concert: Dr. Mabuse and Rev. Eric Matthew
2008-05-08 by ginorobair
Just got this email and thought I should share it with this list.... We're talking St. Louis: www.newmusiccircle.org *** ** Greetings new music enthusiasts! This Sunday, May 11, CAMA artist Dr. Mabuse (aka Mike Murphy) will present a "spoof" performance/musical on modular analog synthesizers with video work by Rev. Eric Matthew. Our CAMA initiative, in its pilot run this season, is designed to produce and promote the work of more local artists. We hope to see you at the show. For more info, please visit www.newmusiccircle.org. New Music Circle Presents Dr. Mabuse in An Illustrated Survey of Electro-Acoustic Stimulae on Mammalian Extrasensory Perception - The Musical Dr. Mabuse and Rev. Eric Matthew Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 7:30 p.m. Tietjens Hall, Rm. 4 (Washington University Music School) 6500 Forsyth Blvd. Tickets: $6 New Music Circle CAMA artist Dr. Mabuse (aka Mike Murphy) will present a spoof lecture in one act, regarding analog synthesizers. The performance caps an 8-month genuine hands-on workshop series that Murphy provided free to the public on Thursday evenings at the Carpenter Branch Public Library. In Murphy's words, he intends to "deliver a lecture guaranteed to extol facts of dubious provenance, apocryphal myths, and just outright made-up fibs about the pseudoscience and anti-science of making music with analog synthesizers. The subject matter will misrepresent the historical development, orthodox methodologies, and aesthetic foundations of this noble class of instrument. This lofty exegesis of pointless miscellany will be adroitly illustrated by filmmaker and video improviser Eric Matthew." A veteran St. Louis composer and performer, Murphy is best known for his role as a sideman in neXt rAdio, SCSI, and the tory z starbuck band, though the avant-garde crowd will recognize him from IN THE SOCKET. Murphy studied electronic music formally with Merrill Ellis at University of North Texas and software design at SLU. However, the homebrewed concoction with which Murphy currently performs hardly resembles any synth that you'd find in a university classroom. Eric Matthew has been shooting and editing film and video since he was ten years old. He received an Eastman Kodak production grant for his film "The Distant Sound of Trains" and graduated from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale with a degree in Cinema and Photography in 1999. Matthew then spent five years working in the Los Angeles film industry. Through his time there he earned experience on the sets of major motion pictures, music videos, independent films, and television shows. Matthew's documentary photography has shown in various galleries and venues in Los Angeles, St. Louis, and southern Illinois. His film works have been screened in several venues throughout the country as well as St. Louis' own Tivoli Theater. Matthew is currently pursuing work on two feature length documentaries. Also, don't forget to mark your calendars for the next CANit! event, taking place Saturday, May 17. We invite the St. Louis arts community to join together in this free collaborative soundscape. CAN it! #4 (Create Art Now) Saturday, May 17, 2008 3-8 p.m. Miss MacCormack's Yard 2827 Texas Free and open to the public Come create live improvised art with other local artists from a variety of media but without talking. Bond through sound, movement, or visual beauty with your fellow avant garde enthusiasts! Create music with instruments, electronics, your voice, or other noise making devices. Dance, draw, find yoga postures, tai chi flow, meditate, write poetry, speak poetry, or whatever you consider your art form. Inside the designated space, speaking will not be permitted, unless speaking is your art. Create your own experience. Create Art Now.