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F-SPACE
History
1997-Present
F-SPACE
-- Surprisingly accessible, violently passionate and harmonic art
rock noisescapes -- delivered with sonic intricacy and homicidal tendencies.
Camped in the vicinity of EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, THROBBING
GRISTLE, ACID MOTHER'S TEMPLE, SWANS and GLENN BRANCA.
The result conjures an apocalyptic, feral, destructive trance state implying
a catastrophic act of nature, a march through the desert on the path to
war, or an offender's mental state during a crime of passion.
Current Lineup: SCOT
JENERIK and ETHAN PORT (SAVAGE REPUBLIC, DEATH RIDE '69), ALEPH
KALI (CHROME)
Former Lineup: with
JOEL CONNEL (MAN IS THE BASTARD), GABE MULFORD (MURDER MEDIA,
JACK KILLED JILL)
F-Space
Gig History
#
71 Northern
California Noise Festvial (norcalnoisefest)
Sacramento, CA 10/14/06
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali
- Flogging
the Slaves
- Katatonic
- Through
the Night Softly
- Total
White Out
Played inside a theater
space with Volatile spewing. Sucked up the oxygen in the room. Everything
was extra noisey. Perfect audience full of the area's best noise artists.
#
70 Burning
Man Decompression "Heat the Streets" Faire
San Francisco, CA 10/08/06
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali
- Flogging
the Slaves
- Katatonic
- Through
the Night Softly
- Total
White Out
Played under the freeway
again. Great response.
#
69 How To Destroy The Universe: Part 5
Richards on Richards, Vancouver, BC, Canada 02/04/06
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali
- Sound
check Improv
- Gathering
Pools
- Through
the Night Softly
Other Bands: Blixa
Bargeld, Jarboe, Sixteens
Shitty Irish bar and
incompetent staff, plus some technical difficulties with the sound, but
over all was a good gig with moments of brilliance. Especially the Sound
check Improv which got quite explosive. First gig in Canada. Amazing audience
that stuck around after Blixa and Jarboe. Barrett got the mix so sonically
full and loud with harmonics, it sounded like the building was taking
off. The PA was pointed directly at the back bar, for the venue staff's
utter enjoyment.
#
68 How
To Destroy The Universe: Part 5
Triple Door, Seattle, WA 02/03/06
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali
- Flogging the Slaves
- Gathering Pools
- Through the Night
Softly
Other Bands: Blixa
Bargeld, Jarboe, Sixteens
Easily the most swank
room any of us had ever performed in. Was a sit down dinner theater that
primarily hosts Jazz shows. Everything was wireless and computerized.
The lighting was total rock god. All of the god photos of the tour were
shot here. The Jazz sound guys and the venue talked Ethan into turning
his amps so far down there was no "crunch" for Barrett to mix,
resulting in what one witness describes as "the most sedate F-Space
set ever", which was still quite Sonic.
# 67 How
To Destroy The Universe: Part 5
Sabala's, Portland, OR 02/01/06
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali
- Flogging the Slaves
- Gathering Pools
- Through the Night Softly
Other Bands: Sixteens,
Syncronicity Frequency, Waldteufel
Fire show for the Portland
2Gryls crew. They broke the curse on bad Portland experiences. Was a lot
of fun, the band has really jelled. Everyone is very comfortable on stage
and locked.
#
66 How To Destroy The Universe: Part 5
Studio Z, San Francisco, CA 01/29/06
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali
- Flogging the Slaves
- Gathering Pools
- Through the Night
Softly
- Total White Out
Other bands: Soriah,
Richard Bitch, Marlon Kasberg's new outfit (which totally destroyed)
Played to an empty
room because of the other Destroy show at BOTH. Still fun. Soriah sang
additional vocals on Gathering Pools
#
65 How To Destroy The Universe: Part 5
Studio Z, San Francisco, CA 01/28/06
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali
- Flogging the Slaves
- Gathering Pools
- Through the Night
Softly
Other Bands: Blixa
Bargeld, Sixteens, Soriah, Black Ice, NF-Orchest
Packed room of 300
+. Tons of energy and a really good gig. Had about 10 minutes to setup
and play with now sound check. Scot used Thor on Flogging the Slaves.
Ethan had a new guitar and routing configuration that made his guitar
sound better than ever. Aleph was his usual runaway freight train. First
night working with Barrett mixing the sound.
