A millenium-era alumnus of the UB Poetics/Media Studies Department (and former member of beloved Buffalo post-rock band Treelined Highway), Brandon Stosuy's casual activities humble the best efforts of most. Currently a Senior Writer at Stereogum (quoted regularly on this site) and Contributing Editor at The Believer, Brandon previously provided music criticism for Pitchfork and the Village Voice. Additionally, he co-edited Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 (with Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles); contributed the introduction to Michelle Tea's The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America; and wrote an essay for the book Matthew Barney exploring the groundbreaking multi-media artist's use of sound.
On May 2nd, Brandon, along with Alex Ross of the New Yorker, hosts a Haiti benefit featuring DJ sets by Björk, the Dirty Projector's Dave Longstreth and Battles's Tyondai Braxton in addition to Ross and Stosuy themselves. Ross described the event, which takes place at Brooklyn DIY space Above the Auto Parts Store, this way: "don't be surprised if you hear some combination of Thai soul, doom metal, Justin Bieber, and, of course, nude Stravinsky." Commenting in a post about the event on Stereogum, Brandon added: "That, probably Alim Qasimov, a few things played at 1/4 speed, The Goat Yelling Like A Man (Feat. Usher), the other Rites Of Spring, and hopefully lots of dancing."
Tickets are $15 from Record Grouch/Old Made Vintage, 441 Metropolitan Avenue (@ Meeker) in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, there are no tickets available online, so tell the friend on whose couch you will be crashing to to drop by today. There are only a few tickets left.
All proceeds go to Partners In Health’s Stand With Haiti Fund, an organization that, as they put it, “[partners] with poor communities to combat disease and poverty.”
On 10/18/00, Treelined Highway played Big Orbit Gallery with Noggin and Hylozoa; and contributed to Murder the Word 3 at the Ukranian Home on 11/11/00, and Murder the Word 4 at the Saturn Building on 11/03/01. In between, on 10/05/01, they performed a live original soundtrack to Anticipation of The Night, a film by Stan Brakhage (a Big Orbit presentation at Squeaky Wheel). The group reunited on 06/11/05 to perform at Soundlab during Ron Ehmke's EVERYTHING: An Evening with Ron Ehmke and His or Her Very Special Guests.
Brandon was also a member of free-form experimental/noise group Knox Harrington, which performed at Big Orbit Gallery on 04/13/00 as part of the Noise Riot: an Orchestrated Evening of Unified Sonic Abstraction event; on 06/28/01 at Rust Belt Books as part of our Parenthesis series; on 09/19/01 at Mohawk Place opening for Bill Horist (presented by Big Orbit); and on 11/03/01 at Murder the Word 4 (the Saturn building).
Brandon discussed his own work on 04/26/01 as part of the Parenthesis series at Rust Belt Books.
Additionally, Brandon curated the Prose Acts festival sponsored by UB which held 2 panel discussions at Big Orbit Gallery: on 10/19/01 "Pop the Culture: Punk, Horror, Trash," with Dodie Bellamy, Lawrence Braithwaite, Dennis Cooper, Michelle Tea; and on 10/20/01 "Talking Dirty: Sexual Politics, Pornography, and Desire," with Dodie Bellamy, Kari Edwards, Robert Gluck, Kevin Killian, Eileen Myles, Matthew Stadler.
Tyondai Braxton and Dave Longstreth both visited Soundlab many times but click their links to get the dates from earlier posts, I'm tired.
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