February 16, 2010 – 11:59 pm
Switched On: Austin’s new music electronics store is open for business providing repair, restoration, education, consultation and an array of vintage musical instruments. Come celebrate with us, check out the store, and enjoy live performances by some of Austin’s finest synthesizer bands.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010: 7PM -2AM
Location: 1111 East 11th Street Austin TX
FREE
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Come check out the store starting @7pm with DJs and a live in store performance by BODYTRONIX (Eric Archer & Erich Ragsdale).
Then across the street at Victory Grill
9:30PM How I Quit Crack
10:30PM SILENT DIANE
12:00AM S U R V I V E
1:00AM Pataphysics
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September 28, 2009 – 12:09 pm
SUNDAY October 4, 2009 3pm – 8pm Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 Manor Rd
Every fall a group of fanatix gather around an alter of knobs and wires to worship the God of Voltage. They bear their offerings, hewn from great slabs of electricity by the old masters, to the Salvage Vanguard Theater and arrange them in public display for the joy of all.
Be one of the faithful. Bring an analog synthesizer to this year’s synthesizer party. Commune with other believers. Bring headphones.
Live Performances by:
Phantastes
Computer Jesus Refrigerator
SURVIVE
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Don’t have a synthesizer? Come anyway.
Teeny-Tiny Diorama-rama Zoo : The O.P.E.R.A House
Call for art!!
Make a Teeny-Tiny DIORAMA! Anyone can enter, all ages! Contest! Prizes!
Opening Reception/ + Tiny Diorama Submission Deadline: Saturday, May 23, 7-11PM. Afternoon Guided Tours: Sunday, May 24, 12-6PM
The O.P.E.R.A House collective invites you to participate in a special collaborative art installation. We are creating an indoor ZOO environment made specially to exhibit teeny-tiny dioramas. Please collaborate with us by helping to fill each area of the zoo with your creations. Just make a teeny-tiny diorama to bring to Co-lab, deadline Saturday May 23rd at 7pm. Actual size and subject matter of your artwork is entirely open to interpretation. Entry fee is a $3 suggested donation. All entries will be eligible to win a prize!
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December 15, 2008 – 8:34 pm
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.
December 9, 2008 – 1:56 pm
Mayor Will Wynn will officially declare DEC 11th Girls Rock Camp Day in Austin Texas.
@ 5 pm @ City Hall: The Proclamation Ceremony featuring a performance from 2008 summer camp sensations The Velvet Pretzels!
After-party @ Jo’s downtown (across the street) from 6-8. featuring Code Rainbow and Follow That Bird!
Event is free!
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