PORKY BEATS
LEAVE TONIGHT, OR LIVE & DIE THIS WAY
THIS SATURDAY 10040 FM 1346 ADKINS, TX
4 PM - 10 PM
Come see @glorytexaswest and all her friends put on a performance just for YOU
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#freeimprovisation #performanceart #experimental #freejazz #freeimprovisation #noise #harshnoise #pig #pigs #farm #farmer #ranch
It's Laryssa's Birthday!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Day at the beach yesterday(I told y'all, I'm pretty sure we're beach people now lol)
February 2011,
I'm forever grateful for her responding to my mass text message, telling people about my gig at the Ten Eleven with my prog rock trio I was playing in 😂
She actually responded to it, saying something like "yeah I'll go, you gotta pick me up though."
And here we are all these years later 🫡☺️❤️
Monday, May 18th 2026
@thelonesomerose
8PM
Join us for a night of sonic meditation, soulful experimentation, and spiritual exploration.
Journeyed percussionist, sound weaver, and composer Tatsuya Nakatani makes his return to Alamo City, part of a 90-day tour across the continental United States and Canada.
Tatsuya’s career spans a lifetime of constant innovation and vibrational crafting. Through the use of handmade bows & mallets on modified Chinese wind gongs, singing bowls, and cymbals, he employs various techniques—perpetuating impulsive, instinctive movements—to create a textural journey from a palette of unfiltered evocation. We welcome him again to our humble city, this time to the inviting atmosphere of St. Mary’s premier honky tonk & watering hole the Lonesome Rose.
Accompanying performers for this show include:
Albuquerque-based drone mystic Gong Slayer makes his debut appearance in San Antonio, offering up contemplative waves of slow, undulating resonance via gong & related articles. An appropriate feature of talent, adding to the ambience bestowed upon the evening.
Local avant-garde combo the Whale, consisting of both drummer Kory Cook and saxophonist Edward Vasquez, reunites with Tatsuya to further mark this special occasion. Their fidelity to the path traversed by free jazz forebears (such as Coleman and Sharrock) is apparent, as is their predilection towards the energized-charge of a Dolphy (more refined…) as well as a Zorn (…but also punk).
Opening this intriguing bill (as a collaboration) are two hometown players from seemingly-opposite terminals of improvisation: John Hernandez with his precious, ever-so-lightly lush guitar workings & intimate, shimmering acoustic nodes and Ethan Campa with his penchant for a punishing, organic assault on the senses. These two meeting should make for a fascinating spectacle.
Doors 7:30 / Show 8:00
$15 (cash only)
21+
We kindly ask all attending parties to respect the artists during their sets, please step outside during any performance if needed to converse and visit. The tones & dynamics sought by these artists requires those present to be “at one” with their presentation.
Flier by @nowintexas 🔥
A little two minute sample of me & Aaron's set last night!
Thank you @ritual.presents !!
Thank you @evicshen !!
Thanks to those in attendance!
Last night rockedddddd
#freejazz
#freeimprovisation
#harshnoise
Finally, these three titans of noise have entered the ring after nearly six years of waiting. On Bloodsport Arena, Tim Burkland (TAB IN/TAB OUT, Takeshita) and Ethan Campa (Coach Campa) tag-team Zona Zanjeros (Enemy Zero, Computer Age) for a collision of table-top electronics, hyperactive free jazz, cut-up tactics, and full-spectrum sonic violence.
What unfolds is less a collaboration than a sustained melee: Burkland and Campa generate a volatile barrage of gestures, textures, and eruptions, while Zona drags the whole thing through the digital blender, shredding and reassembling it into something even more unstable. Signals stutter, tones convulse, rhythms appear only to be dismembered, and scraps of improvisation are pushed to the point of total rupture.
Bloodsport Arena lives up to its name. This is combat music—raw, playful, hostile, ecstatic. The trio lock into a kind of brutal chemistry where no sound is left untouched: electronics squeal and scrape, free jazz fragments whip through the mix like broken glass, and digital processing mutates everything into a delirious, high-impact assault. What could have been chaos becomes something sharper: a freaked-out exchange of attack, response, sabotage, and transformation.
After years in the making, Bloodsport Arena arrives as a document of collision, nervous energy, and total commitment to the wreckage.
credits
releases May 2, 2026
Tim Burkland: Electronics
Ethan Campa: Drums
Zona Zanjeros: Guitar/Supercollider /album/bloodsport-arena
Coming up in 3 weeks! Saturday April 4th. Ryan Ebaugh and Ethan Campa roll in for some saxophone/drum madness. CARL returns with Aga as a guest. And a solo set from Houston’s one and only Muzak John. See you there at Pros And Cons.
