Being a weeklie podcaste from Madison, Wisconsin featuring several remarkable curiosities therein occurring being a compendium of live music from divers artistes
JustSayinIsAll.com Presents a HANDMADE ROBOTIC OPERA
June 4th, 2007
Local Madison music/art blog www.JustSayinIsAll.com PRESENTS a Handmade Robotic Opera featuring Amy X Neuburg and Beatrix*Jar on June 10th at Cafe Montmartre. The event will begin with an interactive, DIY ” Circuit-Bending Workshop” at 6pm followed by performances by Minneapolis’ Beatrix*Jar and Oakland CA’s internationally-renowned musician Amy X Neuburg. It will be a mind-blowing live show and a unique opportunity for local Madison musicians and artists (and any interested tinkerers) to concretely learn the skill of circuit-bending to enrich their music and lives with non-traditional (bent) instrumentation.
SHOW DETAILS:
+ Beatrix*Jar “Circuit-Bending Workshop” (6-7:30 in the Sidecar)
+ Beatrix*Jar Performance (8:30)
+ Amy X Neuburg Performance (9ish)
$6 cover for the artists ($1 off if you bring an electronic toy to bend)
ARTIST INFO:
Amy X Neuburg is a classically trained opera singer who uses real-time electronic looping to construct complex, emotionally-intense songs and stories that she classifies as “avant-cabaret”. Amy performs the art of her incredible live experience internationally and often in large-scale compositions with orchestras and dance troupes (she played the Milwaukee Art Museum last year). In fact, she’ll be in Wisconsin this time to perform “Louis Andriessen’s M is for Music, Mozart and Man” at the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts in Milwaukee with Present Music on June 9th, but agreed to this cabaret-style gig at the Cafe to “let her hair down”.
Beatrix*JAR is a glitchy DIY duo from Minneapolis, MN who specialize in electronic surgery (“circuit-bending”) to free the inner voices of some of our most beloved electronic toys. Circuit-bending is “the creative short-circuiting of low voltage, battery-powered electronic audio devices such as guitar effects, children’s toys, and small synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators”. Bianca and Jacob are fresh off the Minneapolis BENT Festival and are excited to bring their experimental performance and electronic empowerment workshop to Madison.
Contact Kyle Pfister at (608) 628-5672 or kylepfister@gmail.com for more information.
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