#64 San Francisco
Independent Film Festival
Islais Creek 09/17/05
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali
- Katatonik
- Through the Night Softly
- The Gathering Pools
- Total White Out
Other bands: Babyland
Last show with Matt
Callahan doing sound. One of the tightest shows we've done. Great audience,
although fairly small for a free show. Scott Beale (Laughing Squid) took
some amazing photos of the sunset fire performance. No recording, unfortunately.
#63
Fire
Arts Festival 07/16/05
Crucible, Oakland,
CA 07/16/05
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali/Callahan
Played late, just before
David Therrian's piece. Did a great job clearing out the place.
#62
How
to Destroy the Universe - Part IV 06/26/05
Shipyard, Berkeley,
CA 06/26/05
Studio Z, San Francisco,
CA 06/26/05
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali/Callahan
- Raagini Intro/Tuning
Improv
- Katatonik
- Through the Night
Softly
- The Gathering
Pools
- Total White Out
(with Soriah)
Slightly calmer gig
as it was at a club rather than the Shipyard. More relaxed and flowing.
One of the best F-SPACE gigs to date. No fire made the music more coherant.
#61
How
to Destroy the Universe - Part IV 06/25/05
Shipyard, Berkeley,
CA 06/25/05
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali/Callahan
- Thor Improv
- Katatonik
- Through the Night
Softly
- The Gathering
Pools
Other artists: Skip
Arnold, Boyskout, Black Ice, Sav Rep, Phd., 999 Eyes, Soriah, Synchronicity
Frequency
Crazy insane night during the How To Destroy the Universe: Part IV festival.
Light misty rain gave a nice ambiance to the pummeling sounds of F-space
amid the mechanical destruction of the Shipyard. F-Space Destroyed! Excellent
set.
#60
How
to Destroy the Universe - Part IV 06/24/05
Shipyard, Berkeley,
CA 06/24/05
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali/Callahan
- Flogging the Slaves
- Katatonik
- Hot Pants
- Total White Out
Other artists: Skip
Arnold, The Turks, Dos, Savaged Republic (Jeff Long), 999 Eyes, Soriah,
Synchronicity Frequency, Samantha X
First night of the
How To Destroy the Universe: Part IV festival at the Shipyard. Set was
a little rushed and Aleph broke his bass drum head during Katatonik. Scot
used dry ice on Volatile during Hot Pants. Scot also ended up with a massive
burn and blisters on his leg. No bleeding head though. Good Night.
#59
The Lab 11/06/04
San Francisco, CA
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port, Callahan sound
- Untitled work
with "The Lizards"
New 40 minute untitled
acoustic piece prepared especially for The Lab. Aleph and Scot performed
on "The Lizards", two custom built wooden string instruments
similar to a very rugged hammer dulcimer. Ethan played treated guitars
at a much lower than usual volume.
Scot intimidated the
audience who were milling around after Brian Doherty's Burning Man talk,
so it was a very small audience, composed mainly of family and a few close
friends. Because it was such a quiet piece, we needed people to either
go outside to talk, or stay and be quiet.
Our daughters Sarah
and Cicada performed on the lizards at the end of the piece. A very lovely,
trance filled, quiet yet surprisingly crushing performance.
#58
Robodock 09/23/04
Amsterdam, Netherlands
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port, Callahan sound
- Raagini Intro
(untitled improvisation)
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
- Children of the
Dum Dum
Other Artists: Double
Nelson, Madagascar Institute, (many more)
Big festival, big stage,
big (humungous) sound, pro lighting, fog, strobes, way rock and roll.
F-Space totally filled and resonated the massive building.
Lots of machine
art, Madagascar Institute got really soggy and destructive. Double Nelson
completely kicked ass.
#57
Big Pants Squat
- Nijmagen, Netherlands 09/22/04
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port, Callahan sound
- Katatonik (untitled
improvisation)
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
- Children of the
Dum Dum
Amazing gig, great
audience. Scot demolished Volatile at the end of the set after he broke
multiple springs during the gig. Weird power in the space, some equipment
fried.
Free Download of Binaural Recording
of the show
#56
Ameland, Netherlands 09/21/04
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port, Callahan sound
- Flogging the Slaves
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
Secret Island Gig in
the forest on the remote island in the North Sea. Cold and wet and secretive.
Three run away horses circled around Matt. Something out of a fairy tale.
