The Does are a series of shows featuring primarily experimental/free improv/noise/sound art/performance art/WTF/and occasionally none of the above booked and curated by id m theft able in and around Portland, Maine. To get in touch about booking or to join the mailing list, contact yngxga@gmail.com Old Does flyers ~~~~U P C O M I N G~~~~ Does41: October 31st 2024 Annie Dodson = ("electroacoustic composer, sound artist, and cellist from and living in Portland, Maine) Aaron Rosenblum = (performing "I'm a Wrangler Man") Charmaine Lee + Crank Sturgeon + id m theft able trio @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does??: December 8th 2024 belltonesuicide = (Western Mass Noise vet) Andrea-Jane Cornell = (Gleaner of sonorities Montreal/Portland, ME) Slow Hymn = (soundscapes, field recordings, et c Portland, ME) The Asthmatic = (extended vocals, noise et c., Portland, ME) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine ~~~~P A S T~~~~ Does1: June 30th 2017 Kristen Stake + id m theft able = (movement, voice, stuff, Maine) Apis Malfiore = (dark drones, Portland) Tanya St. Pierre + Philippe-Aubert Gauthier = (electronics, Sherbrooke, Quebec) @ Manta Ray Business Solutions Brackett St., Portland, Maine Does2: August 7th 2017 Mystic Out Bop Review = (free improv, Portland, Maine) Andrea Pensado + id m theft able Paper Balls = (David Grollman + Jeff Barksy, percussion and guitar) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does3: August 20th 2017 Stephanie Germaine = (Boston, electronics) Beam Splitter (Audrey Chen and Henrik Munkeby Norstebo, voice and winds) id m theft able = (piano man) @ Studio 408 408 Broadway, South Portland, Maine Does4: November 12th 2017 8pm Sandy Ewen (extended guitar, Texas) Vic Rawlings = (cello + exposed circuits, Boston) Tube Feeder = (Deep Maine Noise) Leslie Ross + Nate Aldrich + Steve Norton = (Deep Maine bassoon, saxophone, electronics) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does5: December 11th 2017 8pm Ian Douglas-Moore + Paul N Roth = (free improv guitar + sax from Berlin + NYC) 3D Jet Scooter = (Janane Tripp, id m theft able, Scooter from the muppets) Sequoyah Leaf = (Portland, reeds and noise) Diva Cup = ("gum, trash, mary") @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does6: January 25th 2018 8pm No Face = (Florida Noise) Bats From Pogo = (Walter Wright + Andrea Pensado) Patrick Carey = (Synthesis, noise,broken loops, restrained melodies) Nadia = (noise// performance// butoh// sound shaping using synthesis) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does7: February 15th 2018 8pm Audrey Chen + Phil Minton = (vocal improv legends) Henrik Munkeby Norstebo = (reeds, space, electronics) id m theft able = (local spigot, Windham, Maine) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does8: April 9th 2018 8pm Tongue Depressor = (Connecticut Free Improv) Mystic Out Bop Review = (Maine Free Improv) Sterile Garden = (tape, noise, tape from Portland) @ The Apohadion Theater 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does9: April 25th 2018 8pm 3D Jet Scooter = (Veteran Portland, ME space cadets, Janane, id m, Frank) Adams/Cunningham/BBJr = (free improv, drums/violin/tenor sax) HARDHEALTH = (experimental DJ duo from Kalamazoo, MI) @ Zero Station 222 Anderson St., Portland, Maine Does10: Sunday: May 13th 2018 Sippy Cup = (vocals, objects, moments from the UK) Dei Xhrist = (voice and visual, New Hampshire) Scrotal Tear = (ouch, Portland!) Apis Malfiore = (dark drones, Portland) @ The Apohadion Theater 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does11: Monday, July 9th 2018 Ursidae = (Portland ME, drones and field recordings) Alicia Champlin (Orono ME, brain activated sound!) Josh Mason = (mellow, abstract electronics, Jacksonville, FL) Shedding =(mellow and abstract electronics, Louisville, KY) @ The Apohadion Theater 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does12: Sunday, July 22nd 2018 Wet Colors = ("atmospheres/spaces" Portland, ME!) Beige = ("Improvised music project of Liam Kramer-White and Stella Silbert.", Western Mass) Sequoyah Leaf = (Portland, reeds and noise) @ The Apohadion Theater 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does13: August 9th 2018 Solei = ("ambient soundscapes, raw alien rhythms and the occasional sweet and soft melody" Boston) Kee Avil = ("combines guitar, voice and electronics