Ars Nova Workshop is excited to present Body/Head, the experimental guitar duo of Bill Nace and Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon, for a two-night residency at Solar Myth, May 4 & 5.

In their liner notes for Body/Head’s 2016 album The Switch, writer/musician Jes Skolnick referred to the duo as “experimental sorcerers of significant renown.” If anything, that might be an understatement; Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt, Ceylon Mange, etc.) and Kim Gordon (CKM, Sonic Youth, Free Kitten, etc.) are both revered as reshapers of the electric guitar tradition, conjuring visionary sounds from the abrasive to the hallucinatory. Over the course of the last decade their collaboration has morphed between dreamlike drones, corrosive improvisatory excursions and abstracted songs, at once cohesive, compelling and unpredictable.

Confounder opens on May 4. Philadelphia’s Confounder takes the elements of crude, lo-fi noise & pushes them to their logical extremes. Blown out field recordings & tape loops clash together through old RadioShack equipment, keeping the listener waiting for the moment that it all falls apart.

1-800-HOT-DUCK opens on May 5. 1-800-HOT-DUCK is an immersive archive curated from the forgotten corners of the internet, abandoned YouTube channels, and the shadowy recesses of the deep web. This ever-expanding collection includes a wild array of video ephemera—stolen, shared, and loved beyond recognition. Among its most coveted finds are gritty 1980s homemade horror films from unhinged teenagers, elusive global TV broadcasts, and rare experimental works by artists like Johanna Went and Mike Kelley. Founded by Chrissy Marie Jones, a video artist and native of Philadelphia, 1-800-HOT-DUCK captures the raw, unfiltered pulse of underground media.