Messidor is a catechism of noise techniques both old and, admittedly, recent. The tactile gestures pieces used as foundation are revealed first in improvisation, but then recorded, reworked, revised and re-mixed; the rawness of spontaneous performance is both restrained and  polished into a well-tuned machine shifting through gears of intensity. “Messidor” is the tenth month of the French Republican Calendar, industrial in the way of ’80s dirge messiahs, organically unfolding as an improvisation, tenuously orchestrated as collective work (a lá Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza), brazen in stride with newer generations of noise purveyors.