparrows.org
http://www.myspace.com/luckydragons
http://www.youtube.com/lukeydargons

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"lucky dragons" means any recorded or performed or installed or packaged or shared or suggested or imagined pieces made by Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara, and/or any sometimes collaborators who claim the name.

the name "lucky dragons" is borrowed from a japanese fishing boat caught in the fallout of hydrogen bomb test at bikini atoll in the 1950's. the crew stricken ill, and the boat itself contaminated, the "lucky dragon" became a crystalizing symbol for the previously diffuse worldwide anti-nuclear sentiment. eventually the boat was painted black, renamed the "dark falcon", and put into reuse as a fishing vessel, until it was retired and disposed of on the man-made trash island "dream island", where it remains today.

lucky dragons are about the birthing of new and temporary creatures--equal-power situations in which audience members cooperate amongst themselves, building up fragile networks held together by such light things as skin contact, unfamiliar language, temporary logic, the spirit of celebration, and things that work but you don't know why. There have been hundreds of these simple yet shifting and unpredictable instances--with audiences ranging from the intense intimacy of one person to the public spectacle of thousands of people. At the heart of it all is playing together--building up social collectivities, re-engaging the wonder and impossibility of technological presence. It sounds--and looks--like simple and ancient patterns coming together and falling apart in a sincere attempt to let wires and screens and words become clear and crystal.

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(Picture from Lucky Dragons, Dublin houseshow)

Fischbeck and Rara have presented interactive performances and installations in a wide variety of contexts--including MOCA Los Angeles, The Smell, Smithsonian's Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Whitney Museum of American Art (as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial), The Kitchen and PS1 in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, REDCAT and LACMA in Los Angeles, Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle, ICA London, ICA Philadelphia, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

lucky dragons' sister projects include "sumi ink club"--a weekly collaborative drawing society, and "glaciers of nice"--a small press and internet community.

today's influences: nikki de st phalle, joan didion, CoBrA group, crass, hieronymous bosch, thomas jefferson, tina turner, allan kaprow, joan jonas, bruce nauman, mayan codices, ivor cutler, jacques ranciere, helio oiticica, lygia clark, giorgio agamben, pauline oliveros, terry riley, plastic people of the universe, eliane radigue, bruno munari.

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(Dutchies photo, of Lucky Dragons at the Joy Gallery, Dublin)

PRESS

“Lucky Dragons… create ecstatic music that completely transcends genres. My attempts to describe what their music actually sounds like always fall short of the magic they are making. I guess you could say it sounds like—ecstatic magic. Challenging stereotypes that electronic music is cold and sterile, Lucky Dragons’ live show, though conducted via computers, is a truly great celebration of the human spirit, giving real hope for the techno-future our society is racing toward.” -artforum (March 2006)

“a line between the handmade and the distanced digital… …a successful forging of the personal detritus, the mic-ed moments between moments” -all music guide

“Lucky Dragons have managed to create a completely new strand of West Coast American psychedelia” -frieze

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SCHOOL TOUR
http://myspace.com/schooltourmusic
http://soundcloud.com/munitionsfamily/school-tour-shadow-pup-edit

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"Solar flare gamelan disco brain rot from Mt. Errigal." - School Tour is Gerard Duffy of Children Under Hoof / Patrick Kelleher and His Cold Dead Hands

"Weird, wonderful and space-age electronica from the wilds of Donegal to send shivers down your spine. "Skating With Another" is music for trekking along icy plateaux and frozen hills in the dead of winter." - The Irish Times
 

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WOVEN SKULL are now playing this too!

Woven Skull : "Gutter level Medi-evil Psych Folk"

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btw, this show is 10e, BYOB... and Lucky Dragons are performing, for the first time in ireland, as a two piece
 


PRMNT VIBES present Lucky Dragons at the Star and Shadow Cinema. Lucky Dragons are Los Angeles-based artists Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara, most famous for creating live performances where music is produced by human touch. People connect together to build up sounds until the whole room is one huge fragile and powerful network. Positively smacking of homebuilt kinetic energy, Lucky Dragons blur the lines between the digital and the handspun. Amidst dozens of psychedelic rhythms there are tropical keyboard drones, recorder ditties, whistles, delay pedal-induced hypnosis and weird melodies.
 
this looks very weird! are the people actually playing music or will it just be a big pretend?
 
There's a sliver of my head showing above Luke Fischbeck's noggin in that first photo. Looking forward to this!
 

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