⇒ Watch the video of Alyssa's and Spencer's live performances at ESS. ⇒ Read Alyssa's ESS-Archive-inspired writing as published in Fence issue 41. ⇒ Listen to and see the audio/image supplement to Alyssa's writing and performance from Malachi Ritscher's Notebooks and two recordings of live concert performances by Xiu Xiu. ⇒ Read Spencer's Fence-Archive-inspired writing as published in Fence issue 41. ⇒ A Tribute to the Legacy of Spencer Hutchinson.
As part of the FENCE and ESS archive exchange featured in Issue 41, Alyssa is here sharing audio for two concert recordings, made nineteen years apart by Malachi Ritscher and herself. (Note the two songs played at both shows.) The first recording, a 2004 Xiu Xiu live performance recording made by Ritscher in Chicago, comes from the Creative Audio Archive’s Malachi Ritscher Collection. It's supplemented by Malachi Ritscher's track notes for the festival at which the set took place, taken from one of his many recording notebooks. Further below, you can listen to a 2023 recording of a Xiu Xiu live performance made by Alyssa in Cleveland.
Thanks to Experimental Sound Studio for audio and images from the Creative Audio Archive’s Malachi Ritscher Collection; thanks to Xiu Xiu for permission to share the 2023 recording.
Xiu Xiu at the Empty Bottle, September 26, 2004, recorded by Malachi Ritscher
SET LIST:
Cherry
Crank Heart
Bog People
I Broke Up (SJ)
Ale
Clowne Towne
Bunny Gamer
Suha
Ten-Thousand-Times-a-Minute
I Luv the Valley OH!
Apistat Commander
From Malachi Ritscher's Notebooks:
Xiu Xiu at Beachland Ballroom, April 23, 2023, recorded by Alyssa Perry
SET LIST:
Maybae Baeby
Petite
A Bottle of Rum
Master of the Bump (Kurt Stumbaugh, I Can Feel the Soil Falling Over My Head)
Apistat Commander
Falling
Fabulous Muscles
The Fox & the Rabbit
Esquerita, Little Richard
Ceremony (Joy Division)
Rumpus Room
Ian Curtis Wishlist
[Encore]
Girl with Basket of Fruit
I Luv the Valley OH!
⇒ Watch the video of Alyssa's and Spencer's live performances at ESS. ⇒ Read Alyssa's ESS-Archive-inspired writing as published in Fence issue 41. ⇒ Listen to and see the audio/image supplement to Alyssa's writing and performance from Malachi Ritscher's Notebooks and two recordings of live concert performances by Xiu Xiu. ⇒ Read Spencer's Fence-Archive-inspired writing as published in Fence issue 41. ⇒ A Tribute to the Legacy of Spencer Hutchinson.
Alyssa Perry’s (Cleveland, OH) poems appear in Annulet, The Canary, Fence, Mercury Firs, River Styx, and elsewhere. Perry is an editor at Rescue Press and Cleveland Review of Books. Her book Oily Doily will be published by Bench Editions in fall 2024.
Instagram: @lysperry
