GRACKLE CALL
A multi-media walk about the most controversial and beloved bird of Austin
TRAFFIC JAM
New works for ensembles of 80 carhorns, bicycles, pedicabs, and automobiles. Performed in a parking lot and made in collaboration with Austin Soundwaves and many local artists.
Presented by The Fusebox Festival
DRONE MUSIC
Drone Music is a project that creates choreographed performances for a fleet of flying drones, robot percussion, and humans, incorporating themes of surveillance, short wave radio, AI, espionage, sacred ritual, pageantry, and patriotism using Musique concrète, 1 bit audio, minimalism, closely tuned sine waves, and samples of sirens, bugs, and Sousa marches.
Made with Matt Steinke and Bryan Ribas.
Featuring pilots Bryan Ribas, Lou Averbach, Gil Coranando, and Rickey White.
Music for Wilderness Lake
12 trombonists, arranged around a body of water, are cued by nautical flags from a boat in the lake. Performed at dusk and dawn. Composed by R. Murray Shafer.
Presented by The Contemporary Austin - Laguna Gloria
Composition No. 19
for 100 marching tubas, by Anthony Braxton
Presented by the Blanton Museum of Art.
Echo Chambers
A performance for marching band, automobile choir, and amplified golf cart
SoundSpace
A hybrid-arts performance series at the Blanton Museum of Art of simultaneous performances throughout the museum's galleries. Featuring a cross section of Austin's community of musicians, dancers, and performance artists. Winner of the Austin Critics' Table Award and featured at SXSW.
Presented at the Blanton Museum of Art
SoundSpace is generously underwritten by Mike Chesser.
Music on Pearl
Musical instrument sculptures, installed in unexpected public places in Philadelphia's Chinatown North neighborhood.
Presented by the Asian Arts Initiative.
Orbits
Work for 80 trombones, organ, and sopranino. Performed in the atrium of the Blanton Museum of Art by student, amateur, and professional trombonists from across Texas.
Presented by the Blanton Museum of Art.
Inuksuit
Inuksuit -- the Inuit word meaning "in the capacity of the human" -- is a work for 99 percussionists performed outdoors. Featuring students and professionals from throughout central Texas.
Presented by The Contemporary Austin - Laguna Gloria