Field Trip

06/14/2024

Harsh noise & power electronics bill supporting Violent Pleasures, on tour from Ohio. Next Saturday in the salon.

03/04/2024

Tuesday, March 19th
Hailing from NC originally and on tour from Boston, experimental composer-improvisor Marie Carroll will be gracing Field Trip for a slate of in and out music.

Local support including sets from Tim Hawks and Shallow South and a duo performance from Tyler Monroe & Sebastian Portier-Young.

8pm doors / 830 sounds
$5
No one turned away for lack of funds.

02/29/2024

Show announcement:

Sunday, March 10th

New York’s Pain Appendix visits the salon ahead of his appearance at Negative Frequencies Over Siam in Bangkok at the end of March.

Featuring regional support from Ta***ic Death as well as live debuts from local familiar faces in Provenance Rot and Red Water Complex.

8pm doors / 830 sounds
$5
No one turned away for lack of funds.

02/05/2024

Show Announcement

Wednesday, February 21st
New York experimental duo Elka B**g returns to NC for a night of inventive and elastic sound.

Local support on tape, laptop and machines inbetween from Mithraic Clean Room, Kettling and Vindigo.

8pm doors / 830 sounds
$5
No one turned away for lack of funds.

01/22/2024

Thursday, January 25th
An all-star showing of experimentalists from across North Carolina. Packed evening with sounds both quiet and loud. Come early, stay late.

8pm doors / 830 sounds
$5
No one turned away for lack of funds.

11/27/2023

Wednesday, December 27th
Our final show for 2023 will be with the excellent Cube (publisher of the popular distro magazine, Baited Area) and Hen House(Members of Relay for Death). Local support from Healing Factor, Dogsbody Trepanning and Kettling, each bringing various sorts of merriment to the salon mid holidays.

8pm doors / 830 sounds
$5
No one turned away for lack of funds.

10/05/2023

Saturday, October 14th
Our autumn program resumes with a special night of NC. Bands will be going back to back with their adjacent noise projects alongside an onslaught of varied harsh acts from across the state. Not to be missed.

8pm doors / 830 sounds
$5
No one turned away for lack of funds.

09/11/2023

Friday, September 22nd -
Saturday, September 23rd

Friday: 7pm doors / 7:30pm sounds
Saturday: dawn till dawn
$8
No one turned away for lack of funds.

Field Trip returns to begin our Autumn program with the second annual Applied Labour Festival. Showcasing more involved works primarily from a core group of locals as well as the debut of traveling acts Borer and L.A. based harsh noise artist Sissisters.

First evening on the 22nd will run more or less like a normal show, with acts performing in order, finishing up around midnight.

Day two will begin shortly thereafter. At dawn, a few hours after the first night's program, our visiting artists will instantiate a 24-hour live installation entitled 7 Intuitions, running until dawn on Sunday the 24th.

Attendees are welcome to bring sleeping materials and stay through the evening of the 22nd into the installation. Guests are free to come and go as they please. We encourage all guests to find ways to respectfully work in the salon space, as all are welcome to during normal salon hours.

07/14/2023

T-shirts now available
$15

07/10/2023

Sunday - 7PM / $10

No one turned away for lack of funds.

Sunday, July 16th
Not to be missed: Rodger Stella, Tim Gick, T.E.F., Total Sweetheart, Scathing, R. Buttrum, Princess Haultaine III, Daniel Ryan, H.W.S.

The convergence of the summers two mightiest tours meets at the crossroads. The Texas Expeditionary Force tour featuring a slew of lonestar harsh noise heavy hitters hits town alongside Rodger Stella(Macronympha/Hollow Bush/One Dark Eye/Mother Savage) on tour with the returning Tim Gick.

Local support from a chimeric pantheon of Greensboro harsh noise and heavy electronics
Cold P**s, Salt Life, Workman's Comp / Ratcatcher collab
Anther Gash / Cerebral Clamp collab

7pm doors / 7:30pm sounds
$10
No one turned away for lack of funds

07/04/2023

Saturday, July 22nd
Welcoming Mortido, the new project of Omar Gonzalez (Re**al Hygenics, No Dreams, Machismo), on tour with Chicago compatriots Dorothy Carlos, MK, and Lula Asplund.

