Experimental music, Native American legend

Karen Westermann

This sounds fun. from release:

Experimental live music and the life of a localNative American legend will be celebrated at Pfac’s Arts Café after a summer-long hiatus on Thursday, August 20 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Featured will be the avant-garde music talents of Khate Hate and Feralcatscan, open mic with Pete Freas and special guest author Karen Westermann.

With their reent CD release—Withersoexotica—Fercalcatscan is the highlighted feature of this Arts Café. “Feralcatscan creates science fiction music and art from the things people throw away, anything from toys to electronics, household appliances to car parts,” says Wayne Jacobs of Feralcatscan.

 Each song creates a participatory listening experience, creating adventures from everyday objects. They combine sounds of static, church bells, mega-distortion, and synth—among many other amorphic sounds—but no metronome or time signature confines, restrains, or defines this experimental music.

 Often working side by side the artist known only as Khate, both create music “in the same vein, using circuit-bent instruments, found objects, keyboards and other electronic instruments,” Khate claims. Her style “ranges from hard-and-beaty to floaty ambient,” while still maintaining a science fiction feel.

 Karen Westermann will pair with Pete Freas, a local publisher, poet and host to public readings and discussions, to present selected readings of her work. Westermann recently released a book, The Chief and I, formulated from journals she kept while caring for the 89-year-old Chief of the Mattaponi Tribe, Webster Little Eagle Custalow. She weaves an intricate story about deep friendship and compassion, as well as her own spiritual bond with the Mattaponi River, and the battle Little Eagle began to save it from a reservoir.

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