Jake Battick’s dream is to have a stage show to accompany his band 1800s Sea Monster’s performances. Y’know, like David Bowie or the Flaming Lips or something.

“I want to have waves and fake trees and stars and stuff that we’re going to carry around with us. Something ridiculous and cool and a total experience. Something more than just four guys playing music,” he said. “When we play, we want everyone to be involved in the performance. We want to be as free and crazy as possible, and have a huge visual element, like ‘Ziggy Stardust’-era David Bowie.

He paused in mid-sentence and took a deep breath. When he gets excited, he talks a little fast. “Not that I’m saying I want to be huge like David Bowie or anything. I mean, that would be cool, of course. But, y’know, we’re working on it.”

Guitarist, singer and songwriter Battick has all the energy and creative vitality of a teenager – because, well, he is one. He’s a 17-year-old senior at Bangor High School, along with the rest of the members of 1800s Sea Monster. Brothers Tim and Pat Cunningham are 18 and 14 and play guitar and drums, respectively, and 14-year-old Ryan Higgins plays bass.

And if there’s one thing Battick can’t do, it’s slow down. Hey, in three years he’s been in as many bands.

“I was in a band called Hello Bumblebee, which was like an acid-folk Neutral Milk Hotel rip-off, but we never actually played any shows. It was really bright and childlike. It was OK,” he recounted. “Then we were in a band called Hello Extinction, which was like this teen punk band – NOT pop-punk or anything lame like that – and we just wrote songs and pretended to play our instruments, but we were really bad.”

Now he, the brothers Cunningham and young Higgins are in the next stage of his ongoing creative vision. In the words of Battick, 1800s Sea Monster is “loud and scary.” On the band’s MySpace page, they describe themselves as “seizure rock.”

So what you’re saying is, it’s noisy?

“We all listen to a bunch of noisy stuff,” said Tim, the elder Cunningham, the ego to Battick’s id. “But we didn’t just sit down with the purpose of writing noisy stuff. It just developed like that. We like to be loud.”

Battick recalls with pride one of the first shows 1800s Sea Monster ever played, at the DADGAD coffeehouse, held monthly at the Keith Anderson Community Center in Orono.

“Everyone was playing acoustic stuff, which is fine of course, but I felt like I got lost in the mix,” he said. “I wanted attention, so I decided to write heinous, annoying music that would make people pay attention. We played our loud feedback songs and scared everyone. I was rolling around on the ground. It was great.”

But don’t let that fool you – there’s a pop sensibility lurking underneath the chaos.

“It’s actually come out a lot more accessible than we were expecting,” said Battick. “It’s like noise pop. There’s melody.”

And there’s also real talent amid the swirls of feedback and boundless teenage enthusiasm. On 1800s Sea Monster’s brand new demo recording, “There She Blows,” released on tiny Portland indie label Milkweed Records, all the songs were recorded live on a four-track recorder. The fuzzy, distorted guitars burst through the levels, and Battick and company scream, wail and occasionally even croon through the walls of noise.

“It has like seven songs, with four extra tracks of tape loops, ’cause I’m a fan of tape loops,” he said. “It’s lo-fi. It was the best way to capture the energy of our live show, without a good producer who knows what they’re doing. Something suitably violent and harsh.”

Currently, 1800s Sea Monster is just practicing and getting ready to play more shows, since they just finished a demo. They’re also busy gorging themselves at the all-you-can-eat rock ‘n’ roll buffet – when you’re that age, everything you hear is an influence, and there’s an awful lot of music out there for the taking.

“I make lists of my favorite albums of all time. I’m crazy mad obsessive like that,” said Battick. “For 1800s Sea Monster, the big bands that I always think of are the Pixies, the Stooges, the Jesus Lizard, the Afghan Whigs, Fugazi, Husker Du, My Bloody Valentine, the Jesus and Mary Chain. Things like that. I just heard Syd Barrett for the first time last week. It’s amazing.”

The kids are all right.

For more information, or to purchase a copy of “There She Blows”, visit 1800s Sea Monster’s Web site, www.myspace.com/kingwiththeironlung. Emily Burnham can be reached at eburnham@bangordailynews.net.