into weird song forms that stagger between structure and improvisation" from Montreal) id m theft able = (voice, stuff, Maine) Crayonne =("risen from the ashes of tempera ... a portland phoenix, if u will") @ The Apohadion Theater 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does14: Monday, August 20th 2018 Sandy Ewen = (improvising guitarist performs solo and with id m theft able) Cat Manure = (West Bayside all stars. Amplified objects, Portland ME) Honey Funnel + Dinky Mirage = (skipping CDs, synths and tape loops, from the Murder Denny's region of Portland ME) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does15: Wednesday, October 3rd 2018 Retribution Body = (Providence, intense drones) Patrick Carey = (Synthesis, noise,broken loops, restrained melodies) 3D Jet Scooter = (Mainers in space) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does16: Friday, January 4th 2019 id m theft able's birthday party The Veasies = (Janane + Corey) The Asthmatic = (Sigrid) Glade Swope = (Glade reads excerpts from his new novel!) Dan Knudsen = (Dan plays id m's favorite Dan hits) 3D Jet Scooter = (Frank Turek, Janane Tripp, id m theft able = Mainers in space) Shea Mowat @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does17: Friday, February 1st 2019 Charmaine Lee + Andrea Pensado + id m theft able trio Guest Bedroom = Free improv, guitars and horns Ulna = (industrial noise, New York) KOVVNS = ("sounds like an oven, man", Portland, ME) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does18: Tuesday, April 9th 2019 8pm anne-f jacques + Gudinni Cortina duo = (Montreal/Mexico City) Sound of the Mountain = (amplified clarinet and trumpet, Montreal) Sterile Garden = (tape, noise, tape from Portland) Torbit = ("a free jazz noise punk type thing" Portland, ME) id m theft able = (spits) @ Sun Tiki 375 Forest Ave, Portland, Maine Does19: Sunday, April 14th 2019 8pm Red Rainbow = (Voice + loops, New Haven, CT) Dinky Mirage = (tiny illusion, Portland) Architecture = (ambient synth from Central Maine) The Dog Band = (Pat and Jeremy, ambiances, house band) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does20: Wednesday, May 29th 2019 8pm Nadia = (noise// performance// butoh// sound shaping using synthesis) Greef = (shifting fidelity tape recorder folk) Nicholas Serrambana = (New Haven, CT) Borscht = (swampy songs and glittery ambience, JD from Ada, Portland, ME) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does21: Sunday, June 23rd 2019 8pm Liam Kramer-White = (Disassembled cassette players and electronics, Wmass.) Dei Xhrist + id m theft able duo (Maine/New Hampshire vocalists) Lady Snowblood = (generative and digital manipulation", Portland, ME) Drab Pony = (Portland ambiances) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does22: Wednesday, August 21 2019 If, Bwana = (Al Margolis, New York, Pogus Productions) Kit Demos = (solo bass, Maine) Coma Roulette = (drones, tones, Portland, ME) Collision Unit @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does23: Monday, August 26th 2019 Carol Genetti =(voice, Chicago) Joshhall Augustwest = (free jams, Portland, ME) Nat Baldwin = (Bass!) Michael F Dailey Jr. = (Birdorgan's drummer spreads his wings, Lowell, MA) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does24: Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 Dan Knudsen = (this is a record release party for Dan's new album "Psychos") Naythen Wilson = ("has been unloading his ugly and cataclysmic landscapes on us, for well over 30 years") Smokemaster420 = (YouTube sensations, Portland, ME) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does25: Saturday, November 9th 2019 8pm Ben Bennett + id m theft able duo Trash Palace = (Farmington, Maine object amplifiers) Glade Swope = (DIY mystical metal warrior) Twisted Hell Cat = (New English Underground Occult Anti-Music Noise Metal. Portland, ME) @ Manta Ray Business Solutions 155 Brackett, 2nd floor, Portland, Maine Does26: Saturday, November 16th 2019 8pm Financial Collapse = (horns? bells? collapse, NYC) Ghost in Salad = (noise, apparel, Philly) Ursidae = (Portland ME, drones and field recordings) The Choir Required The Peeling Revealing = (id m theft able conducts a choir) @ Carleton St. (e-mail for specifics), Portland, Maine Does27: January 3rd 2020 id m theft able's now apparently annual(?) birthday show Dump Betty = (Cape Cod bottle collectors) Dinky Mirage = (Portland, ME, electronics? CDs? MIDI? Eh?) Shea Mowat = (Maine's nerniest and journiest) id m theft able = (crying if he wants to) Clog Wornago = (the cardboard robot goes solo, Portland, ME) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does28: February 5th 2020 ouzkxqlzn = ("ambient compositions that weave together cello, guitar, field recordings and singing" Burlington, VT) Sterile Garden = (tape, noise, tape from Portland) idmatic =(The Asthmatic id m theft able duo) Janane Tripp = (songs and spook from Limington, ME) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does29: February 16th 2020 Sonoscopia = ("dysfunctional robot orchestra" from Portugal) Computer at Sea = (Portland, ME, bent electronics) Greg Kowalski = (Lowell, MA, video, playing the Scroll Apparatus) Apis Malfiore = (dark drones, Portland) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does30: February 19th 2020 Annie Blech = (Palbertan, solo!) Wet Colors = ("atmospheres/spaces" Portland, ME!) (a yucky dissonant loud band) = ("a yucky dissonant loud band", Portland, ME) id m theft able = (filling in for Janoah) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does31: July 27th 2022 Sandy Ewen = (NYC, experimental guitarist) id m theft able = (reemerges) Sandy Ewen + id m duo Autoglass = (playfully serious noise, Hollis, ME) @ The Apohadion Theater, outside (weather permitting) 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does32: June 12th 2023 Adam Arritola = (Rochester, NY "makes music depending on what you would call music.") Crank Sturgeon + id m theft able = (yessah) The Asthmatic = (Avant-garde collage pieces with old-time(y) vocals, Maine) Dinky Mirage = (Frothy cascades, Portland, ME) @ The Apohadion Theater, outside (weather permitting) 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does33: June 28th 2023 Liam Kramer-White = (Disassembled cassette players and electronics, Western Mass.) Andrea-Jane Cornell = (A gleaner of sonorities, Portland, Maine) id m theft able = (ugh) @ The Apohadion Theater 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does34: August 16th 2023 David Grollman, Jeff Barsky, Steve Norton trio = (free improv trio, NYC, DC, Boston) idmatic =(The Asthmatic + id m theft able) E. Jason Gibbs = (Portland, ME "a guitar player and field recordist") Dei Xhrist = (vocals, NH it's Dei's Birthday) @ The Apohadion Theater 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does35: September 25th 2023 8pm Gudinni Cortina = (...uses sound performance to transform spaces, from Mexico City) Aaron Rosenblum = (Portland, ME sound artist, musician, archivist....) Gabriel Drolet + Anne-F Jacques = (Montreal, "We've been working together for a year now. During the last lockdown past winter, we would meet once a week in hallways of empty office buildings and play for 2 or 3 friends. We kept this habit of playing quietly in unusual places, alongside the electric hum or heating system") id m theft able @ The Apohadion Theater 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does36: April 7th 2024 8pm Kristina Warren Andrea-Jane Cornell + id m theft able duo Angstrom Star = (Maine synth trio, possibly with a drummer as well) Apis Malfiore = (dark drones, Portland) @ The Apohadion Theater 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does37: April 22 2024 8pm Bromp Treb = ("a nonsense onomatopoeia for the rattling windows of a jalopy with an overenthusiastic subwoofer") birdorgan = (legendary New Hampshire noise freak out unit) Zane Kanevsky = (Computer music artist, composer and producer living in Portland, Maine) @ The Apohadion Theater 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does38: May 31st 2024 8pm S.Glass = (California tape music and publishing legend) Sailor Beware = (California, sailor) Crank Sturgeon = (Maine, manfish) idmatic = (The Asthmatic + id m theft able) @ The Apohadion Theater 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does39: June 30th 2024 8pm Angela Sawyer = (vocals, noise, comedy, Boston) Matt Robidoux = (corn, electronics, California) Andrea Pensado + id m theft able duo Ernest Braun = (Portland sound artist) @ The Apohadion Theater 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine Does40: October 20th 2024 8pm Glade Swope = (album release concert!) Dan Knudsen = (special Halloween set!) @ The Apohadion 107 Hanover St., Portland, Maine |