#55
Continental Club, New York 09/16/04
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port, Callahan sound
- Flogging the Slaves
- Katatonik Jam
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
Other bands: Torch
Job, The Fakes, (several others)
Great night with lots
of energy. Was the day that Johnny Ramone died. Best club gig to date.
Ethan was ON. Small audience but the music was bliss.
Free Download of Binaural Recording
of the show
#54
Tommys Tavern, Brooklyn 09/15/04
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port, Callahan sound
- Jam (untitled
improvised)
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
Small room, shit PA,
just a few friends. The promoter went home sick with the flu.
#53
Lit Lounge, New York 09/14/04
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port, Callahan sound
- Flogging the Slaves
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
- Children of the
Dum Dum
Other Bands: Warton
Tiers (provided backline), God is My Co-Pilot, Jason Trachtenburg
Ok Gig, good reaction,
shit PA but Matt made it sound good. Small cramped underground room.
#52
Burning Man 09/04/04
Inside Thunderdome
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali/(Enrique on vocals), Callahan sound
- Flogging the Slaves
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
- Children of the
Dum Dum
Great set though we
were tired from all the shows.
Comment from Matt: "Slay
. Perfect
.. Im drunk."
#51
Burning Man 09/03/04
At Illumination 2
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali, Callahan sound
- Flogging the Slaves
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
- Children of the
Dum Dum
One of the most energetic
sets ever, totally on.
#50
Burning Man 09/03/04
At Illumination 1
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali, Callahan sound
- Flogging the Slaves
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
Great set, great audience,
big fire. Illumination setting off their fire sculpture while F-Space
sonically pummeled. Audience went nuts. New vocals added on Total White
Out (with gravel playa voice)
#49
Burning Man 09/02/04
At THERM under Ryans Eye - 2
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali, Callahan sound
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
Good set.
#48
Burning Man 09/02/04
At THERM under Ryans Eye - 1
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali, Callahan sound
- Flogging the Slaves
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
Band obviously reformed.
Good set, great environment, great audience, and great mix as Matt was
finally there.
#47
Burning Man 09/02/04
By the Man at 4 am
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali
- Flogging the Slaves
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
Sludgy sound without
Matt. Ethan twiddled the amps which pissed off the band. So much fatigue
and discontent that the band broke up.
#46
Burning Man 09/01/04
3:00 and Esplanade - 3
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
Good set but we were
getting tired as it was the third performance that night. Got a noise
complaint at Burning Man, go figure.
Comment: I was having a horrible Burning Man and was ready to go
home, but you saved me
#45
Burning Man 09/01/04
3:00 and Esplanade - 2
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
Finally got the mix,
one of the best sets F-Space has ever played.
Comments: You totally destroyed my power of speech I
had a major boner through the set
#44
Burning Man 09/01/04
3:00 and Esplanade - 1
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port
- Flogging the Slaves
- Hot Pants
- Through the night
Softly
Really bad mix, etc.
Matt wasnt there.
#43
Burning Man 08/31/04
9:00 and Esplanade - 2
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port
- Total White Out
- Through the night
Softly
- Hot Pants
- Children of the
Dum Dum
Good energetic performance
during a slight calm in the whether. Audience screamed for more.
A woman yelled Finally good music on the Playa!
Scot melted all of the cables off of Volatile during the gig.
#42
Burning Man 08/31/04
9:00 and Esplanade - 1
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port
- Total White Out
- Hot Pants
Performed in a total
white out. Song of the same name created during the onslaught, while dust
and sound pummeled the audience. The dust was blasting from behind the
band into the audience, so they could not view the band, while the sound
was driven into them.
#41
How to Destroy the
Universe festival: Part 2, 08/07/04
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port, Callahan sound
- Hot Pants
- Through the Night
Softly
- The Gathering
Pools
- Charity and Hope
Other Bands: Aesthetic
Meat Front, Binky, The Turks
Great
night. Great energy. The first three songs came off very well, Gathering
Pools was the best weve played it. Charity and Hope crashed and
burned.
#40
How to Destroy the
Universe festival: Part 2, 08/06/04
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port, Callahan sound
- Flogging the Slaves
- Through the Night
Softly
- The Gathering
Pools
- Hot Pants
Other Bands: Black
Ice (The SixTeens wussed out)
Pretty good show. F-SPACE
are up for days with last minute planning of the festival which results
in fairly low energy for an F-Space show.
