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Alex Icon :: L_2NITE
@luxacon.bsky.social
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livepa freetek freakout & homegrown transgenre selection, pittsburgh

fka alex is sub Mistress elle excess ag ag lady LXS nuell uncommodity kanye BEST etc.

L/pur

http://alexisicon.bandcamp.com

http://soundcloud.com/l_2nite

http://mixcloud.com/ellexcess
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luxacon.bsky.social
heard some rattling in the cabinet so before powering it on i took it apart to find this. these piezo horn drivers were temporary while I waited for the actual replacement diaphragm for the compression driver that belonged there... glad i checked! these lasted a few gigs but I don't trust like that.
a piezo horn driver facedown with the back of its enclosure taken off in the foreground. a capacitor has exploded inside of it and its former contents are all over the place. behind it, the back of the enclosure also has capacitor guts all over it. at the back of the frame is an intact piezo horn driver.
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
L_2NITE - no bad gear
2025 Kunaki 1/1

little snip of side A with bonus commentary at the end from me & @dragonm41d3n.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
L_2NITE - No Bad Gear
1/1 Kunaki 2025

40 minutes but 0 songs

drum machines modulate 0-input mixer feedback, monotron as dub siren, delay pedals in lieu of space echo, recorded on 4-track cassette and mixed down into zoom h4n

minimal digital edits to 140bpm 19:59

this is a lil snop of side B:
October 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
aint photogenic but that doesnt matter when yr beautiful
the left half of pic is foreground of most of a tabby cat face and whiskers. she refuses to fit in frame but is sitting on lap of alex at bottom right, reclined on couch wearing Joe's Record Paradise tee, black bandanna around neck and glasses. in background is IKEA kallax shelves stuffed with binders and boxes of trading cards.
September 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
"a body of work"
a screenshot of alexisicon.bandcamp.com in a phone browser window. the top banner is part of the collage from the sub Mistress album "a week with Alexis Icon" and there are three square images below on a white background. they are labeled "prime cuts 1/x" "prime cuts 2/x" "prime cuts 3/x" with the artist L_2NITE. they are all manipulated images of Alex with a glitchy, ethereal character. the first has Alex holding the lid of an open grill above an image of Alex face on the grille. the second has Alex DJ on a laptop above a controller whose jog wheels are replaced by an image of Alex face. the third has Alex superimposed over Alex in a repeating pattern of inversion, negation and xor blend. There are a lot of symbolic connotations to these images and all of them are probably valid and likely intentional!
September 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
if you see this post, drop an old pic you love.

probably one of my best sets of the ag ag lady era, on tour with syphilis sauna we really drove the "go live or go home" live pa ethos to a maximal level of absurdity for a pair of DIY breakcorers hauling a PA in a 2-door coupe... there's video too!
young alex performing in the bassment of Far House in Ann Arbor circa 2011 i think? the background is black and the picture is bounded by a pair of Behringer B215A PA speakers that Pat & i brought on the tour. alex is wearing a white bandana and white crystal castles t-shirt and has head down in a similar pose as the band on the shirt. the noise table is covered in gear plugged into an alesis mixer (not mine) as best as i can tell or recall, there was a loop tape in the Tascam Portastudio that was mixing the Yamaha CS-01 I am playing with a Danelectro Reel Echo on aux and there is an Akai MPC2000XL as well, there is video of my jam on that part, probably microphone hidden in there somewhere. that was a heluva gig.
July 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
yeah it forces playback from ram rather than streaming from disk. takes a bit more time when loading the project and limits available ram for other things, but I remember leaning on this alot when running into system limits
zoom in on Ableton live sample window with an arrow pointing to the RAM button
July 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
orgone archives
four Kodak Analyst projectors are set on stands. they are spooled with tape loops rather than conventional reel to reel. i for one am glad that Orgone research continues despite the decades-long ban... what are they hiding? what don't they want us to know about?
June 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
"desk job"
a pair of Danley SM60F on truss over a pair of Danley TH118. there's another identical stack on the other side of the stage. in the foreground, a Tascam DP-32SD Portastudio and Soundcraft EFX8 are set up side by side. The recorder is fed board recording via Monitor out and also a pair of Røde SDC are perched in the back left and right of room for the rest of the sound. There is a sharpie in the middle of the consoles. I'm the background, a mic on a stand next to a noise table. there will be projections on the wall.
June 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
two kinds of dolly
two purple lockers at the gym, one is closed and has a flyer for the Female Antagonist release show taped to it. the other one is open and there are magnetic dress-up dolls on the inside of the door. inside the locker there is a hat and some keys hanging, at the bottom there is a folding hand truck/moving dolly that I am pleasantly surprised fits inside the locker!
June 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
the recording for the workshop didn't turn out, so instead i will just post clips of VOLCABULARY in action.
the secret is that it's just playing with my toys.
June 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
how it's going:
a crowd of people under a bridge are dancing. the speakers are backlit by a bright white light. there are led faerie lights n'at. everdark on the longest day of the year
June 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
luxacon.bsky.social
i am presenting this free workshop as part of Lavender Lux Pride this weekend:

Accessible Music Production [Volcabulary]

app.opendate.io/e/volcabular...
A green flyer with drum machines on it reads: A Community Pride Festival For Queers, By Queers VOLCABULARY Accessible Music Production The Korg Volca is a portable battery-powered groove box with focused synths and drum machines that you can affordably purchase or even rent from the Carnegie Library! For years, Alex has been using the Korg Volca series to compose and perform live electronic music. This workshop will share how using simple, accessible technology can help you bypass the intimidation and exclusivity that often comes with arcane and expensive music technology. VOLCABULARY is not just about using this specific tool, but about building comfort and fluency with whatever music technology is at hand, and generally is an approach that can remove barriers of entry to creativity. 2:00 PM Saturday, June 21, 2025 Bottlerocket Social Hall 1226 Arlington Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15210
June 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
next week, DJs Edgar Um & Alex Icon @ Mary's

playing Pleasers to maintain morale towards crushing that awful ice machine
caption: Saturday June 21st 2025 at Mary's an evening of dancing & merriment for folks dedicated to a better world with DJs Edgar Um and Alex Icon 9:30pm/21+/free Mary's 5128 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh image: an ice machine with the word "fuck" tagged on it, is about to be stepped on by a menacing 👠
June 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
making sure pride millvale 2025 sounds its best!
a stage under a tent is set up on a closed off street in Millvale. there are rainbow balloon sculptures flanking the stage. there is white text "luxacon sound @ pride millvale 2025" highlighted in front of the stage. there are microphones and monitor speakers on stage, subwoofers and tops just off stage. there is a tent behind the stage where the mixer etc. live. it is on the edge of DIY and Professional where luxacon sound thrives!
June 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
it lives - has been really hard to focus... grateful to play once in a while! h m u

will soon have this velcro-firm on a pedalboard ready for To Go live PA appearances or collaborative jam as appropriate

anyway enjoy the short teaser of what L_2NITE sounds like yesterday afternoon:
May 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
a child wearing a shirt "school sucks" is pat on the back by adult wearing a shirt "fuck work" is captioned "how we spend our days is how we spend our lives"
May 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
suggesting an athleticism that is truly aspirational
another superhero pose from that photoshoot. Alex is serving "the flash" as if prepared for a supersonic sprint, or perhaps a lunge while jumping between ledges. on a green and black checkered background, hair in ponytail. green Carhartt, blue jeans cuffed over doc martens.
March 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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March 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
just remembered this photo my little sister took of me 2 years ago
Alex appears to be breakdancing on a black and green checkerboard. Alex is wearing clear framed glasses, hair tied in ponytail green Carhartt jacket, black Unmapped North label tee, blue jeans cuffed and black doc martens. Alex cannot breakdance anymore and probably never could, this is a trick of photography intended to make it look like it is something that it is not.
March 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
forgot if i shared this one last time i was here, but it brings us joy
a pinup photo of Luigi, he is shirtless and his pants are unbuttoned to suggestively show the edge of his undergarments. the L on his hat is upside down though. his armpit is exposed in a way that could be construed as an invitation, but you should ask before you sniff.
March 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
another one off the bench ready to go back into service. this beautiful a&h was pastured after being subjected to unfortunate liquid damage (please do not rest yr drinks on dj booth!) luckily the channel strips are mounted vertically so nothing was able to pool! cleaned out a bunch of glitter too ;)
an allen & heath xone:92 DJ mixer is on a slightly cluttered workbench. the channel 1 level and mix 1 knob are at unity. channel 1 fader is fully up and assigned to the left side of crossfader. crossfader is fully left. there are green LED showing at the channel 1 VU meter and in the mix VU meter. there is a small sticker to the left of the aux matrix which says "music practice" and on the bottom front of the mixer slightly obscured a sticker which says "we are all gods and we need your love"
March 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
a slightly faded sticker which reads: Warning! Extreme Experimental Erotic Homosexual Content Intended for a mature audience. Contains graphic material. a pile of cable spaghetti
March 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
trying to be the mentor that i needed 20 years ago

i am musician, dj, dancer, audio engineer, and master of their myriad interconnections
my hands don't work so good anymore and i can't lift heavy speakers but I know how they work and how to fix em

do you want to know?
know that it doesn't hurt me
crop of heading of post from Other Site reads: L_2NITE @luxacon Pittsburgh, PA • Today
March 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
luxacon.bsky.social
new sticker just dropped. these are well formed but kinda sloppy, and the thermal paper background is another opportunity to aestheticize the decay of technology used beyond its short-sighted intentions. i should have a few on me, if u see me just ask and i will gladly share!
macro shot of stickers made from offcut white thermal paper from a small glitch at the post office (don't ask, i love USPS sincerely & will not slander any of my partners!) they are small rectangles approx. 1.5"x2" which are stencilled in black with the word "L_2NITE" at about 30° incline from lower left to upper right. there are black stripes above and below which form a kind of triangle pattern. the background is a blurry wash of gray, blue, green, pink, and purple from a set of alcohol ink markers whose nibs are falling apart. since this is thermal paper, with exposure to light or heat the background will darken over time, but the hope is that the alcohol ink remains visible layered on top of that inevitable decay and erosion. edition of ~100 but i didn't count closely. they are all unique but identifiably of the same set, which is substantially similar to the quality and quantity of my own art output. these are going on my gear similar to how i once used AG AG LADY vinyl stickers, though i assume those will last longer bc plastic...
March 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM