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William Meadows’ Fusebox performance:

Sound In Hand: A Performance with WiiMote and Wacom

ping pong balls, twirling tubes, writing tablets that talk

So… Jaap Blonk, Laurie Anderson and Robert Ashely go on a meditative hike together in the forest. Except it’s not the forest; it’s technology.

“Knowledge of the technical makes creativity possible.”
—Josef Svoboda (1968)

I just got back from a surround sound journey through real and imaginary ping pong, adolescence crushes described in a Gertrude Stein mentality, protons and photons, poetry, techno and video exploration. A soundscape landscape into William Meadows’ brain as he contextualizes, synthesizes and expands upon past performances at Church Of The Friendly Ghost and New Music Coop.

Meadows, a sound engineer, manipulated the space into a super sonic masterpiece of a room. ART AUTHORITY HAS NEVER SOUNDED SO GOOD. They will have to take it all apart and put it “back to normal” after that performance.

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In Human Terms

Ditto - In Human Terms

Charles Ditto, a UT educated composer, world music enthusiast, and music professor at Texas State, may seem a prosaic description of a veteran austinite. Yet there are still shades of Zolo that can be found bubbling around in all the chaotic greatness that was 1980s Austin. in this case an album released in 1987 which predates his college career. In Human Terms reveals a proto composer with a midi infatuation that informs his compositions on this album which has an austere minimalistic take on new age sounds and 16 bit interpretations world rhythms.

in reviewing this i hope to take on more of Austin’s older more unknown or esoteric, whose relics still find influence among the young and off beat. i found this record at Immortal Performance Records in their section of unsorted but unopened records. many of them they seemed to have in multiples and few looked familiar. so the idea that this town, being so dense with more mainstream musical history, still has layers of small press groups and projects that are teeming with weirdness and creativity, yet are gathering dust without extol.

Brandish This!

Wizard People, Dear Reader is an unauthorized re-envisioning of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by Brad Neely.

After spreading rapidly among Neely’s friends in Austin, Wizard People made its theatrical debut at the New York Underground Film Festival, to rapturous applause. We think Neely has crafted an as-of-yet-unnamed new art form, one everyone should experience for themselves.


Good One, Cheryl

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