Theatre Intangible

Here’s podcast 80: ANDREW RAFFO DEWAR Indeterminacies, starring Andrew, BRADY SHARP, PULSE NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE, and moderator RODGER COLEMAN. Indeterminacies is a series of performances organized by Zeitgeist Gallery‘s Lesley Beeman and Lain York. It’s based on John Cage’s idea about creating processes with no predetermined outcome, welcoming the unexpected and learning from the accidental. [...]

Theatre Intangible was asked to host two circuit bending panels at last October’s Geek Media Expo, Nashville’s premier multi-fandom convention. In the first panel, Circuit Bending 101, we broke open some toys and showed people how to make simple bends. In Circuit Bending 201, we performed. Podcast 79 is that performance. The GMX11 performance features [...]

Here’s podcast 78 The Ocean and the Sea starring BREY MCCOY and ANTHONY WILLIAM HERNDON from the Paducah, Kentucky experimental group METRONOME THEREMIN. We recorded this synth-filled noise-fest in August of last year. This is the first podcast I mastered and edited in a program other than Soundtrack Pro. I finally put to rest my [...]

Here’s podcast 77, Elsewhere, recorded July 10th, 2011 and starring LET’S SAY BALTIMORE members ANDY ALEXANDER, AUSTIN ALEXANDER, DAVE DAWSON, and BRIAN SISKIND. This is the first time in five years that the four have recorded together. A month after we recorded this, Brian Siskind performed a new electronic composition at the famed Rothko Chapel [...]

In June of this year, I took a trip to Chicago, Illinois to attend the 4th annual Experimental Garage Sale, a gathering of circuit-benders, instrument makers, and musical innovators. I recorded interviews with ROTH MOBOT, TIM KAISER, ALEX DEEBA, CMKT4, THEJUNKYARD CATALYST from THRIFTSORE BORATORIUM, LOW-GAIN, and a number of other makers. What follows is [...]

TWO podcasts in one weekend! Have I gone mad?!? Nope, just trying to catch up. Here’s podcast 75: SANTA’S WORKSHOP Artist Showcase. Jeremy Bennett and Grant Parker formed Santa’s Workshop in late 2010 on the campus of University of Tennessee Knoxville. The two friends decided to form a band in order to stretch beyond the [...]

The PORTARA NEW MUSIC QUARTET perform DAVID LANG‘s Pulitzer Prize winning composition The Little Match Girl Passion live at Zeitgeist Gallery. The performance was the fourth installment of Zeitgeist’s 2011 INDETERMINACIES series. The moderator is JOHN PITCHER. The performers are MONICA COOMBS (alto), SHREYAS PATEL (bass), LEA MAITLEN (soprano), and NATHAN RODRIGUEZ (tenor). The excellent [...]

Four members of Murfreesboro noise collective HORSEHAIR EVERYWHERE reunite in the Theatre Intangible studios for a special improv. The group was instrumental in the formation of Murfreesboro’s experimental community. Matt Sullivan writes in a December 2010 edition of the Nashville Scene, Noise and experimental music scenes, much like the art they produce, tend to be [...]

“That’s when I knew that I had the supernatural anointment of one of the otherlee conduits of miraculous divine healing. So now. . . reconstruct the eardrum! Polka! Listen to the polka!” – Dave Cloud – 4th Annual Halloween Extravaganza Join punk music legend Dave Cloud and a ragtag group of disparate instrumentalist for the [...]

MICROWAVE WINDOWS and a group of noise all-stars converged on the back porch of Noa Noa for a late night, spine-tingling, bone-chilling Halloween improvisation. Recorded live October 15th, 2011 to an audience of two, featuring Brandon from MICROWAVE WINDOWS on guitar, John Hancock from ELECTRIC INERTIA on trumpet, Josh Gumiela from FOSTER DAD on electronics [...]