HiTEC

January 9, 2009

8:00 pm

HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) is an independent experimental orchestra founded in July of 2008 as an attempt to create a Low Classical alternative to those who worship at the temple of the fictitious and propagandistic "Golden Age" that's often used to justify the "Divine Rights" of cash-flow.

Unlike most (M)USICAL projects, the playing of this group revolves around THINKING about particular things while playing in a very open-ended way RATHER THAN necessarily playing specified physical actions.

HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative is an independent orchestra of 22 people founded by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE. It turns classic Thought Experiments such as the "Infinite Monkey Theorem" into sound waves before the very eyes & ears of its (v)audience.

The orchestra:

tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE: piano, percussion, electronics

Johan Nystrom: expanded percussion

Hyla Willis: erhu

Ben Harris: violin

David Bernabo: acoustic guitar

Kerrith Livengood: flutes

Jonathan Brodsky: monome

Spat Cannon: acoustic bass

James Gyre: drum set

Kenny Haney: Bb & bass clarinets

Roger Dannenberg: trumpet & flugelhorn

Ben Opie: alto & soprano saxes, Bb& bass clarinets, Thingamgoop

Tony Balko: cameras

Julian Krishnamurti: electric bass

Unfinished Symphonies: electronic keyboard

Dani Simmonds: banjo-uke

William Wedler: percussion

Joy: acoustic guitar

Stuart Anderson: robotic zither

Erok: trombone

Melissa St. Pierre: toy piano

Mike Tamburo: hammered dulcimer