Bands & Performers

Lucky Dragons

...formed in 1999. This is the band that never breaks up: The cut and paste digital derivative of musique concrete, melodic memory, splintery soft glitches, anxious dada, dirty indie, beautytronics. Lucky dragons is Luke Fischbeck, who edits it like a magazine to make sure it stays going. There are so many others to share the light, though: singing, drawing, dancing, touching, plucking and spinning or sewing with sound files or just listening really well. We are a DIY sound branding and sound breaking collective. Records are densely knit collages of ecstatic language, folk melodies, and AM radio rave ups. Live shows are convulsive celebrations of sounds from hard drives and gentle skin contact. Our aesthetic is handmade. Contributing members currently live in Providence RI, Philadelphia PA, coastal Southern California and New York City.

...Lucky Dragons have performed in such festivals as Versionfest (Chicago), SINfest (NYC), Boston Cyberarts and RHfest (Boston, MA), Listening in the Sound Kitchen (Princeton University), Munich’s Analog/Digital festival and Pixilerations (Providence RI); appeared as part of sound art exhibitions such as “Frequentzen:HZ” at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt and PICA’s Time Based Art festival (Portland, OR). Recent soundtrack projects include work for the exhibition “making things public” at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, “Precious Places” for WHYY television, and “Dead Man’s Shoes” released by Warp films.