PSYCHOPOMP: Music and Ritual

A performance series occurring semi monthly in Portland, OR

There is no audience and there is no performer.

The sound is your body and the movement induced by the sound. A monthly negation of the distinctions between music/ noise, ritual/art, ritual/dance, madness/enlightenment, here/beyond, individual/environment, spirit/flesh. A convergence of DJ'd and live performances of archaic folk musical traditions, electronic emanations, ecstatic dance, atavistic percussion, performance art, noise, butoh, death trance, ritual performance, metal, dark ambient meditations, frenzied cacophonies, dying machinery giving voice with its last cries to the forces that animate all things. A dance party in the space between all spaces. Psychopomp is no particular genre, group, or theme, but simply a means to go beyond.



PSYCHOPOMP X


Noiseum with Seraphic Society
"Phosphor Honeycombs under the Tetrahedron Hypnosis Mirror"

Markandeya Mahesh and Sumio Seven
"Serpent's Kiss"

Headless Lizzy and her Icebox Pussy
"Psychedelic Doom Wave to Herald an New Age of the Intertwining 69"

Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
"Ssserpentinesssussurations, gossamerglossolalia and TowerofBabelbabble, mantic mantric musick and alchymic antics"

Cult of Zir & Ogo Eion
"Shortwave Ministry for Theatre Noir"

Arun-Once-Was-ZyGoat
"Invocation of the PanGenitor Shrine"

Friday, August 27th
@ Autonomy
Studio 316 / NW 4th & Everett
10pm $5





PSYCHOPOMP IX


Nommo Ogo
"other"

Synchronicity Frequency
"harmonique gruve blazt"

Cult of Zir
"sirius fucking business"

Psychetect
"erecting new psychic structures"

Thee Casualty Company
"the dragons body lost to the insects evolution"

Friday, May 14th
@ Circadia Arts Center
4705 NE Columbia
10pm $5 21+





PSYCHOPOMP VIII


Lux Interna
"silence sung for those with ears to hear"

Waldteufel
"Deutsch-Kaskadische reundschaft"

Fauna
"...what lies hidden behind the veil."

HAIL
"Infinite Cascadian Darkness"

Friday, March 19th
@ Circadia Arts Center
4705 NE Columbia
10pm $8 21+





PSYCHOPOMP VII


Soriah
Akashick Frequencies

Nezzy Idy
Underworld Electro Odyssey

L.V.X. Occulta
La Oracion De Santa Muerte

Djynnx
Analog Slimewave Assault : from Katabatik Soundsystem

Noiseum
Sonic Phosphor Mirror Eye

Cult of Zir
Yours is the Sorcery of Sonic Sigilism

Friday, February 19th
@ DUNES
1905 NE MLK Blvd
10pm $5 21+





PSYCHOPOMP VI


Danse Perdue
Elkugami group butoh performance

Briana Jones & NoisePoetNobody
Beautiful yet disturbing solo butoh dance accompanied by voltage control synthesizers and home made instruments

Novemthree
dass mir licht auf die zweifelnden pfade falle

At the Head of the Woods
Heavy Meditative Hallucinations

Soup Purse
Augury of indefinite birds, followed by commentary

Thee Noiseium
Exhibition of Sonic Sculpture

Powder Keg!
An All Action Experience

Satyrday, November 21st
@ Circadia Arts Center
4705 NE Columbia
10pm $6 21+





PSYCHOPOMP V

15 Degrees Below Zero
cinematic isolationism

Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Violin and Voice with Elemental Electronica. Butoh and Glossolalic Atavisms,
Shamanic rhapsodies from Australia


Thee Casualty Company
Promised Glacial Holocaust

Cascadian Winter
Cascadian Death Folk

StaticOpera
Mutated String Trio

Blood Seeks Blood
The journey of the grieving sun

Friday, August 28th
@ Circadia Arts Center
4705 NE Columbia
10pm $5 21+





PSYCHOPOMP IV


Kaia Selene & Ebb of Mercurian Scales
Hail

Port of the Sun & Takedown UAV
a choir ov ghosts refleshed

Shroud
ambient sleep inducing dreamstate trance

Exquisite Corps
From Below

Friday, August 28th
@ Circadia Arts Center
4705 NE Columbia
10pm $5 21+





PSYCHOPOMP III


Fauna
"Apocalyptic Atavism"

At the Head of the Woods
"Skybound New Age Pyschedelia"

Aranya
"Ritual Tribal Metal and Frenzied Heathen Madness"

Exquisite Corps
"Holographic Transmissions"

Mirror Milk
"an offering of flesh where sea meets sky
that dreams may reveal"


Satyrday, June 27th
@ Circadia Arts Center
4705 NE Columbia
10pm $5 21+





PSYCHOPOMP II


Thee Casualty Company
"From Within You, We Devour"

Cult of Zir
"Sorcery thru Signal Manipulation and Deconstructed Intonation"

Eyerish Heather Collins
"Mutifaceted Mermadian Moon Mirror Musings"

youBroken creature
"Orchestral Static Operas"

Tuesday, May 19th
@ DUNES
1905 NE M.L.K. Blvd
9pm $3 21+





PSYCHOPOMP I


Solar Revels Conducted in Spring's Long Shadow

Blood Seeks Blood
"Cascadian Ritual Noise/Death Folk"

SCARD
"Bleak Ambient Noise"

In Medias Res
"Ceremonial Explorations of the Void"

Tuesday, April 28th
@ DUNES
1905 NE MLK Blvd
9pm $3 21+




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