Live Performance (Past / Future) + Audio

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Live performances are listed in reverse chronological order. Each past show is accompanied by as complete an audio document as exists…

Ultrabillions & Friends: Arcana Musical Residency 4

Ultrabillions / Neat Freak / Natty Bongo / Tescon Pol

1. GEIJ  2. Myriapoda  3. spièré  4. Distribuitve

Tuesday, 07/23/2017 @ Arcana

Durham, NC

7:00 PM

 

Tescon Pol / Nathan Golub @ Nightlight

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Ultrabillions / Nathan Golub

1. Caldeira  2. newnwel  3. riftsS-L, S  4. SoME_2: Silk Road as an Island  5. Girl in the Adjoining Room, Yesterday

Tuesday, 07/09/2017 @ Arcana

Durham, NC

7:00 PM

 

Ultrabillions & Friends: Arcana Musical Residency 2

Ultrabillions / Tescon Pol / Natty Bongo

1. Caldeira  2. newnwel  3. riftsS-L, S  4. SoME_2: Silk Road as an Island  5. Girl in the Adjoining Room, Yesterday

Tuesday, 07/09/2017 @ Arcana

Durham, NC

7:00 PM

 

@ Pinhook 06/27/2017

Jaguardini / Tescon Pol / Tide Eyes / Bitter Inc.

1. neb  2. Girl in the Adjoining Room, Yesterday  3. GEIJ  4. Myriapoda  5. A-21  6. nocset

Tuesday, 06/27/2017 @ The Pinhook

Durham, NC

8:00 PM

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Jaguardini / Spookstina / Tescon Pol

1. newnwel  2. Distributive  3. Caldeira  4. ThirdChance  4. riftsS-L, S  5. spièré  6. SoME_2:  Silk Road as an Island

Saturday, 06/24/2017 @ Ruby Deluxe

Raleigh, NC

8:00 PM

@ Bull City Ciderworks Lexington 

Projexorcism / Ty Lake / Tescon Pol /  Mama

1. Distributive  2. A-21  3. ThirdChance  4. SoME_2: Silk Road as an Island

Monday, 05/29/2017 @ Bully City Ciderworks Lexington

Lexington, NC

8:00 PM

 

POST-MOOG HANGOVER w/ Tescon Pol & Friends

Away MSG / Youma / Midcentury Modular / Ty Lake / Gundog / Tescon Pol

1. riftsS-L, S  2. A-21  3. ThirdChance  4. nocset  5. Gypaetinae

Sunday, 02/21/2017 @ Arcana

Durham, NC

7:00 PM

Experimental Tuesday: rbDlx_0516.2017

part 1

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part 2

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Tuesday, 05/16/2017 @ Ruby Deluxe

Raleigh, NC

11:00 PM

Summit 2: Live @ Kings: 02/16/17

Oceanette / Strict Nurse / Staplefahrer / Nagual / Tescon Pol

1. nocset  2. GEIJ  3. Myriapoda  4. newnwel  5. riftsS-L, S

Thursday, 02/16/2017 @ Kings

Raleigh, NC

9:00 PM

 

Live @ The Cave: 011717

DEM / Peripheral / Tescon Pol / Blue Nation

1. newnwel  2. riftsS-L, S  3. Distributive  4. ThirdChance  5. nocset

Tuesday, 01/17/2017 @ The Cave

Chapel Hill, NC

10:00 PM

Experimental Tuesday: rbDlx_0103.2017

part 1

1. Caldeira  2. newnwel  3. riftsS-L, S  4. spièré  5. Distributive  6. Gypaetinae  7. SoME_2 (Silk Road as an Island)  8. Antimotive

part 2

1. Third Chance  2. nocset  3. A-21  4. Overstate2 (Lacerta Set)  5. GEIJ  6. Myriapoda

Tuesday, 01/03/2017 @ Ruby Deluxe

Raleigh, NC

11:00 PM

 

Experimental Tuesday 2016 Showcase

Housefire / Tescon Pol / Spookstina / de_Plata / TZYVYX / drippy inputs / 80 lb. Test / Discotoño / Solemn Shapes / Secret Boyfriend / The Symetrians

1. ThirdChance  2. nocset  3. Antimotive

Tuesday, 12/13/2016 @ Ruby Deluxe

Raleigh, NC

9:00 PM

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Discotoño / PlayPlay / Tescon Pol

