A Sonic Experiment in Protest Song Revival August 15, 2008

A Sonic Experiment in Protest Song Revival at City Hall
Featuring: The Lovers, Najeeb Sabour & The Noise Revival Orchestra Experience
Friday August 15, 2008, 7-11pm
Austin City Hall Pavilion Stage
301 W. Second Street

Friday’s event will be a live performance by three Austin-based musical acts that have participated in a sonic experiment initiated by artists Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere (neuroTransmitter). Seeking to revive the idea of the protest song in light of the current political landscape, Nevarez & Tevere wrote lyrics to their own 21st-century protest song. Austin bands The Lovers, Najeeb Sabour, and The Noise Revival Orchestra Experience have each interpreted the song in their own musical styles, and Friday the 15th marks the first-ever live performance of this collaboration. Sets will begin with the protest song followed by the bands’ own material.

In October, excerpted video documentation of the performances will premiere in the exhibition The Activist Impulse curated by Regine Basha at Women and Their Work in Austin. Featuring six international artists who have shown previously in such spaces as the Venice Biennale and the G8 Summit, The Activist Impulse features video, photography, drawing and performance-based work examining efforts to short-circuit the status quo and reveal other ways of thinking and being. For more information: http://www.womenandtheirwork.org/

Check out neuroTransmitter at http://www.neurotransmitter.fm/

Official Website: http://womenandtheirwork.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/friday-august-15-live-performative-democracy-at-city-hall/