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More than 40 years since Ornette Coleman dropped his Free Jazz, folks are still trying to figure out the art of blowing. Blowing up. Spazzing on your reed. Vomiting through your sax. In any case, it’s hard to resist trying to squeeze chaos through an instrument that’s deployed in high-school marching bands: Whatever comes out is gonna have some serious sonic power. White Flight—a duo made up of the more crazy-noisy side of now-defunct Black Eyes—has such power. To wield it, Flighter Daniel Martin-McCormick says, the band deploys alto sax, bass clarinet, guitar, vocals, “some electronics,” “some percussion,” and “bells and junk.” The guitar could qualify as junk: “I put it down and bow it, and sometimes I stick weird shit in it,” Martin-McCormick explains. If he wants to stab the guts out of his no-name guitar, he’d like the audience to feel his aggression. He thinks. “I don’t know. There’s not a specific thing. I don’t know. Just…It’s like…” How about stunned? White Flight plays with Manhunter and Food for Animals at 9 p.m. at the Black Cat’s Backstage, 1811 14th St. NW. $5. (202) 667-7960. (Jason Cherkis)