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.
October 13, 2008 – 5:05 pm
Really digging Austin’s Lobster Tales, a new musical endeavor featuring local artist Ryan Lauderdale. I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek of Lobster Tales’ new release, I, which features two 22+ minute long tracks of dreamy, psych space folk/electronic ambience.
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September 7, 2008 – 2:06 pm
Harvest, a group exhibition featuring new work by Austin-based artists Ryan Lauderdale, Dylan Reece, Corkey Sinks, and Anthony Romero, opened last night at MASS Gallery. The show highlighted the group’s overlapping interests in the aesthetics of the supernatural, found objects, and re-appropriated/re-contextualized visions of pop culture and nostalgia.
(More photos and textual goodies after the jump)
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By robotsluvme
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Posted in Reviews, Visual Art
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Also tagged Anthony Romero, art, Corkey Sinks, Dylan Reece, installation, MASS Gallery, opening, Ryan Lauderdale, sculpture, Video
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The last performance I went to at SVT–|||||—>
By the end of it, nearly half of the audience was laying on the floor in the middle of the “stage”. Jacob Green, when introducing the show, said “please feel free to move around in the space.” And the show was totttalllly waayyy worth it if you ventured around. You could see the instrumentation and instrumentators much closer. I know because I sat there– far away from everything, then I got up, then I walked around, stretched, and even laid down– and it was fantastic to do all that latter. I don’t know if you’re familiar with SVT, the big theater in the back, but it’s a deep dark space with stadium seating. Also an amazing space for happenings.
There were 7 people in the performance, it was dark, and they were spread out around the walls. Sporadic lights through shimmery water were just once of the scarce and transient sources of light. It felt to me like camping in the desert Wadi Rum Jordon– except underwater, and also you are in a more epic version of Bladerunner.
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