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February 16th Surround Sound is the third show in a series of that showcases Charlottesville musicians at Satellite Ballroom. The first FreakFest, featured fringe rock, and the second Noble Savages, featured Rock, Hip-Hop and Pop. Surround sound features experimental, ambient and jazz music. This line up posed a mind bending challenge for sound engineers –…
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Charlottesville, VA The Bridge PAI’s month of sound began as a way to fill a slow art month in January. Co-curating with the Pinko Communioids and other local artists, we made Audio January into an experimental music institution. Opening with local legends Grand Banks of late 1990s Pudhouse renown, the month featured installations, performances and…
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On stage, four men in blue shirts and blue jeans played a solid 12 song set early Saturday afternoon at LaTaza’s Low Country Broil, a fundraiser for coffee growers in Guatemala. As the morning fog broke into sticky afternoon sunshine, sweat dripped into their eyes as they sang and onto the stage as they moved…
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Taipei, Taiwan; Taizhong, Taiwan; Kaohsiung, Taiwan July 15-23, 2007 This project began as a self-arranged and self-funded tour for the Pinko Communoids in Taiwan. As a trio of ABDs, we also found ways to integrate this performance tour with meaningful comparative research. Gaining financial and in kind support from our own University, as well as…
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This evening I went out to gather still shots and audio of downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, one of the case studies in my dissertation on local music scenes. I’ve been lucky enough to collaborate with two artists in town on documenting the scene through multiple senses: Tom Daly and Wendy Hsu Tonight was a good night…
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Richmond may be full of alienation and frustration, but it makes for damn good art. With events like I Dream of Richmond and Repressed III, Gallery 5 shows us the best of what community arts can be, providing not just a space, but a communal and aesthetic context for critically engaged art. Gallery 5 asks…
jacob alden sargent 