November 2011
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consumables
View audio and video footage captured by iPad 2 here! It’s about an hour and a half long.
Friday, November 25 · 7:00pm - 11:00pm at 2739Edwin, Hamtramck USA
nospectacle presents: a night of dub/ambient audio/video overstimulation featuring matthew hawtin (ca), nospectacle (usa/ca) and special guest siobhan mckeown (uk).
mckeown splits time between bristol and london, where she is a...
June 2011
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Watchnospectacle #Movement2011 by csgholz on Flickr.
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Watchnospectacle #Movement2011 by csgholz on Flickr.
April 2011
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Movement 2011
nospectacle welcomes collaborator Markus Guentner to Detroit for Movement for a live audio-visual happening, 2-4 p.m. at Hart Plaza’s Underground Stage.
Guentner is best known for his contributions to Kompakt’s Pop Ambient series and for his tech-house productions on the Ware label. Guentner played a solo DJ set at Movement in 2006 and performed live with nospectacle in Ann Arbor...
December 2010
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DEC. 11: HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Over here, over here.
nospectacle live digital sight sound performance • 2739 Edwin
Saturday, Dec. 11 • Doors 8 p.m. • Showtime 9 p.m.
Suggested donation $5
2739 Edwin St. • Hamtramck
July 2010
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Muxing it up at at MUTEK
Check out the nospectacle feature on MUTEK blog DOWNLOAD nospectacle’s live set from MUTEK in podcast form for a limited time! MUTEKMAG Interview: Chris McNamara presents nospectacle from MUTEK on Vimeo. Here are some of Chris McNamara’s videos! The Use of Movement (excerpt) from Christopher McNamara on Vimeo. Establishing Shots from Christopher McNamara on Vimeo. Intersection 2...
Star Command: nospectacle at Nocturne 5: Soul...
Photo credit: Caroline Hayeur. The Subterraneans: Songs of the hour
June 2010
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MUTEK Roundup
nospectacle performed at Mutek in early June, opening a final night program called Soul Control. The lineup included Moritz von Oswald Trio, Brandt Brauer Frick and Theo Parrish. We performed a 45-minute set of original Christopher McNamara material, both audio and visual, interpreted and mixed by Walter Wasacz and Jennifer Paull. With one exception: an homage to the recently departed Malcolm...
April 2010
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Chris McNamara presents nospectacle at MUTEK 2010
nospectacle live at movement 2008
happy audio from paxahau archives
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February 2010
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Vague Cities
Look for changes in the next month or so. This site will be revamped, materials archived and searchable. We will also be launching walterwasacz.com, a home for all things Walter. For now, here are some photos from the Vague Cities release party at Motor Burger in Windsor Download Chris McNamara’s “Vague Cities” on Overlap here. Walter talks to Klimek and reviews King Midas...
January 2010
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In with the new
It’s official. 2010 is here and it finally feels like we’re living in the future, the ideal setting for Chris McNamara’s sublime innerspace travelog Vague Cities, issued late last year on Christopher Willits’ San Francisco-based Overlap digital imprint. Listen to the five-track EP and buy it here. Now it’s time to celebrate. nospectacle presents a release party for...
November 2009
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Nov 20 afterglow
October 2009
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Collapsing Borders - Einstürzende Grenze
Markus Guentner (Regensburg) nospectacle (Detroit) Video and Performance Studio Duderstadt Center, University of Michigan 2281 Bonisteel Blvd November 20 6 - 9 p.m. Free This special audio-visual live electronics presentation features a North American exclusive: an appearance by Markus Guentner, a German artist known as an innovator of the pop ambient sound for Cologne’s Kompakt label,...
May 2009
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LIT
Virgil Moorefield, Merge and nospectacle in Live in Time, May 21, Detroit Film Theatre, @ DIA, 5200 Woodward Avenue. Doors 7 p.m. $10.
April 2009
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Live in Time - May 21, 2009
January 2009
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Subterraneans Best of 2008
Call me old-fashioned, but I actually like most of the music I write about, making each year-end, best-of list I do a delight not a chore. Sure, there’s lots of bad stuff out there, horrible shit, in fact, but the good work that makes it through the din of mediocrity makes it all worthwhile. And looking back over a year’s worth of tunes gives the period some weight it didn’t immediately have. In...
nospectacle DJ set Wednesday in Hamtramck
December 2008
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Video from Cranbrook and Photos from Broadcast
Photos by Walter Wasacz and Jennifer Paull from live radio broadcast Video from Cranbrook Art Museum shot by Sherry Gaines, edited by Jennifer Paull
nospectacle to broadcast from MOCAD
Curated by Irene Hofmann and co-organized by ICI, New York, and the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, the Broadcast exhibition runs through Dec. 28 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Broadcast explores ways in which artists since the late 1960s have engaged, critiqued and inserted themselves into official channels of broadcast television and radio. On Dec. 18, nospectacle and Paris...
nospectacle in Famzine
Our friend John “Billiebob” Williams was kind enough to interview Walter for his excellent blog, Famzine. Here is the interview reprinted in its entirety. nospectacle combines music and video into a mind melting live performance. The trio consists of Walter Wasacz, Jennifer Paull and Chris McNamara. On Friday, November 28 at Cranbrook Art Museum, they performed a set loosely based on...
November 2008
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Wholly Love
On Friday, November 28 at 8pm, Cranbrook Art Museum will welcome nospectacle for a program loosely based on “Exploding Plastic Inevitable,” the multimedia happening organized by Andy Warhol in the mid-1960s and first performed at a dinner for the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry. The show will include reinterpretations of music by The Velvet Underground, visual elements that...
October 2008
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Upcoming Fall Events
June 2008
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Something wicked this way comes...
Based in London, where he works as an artist, DJ, and owner of the influential Hyperdub record label, Kode9 makes his first Detroit-area appearance with support by nospectacle. Dub specialist Kode9 (his friends back home in Glasgow call him Steve Goodman) studied rave culture, cybernetics, postmodernism and afrofuturism at the University of Warwick in England, where he got his Ph.D in...
Live at Max M. Fisher Music Center - 8 Days in...
Jennifer Paull and Chris McNamara, The Prisoner
May 2008
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nospectacle at DEMF 2008
nospectacle, an electronic music/video group made up of sound/film producer Chris McNamara (Thinkbox), and Jennifer A. Paull and Walter Wasacz of Paris ‘68 DJs, will open the VitaminWater Main Stage Saturday, May 24 at 2008’s Movement: Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival. The live audio/visual-DJ hybridized performance is 2-4 p.m. and is directly followed by the highly...
April 2008
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Say hey to the 'Ambient Pimp'
Klimek interview by Walter Wasacz Sebastian Meissner has been making strange, beautiful music since the early- to mid-1990s, when he began collaboration with Ekkehard Ehlers on their Autopoieses project for the Frankfurt-based Mille Plateaux family of labels. He also worked on solo projects under the intriguingly mysterious names aUTOkoNTRasT, Bizz Circuits, Random Inc and Random Industries...
March 2008
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Sine of the Times