Discotoño / Play Play / Tescon Pol w/ visuals by Cool Boy 36

1. Girl in the Adjoining Room, Yesterday  2. Gypaetinae  3. GEIJ  4. Myriapoda  5. riftsS-L, S  6. Antimotive

Sunday, 11/13/2016 @ Arcana

Durham, NC

9:00 PM

 

Sunwatchers / Enemy Waves / Tescon Pol

Sunwatchers / Enemy Waves / Tescon Pol

1. A-21  2. nocset  3. SoME_2(Silk Road as an Island)  4. ThirdChance  5. Distributive

Sunday, 11/09/2016 @ Neptunes

Raleigh, NC

10:00 P

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Tescon Pol

part 1

1. Waiting So Long  2. neb  3. Girl in the Adjoining Room, Yesterday  4. AntiMotive  5.nocset  6. A-21  7. GEIJ  8. Myriapoda

part 2

1. Gypaetinae  2. Silk Road as an Island  3. ThirdChance  4. Caldeira  5. newnwel 6.spièré

Sunday, 10/25/2016 @ Ruby Deluxe

Raleigh, NC

11:00 PM

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Tennis Rodman / Away MSG / Tegucigalpan / Tescon Pol

Tennis Rodman / Away MSG / Tegucigalpan / Tescon Pol

1. Alphabet City  2. nocset  3. A-21  4. ThirdChance  5. aeoneine  6. riftsS-L, S

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Sunday, 10/23/2016 @ Arcana

Durham, NC

8:00 PM

Tescon Pol / Symetrians / Ty Lake

Tescon Pol / Meditode / Ty Lake

1. The Stoic (partial recording)  2. spièré  3. Gypaetinae  4. SoME_2: Silk Road as an Island  5. Distributive

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Sunday, 10/16/2016 @ Arcana

Durham, NC

8:30 PM

 

Housefire / Tescon Pol / Discotoño

Housefire / Tescon Pol / Discotoño

1. GEIJ  2. Myriapoda  3. Waiting So Long  4. neb  5. Girl in the Adjoining Room, Yesterday

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Sunday, 10/09/2016 @ Arcana

Durham, NC

8:30 PM

 

Minor Arcana 2

Tescon Pol / The Problemas / NSA(jk)

1. spièré  2. Caldeira  3. newnwel  4. riftsS-L, S  5. Waiting So Long

Sunday, 9/25/2016 @ Arcana

Durham, NC

9:00 PM

 

Live @ Nightlight 8/26/2016

Tegucigalpan / Death Panels / Naan Violence / Tescon Pol

1. ThirdChance  2. Caldeira  3. GEIJ  4. Myriapoda

Friday, 8/26/2016 at Nightlight

Chapel Hill, NC

9:30 PM

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Tescon Pol

part 1

1. neb  2. aeoneine  3. nocset  4. A-21

part 2

1. GEIJ  2. Myriapoda  3. Caldeira  4. riftsS-L, S  5. ThirdChance  6. SoME_2 (Silk Road as an Island)  7. gyp  8. neb

Tuesday, 8/02/2016 at Ruby Deluxe

Raleigh, NC

11:00 PM

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Tescon Pol / Tegucigalpan

1. aeoneine  2. nocset  3. A-21  4. GEIJ  5. Myriapoda  6. newnwel  7. Distributive

Tuesday, 5/31/2016 at Ruby Deluxe

Raleigh, NC

10:30 PM

Unexposed: UNX FEST 1.1

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mic_of_tesc & Joel Stephenson

Live music w/ the work of (TBD) ~40 min.

Saturday, 5/07/2016 @ Unexposed Microcinema

Durham, NC

8:00 PM

 

Tescon Pol: rbdlxLv_0426.2016

Tescon Pol

part 1

1. GEIJ  2. Myriapoda  3. Distributive  4. ThirdChance  5. nocset  6. A-21  7. neb

Part 2

1. SoME_2 (Silk Road as an Island)  2. gyp  3. Caldeira

On the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Part of an ongoing series of live, experimental electronic sets. ~2 Hours.

