Hometown Sounds

DC is home to a lot of different music scenes, collectives of like-minded musicians working together to build audiences and play gigs. One of the longest running and most underground organizations is Sonic Circuits, the umbrella label for really experimental music locally. In addition to hosting numerous shows throughout the year, primarily at Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, they put on the Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music which this year takes over the Atlas Performing Arts Center and other venues from October 1st to 6th. Today’s video comes from Salarymen, the duo of Amptext‘s Gary Rouzer and Sonic Circuits director + curator Jeff Surak, who also runs the “intelligent noise music” netlabel zeromoon. This stuff will seriously stretch the boundaries of what people call music. Look for these noisemakers in a traffic circle near you soon.