#39
FFF Sonoma, CA 04/09/04
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port, Callahan sound
- Flogging the Slaves
- Through the Night
Softly
- Hot Pants
Other Bands: Flower
Cops
In Bretts back
yard. Such a laugh for the runaway locomotive that is F-Space to play
in the Wine Country. Lot of neighbors wondering if the Big One had hit.
Of course the cops showed up but Brettt talked them in to letting us play
one more. Surprised they let us as the fire was blasting almost as high
as Ethans amps.
#38
The Shipyard, Berkeley, CA 03/06/04
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port, Callahan sound
- Flogging the Slaves
- Through the Night
Softly
- The Gathering
Pools
- Hot Pants
- The Torching of
Egeria
F-SPACE become the
"house band" for the Shipyard.
An utter blast,
one of the funnest shows F-Space has ever played. F-Space performed a
full fire show, in the shipyard which is a compound of shipping containers,
art and a metal shop, in front of Kikis Egeria firefall fountain.
Scot lit the fountain on fire with his flame thrower at the end of the
set. Ethan was so sick with stomach flu he almost didnt make it,
but felt much better after the show.
#37
StudioZ San Francisco, CA 2/27/04
- Show
Flyer
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port, Callahan sound
- The Gathering
Pools
- Through the Night
Softly
- Hot Pants
Other Bands: Drop
Black Sky
Not a very good night,
had trouble with the sound system, lack of energy in the room and lack
of light on stage.
#36
Sound Re-Wound Festival, The Lab in
San Francisco, CA 2/25/04
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port, Callahan sound
- The Gathering
Pools
- Through the Night
Softly
- Hot Pants
Other Artists: Pamela
Z
20th anniversary of
the Labs exhibition of sound. First live rendition of The Gathering
Pools which sounded great in the space. A really fun show, very relaxed,
great sound, fire, energy. Also Scots first live vocalization.
#35
Festive
Meltdown, Los Angeles 12/20/03
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali, Callahan sound
- Flogging the Slaves
- Through the Night
Softly
- Charity and Hope
- Hot Pants
Other Bands: Jet
Fuel, Spindrift, (others)
Free party in a warehouse
space for Ethan's 40th Birthday. Went on at about 2:30 am. Ethan went
ape shit overdrive with Thor on Charity and Hope. Scot fired up the flamethrower
at the end of Hot Pants. Matt Callahan (adopted for good) ran sound and
Kimie Leary did Merch. Greg Grunke from Savage Republic raved about the
set.
F-Space absolutely
killed!"
"Then F Space threw it into drive and nobody knew what hit 'em! Scott
Jenerik, playing his various percussion contraptions, and drummer Aleph
Kali established a complete rhythm lock pounding out patterns of amazing
intricacy and intensity while Ethan added snaky melodies and sheets of
texture with his guitar armada. The hall had too much flammable stuff
for
them to go totally apeshit with the pyrotechnics but Scot did fire up
one
of his smaller devices that shot out bursts of propane flame as it was
played kinda like the time Granny's stove exploded. All this at a volume
level that at times made early Swans sound like Raffi and sent the
lightweights heading for the hills. Overall a stunning display of sonic
ferocity and beauty the likes of which L.A. hasn't seen in quite a spell.
#34
SF
Liberation Radio Benefit 1015 Folsom, San Francisco, CA 12/11/03
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port, Callahan sound
- Flogging the Slaves
- Through the Night
Softly
- Charity and Hope
Other Bands: (many)
Benefit for SF Liberation
Radio, in their attempt to get the FCC off their backs. Went on late,
with no sound check, and had to cut the gig short because of limited time.
Matt mixed on the fly. Paul from the Burning Man scene screamed "Oh
God I've missed you guys" at the end of the set.
#33
"How to Destroy the Universe Festival - Part
1" Studioz, San Francisco, CA
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali, Callahan sound
- Flogging the Slaves
- Through the Night
Softly
- Charity and Hope
- Hot Pants
Other Bands: Mermen,
Punk Rock Orchestra, Neither Neither World, The Serotonins
First in hopefully
a series of SF festivals. Really fun evening with lot's of energy. Matt
Callahan's first gig helping out with sound. Over 380 people came out
on a cold wet December night.
F-SPACE were tightening up their set. The review from the Bay Guardian
says it all.