Tuesday, 4/26/2016 @ Ruby Deluxe

Raleigh, NC

9:00 – 11:00 PM

Ultrabillions Radio Hours

Tescon Pol

1. nocset  2. A-21  3. GEIJ  4. Myriapoda  5. Caldeira  6. newnwel

Recorded 4/13/16

Aired Monday, 4/18/2016 on WHUP

Hillsboro, NC

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

 

Cocktails & Cosmonauts 2016

Tescon Pol / Ultrabillions

Thursday, 4/14/2016 @ The Museum of Life and Science

Durham, NC

6:30 PM – 10:00 PM

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Tescon Pol: rbdlxLv_0301.2016

Tescon Pol

part 1

1. spiÈré  2. newnwell  3. nocset  4. aeoneine  5. Distributive

Part 2

6. ThirdChance: Coping Mechanism/Holding Pattern  7. A-21  8. GEIJ  9. Myriapoda

Part of an ongoing series of live, experimental electronic sets. ~2 Hours.

Tuesday, 3/01/2016 @ Ruby Deluxe

Raleigh, NC

9:00 – 11:00 PM

 

Sine Wave Surfers: SWS Showcase

Electrobro / Zone Lord /Tinkerer / Peat Bogs / Tescon Pol / Pig Mint / Worb

1. newnwell  2. Distributive  3. GEIJ  4. Myriapoda  5. Gypetinae

SWS Showcase

Saturday, 2/27/2016 @ The Woolwine (402 Progress St. Blacksburg)

Blacksburg, VA

9:00 PM – 2:00 AM

 

Tescon Pol: rbdlxLv_0127.2016

Tescon Pol

1. Coping Mechanism/Holding Pattern  2. aeoneine  3. nocset  4. newnwel  5. neb  6. spiÈré  7. A-21  8. GEIJ

Part of an ongoing series of live, experimental electronic sets. ~2 Hours.

Wednesday, 1/27/2016 @ Ruby Deluxe

Raleigh, NC

9:30 – 11:00 PM

Jean-Paul Sartre 110th

Lost Trail / Menteur / Public Restroom / Sam Brown Band / Tescon Pol

1. The Stoic  2. Botanics/Some of These Days  3. A-21  4. Caldeira  5. neb  6. Distributive

On the eve of Jean-Paul Sartre’s 110th birthday, Triangle acts celebrate the man, his thoughts, and his work through experimental music at The Carrack Modern Art.

Saturday, 6/20/2015 @ The Carrack Modern Art

Durham, NC

1:00 – 5:30 PM

 

Live @ The Kracken 6/19/2015

Classy Mongrel / Lay Away / Tescon Pol

1. The Stoic (partially missing)  2. GEIJ  3. A-21  4. Caldeira  5. neb  6. Distributive

“An excellent lineup of bands that transcend music genres is starting a bit early with music beginning a bit after 8pm. From the psychedelic droning grunge of Lay Away to Classy Mongrel’s electronic dream pop to the existentialist cyberpunk fantasies of Tescon Pol. The Kraken is going to levitate to a new plane of existence.” – The Kraken

Friday, 6/19/2015 @ The Kraken

Chapel Hill, NC

8:30 PM

 

Live @ Prisma Video 5/6/2015

Fit of Body / Pamela_and her sons / GiNKO / Eyes Low / Tescon Pol

1. newnwel  2. riftsS-L,S  3. Gypeatinae  4. GEIJ  5. Myriapoda

Wednesday, 5/6/2015 @ Prisma Video

Raleigh, NC

10:00 PM

Cocktails & Cosmonauts 2015

Tescon Pol / DJ Hazflo

Thursday, 4/16/2015 @ The Museum of Life and Science

Durham, NC

6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

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Kayo Dot /  Caleb de Casper / Tescon Pol

Kayo Dot / Caleb de Casper / Tescon Pol

1. newnwel, 2. riftsSLS, 3. Caldeira, 4. Distributive

Monday, 1/12/2015 @ Local 506

Chapel Hill, NC

9:30 PM

Live @ Slims 1/5/2015

Organized Crimes / Tescon Pol

1. newnwel, 2. riftsSLS, 3. Caldeira, 4. Distributive

Monday, 1/5/2015 @ Slims

Raleigh, NC

9:00 PM

TWILIGHT ZONE: 55th ANNIVERSARY

Sagan Youth Boys / Tescon Pol / Filament / ultraBillions

“There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.”
—Rod Serling

The Twilight Zone first aired on October 2nd, 1959 in the form of Rod Serling’s original Teleplay, “Where is Everybody?”

