BIG EARS FESTIVAL

Molten Soundscapes

Molten Soundscapes: Freeform Glass & Sonic Sculpture Performance ft. Thor Harris and Matthew Cummings

Fri   Mar   28   2025 - 8:00 PM Pretentious Beer Company

Join local glass maker Matthew Cummings and Austin, Texas-based percussionist Thor Harris (Swans, Water Damage) & friends for a unique collaboration of sound and sculpture.

Lit only by the light of the furnace, the performance will last approximately one to one and a half hours, the end result being a glass sculpture that is a physical and abstract dictation of the music’s movement over the course of the evening.

Joyful Noise Recordings’ roots run deep through the indie music landscape. One of the very first labels to revive the oft-misunderstood physical format–the cassette tape–the Indianapolis based label has been releasing albums and oddities for the last 22 years with artists such as Deerhoof, Oneida, The Folk Implosion, Dinosaur Jr., Swamp Dogg, Kishi Bashi, Dale Crover, Lou Barlow, Tropical Fuck Storm, Bernie Sanders & Thurston Moore, Tortoise, of Montreal, Joan of Arc, Marnie Stern, Lil Bub, Finom, Protomartyr, Yonotan Gat, David Yow (The Jesus Lizard) and many more.

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