nospectacle
nospectacle is an electronic music, video and DJ hybrid project based in Detroit.
The group is made up of Christopher McNamara, Jennifer A. Paull and Walter
Wasacz, and performs original music and film works by McNamara, a founding
member of the Windsor-Detroit laptop collective Thinkbox. All performances
feature live audio and video mixing and remixing, elements of improvisation and
audience engagement, grounded by dubby sub-bass vibrations.
The group most recently performed at Mutek in Montreal as part of Nocturne
5: Soul Control, the closing party of the festival. The event included Moritz von
Oswald Trio (Berlin) and Detroit’s Theo Parrish.
nospectacle has curated sight-sound parties at Cranbrook Art Museum that
have included performances with Berlin-based Klimek at a showcase event
for the Andy Warhol: Grand Slam exhibition (2008); performed with Glenn
Branca percussionist and former Swans’ drummer Virgil Moorefield at the Detroit
Institute of Arts’ Detroit Film Theatre (2009); opened the main stage at Detroit’s
Movement Festival in 2008, directly before the first-ever local live performance by
Echospace; and later in 2008 played with London’s Kode9 at Crofoot Ballroom in
Pontiac. McNamara also performed solo in London with Bristol-based Emptyset
in 2008.
McNamara is a lecturer in film and electronic media at the University of Michigan
and has installed multi-media works in Europe and North America. His film,
Establishing Shots, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in
2006. In 2009, McNamara released Vague Cities on the digital Overlap label.
The EP includes a remix by Markus Guentner, best known for his contributions to
Kompakt’s annual Pop Ambient series. The group performed with Guentner at an
event called Collapsing Borders at the University of Michigan in November 2009.
Paull has a background in electronic arts, photography and live band
performance on bass and trombone; Wasacz is a critic and writer who has
published articles on pop music in the UK, Germany, France and the U.S.
His column on underground dance music, the Subterraneans, has appeared
in Detroit’s Metro Times since 2004, and he is a staff writer for XLR8R
magazine in San Francisco. He co-founded the DJ collective Paris ’68 in 2002.
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