Thursday, 10/02/2014 @ Nightlight

Chapel Hill, NC

9:30 PM

Live @ Local 506 8/12/2014

Tescon Pol / Zula / Adult Science

Tescon Pol presents “Living Architecture 1,” an entomologically-inspired series of works derived from its recent Kafka-based “Sketches for K” online streaming EPs and material from May 2014’s “Eighth Passenger” (35th anniversary of the film “Alien”).

Thursday, 8/12/2014 @ Local 506

Chapel Hill, NC

9:00 PM

TONIBRAL

Tonibral Large

Tescon Pol’s participation in this show was cancelled after failing to meet Motorco’s fifteen-day exclusivity requirement due to a show scheduled at Local 506 (set to occur eleven days later).

Doom Asylum / Filament / Sagan Youth Boys / Spongebath

Friday, 8/01/2014 @ Motorco

Durham, NC

9:00 PM

THE EIGHTH PASSENGER

Sagan Youth Boys / Tescon Pol / ultraBillions

Followed by a screening of the 1979 film, “Alien.”

On the 35th anniversary of the theatrical premiere of “Alien.”

Sunday, 5/25/2014 @ Pinhook

Durham, NC

8:00 PM

LA FEMME / WILD MOCCASINS / TESCON POL

La Femme / Wild Moccasins / Tescon Pol

Tescon Pol presents “Vesicle Pisces,” a 40th anniversary dedication to the 1974 2-3/74  paraphysical visions and experiences of Philip K. Dick.

Thursday, 3/20/2014 @ Local 506

Chapel Hill, NC

9:00 PM

DEFIANCE AT THE STARS

Tescon Pol / Distort the FLuff / Funkss

One day following the 105th anniversary of FT Marinetti’s “Founding and Manifesto of Futurism”

Thursday, 2/06/2014 @ Kings

9:00 PM

“I AM THE VIDEO WORD MADE FLESH”

Tescon Pol / Lud / (followed by a screening of the film, “Videodrome”)

On the 31st anniversary of the theatrical premiere of David Cronenberg’s “Videodrome.”

Tuesday, 2/04/2014

8:00 PM

VOYAGE TO THE EDGE OF FOREVER

Sagan Youth Boys / Tescon Pol

On the 17th anniversary of Carl Sagan’s death.

Friday, 12/20/2013

9:00 PM

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Gai Lan Reviews:

A lively, surreal, and dislocated collection of IDM tentacles, beats and abstract melodies, Tescon Pol’s Gai Lan adheres to Concrete Collage’s braindance gravitational pull (have a listen to the decomposed sound field of “Cathodica”) and yet also exhibits fluid song structure, sporadic vocals (do we hear a chorus on “Greyforms” and “Skyline For The Haze” for example?), and ambient flutter on tracks like “GEIJ” and “Waiting So Long.” The Tescon Pol duo (who admittedly label themselves as “polyrhythmic pop experiments and dense, digital psychedelia“—and rightly so) really stretch the envelope yielding broken electronic tunes and pseudo-shoegaze/pop slivers that don’t quite fit any particular genre—and that’s a feat in and of itself. Somewhere between harsh post-industrial, and dare we say (shattered) rock (ref. “Gailan” or “Myriapoda”) and glitchily sweet melodic blips and roughed voices (ref. “Girl in the Adjoining Room, Yesterday”), Tescon Pol shimmies through a smorgasbord of IDM’s creative trajectory—a densely packed collection of ten pieces spanning over an hours worth of mind-bending tunes that have left this listener in a state of confusion and curiosity as to what’s actually unfolded. A visceral snapshot of the whole electronic scene in all its various dark shades, colorful hues, and discombobulated rhythms.

(original French): Tescon Pol Gai Lan (Concrete Collage) Gai Lan du duo Tescon Pol est une odyssée psychédélique dans un labyrinthe de pop électronique à la densité brumeuse. A la croisée des genres, Mic Finger and Ariel Johannessen composent une musique enveloppante aux rythmiques explosées, dérivant sur des horizons enrobés de noirceur et de fin du monde annoncée. Les titres cherchent à nous faire basculer dans un déséquilibre sensoriel salvateur, nous entrainant dans un ailleurs possible, où prise de risque et inconnu ouvrent les portes de l’inattendu, marchant sur des mines aux décharges intenses et hantées….