"Then came
the moment I'd been waiting for. F-Space battered the unsuspecting audience
with a wall of noise. Port's instrumentation on an electric 12-string
maintained the breakneck speed and ominous tones of early Savage Republic.
He'd loop a string of notes into a mixer, then switch guitars, or forsake
them for a homemade instrument created out of two thick metal springs
stretched along the length of a four-foot-long segment of pipe, which
he alternately beat on and picked up and let drop to the floor.
Jenerik used drumsticks
and even a violin bow to elicit the most raw and, at times, excruciating
sounds from a similar instrument propped on a metal sawhorse. Kali added
the energy of a runaway locomotive on drums.
The result was apocalyptic:
the music summoned a feral, destructive trance state that implied a catastrophic
act of nature, a march through the desert on the path to war, or the offender's
mental state during a crime of passion." -(Camille T. Taiara) SFBG
Dec 17, 2003
#32
"CrackWhore presents" at the Curve Bar, San Francisco, CA 11/08/03
F-Space: Jenerik/Kali/Port
- Flogging the Slaves
- Through the Night
Softly
- Charity and Hope
Other Bands: Sub
Arachinoid Space, DareDiablo, Diningroom Romance
F-Space set up their
PA in the back of the space, and went on right after . Limited sound check,
lot's of sound problems during the gig. Aleph broke his bass drum head
during Charity and Hope so they couldnt finish with Hot Pants.
#31 Decompression,
Burning Man, San Francisco, CA 10/12/03
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Kali
- Flogging the Slaves
- Through the Night
Softly
- Charity and Hope
- Discipline
Outdoor street festival
for Burning Man. Scot blasted huge fireballs from Volatile under the freeway.
Lot's of old fans blown away by the addition of Aleph on drums.
#30
Burning Man
2003, Thunderdome, Black Rock City, NV 08/31/03
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
- Hot Pants
- Something
- Charity and Hope
Late on Sunday night,
as the event wound down, F-Space performed unannounced inside the Thunderdome,
a huge geodesic dome in the style of the Mad Max movie. Without competing
sound, F-SPACE could be heard all across the Playa, the monotone floating
in and out with the wind currents. The audience was up on the outside
of the dome looking down on the performance. Scot's fireballs floating
up toward the spectators and illuminated the dome. People could see Thunderdome
ON FIRE across the Playa due to the blasts. F-SPACE were completely possessed
at this show. At the end of the set, Scot kicked Volatile across the arena
and smashed it to pieces. The audience went Ape Shit.
#29
Burning Man
2003, Radio Free Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV 08/30/03
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
- Hot Pants
- Something
- Charity and Hope
F-SPACE performed in
front of Kiki's Egeria. Kiki who once wrote
"F-Space ends every song sounding like the entire power grid for
the western US just went off line" was at the gig. F-Space had been
using their own generator for all the shows, well this time they plugged
into the Radio Free Burning Man generator, and blew the power on the first
strike on Volatile. Not only knocked out their sound, but knocked out
the radio station as well.
#28
Burning Man
2003, Playa after the burn, Black Rock City, NV 08/30/03
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
- Hot Pants
- Something
- Charity and Hope
On the playa after
the burn as revelers were wandering back.
#27
Burning Man
2003, At the Man, Black Rock City, NV 08/29/03
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
- Hot Pants
- Something
- Charity and Hope
Very late night in
the glow of the man. A total "hit and run" show, took people
completely by surprise. One of the more sonically dialed BM shows. Relaxed
and powerful.
#26
Burning Man
2003 , K-SVRT Radio, Black Rock City, NV 08/29/03
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
- Hot Pants
- Charity and Hope
Other bands: Cat
5
In somewhat of a vs.
there was no question that F-Space destroyed Performed at the K SVERT
stage on the Esplanade.
#25
Burning Man
2003, Playa at 9:00, Black Rock City, NV 08/28/03
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
- Hot Pants
- Something
- Charity and Hope
Out by Thunderdome
on the Playa. Speakers turned both in and out. Diminished the impact of
the performance. Also dark and windy.
#24
Burning Man
2003, Sol System, Black Rock City, NV 08/27/03
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
- Hot Pants
- Something
- Charity and Hope
- Flame Thrower
F-Space played through
an 8 channel system with a computer interface that threw each channel
around to different speakers. Interesting sonic landscape for the audience,
extremely disorienting for the band. Like playing in a cavern with multiple
echoes. Huge dust storms during the set added to the chaos.
