How To Destroy the Universe festival

How To Destroy the Universe festival

infobox music festival
music_festival_name = How To Destroy the Universe


location = Berkeley, California
years_active = 2002 - present
founders = Jim Mason, Mobilization Records
dates =
genre = Experimental noise, industrial sounds, and avant-garde visual art

The How To Destroy the Universe festival is a California music event that presents experimental noise, industrial sounds, and avant-garde visual art.Asher, Tizzy. (February 3, 2006) Seattle Post-Intelligencer " [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/258032_club03.html The Club Scene: Conventions fall by the way at 'Destroy' fest.] " Section: What's Happening; Page 24.] Founded in 2002 by Berkeley, California artist Jim Mason [Doherty, Brian. (May 1, 2008 ) Reason " [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_1_40/ai_n25354618/pg_2 Power from the people: what happens when creative consumers decide to generate their own energy?] " Volume 40; Issue 1; Page 30.] and the San Francisco-based experimental music label Mobilization Records, the festival aims to expand the parameters of what is termed "art" and "culture." The bands who play the event focus on "exploding conventions around song structure, melody and rhythm and then reassembling the parts." The 2002-2005 tours have included fire-art, multimedia performances and throat singing. Bands who played in 2006 include Blixa Bargeld of Einsturzende Neubauten, [Hix, Lisa. (February 5, 2006) San Francisco Chronicle "Clubland" Section: Style; Page D4.] the Living Jarboe of the Swans, F-Space, and Sixteens.

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