Bonnie Baxter

Within the Kill Alters trio, Baxter’s shapeshifting vocals and dense electronic programming intersect with thundering drum kit performances and patches of wailing static intensity to create a strain of “noise” “rock” possessed of fierce emotional weight to match the overwhelming sonics. On her own, as Baxter compresses her practice down to a small rig of Korg Electribe drum machines, an iPad, and her voice, she maintains the ferocity and body-animating rhythmic sensibilities of her collaborative work while pushing her live-recorded compositions to towering climaxes of ego-erasing noise and vocal catharsis. As her machines pound out their loping lattices of beats and scrapes, Baxter pumps each individual element and the mix as a whole through layers of clipping distortion in which disparate elements seem to consume each other and claw for their own space in the spotlight.