10/21 | Adult Swim Returns: HALLOWEIRD @ Madison Children’s Museum + 100th anniversary NOSFERATU screening w/ live score!

Adult Swim Returns!
HALLOWEIRD @ Madison Children’s Museum
Friday, October 21st 2022
5:30 pm – 9:00 pm
TICKETS

6:30pm on 2nd floor
NOSFERATU (1922) 100th anniversary screening!
with Live Score and Sound FX by DB Pedersen, Brennan Connors & BC Grimm


Monsters and robots and clowns, oh my! Adult Swim returns after three long years!
Adult Swim at Madison Children’s Museum honors the public pool tradition of kicking the kids out so adults can have the space to themselves (without the water or need for a swimsuit). This 21-and-up event series offers adults the opportunity to play like a grown-up for the evening—crawling, sliding, crafting, and dancing their way through the museum. Don’t miss the Wonderground, our newest 10,000 square foot outdoor playground and exhibit space.

Join us to celebrate Halloween in style – wear your favorite costume or make costume accessories after you arrive. Additional activities:

  • Get sketchy or model your costume for a fast-draw competition
  • Compete in a horror film scavenger hunt
  • Experiment with dry ice bubbles
  • Make spooky or silly ghost print
  • Relive a childhood nightmare as you share your worst trick-or-treat “treat”
  • Enjoy a vintage horror flick with live sci fi accompaniment
  • Enter our costume fashion show and contest to win fabulous prizes
  • Halloween crafts galore!

Tickets

  • $20 advance (advance sales end at noon on day of event).
  • $25 at the door

Ages 21 & up

Ticket cancellation/exchange policy.

Please note, this event is not affiliated with ADULT SWIM, the television and entertainment network—also, we don’t have a swimming pool.


Behold the Monstrosity of DB Squidersen!!

I’m very excited to perform once again with DB Pedersen! He’s been one of the most frequent collaborators to pop up on the GrimmusiK website, and of course, one of my favorite human beings that I’ve met in Madison! It’s been a little while since we’ve performed together; partly due to DB having a few year stint as a chef out in Spring Green at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and partly due to the obvious lack of performances during this Covid era… I can’t think of a better way to reconnect than scoring a spooky silent film during its centennial this Halloween! DB and I have performed a lot of free improvisation in Madison over the years, most notably in our trio with my brother AJ, called “Sister’s Three”. A big highlight was when Sisters Three composed & performed a live theater score for A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bartell Theatre (Madison, WI) with Strollers Theatre Company. DB is well known for his throat singing expertise, impromptu theatrics and a knack for making any sound effect you could ever imagine with his mouth! If you haven’t seen him perform before, you are in for a major treat; it’s always unpredictable, surprising, funny, and even spiritual when DB gets on stage.

db pedersen in a Spring Green silo!

Brennan Connors performing with Stray Passage @ Cafe CODA | (c) 2018 Paul S Howell Photography

Most of you will know Brennan Connors from our decade long collaboration in his jazz trio Brennan Connors & Stray Passage. Saxophonist and improvisor extraordinaire, Brennan has recently developed a new style which dips into the sonic territory of 20th century composition. Brennan has been working on heady, layered dissonances and new concepts to break him away from expected norms in today’s Jazz or even New Music scenes. It’s been a long time since I’ve improvised with Brennan in such a different mode, outside of the Jazz Trio idiom. I can’t wait to see what he brings to the table!


Not only have DB and I performed a lot of free-improv together, but Brennan and DB have also shared the stage countless times in their free-improv group Amoebageddon. With soundscapes built from flutes and implements through loop stations, saxophones, and electric cello accompanied by live visual art on a projector – this was one of my favorite Madison area acts to see in the free-improv and experimental scene! We’ll be drawing on years of various collaborative configurations in order to bring you a Live Improvised Score to the silent horror film classic Nosferatu!

“did somebody say my name…?”

Film Screening: starting at 6:30pm on the 2nd floor, we’ll be celebrating the 100th anniversary of Nosferatu (1922), an unauthorized film adaptation of the novel Dracula (1887) by Bram Stoker. As the fates would have it… this is actually the second time that I’ll be performing a live improvised score to this film, also at a museum! Back around 2008-2010 I was in a guerilla new music ensemble of graduate composers at Butler University called Ensemble 48. One of our most memorable performances was a live, outdoor, improvised score to Nosferatu, with the film MASSIVELY projected onto the entire side wall of a museum in Indianapolis! It was so much fun! Miss these goofballs >>

vintage Ensemble 48, in costume after our Nosferatu screening in 2008! pictured Left to Right (standing): Joshua Morris, Nick Liebman, Adam Cohen-Leadholm, Zane Merritt, Megan Pokorney, Brian Grimm; (kneeling) Scott Comanzo, Matt Smart.

see you there…..

