currently...
my buddy dave and i recenty spent all night in oakland smoking with Pan and makeing this video of our Exploratorium sojourn from March 2010. the second song is new, titled 'exploratorium' has a bunch of footage from around the space, glowing colors, spinning orbs, small children banging things.
We started a blog
http://makeingtents.tumblr.com/
NORTHWEST MINI TOUR
OLYMPIA!
art: ashley miller
PORTLAND!
art: jen sandwich
'IN ANOTHER DECADE ROCK AND ROLL WILL BE ART'
Musician's-Curated Art Show May 23 @ Together Gallery, Portland
fly by night
art show
starts at 4pm
we hang all
damn day
feed your head
music sounds
at 7pm
BBQ??
secret
garden
directionless
featuring the wiley sounds of animal-enthralled:
Orca Team surf pop summertime dance parties
Nucular Aminals mutants scooting through the arizona sand
Soft Paws bushwakked soft boyz stud heavy rhythms
& Makeing Tents electro wilderness burnnn
visual works by:
Ashley Miller Neighors
Ethan Hollman Soft Paws
Robert Komets Nucular Aminals
Matthew Strange Hawkeye
Jean Yaste Makeing Tents
Jen Sandwich
Together Gallery
www.togethergallery.com
2916 NE Alberta St Portland, Oregon 97211 (503) 288-8879
some love from cincy...
gettin ready to hit the east coast for a mini tour april 6-20, 2010 w. our good friends CAVES and Baby Alpaca
4.08.10 @ glasslands, brooklyn
4.10.10 @ northside tavern, cincinnati
4.15.10 @ the fire, philadelphia
4.17.10 @ the alley gallery, bushwick, nyc
art: kate mosey
3.21.2010
photo by jen sandwich
exploratorium, san francisco, 3.12.2010
photo by jen sandwich
THIS SATURDAY! WE PLAY THE BUS FOR THE FIRST TIME!! 8PM AT ASHBY BART STATION SF CA
we're in today's paper!
SF Chron says "Makeing Tents: SF Trio makes own rules"
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Only 3 months old, this trio says they formed after "road trippin' through the desert." The name came to them during this journey, while they were piecing their tent together "one scrap at a time " - which is both meant literally and is a pun, referring to where its materials derived from. Makeing Tents explains that the name refers to building one's home.
Guitarist Crockett Bodelson experiments with vocal rhythms and growls, which the band refers to as "mouth drums," that complement vocalist-bassist Jean Yaste's androgynous poem-chants that tell tales of complacent cubicle lifestyles ("Rows and Boxes"), making tents ("Makeing Tents") and the choice to stay or go ("Lights On"). Basic beats, synth spirals, precise percussion and night howls are fixed into a sound that the band calls "electro wildernessss."
The band has performed only a handful of times, but each show has been memorable. The musicians played an acoustic set in a tent, and have performed while one member wore a panda suit and while all members were adorned with tribal-esque face paint. Makeing Tents is filming its first music video for "Lights On," and is recording its first release.
Lineup: Crockett Bodelson, guitar; Jean Yaste, vocals, bass; Sandra Wang, keyboard.
Who are your musical influences?
Outer space, piano teachers and instrument orphanage.
Who are your nonmusical influences?
Yoko Ono.
What is the ideal setting for someone to hear your music?
Inside of a tent, spaceship or trunk of a car.
Do you have any pre- or post-show food, indulgence or ritual?
Pre - sometimes Crockett communes with his panda suit, Sandra makes wash paintings in the tent, Jean drinks some whiskey. ... After shows we usually try to find some sweet and savory treats.
If you were a character from a movie, what character would you be? Why?
SW: Zombie extra to learn sweet dance moves.
CB: Dan Marino in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" 'cause I want to go to Miami.
JY: Odile from "Band of Outsiders," at the moment Odile sings a song on the subway about people who are "tender stones worn down too soon."
Check it out: www.myspace.com/makeingtents, www.drawingwhiledriving.com.
Next gig: 10 tonight. $7. With Grass Widow, Broken Water. The Knockout, 3223 Mission St., S.F. (415) 550-6994. www.theknockoutsf.com.
- Michelle Broder Van Dyke, bandwidth@sfchronicle.com
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/11/NS3L1CATL5.DTL
This article appeared on page G - 14 of the San Francisco Chronicle
© 2010 Hearst Communications Inc.
March 2010
Makeing Tents in March (spaceships, girls, gays)
flyer art by SCUBA
on march 11, san francisco trio makeing tents welcome Broken Water all the way from olympia, and are super stoked to share the knockout stage with local darlings Grass Widow (they're also playing Noise Pop!!). This naturale event will be a girl studded affair, we just may bring xtra flowerssss to show our love. 9pm. $5
the very next night, March 12, we're playing the EXPLORATORIUM's evening hours music night. we're very honored to play this event, especially since we're so new. thanks science! we're bringing a spaceship we recently built (for our first music video, "Lights On") for the kiddies to fly, and will do our damndest to clean up the swearing in our songs. in the meantime, we're thinking of strange and curious ways to hook up xylophones to delay pedals then play them through tent FX..... IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN AS MUCH AS THE ADULTS. 6 - 9pm. Admission? email me if ya want on the guest/press list....life is easy when it's FREEEEE
by SCUBA
at theeee end of the month, March 25, we'll be storming Kimo's penthouse lounge with the queer friendly folk of Awesomes, Myles Cooper USA Band, 9021-ho! and Orca Team (portland). All of the musicians tonight (most of whom are gay) will be makeing a wild combination. Risque tent fornication encouraged. 9pm. $5
in the future??? well...we're takin that same damn spaceship to the beach this weekend to finish shooting our first music video...and just got signed to Human Ear Music!! we're also heading to the east coast in april, and the grand northwest in may. great times good tunezzz.
hugs,
makeing tents
1.29.2010 {{HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG BRO!!!}}
whoa still recooperating after playing DADFAG's record release last night, damn those cats are pretty much mind blowing, so stoked that they asked us to play. yeah!!! and thanks erik for fillin in on bird whistle and sound efx. the sound guy said we should build a wall of sound and that the loudmouth guy was 'special.' we know he's very special indeed :)
aside from playing shows, we are recording songssss for a debut EP, conceptualizing alien desires for video dreaminess, and breaking into hottubs at the ritz carlton.
hugs from the future,
mt
flyer art by Eva, paint smudges by SCUBA
1.14.2010 OUTDOORABLE
'nature at night' from jan. 16th show at rooz in oakland w. racoons and soft paws
outdoorable show with soft paws and raccoons was sooooo fun! i've known justin and ethan from soft paws since we were 15!!!!!! cra cra. it's good to see they're still keepin it real. we're a looong way from cincy. hopefully soon makeing tents can go visit them in portland and build a cardboard jungle. oh and thanks to Ziasutra for filming the show. xo
"Here's an odd new Pop that someones are calling Electro Wilderness and it was a great way to start the rainy season at Rooz in Oakland." -Ziasutra
November 2009
featuring waseim mansour on harp
filmed by peter larsen
san francisco, CA
first show ever!!!! at studio 3579 in mission. we brought a tent, they gave all of our friends tons of wine, makeing tents cohorts Sandra and Crockett aka SCUBA showed paintings as part of their "Toys Don't Cry" art show. so much fun and thank you waseim for playing harp you're amazing.
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