A night of tense modern electronics.

Local support from:
Memetic Survival Ensemble
Tim Hawks
Surfacing
Vindigo

8pm doors / 8:30pm sounds
$5
No one turned away for lack of funds

06/29/2023

Tomorrow, 8pm
Celebrating One Year of Field Trip

Friday, June 30th
Onward Holding Invites You
to an Anniversary Outing

In celebration of Field Trip Year One we will be welcoming elusive Massachusetts artists Robert Fuchs and Liam Kramer-White

And Richmond ripper Xenojothsz

With a slew of North Carolina harsh noise acts: Healing Factor, Borer, Provisional, Dogsbody Trepanning, Ratcatcher and Workman's Comp

8pm doors / 830 sounds
$5
No one turned away for lack of funds

06/25/2023

06/23/2023

Sunday, July 16th
Not to be missed: Rodger Stella, Tim Gick, T.E.F., Total Sweetheart, Scathing, R. Buttrum, Princess Haultaine III, Daniel Ryan, H.W.S.

The convergence of the summers two mightiest tours meets at the crossroads. The Texas Expeditionary Force tour featuring a slew of lonestar harsh noise heavy hitters hits town alongside Rodger Stella(Macronympha/Hollow Bush/One Dark Eye/Mother Savage) on tour with the returning Tim Gick.

Local support from a chimeric pantheon of Greensboro harsh noise and heavy electronics
Cold P**s, Salt Life, Workman's Comp / Ratcatcher collab
Anther Gash / Cerebral Clamp collab

7pm doors / 7:30pm sounds
$10
No one turned away for lack of funds

06/15/2023

Friday, June 30th
Onward Holding Invites You
to an Anniversary Outing

In celebration of Field Trip Year One we will be welcoming elusive Massachusetts artists Robert Fuchs and Liam Kramer-White

And Richmond ripper Xenojothsz

With a slew of North Carolina harsh noise acts: Healing Factor, Borer, Provisional, Dogsbody Trepanning, Ratcatcher and Workman's Comp

8pm doors / 830 sounds
$5
No one turned away for lack of funds

06/05/2023

June marks one full year since Field Trip's open.

We would like to say thank you.

That any of you have come at all in this first year has been beyond humbling. We were prepared, and still are, for this place to take a long time to flourish into what it will eventually be, but your attendance in any and all capacities has been the scaffolding upon which our next year of activities are built.

The only thing we could implore you to do, if you have not yet, is to come and spend time here in a different light than you have at first. If you have only seen the salon during the day, when the sun pours through the skylights, we invite you to take some time with it at night during a show. If you have only seen it from one angle we ask you to take it in the round and see all of what it is and can be to you.

The salon is primarily a place for a few of us to get together and work alongside each other. We have been extremely excited to share this space with those who have taken the time to do that with us here, and that people who came to see shows have had the opportunity to play in turn, when the occasion was right.

We have many plans for new ways to engage with the salon in the next year that we can only hope you find some interest in as they are revealed.

We are very proud to present something that interacts with traditions older than our parents or grandparents, while making room for articulations that are ever changing and not kettled in by unimaginative dictums or logics.

Engineered in endless fruition. Toward defeat of alienation.

- Field Trip

05/27/2023

Tonight! Doors at 8pm

Saturday, May 27th
Elka B**g is a New York Avant Improv group comprised of Al Margolis(If, Bwana & Sound of Pig), Walter Wright, Tom Law, & Cilla Vee, joined on this evening by Cambria Storms.

Also featuring Durham drone improv duo Tacoma Park, accompanied by Cen0te.

Local support from Ta***ic Death, Vindigo, and Carolina Signal Choir

8pm doors / 830 sounds
$5
No one turned away for lack of funds

05/26/2023

Tonight, doors at 8pm

Friday, May 26th
Jim McHugh (Brooklyn) & Eugene Chadbourne - out music, improv duo

With support from returning Polyorchard and improvisational orchestra, Carolina Signal Choir

8pm doors / 830 sounds
$5
No one turned away for lack of funds