(English translation via Google): Gai Lan from the duo Tescon Pol is a psychedelic odyssey in a labyrinth of hazy dense electronic pop.
At the crossroads of genres, Mic Finger and Ariel Johannessen compose enveloping music with explosive rhythms, drifting on horizons coated with darkness and the end of the world announced.
The titles seek to tip us into a saving sensory imbalance, leading us into a possible elsewhere, where risk-taking and the unknown open the doors of the unexpected, walking over mines with intense and haunted discharges.
Navigating between IDM abstraction and futuristic noise pop, instrumental and sung tracks, shoegaze and cold wave, Gai Lan comes out of his orbit to spin around his own gravity, chaining perspectives and burning our neurons, dancing on a mass of downtempo with eclipsed curves . Vital.

Tescon Pol, a duo consisting of Ariel Johannessen and Mic Finger, invite their audience on a long sonic journey through their new album Gai Lan, which merges a dozen of musical styles together into a unique combination.

Each of the ten tracks, being six minutes long on average, creates its own glitchy soundscape, that is thrilling and sometimes frightening to wander around. The sound of Tescon Pol is reminiscent of Download’s experiments with IDM and EBM, but their tracks are more repetitive, and this is probably due to the rhythmic noise and illbient influence that can be heard on Myriapoda, Cathodica and Gailan through various sonic stratums. The images they invoke are not murky or industrial, instead they are integrated into techno-biological sonic fiction ensembles. The album itself could be lived through as a post-futuristic trip into a closed-circuit system, analogous to the world we inhabit, no matter how open it may seem.

This can be illustrated through the most intriguing tracks of the album, those that feature Mic Finger’s vocals, gentle and detached at the same time. They definitely share some distinct late Coil vibes with the musical pieces of their contemporary, Sam Shackleton, and also help one better grasp the overall feeling that the album conveys. These tracks add to the techno-biological sonic imaginaries (one could go as far as to assume that Gai Lan itself, being Chinese broccoli, is a witty nod to Coil’s track Broccoli that transplants it into a new, uncanonical cyberpunk context), but they lack Coil’s feeling of transcendentality. In Coil’s world one would dissociate and go to the next level (technology being the accelerator of this ascent), whereas in post-Coil works, Gai Lan being one the examples, one is drowning in an endless stream of sonic intensities, that have no other meaning but the transmission itself. The voice is the derivative of this movement, emerging only accidentally and murmuring some abstract lines, in which one wants to hear a promise for a spiritual transformation.

Tescon Pol Does Not Make What You Might Call “Happy, Fun-Time” Music

In fact, there’s no other act in the Triangle that better embodies the meticulous musical brutalism of Einstürzende Neubauten or Front 242. Shadowy, alluring, earnest, and often punishing, this is hardly the sort of music you’d expect to light up central North Carolina on a Saturday night.

However, about 100 seconds into “Via”—the opening track on Tescon Pol’s first full-length, Gai Lan, out on French label Concrete Collage—queasy atonality gives way to a muscular synth groove that an electronic dance pioneer like Gary Numan would have killed for back in the day. The moment doesn’t linger, but it genuinely rocks. And like all the surprising nods to pop music on this tenebrous debut, it’s thrilling.

The haunting “greyforms’’ showcases Finger’s baritone. It wants for some modulation, but it’s undeniably effective among the swaying synth pads and computerized crackle, and could easily get the denizens a goth club slow-dancing together.

In keeping with the bloodthirsty traditions of industrial music, Tescon Pol can be unsettling. “Myriapoda” floats through a vast industrial sewer—with liquid bass tones collecting into a subterranean throb—only to emerge into “Cathodica,” a science-fiction landscape of ambulatory machinery and shrieking robotic birds.

“Waiting So Long” is slightly more playful, its sampled vocal stab and pinging percussion suggesting a disco song spun in a blender. And “Girl in the Adjoining Room, Yesterday” plays like the “fun” side of the IDM canon, before dissolving into a mechanized glitchscape.

But it’s “Gailan” that’s the biggest revelation here, invigorating and weirdly accessible. A mannered trip-hop beat pushes steadily through a surging river of noise that threatens to wash the listener away, but has the politesse to hold back until the very end.

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