HERE'S A REVIEW FROM THE REPORTER!
Friday, October 7 from 5 p.m. – 2 a.m.
Saturday, October 8 from 3 p.m. – 2 a.m.
Sunday, October 9 from 3 p.m. – 1 a.m.
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Three Day passes are $30 – 50 sliding scale
Single Day passes are $15
Student Single Day passes are $10
AVAILABLE AT THE CANDYMAN
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Refreshments by 2nd St. Brewery
Well Hung Art By BANG!
Interactive installation by ANARCHESTRA
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SPONSORED BY:
Bildebier
Candyman
Hogel's
Moon Recording Services
Pizzaria Espiritu

The program is available here - it's a two page PDF that prints to legal size so be prepared for all 7MB

Hope ya didn't miss this waking-life and dream-state changing event! Unlike any other music festival, High Mayhem brought you over 30 local and national experimental and emerging artists/acts to perform October 7, 8, and 9 at the 4th Annual High Mayhem Emerging Music and Arts Festival in Santa Fe, NM.

HERE'S A REVIEW FROM THE REPORTER!

The festival included a wide range of music, video arts, performing arts, and a gallery of art curated by BANG!

Produced by non-profit organization, High Mayhem, at the Wise Fool and Baikanda Performance Spaces in Santa Fe, NM, the festival featured live improvisations that combine vibrations, photons, and human movements (maybe even smells and flavors). The spaces were transformed into live and recording venues, so all acts were recorded, photographed, videotaped and made into scratch-and-sniff stickers and small hard candies, for archiving and distribution.

“Many out-of-the-ordinary performing artists have established themselves in New Mexico in recent years. Santa Fe has become a sort of haven for cross-platform artists,” says Max Friedenberg, director and co-founder of High Mayhem. “We have found that the festival is an important forum for such artists here to commune with each other and visiting artists. They form new and future collaborations – they cross-pollinate. We produce challenging experiences for the community year-round by showcasing the many unusual acts. The festival is the climax.”

The multitude of amazing acts will perform both in and outside the Wise Fool Performance Space, including musicians, performance artists, and thrown-image artists, many of them in combination. High Mayhem’s crew of Audio and Visual technicians will spend the week prior to the festival outfitting Wise Fool with multi-track recording gear, computers, cameras and broadcast systems which will effectively turn the venue into several soundstages. “It’s a mammoth festival coupled with a marathon recording and shooting session,” says Friedenberg. The Festival’s emphasis has been in what Friedenberg calls the “Listening Arts”, but visual and movement artists collaborate with many of the sound artists. In 2004, at the former Paramount Night Club, the audience “was blown away by the dynamics of it all,” Friedenberg says. “For many of them, it was a feeling of discovery. Their curiosity brought them…many didn’t know free music and art like this existed. New forms emerged from mutated tradition and straight up experimentation. That’s how some people are involved this year. They said to themselves ‘What’s going on here? I want to be part of this.’”

“One remains astonished by the impressive control which is proof each one of the groups are the worthy heirs to the American pioneers of the parallel music of the 60’s-70’s”-Liability Webzine, France

“A very interesting mix of improvisation, rock, jazz, beats, influences of world music, etc. Most acts meet considerable musical standards and have an original approach.”-Staalplat, Germany

“Every band has a different approach to sound…(they) get people to rethink the conception of songs and of composition”- Santa Fe New Mexican