Diamorphoses
Minneapolis-based composer and guitarist Max Devereaux, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans film, painting, and ikebana, confronts the pain of the world and the trauma of humanity by colliding blistering avant-garde noise with transgressive pop, carving out a new beginning at the far edge of chaos.
19.7.2026
Interview
What is the concept behind this Showcase?
A 3 AM purge of rage at global suffering and human trauma.
Colliding blistering avant-garde noise with preposterous pop, this chaos acts as a violent, necessary rebirth from the ashes of zero.
Colliding blistering avant-garde noise with preposterous pop, this chaos acts as a violent, necessary rebirth from the ashes of zero.
What are the highlights of this Showcase?
- 1.Mass Projection— New Direction For The Arts (Masayuki Takayanagi)A blistering, unyielding wall of Japanese free-jazz noise that captures the pure, unvarnished scream of global rage and human agony.
It is a total sonic demolition.
Takayanagi reveals the true soul of humanity. - 2.The Hukilau Song— Ray Conniff With The Ray Conniff SingersA track chosen for its preposterous, hyper-sanitized cheerfulness.
Placing this uncanny mid-century pop next to extreme avant-garde noise highlights the absurd, surreal masking of human trauma.
The expectation by society to just carry on endlessly until our expiration. - 3.Kyo No Shiki (Four Seasons of Kyoto)— Yukihiro AtsumiA deeply moving, cyclical piece chosen because it represents the ultimate human transition.
It carries such profound personal weight that I intend to have this exact song played at my funeral.
On the genres and styles featured in this Showcase
A hostile collision of radical avant-garde noise, raw free jazz, and preposterous pop.
Play List
- 1.DiamorphosesIannis Xenakis
- 2.Yes, I Need SomeoneEire Apparent
- 3.Gitaben's Composition IIGita Sarabhai
- 4.JapanischAlexander Von Borsig
- 5.Tod & RatanJack Nitzsche
- 6.Kyo No Shiki (Four Seasons of Kyoto)Yukihiro Atsumi
- 7.ClayYosuke Yamashita Trio
- 8.Almost In LoveElvis Presley
- 9.D (Excerpt)I.S.O.
- 10.The Hukilau SongRay Conniff With The Ray Conniff Singers
- 11.Mass ProjectionNew Direction For The Arts (Masayuki Takayanagi)