Reflex Arc, calculated and capricious, is a two-piece experimental & improvisational band. Crowmeat Bob plays a variety of horns & sometimes electric guitar while Ginger Wagg plays a variety of body parts, spaces and emotional states.
"Maybe you weren't paying attention and then suddenly they're both making sounds and moving, and it's by turns lyrical and goofy and dangerous and sinuous and explosive and disciplined and something is happening at the far end of the room or something is happening under your chair, relationships forming and dissolving, and then it's over.” -Richard Butner
RA’s played the Pilot Light (Knoxville, TN), if Art Gallery (Columbia, SC) and in NC at Revolve (Asheville); The Ramkat (Winston-Salem); Hopscotch, King’s, Neptune's, Prisma Video, FLAG light installation by Lincoln Hancock, VAE (Raleigh); All Day Records, The Cave, Happy Happy House, Nightlight Bar & Club, Savage Weekend (Carrboro/Chapel Hill); The Carrack Modern Art & The Shed (Durham).
"It's never been so great being uncomfortable" - Maggie, White Gregg (Knoxville, TN)
"that's some hipster weirdo faggot shit" - Unknown, during In Spectrum collaboration at FLAG (Raleigh, NC)
"seemed to both baffle and delight onlookers" - Patrick Tutwiler, WRAL (Raleigh, NC)
"indecipherable freakout great" - David Ford Smith, Indy Week
“words and sentences are too tame to describe what it’s like” -Patience, performing artist (Chapel Hill, NC)
Videos:
RA at if Art Gallery, Columbia, SC June 2018
RA at In Spectrum collaboration at FLAG, Raleigh, NC September 2016
RA at the All Day Records birthday party, Carrboro, NC, September 2015
photos
backyard @ Revolve: Colby Caldwell
purple @ Cave: Mike Geary
Weaver Street in Carrboro, NC: Jay Cole Slaw
Ginger on floor @ Nightlight: Soleil Konkel
Bob on floor @ Carrack Modern Art: Laura King
green pyramid: Ginger Wagg
upside down @ The Ramkat: Jon Pfundstein