A unique night of found art and experimental sound curated by Leanne Maxwell, and featuring submissions by Elka Karl, Anthony Michael Gordon, Leanne Maxwell, and Tony Sison.

MUSIC BY
Casiotone For the Painfully Alone
The Robot Ate Me
Askr
Plus DJ Ts (Expens!ve Collective)

WED, JULY 6, 2005 AT 8 p.m.
The Rickshaw Stop
155 Fell St, btw Franklin & Van Ness, SF
$6 cover
Get $1 off with a piece of found art!

i once was lost… celebrates the beauty that can be found in sheer randomness, circumstance, and speculation. Simple activities such as walking down the street, shopping at thrift stores and flea markets, and picking through the trash can yield many diamonds in the rough.

Peruse Elka Karl's altered found paintings, which combine praying scholars with weird celestial forms and scary angels. Thumb through Tony Sison's thick discovered-photo albums, with their middle-aged cocktail parties, bland golf outings and business trips. Or check out the photo album of a ‘70s-era Chinese family that Anthony Michael Gordon dug from the trash. Leanne Maxwell will show some of her vast collection, including letters about swimming, lost loves and psychotic ramblings from an SF copy shop patron, as well as a plethora of photos and a few drawings.

Guests are encouraged to bring a piece of their own found art to be photographed and put on display.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Revenge of the nerds! Using only battery operated keyboards and electronics as instruments, Casiotone's Owen Ashworth has created a hybrid strain of raw, emotional, and very homemade synth pop that is as influenced as much by film and literature as by its more obvious musical counterparts. CFTPA's claustrophobic two-minute character studies shudder with reverbed beats, blown-out chords, simple-but-infectous melodies, layered beneath the sometimes funny but always heartbreaking lyrics of Ashworth's sighing baritone.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/cftpaforever/
http://www.tomlab.com/

 The Robot Ate Me
One-man wonderfully tortured indie-rock from a San Diego native. "The reason that leader Ryland Bouchard can get away with singing about African butcherings and Christian murder marathons is that he delivers his acidic lyrics in a lovely, bruised croon, matching them with a beguiling mix of old jazz samples, junk-pile percussion, and delicate violin." -- SF Weekly
www.therobotateme.com
 		Askr
Askr's psychedelic folk conjures up images of mystical landscapes and ancient mythologies through the improvisational use of instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, voice, mandolin, banjo, harp, piano accordian and Dulcimer. Each song creates fresh, dew-covered realities with an experimental folk edge that lulls the listener into sweet, sweet dreamland.
www.askr.org