#23
Burning Man
2003, Esplanade at 3:00, Black Rock City, NV 08/26/03
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
- Hot Pants
- Something
- Charity and Hope
Super fun energetic
performance.
Last minute decision
to attend Burning Man. Aleph Kali had joined the band full time but was
unable to attend. The REAL FUN would have to wait one more year.
#22
Bottom
Of The Hill, San Francisco, CA 03/27/03
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Connell
- Invocation
- Bombay Blood
- Sniper
- Percussion Jam
- Charity and Hope
Good sound on stage,
shitty sound in the audience. Volatile crapped out. Still, Charity and
Hope was epic. This recording ended up as the base tracks for Charity
and Hope on the Preliminary Impact Report CD.
#21
Timothy
North Benefit, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA 03/25/03
Wired
Mag Preview
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Connell/Kali
- Invocation
- Charity and Hope
An amazing night of
community and reunions, filled with nostalgia, happiness, sadness, anger
and tragedy. Just as Tim's body was falling apart, this set crashed and
burned. Limited rehearsal time, and none with the two drummers together.
Volatile had no sound, and during Invocation Scot was attacked by a schizoid
woman. Scot is so in the Zone during the performances that he said it
took all the energy that he had to not put Thor through the Woman's forehead.
#20
Synorgy
Solstice Burn, West Desert, UT 12/21/02
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Connell
- Insurrection
- Sniper
- Charity and Hope
- Fucking Heathens
Outdoor gig in the
Utah Desert for the Synorgy offshoot of Burning Man. Was cold and snowing
while they played. Ethan played with gloves with a couple of the fingers
chopped off. Scot was the only warm one blasting lot's of fire. Beautiful
and intense environment. The audience was blown away. Many people said
their lives were forever altered.
#19
Burt's Tiki Lounge, Salt Lake City, UT 12/20/02
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Connell/Brannigan
- Invocation
- Jam (Listen Fuck'o)
- Percussion Jam
- Charity and Hope
Ethans 39th birthday.
In between a gig and a rehearsal at Charity's bar. F-Space jammed on various
themes. Charity and Hope was written during this session. The untitled
jams included Tim Brannigan on drums.
#18
Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City, UT 12/19/02
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Connell
- Insurrection
- Sniper
- The Gates of Hell
First gig of the newly
reformed F-Space. Tim Brannigan assisted with sound. The first time that
Scot, Ethan and Joel had all three been on stage together. During the
first song, Scot went ape shit overdrive, slamming Thor repeatedly on
the ground, during which he broke a finger and ripped his hand open in
three places. As he staggered back on to the stage in a daze, blood dripping
on to the floor, Ethan said "I think Scot has issues with Utah".
The audience was blasted into another dimension.
#17
Splung, San Francisco, CA 01/27/01
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Mulford
- Pig Fucker
- Arabian
- Children of the
Dum Dum
A jam with Gabriel
Mulford on guitar for Scot's 38th birthday party.
#16
Vulcan Studios, Oakland, CA 12/12/98
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
Other bands: Tch'Kung
The only show that
Scot has ever walked off stage of in the middle of the set. Scot had just
created Volatile. The sound system collapsed due to some strange grounding
issue and nothing worked. After a few hours of troubleshooting
Scot just shot flames from Volatile. Harlan got the P.A. fixed before
Tch'Kung went on, so they sounded swell.
A total disaster that
sparked a 4 year hiatus from public performing.
#15
Sound Unwound, The Lab, San Francisco, CA 12/5/98
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
A fun night, though
a bit uneven, of solo performance by Scot, into a collaboration with Thomas
Dimuzio, into F-Space. A more musical approach for F-SPACE.
#14
Lava Festival, Sandcrawler, Oakland, CA 9/18/98
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
Energetic performance
during a noise festival. Scot's solo performance on Thor started off,
with Ethan later joining on monotone guitar.
#13
Burning
Man, Black Rock Desert, NV, 9/6/98
F-Space:
Jenerik/Port
This show was cancelled
Sunday afternoon because some of the Distrubia PA equipment was ruined
in the previous nights storms, so "the guy" packed up his toys
and went home. Harlan from Draino offered their stage. Disturbia offered
what was left of their P.A. F-SPACE played battle of the bands with Coprolingus.