Upcoming Shows |12/17 Stray Passage |12/18 Grimm & Petersen |12/19 Lovely Socialite

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

Thr, 12/17  |  8:30-11:00pm $0 @ The Mason Lounge

416 S Park St, Madison, Wisconsin 53715

BRENNAN CONNORS & STRAY PASSAGE

Live. At the Mason. Wild. Dynamic. Free Jazz. Songs & Improvisation. Craft Beer. Great Spirits. Music! Come and join us there…


Fri, 12/18  |  7pm $5 @ Bright Red Studios

9 N Ingersoll St, Madison, Wisconsin 53703

GRIMM & PEDERSEN└ formerly of stray passage ☾☽ crutching and beyond ☾☽ a mime slowly sinking into a vat of glue

VENEREAL CRUSH ├ quell form orchestra drone ☾☽ knitting wrong stitches ☾☽ a thing with long legs rising above thick trees

TAR PET ╪ wavering leavings ☾☽ knife juice ☾☽ a flame that will not go out

MID WASTE ╘ city waste ☾☽ rib cage blooming ☾☽ a stuttering child

Justice resonator at Bright Red Studios. Please feel free to bring spectors and baubles as this will be a daemon friendly event. 5 CREDITS FOR THE TRAVELING RADIENTS. It will begin on time, even though time is an illusion perpetuated by the watchers.


Sat, 12/19  |  7-9pm $5 @ Johnson Public House

908 E Johnson St, Madison, Wisconsin 53703

LOVELY SOCIALITE

RADARHILL

Lovely Socialite’s new CD “Toxic Consonance” made Tone Madison’s ‘Top 20 Madison Records of 2015‘ list!


12/12 | WINTERSONG @ The Barrymore Theater

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Sat, 12/12  |  8pm $18 @ The Barrymore Theater

WINTERSONG fundraiser for Second Harvest Food Bank

performances by

PHOX | Anna Vogelzang | Love High | Corey Mathew Hart | Faux Fawn | Crane Your Swan Neck (feat. Julian Lynch & BC Grimm) | DB Pedersen |

For the past three winter seasons, local folk musicians, headed by Anna Vogelzang, have banded together to present Wintersong, an all-ages holiday show to benefit Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin. In 2014 alone – thanks to a packed Barrymore Theatre – over $10,000 was raised, providing 30,252 meals for families and individuals who struggle with hunger. Since 2012, Wintersong has raised 40,452 meals to help end hunger in southwestern Wisconsin.

The public is invited to join musicians Anna Vogelzang, Phox, Love High, Corey Mathew Hart, Faux Fawn, Crane Your Swan Neck, and special guests as the band of merrymakers cover holiday tunes, perform seasonal group numbers, and raise donations for Second Harvest Foodbank in this family-friendly, fun-filled event’s fourth year.

The concert, presented by Majestic Live & the Barrymore Theater, will take place at the Barrymore Saturday December 12, 2015 at 8PM. This event is generously supported by the Isthmus, Wisconsin Public Radio, Furthermore Beer and WORT.

Guests will also hear from Kris Tazelaar of Second Harvest. A raffle with prizes from many local businesses will be held during the evening as well.

Concert tickets are $18 in advance, on sale at B-Side Records, Frugal Muse, Strictly Discs, Star Liquor, MadCity Music, Sugar Shack and the Barrymore. Charge tickets at 608-241-8633, or order online at BarrymoreLive.com. On the day of the show, tickets will be available for $20 at the door, for $18 with a non-perishable food donation or a student ID, or for $10 for children under 12. Non-perishable donations are welcome. For more details, see Wintersong-Madison.com.

About Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin

Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin, southwestern Wisconsin’s largest hunger-relief organization, is a non-profit organization that is committed to ending hunger in 16 southwestern Wisconsin counties through community partnerships. By focusing on a multipronged approach that includes food distribution, increasing participation in public and private food programs, and mobilizing the public, it serves nearly 141,000 people who struggle with hunger each year; 43% of whom are children. From July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014 Second Harvest Foodbank, together with its more than 225 partner agencies and programs, provided 12.6 million meals to those facing hunger. It is one of 200 members of Feeding America, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity. For more information, visit SecondHarvestMadison.org.

Generous Support by | Wisconsin Public Radio, WORT FM, YelpMonona State Bank, Furthermore Beer, & Isthmus.

Raffle Prizes from | L’Etoile RestaurantForequarterSarisFromagination Artisan Cheeses and Perfect CompanionsThe Sh*tty BarnShopbopIsthmusMatchless MadeThe Cargo Bike Shop & more! raffle tickets on sale when doors open (7PM) and during intermission only!


 

4/18 | FOMA w/ Jeff Stanek & BC Grimm

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I think this foto says it all! Come get goofy with us!

IT’S NOT A FORMAL FAT SUIT!

Sat, 4/18 |  Doors 7pm / Music 7:30-10pm

515 Maple Ave, Madison WI

From FOMA ~  This is the premiere show for this great new house venue! (Make sure to tell Jeff Stanek you want more!!!)

Vote Diana Sussman for home snowcoming queen and David Pedersen will kick the ceiling! Or, just kick back as Jeff Stanek serves cupcakes and Brian Grimm pours tea to the sad harp strains of Molly Wells. Candlelight and kale chips. Improvisation and album sneak peeks. We can’t wait to share the fun!

(^This information may or may not be entirely fictional…)

FOMA Videos >> Here!

FOMA = Diana Sussman + db pedersen + Molly Wells | free movement and sound based improvisations

Jeff Stanek = host + pianist + provider of tasty treats

BC Grimm = cello + guzheng + eater of tasty treats