Contact Gnap! Theater Projects for event and ticket information.
Weekly Event - Every Friday Saturday & Sunday: 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM (CT)
From October 2nd through October 18th, nestled
firmly within "Get Your Art On" month in Austin, Gnap! Theater Projects
is proud to present, in association with the Church of the Friendly
Ghost, Just Like the Rodeo: A Festival of Hybrid Performance.
What's hybrid performance? Well, in Gnap!'s case it involves taking
improv comedy and mixing it with all different kinds of artistic
disciplines that we're also interested in. And Church of the Friendly
Ghost specializes in programming musical events that defy usual
boundaries of performance disciplines. It's a match made in heaven. To
wit:
Friday October 2nd:
Mongoose
A mash-up of improvising actors and musicians in a street illegal
version of John Zorn's legendary game composition Cobra. Expect the
lightning fast jump cuts of Cobra, but now with words and scenic
content in addition to the sonic game play. Featuring veterans of the
old Austin Cobra Group and a team of improvising actors, including
Austin Chronicle's Readers' Poll Best Actor Arthur Simone. Conducted
improv game play of the highest level.
8PM, $5 admission at the door or NO admission with a Festival Pass!
Saturday October 3rd:
Church of the Friendly Ghost presents:
-Greg Headley (of Austin New Music CoOp,) performing pieces for sine wave & acoustic guitar
-Nick Hennies, performing new works for solo percussion
-Zanzibar Snails, cracking the air over our heads into splendid free jazz fever-dream textures.
8PM to 10PM, $5 admission at the door or NO admission with a Festival Pass!
Sunday October 4th:
5AASP (Fifth Annual Austin Analog Synth Party)
AAASP is an annual event where analog synth geeks assemble to share
in new projects & rare acquisitions. Expect an interactive museum
of old & lovingly refurbished synthesizers, and their master doing
tricks for you. This event is usually something of a fashion show as
well. Don't own a synthesizer, know nothing about synthesizers? Come
anyway and gawk in shameless delight. This party will massage pleasure
sensors you didn't know you had.
Synth Party to commence at 4pm, and music performances to begin at about 6.
Featuring performances by:
E Squared
Computer Jesus Refrigerator
Survive
Phantastes
Psychic Violence
Silent Diane
Monday October 5th:
Church of the Friendly Ghost presents
Frank Rosaly (Chicago)
Performing solo pieces from his album "Milk Work"
Joined in ensemble for a second set with:
Nick Hennies, vibraphone
Jonathan Horne, guitar
Carl Smith, tenor sax
This performance will commence in the gallery promptly at 10PM and continue with only a short intermission.
Pay what you wish, $5 minimum, $15 recommended. Free admission for festival-goers.
Friday, October 9th:
A reprise of Mongoose, just in time for the 25th anniversary
(according to Wikipedia) of Zorn's Cobra. There might even be a
birthday cake.
8PM, $5 admission at the door or NO admission with a Festival Pass!
Saturday, October 10th:
Assembly
an improvised performance of music and dance curated by Jennifer Micallef, featuring:
Tom Benton
Michael Brockman
Chell Garcia-Trias
Jennifer Micallef
Amanda Oakely
Tom Truss
Jennifer Micallef is one of those rare creatures with her feet in
the worlds of both improv comedy and modern experimental dance. Her
Gnap! lab show Between the Lines was a big hit in July, and this show
promises to be a revelation as well.
8PM, $5 admission at the door or NO admission with a Festival Pass!
Friday, October 16th:
The Big Gnap!tastic! Variety Show
An old school variety show, with acts from all over Austin's
performance community, including Little Stolen Moments, burlesque from
Ruby Rico Productions, improvised puppets, sketch comedy, and more....
8PM, $5 admission at the door or NO admission with a Festival Pass!
Friday October 16th at 10PM, and continuing into the wee hours of Saturday October 17th
The Waco Girls are performing a heavy metal rendition of Eric
Satie's "Vexations," an hours long composition, while a team of readers
from Gnap! Theater, COTFG, and elsewhere don black raiment and read
aloud all 51,000 plus names from Dan Nelson's book All Known Metal
Bands.
This endurance performance-meditation on the profound mysteries of
boredom will take over 12 hours to complete and involve more than 30
participants.
Disclaimer: COTFG, Gnap, and SVT shall not be responsible for the
accidental breaking of any forbidden cosmic seals, nor the invocation
of ancient fire-demons.
Free admission, but donations welcome and split between SIMS and Austin Bat Cave
Saturday, October 17th:
The Big Gnap!tastic! Variety Show (evening two!)
An old school variety show, with acts from all over Austin's
performance community, including Little Stolen Moments, burlesque from
Ruby Rico Productions, improvised puppets, sketch comedy, and more....
8PM, $5 admission at the door or NO admission with a Festival Pass!
Finally, on October 18th COTFG premiers a new monthly series with a party:
Handmade Music Austin
Handmade Music Austin is a music performance night, social event,
electronics swap meet, information forum, and an exciting opportunity
to learn about circuits that make electronic music!
Handmade Music Austin is a once-a-month series of Sunday evening
workshops at Salvage Vanguard Theater. Bleep Labs, 4ms Pedals, and Eric
Archer have teamed up to design fun kits that spark interest in DIY
music, and they came up with a set of 7 crazy electronic
mini-instruments! (These tiny, credit-card sized drum machines and
synths love to jam together, and they do it by forming a wireless
network!)
Workshop participants start with a beginner class to brush up on
soldering skills, or step straight into the "upper division" and build
a drum machine / synth with close instructor guidance.
We'll feature a different kit at each class. A participant could
build all 7 electronic instruments by attending 7 classes, and their
collection of handmade instruments will be able to jam together using
the wireless network to stay in sync.
Handmade Music Austin provides an informal environment for merely
curious to the super-geek for work on circuit bending or other DIY
instrument projects of any kind, as well as a forum to develop ideas
and exchange knowledge.
Public worktables will be set-up and ready to use adjacent to the
class-session. Each evening also serves as a DIY marketplace and
electronic parts/tools swap.
The events are open to all kinds of participation, from serious
building to casual hanging-out and people watching. You can take a
class, get the parts you need for your project, solicit advice from
experts, drink a beer and look cool, and take in a DIY music
performance. You're bound to meet someone interesting, discover
something inspiring, and leave richer for the experience than you
arrived.
Handmade Music Austin is issuing an open call for works by DIY musicians to feature their projects and/or perform at the events.
To submit work for presentation/performance, or, to pre-register for classes, email Aaron Mace @ churchofthefriendlyghost@gmail.com
Hand Made Music Austin is open to everyone, and one need not take a
class to enjoy the event. Casual drop-in observers are encouraged and
welcomed! One may simply come for the performance at 8:30 like any
COTFG night. As with all COTFG nights, Handmade Music Austin is
BYOB-friendly.
Cost & Participation:
Practical workshops are limited to 20 participants, and cost for
the 2 hour drum machine / synth kit class is $45. The beginner's class
is optional, and free. For those not taking a class, admission is free.
$5 donations to support operations are very much appreciated.
Schedule:
Doors open at 4.
Project worktables and swap-market stay open all evening long.
4PM - 5:30 beginner's soldering and basic DIY electronics overview
6PM - 8 drum machine/synth kit-building classes
8:30 - ? Performances and presentations by Thomas Fang, ESquared,
Dr. Bleep, and more surprise Austin DIY music fiends than you can shake
an accelerometer at!
Visit http://gnaptheater.org/justliketherodeo.html for more information.
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