Hereâs a little trick to make even the most subversive activity sound patriotic: Just add the phrase ãwith freedom!ä to the end of it. So, you arenât just sitting on the couch eating Oreos, youâre sitting on the couch eating Oreos · with freedom! When youâre driving to the unemployment office, youâre actually driving to the unemployment office · with freedom!

See? It makes practically everything you do glow with American pride. So this Fourth of July, if you go to see the bands Crack: We Are Rock! and Not Breathing, you wonât just be gyrating to underground electronic music, youâll be gyrating to underground electronic music · with freedom!

Itâs what our forefathers would have wanted.

Sure, they probably would have wanted you to remember the birth of our proud nation, but maybe they would also have wanted you to remember the birth of Tucsonâs small experimental electronic scene. Local opener Dave Wright, aka Not Breathing, does.

ãI was raised here in Tucson. Iâve just moved here last August from Portland, Oregon. Before that I was in San Francisco. Back in Îthe day,â there used to be a pretty thriving experimental scene here in Tucson,ä Wright said. ãYou had Tingari, Spillblanket, you had the D.P.C. you had Luna Loca, but that all seems to be gone.

ãI see Flam-Chen playing around town, but never hear of anything that isnât bad indie rock or country western music going on,ä Wright said. ãIt is a weird city to be in.ä

In turn, Wright creates music a little out of place for Tucson. For instance, during his show on Thursday, Wright will use modified childrenâs toys to improvise his music. Wright takes beloved childrenâs toys, like Texas Instruments Speak-N-Spells and Pikachu dolls and rewires the electronics so he can tap the sounds they make.

The visual and audio result is impressive, but just a little disconcerting as otherwise harmless toys begin to sound like alien life forms.

ãA lot of these toys are made really cheaply. Especially Chinese toys. Most of the electronics in these are not stable,ä Wright said.

ãThe sounds you can get out of, say, a Texas Instruments Speak-N-Spell with a little bit of electronics know how is totally amazing. Sounds you canât get out of any other instrument.ä

Wright, who has released 5 full-length CDs, has worked with and created instruments for many electronic groups such as Nine Inch Nails and Meat Beat Manifesto.

While his July Fourth show will demonstrate his instrument-building and improvisational skills, he will perform a more planned out show at Vaudeville on July 25.

ãIâm just going to pick out a few instruments about an hour before the show, show up and try to make something out of it,ä he said. ãTexas Instruments free jazz/tardcore. It will be a solo event. I recently fixed up a Chinese reading toy thatâll probably do vocals at some point.ä

Headliners Crack: We Are Rock! will also have their own set of visual elements for their performance. C:WAR, a four-member noise-rock-electronic group, performs with costumes, masks, and the dance moves of its two female members, ãThe Cave Twinsä Le Kim and LâErin, who create the bandâs costumes themselves.

ãWe usually dress up in costumes and wear makeup. Itâs like a Doublemint commercial,ä Le Kim said. ãWe dance somewhat and the guys also dress up in masks.ä

C:WAR asked Wright to open for the show because the bands have a couple of connections.

Wright said he met Eric of C:WAR when he lived in San Francisco and performed at his space ÎThe Clit Stop.â