Don't miss this life-changing event! Unlike any other music festival, High Mayhem is bringing you about 30 local and national experimental and emerging artist acts to perform October 7, 8, and 9 at the 4th Annual High Mayhem Emerging Music and Arts Festival in Santa Fe, NM. The festival includes a wide range of music, video arts, performing arts, and a gallery of art from local artists.
By your tickets now at www.highmayhem.org or call 505.501.3333.
“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
Produced by non-profit organization, High Mayhem, at the Wise Fool Performance Space in Santa Fe, NM, the festival features live improvisations that combine sound, vision, and movement. Every act will be recorded, photographed, and videotaped 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.'”
Visit www.highmayhem.org for additional resources and recordings and video from previous festivals.
The festival will also have vendors and organizations from the community in the Agua Fria Business Park parking lot.
About High Mayhem
Founded in 2001, High Mayhem Emerging Arts is a not-for-profit emerging arts facility, record label and multimedia production collective based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We challenge the homogenizing effect of pop-culture groupthink by providing opportunities for and fostering collaborations with underrepresented “experimental” artists.
High Mayhem curates performances and organizes workshops year-round with musicians and performance artists who come from near and far. We seek out other brave explorers (and welcome those who have discovered us) to join us in producing innovative and thought-provoking experiences for our communities. Further, we encourage and organize collaborative experiments across disciplines; new forms emerge from mutated traditions and pure invention.
We provide a venue and voice for creative tinkerers who challenge our notions of aesthetics in music and art, especially those who employ cross-media synthesis, improvisational techniques and the unorthodox...the indescribable.
High Mayhem Officers are: Carlos Santistevan, Yozo Suzuki, Mike Rowland, Shawn O'Neal, Joe Picard, Alex Neville and Max Friedenberg.
The High Mayhem Festival is staffed by about 25 volunteers.
Performers
Anarchestra (Santa Fe)
Audible Whispering Half Quartet (Santa Fe)
Basement Films / Summon the Meteors (Albuquerque)
Basement Films / You've Lost Your Magic (Albuquerque)
Deirdre Morris (Santa Fe)
D Numbers (Santa Fe)
Eftah (Cleveland, OH)
Extended Neural Network Ensemble (Santa Fe)
Gary Glazner (Santa Fe)
Grilly Biggs (New Orleans, LA)
Hypothetical Entity (Santa Fe)
impacttestdummy (Seattle, WA)
incus (Albuquerque)
Last Chance for the Loneliest Kitten
(San Francisco, CA)
MAD TRIO (Albuquerque / San Diego, CA)
Masnavi (Santa Fe)
Molerat Noodles (Santa Fe)
Morgan Smith (Santa Fe)
Noisefold (Santa Fe)
Ojo del Fuego (Santa Fe)
Orangeman (Santa Fe)
Precision Poetry Drill Team (Santa Fe)
Rob Brown w/ Zimbabwe Nkenya and Dave Wayne
(New Mexico / New York City, NY)
Sama' Duo' (Santa Fe / Albuquerque)
Santa Fe New Music Youth Ensemble (Santa Fe)
Simulate Sensual (Santa Fe)
Slaves to the Magnetic Field (Questa)
SoLoDiNo (Santa Fe)
Taiji Pole (Santa Fe)
Tetsuji Estella (Brooklyn, NY)
Uninvited Guests (Santa Fe)
WATIV (New Orleans, LA)
ZIYA (Santa Fe / Albuquerque)
Gallery Artists
Gallery curated by Dave Solomon, from BANG! Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.
Will Albarez
Jarrat Appelwhite
Linzi Arundale
Paul Biagi
Leesa Corradino
Derusha
Geraldine Fiskus
Matthew Horowitz
Tim Jag
David Koch
Jason Malone
Shada McKenzie
Alex Neville
Roland Ostheim
Joe Picard
Janus Shilling
David Solomon
Spencer Stair
Yozo Suzuki
Molly Wagner
Larry Wang
J. Barry Zeiger |
