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Yeast by Sweet Beast 2005 Highlights Experimental Music

 

Yeast by Sweet Beast 2005 is a two-day experimental improvisation and outsider music festival taking place on Sunday Mar 13th from 3 pm to 9 pm at Emo’s (603 Red River) and Monday March 14th from 8 pm to 2 am at Room 710 (710 Red River).  Poet, musician, filmmaker, and music documentarian Anne Heller (of the experimental improv band Aurora Plastics Company and the Austin Theremonic Orchestra) began the fest in the year 2000 to celebrate still being alive and to return a bit of happiness to the community by creating a manifestation of “flying the freak flag.”  She organizes and funds the fests by herself, paying the performing bands equally from the profits, if any.   Inspired by Andy Warhol’s legendary “Exploding Plastic Inevitable” happenings, this showcase of up-and-coming tonal artists is accompanied by film installations, creating a hypnotic ambiance throughout.

The music is the reason for the Yeast by Sweet Beast experimental music fest, now in its 5th year.  Experimental music is a viable genre of music and should be performed live for people to see and hear because it has a history that dates back to the turn of the century and is rooted in the jazz tradition – which in turn stems from the music performed in voodoo rituals brought to America by African slaves.  These vibrations and tones may seem unsettling or evil to the uninitiated, but in truth they are healing and cathartic.  They can take one to a beautiful inner/outer space where one can be free to float beyond this drab, spastic world and its physical and spatial limitations. 

Experimental improvisational music is “art for art’s sake,” creation as a means of intense personal expression.  The bands featured in Yeast by Sweet Beast are all experienced improvisers who feel comfortable and relish the magic which is creativity in the moment.  Many also perform in other musical genres.

Sunday Mar 13th at Emo’s in the afternoon, pedal steel artist/curandera Susan Alcorn and Houston’s long-time improvisers Rotten Piece are featured, along with the looped, dreamy guitars of Chimeneas (Ft. Worth) and the unconventional sonic stories of Austin’s Baby Robots.  Monday March 14th at Room 710 highlights performances by Houston punk legends Rusted Shut, Austin’s psychedelic innovators Iron Kite, the intense noise sculptors Lung Lunch, and organic electric sound crafters Aurora Plastics Company. 

            One cannot deny the deepening dimensions of expression and pleasure created by pairing art and music in live performance.  Lori Varga, mistress of old school multi-media installations and empress of light, will visually accompany the sets on Sunday March 13th at Emo’s from 3 to 9 pm.  Mystery artists will juxtapose light images to live music on Monday March 14th at Room 710 from 8 pm to 2 am.

Lori Varga is also holding her own fest “Noise by No Wave” on Sat Mar 12 from 5 pm to midnight at Church of Friendly Ghost (209 Pedernales).

 

 Yeast by Sweet Beast 2005 Sun Mar 13th - Emo's:

3 to 3:30 pm                  Wildernezz – solo feedback overlapping

3:45 to 4:15 pm            Jomo – crazy improv

4:30 to 5 pm                  Doug Ferguson of Austin Theremonic Orchestra – theremin and guitar

5:15 to 5:45 pm            Venison Whirled – guitar craziness of Dave Cameron of ST-37

6 to 6:30 pm                  Baby Robots – unconventional sonic stories

6:45 to 7:15 pm            Chimeneas of Ft. Worth – looped dreamy guitars and beats

7:30 to 8 pm                  Susan Alcorn – eerie and curative pedal steel

8:15 to 8:45 pm            Rotten Piece (Houston)  –  improvisation with organ, tapes, handmade er-hu, etc.

 

Yeast by Sweet Beast 2005 Mon Mar 14th Room 710:
8 to 8:30 pm                  Aunt's Analog Survival – dual gentle/intense improv with samples, loops, etc.
8:45 to 9:15 pm            Lung Lunch – intense noise sculptures
9:30 to 10 pm               Dark Light – guitar, effects, and drums
10:15 to 10:30 pm       Iron Kite – improv based on adventures of cat collecting and obscure dice games
11 to 11:30 pm             Pete tha Killa and the Jameson Twins – chants, samples, beats, and typewriters
11:45 to 12:15 am       Numbers on the Mast – fluid drifts of tone thru slow reconstruction of sound
12:30 to 1 am               Aurora Plastics Company – free sound crafters with guitars, theremin, drums, etc.
1:15 to 1:45 am            Rusted Shut (Houston) – possessed punk legends

 

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