Seven shapes · one troupe

Sets and Settings

Most people picture one thing when they picture booking a circus :: a stage, a spotlight, a room that came to watch. That is one of seven.

The other six are quieter, stranger, or built for rooms that need sound without needing a show. Each one below says how long it runs, how loud it gets, what arrives in the van, and what it needs from you.

The menu

What a set can be

Set 01

Atmosphere

live ambient for rooms that need sound, not a spotlight

A bed of drones and textures with didgeridoo, ukulele and loops layered live on top. No vocals unless you want them, no set breaks, no stage. It does the job a DJ does, except it is being made in front of your guests. Built for vendor markets, gallery openings, receptions, and anywhere people are meant to be talking.

Runs
2 to 4 hours, continuous
Volume
conversation stays easy
We bring
PA, instruments, playback rig, all cabling
You bring
one outlet and about six feet of corner

Set 02

The Full Show

Skex Pl'nesh, in costume, at full volume

The psychedelic horror circus as intended. Thrash, melodic horror, and gargoyle vocals sung in a language nobody on Earth speaks. Theatrical, loud, and not remotely background music. Stages, festivals, bars, late slots, anywhere the room came to watch something happen to it.

Runs
30 to 60 minutes
Volume
the loud one
We bring
instruments, costume, stage plot on request
You bring
house PA, one vocal mic, one DI, room to move

Set 03

Talk and Music

spoken word education braided through songs

Intense world theory, sensory styles and neurodivergence, explained in plain language and broken up by music so nobody has to sit still for an hour. Written for fundraisers, summits, conferences, staff trainings and awareness nights. The talk gets built around your program, not the other way around.

Runs
20 to 90 minutes, shaped to your agenda
Volume
talk level, music a touch above
We bring
instruments, the talk, slides if they help
You bring
a mic that reaches the back, and seating

Set 04

The Close Room

house concerts and small rooms full of people who chose to be there

Stripped to voice, ukulele and stories between songs. Living rooms, backyards, listening rooms, birthdays, wakes. Twenty people is perfect and eight is fine. This is where the soulful folk material lives, and where the songs get explained instead of performed at you.

Runs
45 to 75 minutes, or two short sets
Volume
often no PA at all
We bring
everything, or nothing but the instrument
You bring
somewhere to sit and a door that closes

Set 05

Ceremony

didgeridoo and voice as sound rather than performance

Long tones, drone and overtone work for rooms already doing their own work. Sound baths, retreats, breathwork, movement classes, closing circles. No stage, no set list, no applause expected. The room gets followed rather than led.

Runs
20 to 90 minutes
Volume
physical, but not loud
We bring
didgeridoos, hand percussion, voice
You bring
floor space and forgiving neighbors

Set 06

Unplugged and Roaming

no PA, no set list, no announcement

Wandering festival grounds, a trailhead, a campfire, a park at dusk, the low branch of a good tree. The music finds people rather than the other way around. Site-specific, unscheduled, and genuinely strange in the way the best festival memories are strange.

Runs
as long as the day allows
Volume
whatever the air does with it
We bring
whatever can be carried
You bring
permission and a general direction

Set 07

Wild Card

scoring somebody else's thing

Live score for theater, film, dance, ritual or an art opening. Sitting in with other players. The idea you have not pitched to anyone because it sounded too odd out loud. Bring it. Hanging upside down from a tree in your favorite park has already been formally requested and formally accepted.

Runs
negotiable
Volume
your call entirely
We bring
an open mind and a lot of gear
You bring
a conversation
Regardless of which one

True of every booking

  • Ear protection is welcome and never weird. So are sunglasses, headphones, fidgets, and stimming.
  • Nobody gets pulled on stage. Participation is invited, never extracted.
  • Content and intensity can be dialed to your room. Ask, and you will get an honest answer about what fits.
  • We arrive early, load quietly, and leave the space the way we found it.
  • All communication counts :: email is often easier than a phone call, for you or for us.
The eighth set

Tell us the room

The hour, the crowd, the space, and what you want people to be doing while it happens. You will be told which of these seven fits, or an eighth will be invented for you.

If none of it quite matches what you are imagining, say the strange version out loud anyway. we're all family