Brief Check Up

I've been swamped and just wanted to write a quick post to say hi to everyone I haven't talked to in a while. I'm in final technical rehearsals for Die Hamletmaschine at the University and the show opens up on Thursday. It is a crazy performance with all sorts of abusive sounds and lighting cues. As you well know by now, Jeff Aldrich and Howie Kenty worked with me - since last June, actually! - to create the sound environment for the show and it is just a crazy melange of sound and noise. We've talked about making an album0ish thing with the music from this show so we'll keep you posted on that. I'm presenting at a Teaching Innovations conference on Saturday, which is ridiculous since I have a show the night before and Saturday night, too. Here are a list of some of things going on with people in the world. Please support all these great people:

1. New Benzene Ring Album streaming online and available (soon) for purchase. Go to their site as soon as possible and listen to the great album, "Breathing Water in a Dream"

2. Christian Maurice is in a show in NYC. Here's the info on that:
THE SUBLET EXPERIMENT A romantic comedy of mis-taken identity
By Ethan Youngerman
Directed by Michelle Tattenbaum
Featuring: Erin Maya Darke, Adam Hyland, Marshall Sharer, and Christian Maurice
Performances Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00 pm. Saturdays and Sundays at 7:00 pm.
Previews begin 11/16.
Tickets and location information available at
www.subletexperiment.com and through Theatermania.com

3. Lia Kessel is playing Thursday, november 16th, at Cake Shop in Brooklyn (www.cake-shop.com). Lead singer of The Marina, Lia has a beautiful voice and writes amazzing songs. Check her out.

4. ADAM CARPENTER and ZACH STEELE have starting transforming into Virtual versions of themselves by creating identities on the Internet. They have a new video project that you have to see. It's really hilarious. Go to You Tube and check them out.

5. Die Hamletmaschine at the University of Minnesota. November 15-18 in the Xperimental Theatre. Contact me for more information. Performances are generally at 7:30 in the evening. It's free but you have to make reservations.