F-SPACE won.
#12
Burning
Man, Black Rock Desert, NV, 9/5/98
F-Space:
Jenerik/Port
This show at Draino
was cancelled due to pissing rain. The next day half the domes in the
city were partially caved in.
#11
Burning
Man, Black Rock Desert, NV, 9/4/98
F-Space:
Jenerik/Port
F-SPACE went on just
after AWD. Lots of people, lots of "Crush". Great night.
#10
Burning
Man, Black Rock Desert, NV, 9/3/98
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
F-SPACE drag the contraption
to the Playa. Some of the oil drums are cut in half, but there are still
way too many of them.
This first Thursday night show was on the main stage. Lost at Last lost
track of time.
#9
Zoot Suite, Portland, OR 6/13/98 (club owner Mike Thrasher stole all the
$$ from the show)
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
Long drive, didnt
get paid. At one point in the set the owner of the space told the sound
guy to go tell them to stop playing, Scot was in the process of blasting
his flame thrower, the sound guy told him he was going nowhere near the
stage. Good response from the audience.
#8
F is for Flame, Abstrakt Zone, Emeryville, CA 6/4/98
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
Vordos space.
Lots and Lots of fire. I mean...really...a LOT of fire. Five
flaming oil drums, the flaming contraption, flaming concrete floor, and
Ethan in a pink leotard with too hot to handle stenciled on
the front. Great show.
#7
Cyberbuss Costume Ball, Griffith St, San Francisco, CA 5/30/98
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/Mulford
Big,
heavy, massive rhythms. "The Contraption" debuts. During the
set Scot sliced his forehead open on a piece of steel. Most people didnt
notice the blood running down his face. Kikis first introduction
to the band. Wrote a review with the classic line they finished
sounding like the entire power grid for the Western US just went off line.
#6 #6
The Fancy Freaky Formal Ball, Cell, San Francisco, CA 4/11/98
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
First live performance
with Thor. Also the first full rendition of Insurrection (then called
Chiapas)
#5
Day of Noise, KZSU, Stanford, CA 4/2/98
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
Scot unveiled his new
creation Thor. Ethan improvised on monotone guitar (the beginning of "Chiapas").
#4
23five Benefit, The Lab, San Francisco, CA 11/8/97
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
Other artists: Tim
North
An incredible night
of sound, projections, sushi and beer for an over capacity crowd at the
Lab. F-Space closed the night with an explosive set of percussive destruction.
#3
Burning
Man, Black Rock Desert, NV 8/31/97
F-Space: Jenerik/Port/ Tch'Kung
Other artits: Tch'Kung
F-Space performance
into Tch'Kung performance into a jam between the two bands. Scot and Ethan
improvised on the oil drum version of Sub-Linear. The oil drums made nice
big flames when pummeled. Documented by a German film crew for the film
Burning Man 2020. It took Scot over 100 strikes to break sub-linear in
half. Ethan kept pace with him swinging full force into the oil drums.
The audience went Ballistic and can be seen in full frenzy in the movie.
#2
Burning
Man, Black Rock Desert, NV 8/29/97
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
Equilibrium
Scots composition
Equilibrium performed on Sub Linear, with Ethans noisy
guitar wash over and through the piece. Cold and windy as hell. Sub-Linear
was mounted between two oil drums that were set on fire. When Scot broke
Sub Linear in half at the end of the set, the whole contraption fell off
the stage and took a chunk out of photographer Gregory Cowleys arm.
This provided Greg with a commemorative scarification of the first real
F-Space performance. Documented by a German film crew for the film Burning
Man 2020, directed by Christoph Gampl and Andreas Kukutsch.
View the F-SPACE clip
from Burning Man 2020 here
#1
Burning
Man, Black Rock Desert, NV 8/28/97
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
No PA so Scot and Ethan
performed on flaming oil drums next to a piano frame where other friends
joined in the percussive mayhem. This is also the show where Scot lit
himself on fire, had to do the drop and roll, and while drumming on a
flaming oil drum smashed his left index finger, blowing all of the meat
out of the tip. The jam went on for another half hour while Scot drummed
and spread blood all over his body and face. A fitting beginning for F-Space.
#0
Scot's Studio , Nevada St., San Francisco, CA 1997
F-Space: Jenerik/Port
Ethan and Scot improvise
in the studio for about an hour.
"Bombay Blood" is one result.
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