Assemblage

Heliotrope Nine at The Lab Theater
I’m still in happy blissed-out mode after three days of Heliotrope – an annual experimental music festival. This year marked its 9th installment. The week before a “Players Without Instruments” interview was posted with me, where I tried to namedrop Heliotrope as much as possible as it really is my favorite live music event in the Twin Cities. A gathering for and by our “oddball music community” as Zak Sally put it in this City Pages article. This year I was in attendance for the entire thing and saw (and photographed) nearly every performance. If chronological order is your thing or you are a completist you can view all the photos here:

Otherwise my favorites are posted below. I took nearly as many candids as performance shots and have divvied them up into those two groups.

Photos of People

Heliotrope Nine, Day Two

Jessie at Heliotrope Nine

Clint at Heliotrope Nine

Heliotrope Nine, Day Two

Heliotrope Nine, Day Two

Heliotrope Nine

Heliotrope Nine

Heliotrope Nine

Photos of People Playing Music

Dreamland Faces
Dreamland Faces

Test Weapon
Test Weapon

Thunderbolt Pagoda
Thunderbolt Pagoda

Mahngüs
Mahngüs

Bellow
Bellow

Heliotrope Nine, Day Two
Brute Heart

Heliotrope Nine, Day Two
Arp of the Covenant

Heliotrope Nine, Day Two
The Night

Heliotrope Nine, Day Two
Food Pyramid

Heliotrope Nine, Day Two
CLAPS

Heliotrope Nine, Day Two
Prostate

Heliotrope Nine, Day Two
International Novelty Gamelan

Heliotrope Nine
Rana May, on the dangers of music

Heliotrope Nine
Unhappy Virgin Damage

Heliotrope Nine
Unhappy Virgin Damage

Heliotrope Nine
Oaks

Heliotrope Nine
Fortified Five

Heliotrope Nine
Hasps

Heliotrope Nine
Hasps

Heliotrope Nine
Tips For Twat

Heliotrope Nine
Tips For Twat

Heliotrope Nine
Scaphe

Heliotrope Nine
TVBC

Heliotrope Nine
White Map

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