If Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa is a mouthful of a name, then his music does well to invade every other one of your senses. For years, de Dionyso has been making a name for himself as one of the premier practitioners of experimental music in the Northwest. Unlike other experimental artists, whose work consists of beauty in chaos, de Dionyso is conceptual and thought-through in the extreme.

"In high school, I lived in Spokane, WA," says de Dionyso. "I had moved there from the South where I'd done a lot of children's theater. I came from a more, shall we say, vibrant arts and performance background. When I moved to Spokane, I found that creative outlets were a lot harder to come by, for me. I spent a lot of time alone, listening to music. I would go to the library downtown, and at the time they had an extraordinary collection of old Folkways records on vinyl. ... In my boredom, I found this real drive and curiosity to go full throttle in devouring music from all over the world, and from all time periods."

At the same time de Dionyso was absorbing world music, he found himself drawn to the local punk scene in Spokane. Naturally, these two disparate influences converged in his mind and helped to create the template for the music that he makes today. Loud, aggressive instrumentation serves as the delivery system for de Dionyso's exploration of the music of other cultures.

Read Rev. Adam McKinney's full feature on Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa in Northwest Military's Music & Culture section.

ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO'S MALAIKAT DAN SINGA, w/ MTNS, DJ Urine, the Nadines, 8 p.m., Saturday, June 8, 2nd Cycle, 1314 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Tacoma, $5, 2ndcycle.org