5/1/2017 @ valentines

• vanishing point: wish you were paranoid [floyd vs. sabbath]
• dan o’hara [humours, doctor moss, muscle beach, party killer]
• rus archer [komal sa, subarachnoid space, fist fite, trawler bycatch]
• ben hollenbaugh [banimal, pair of teeth, party killer]
• daniel morris [white rooms, gang radio, the man dies]
• ron mason gassaway [masonique, party killer, muscle beach]

Vanishing Point is a new monthly series exploring musical styles, movements and personalities through live improvisation. Each month an ever-changing array of carefully curated musicians seasoned in the brave art of live improv will perform two epic sets, deconstructing individual songs by two different artists to a near infinite point, with a hypnotic assortment of psychedelic projections to accompany the ride. On Monday, May 1st the intrepid improv warriors of Vanishing Point will transverse the unique terrains of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here and Black Sabbath’s Paranoid with many questions in mind. Is a Floyd vs. Sabbath dichotomy as simple as prog vs. metal, art school vs. blue collar, London vs. Birmingham or pink vs. black? What are the intricate differences between two iconic songs from these titans of rock ’n’ roll? Vanishing Point intends to find out by transforming Portland’s most cherished speakeasy, Valentines, into a sonic research and development lab, reconstructing these tr