Next San Francisco Show

Hi everybody! 

My next show as part of the Sons of the Widow project is coming up on May 31 at the Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco http://www.reddevillounge.com/

This is part two in a four part series of sci-fi spoken word/electronic performances that my collaborator Tim O'Neill (http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/bio/artist_1906445 ) and I are doing.  It's just good good fun. Spooky and atmospheric. 
If you haven't seen sonar used in a live performance before, it might be worth checking out just for that.

One of the songs I wrote for the piece, Dance of the Nanites, can be heard here: http://soundcloud.com/arvid-peterson/dance-of-the-nanites
I imagined a robert rodriguez planet terror feel for this bridge before the climax.

Hope some of you in the bay area can make it!!
 
The playlist and story synopsis is as follows:  

PLAYLIST:

1. Robot Evisceration: One of the American scientists on the Pacific island where the secret spaceport is located is vivisected by a seemingly berserk construction robot, however investigators realize that it was a planned surgical experiment to discover how humans are constructed. Goddess Loquai and the eleven Tennocian aliens who accompany Her realize that some other aliens are intervening…but who? All of the evidence points to the Mi-Go from planet Yuggoth, an insectile race incredibly skilled in surgery and genetic manipulation. A temple is discovered far underground on the island and a military expedition is dispatched.
   
2. Launch Pad: Besides aliens of all stripes, human factors are bound to intervene in the development of the first American Faster Than Light spacecraft. Communist agents are planted deep within the structure of NASA and they are struggling to gain the secrets of the drive from the German and American scientists and their Tennocian allies. The drive building is guarded constantly around the clock but the Soviet agents are able to walk right in with their security clearances. What they discover inside is so far beyond their ability to describe that they are forced to kidnap one of the German scientists who developed the device with the Tennocians to get the secret . In a desperate move, he throws the drive into operation and the Soviet agents are teleported…somewhere!
   
3. Neptune: The FTL ship is launched toward the planet Neptune but it is intercepted by agents of the Mi-Go and taken to Yuggoth for reverse engineering. There doesn’t seem to be any option but the self-destruct button but the Captain of the ship comes up with a plan to not only escape the vast ship they have been abducted into, but to plant a bomb that will disrupt time and space around Yuggoth for decades!
   
4. Rolling Waves: The FTL ship, the Polaris, is finally out of the Solar System, heading toward Alpha Centauri, when a desperate message arrives form the secret spaceport…if they don’t return, Earth may be doomed!
   
5. Dance of the Nanites: the story by Arvid will be worked into the plot
   
6. Grab that Hazmat suit: Grey Aliens have arrived in force and are spraying the whole island with black oil that turns human flesh into a weird hybrid, mutating it into an alien monstrosity within 24 hours. The invasion is on because we now xthreaten their hegemony in the Solar System. The Loquai and the Tennocians are well familiarized with the Grays and know their weakest spot…their mathematically perfect minds cannot handle anomalous events and the Tennocians reach deep into their alien universe for the strangest event of all!
   
7. Deeper than R’yleh: The final threat emerges: Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu send their minions, the Deep Ones, from underground to destroy the base. The Tennocians are baffled by Cthulhu since he is from yet another Universe than their own. As they desperately try to break into his mind, it is up to the human scientists to make sure that the stars do not go right or he will awake.
   

Words and Music: Timothy O’Neill and Arvid Peterson

Thanks Shad.  Yeah Tim is totally fun to work with.  I get to design the sound fx to go over the spoken word pieces for this one which is just a blast! The next one is going to be really really creepy and weird... based on Richard Sharpe Shaver's ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sharpe_Shaver) Hollow Earth series.  The fourth and final one in the series is going to be about a mythical goddess from the lost continent of Lemuria ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent)) complete with polynesian drumming and fire dancers (if the club lets us - lol).