{"id":3061,"date":"2016-05-30T22:27:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T22:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.pedrolopes.opalstacked.com\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2016-06-04T18:15:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T18:15:22","slug":"6th-may-solo-life-changing-ministries-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/?p=3061","title":{"rendered":"6th May \/\/ solo @ Life Changing Ministries \/\/ Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LCM is honored to be hosting metaphysical turntable artist Pedro Lopes&#8230;not to be missed!<\/p>\n<p>\u221e Pedro Lopes (Berlin) \u221e<br \/>\n[turntable percussion, cymbals and modified needles]<\/p>\n<p>Pedro Lopes is a turntablist metamorphosed into a percussionist. When playing live he deconstructs his instrument, the turntables, into a vehicle of a rapid, post-scratch and post-jazz, musical dialog of analog intonation and acoustic overtones. In Pedro&#8217;s music the needles do not merely amplify the vibrations stored in the grooves of the vinyl records. For him, the needles are microscopes that enable us to hear otherwise unheard micro-realities, such as the sound of a fingernail scratching a membrane, a coin revolving as it falls, a brus<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">h dragged across a plastic surface. Pedro has been collaborating with artists such as Carlos Z\u00edngaro, Reinhold Friedl, DJ Sniff, Imre Thormann, amongst many others, in a life entangled deeply with his research on interfaces and performance arts. This extra-musical investigations have led him to produce pieces for Transmediale, a Funda\u00e7\u00e3o de Serralves, Fylkingen, Ausland, and Goethe Institut. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\n\u221e <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beastienest\/\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=708435245902228&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A980575048700644%7D\">Beast Nest<\/a> \u221e<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beastienest\/?fref=ts\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/<wbr \/>beastienest\/?fref=ts<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/olgadagod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/<wbr \/>olgadagod<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u221e Bonus Beast \u221e<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbonusbeast.bandcamp.com%2F&amp;h=nAQF403jD&amp;enc=AZPALXkglCvyICuc7SVSiE_TokLBSMkJvE3wtC579RSCwbZzdTvPEu6tqFMI_eoMVis&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">https:\/\/<wbr \/>bonusbeast.bandcamp.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u221e <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/blondebill\/\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=78648835174&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A980575048700644%7D\">Bill Baird<\/a> \u221e<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/blondebill\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/<wbr \/>blondebill\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fbillbairdofficial&amp;h=MAQFQx3n4&amp;enc=AZNBwRRwLCjpJh-NrlaV1SmAd4n89RBTSz1cv5d-8nL4aCXdW19n4TFUOy6syfuqPJQ&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/<wbr \/>billbairdofficial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DJ Funky V (Las Sucias, DemonsleeperBrown Godess of Whipping Your ASs)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LCM is honored to be hosting metaphysical turntable artist Pedro Lopes&#8230;not to be missed! \u221e Pedro Lopes (Berlin) \u221e [turntable percussion, cymbals and modified needles] Pedro Lopes is a turntablist metamorphosed into a percussionist. When playing live he deconstructs his instrument, the turntables, into a vehicle of a rapid, post-scratch and post-jazz, musical dialog of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[189,3,190,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plopesmusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}