Museum of Ephemerata Event at the Cathedral of Junk

Image from Museum of Ephemerata website

The curators of the Museum of Ephemerata, Scott Webel and Jen Hirt, are presenting MachinesMimesis™, a walk-thru musical installation event at the Cathedral of Junk this Saturday. This will be a fundraiser for the Machines exhibition which is scheduled to open in March 2006 and which is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Here is their description of the event:

MachinesMimesis™ promises experimental hilarity as we imitate technology using our bodies and musical instruments. Stationed throughout the Cathedral, members of the Pistol Love Family Band, the Bright Lights Society, and Neal Kassanoff and the Infidels become cogs in a finely tuned walk-through music machine – the first display in the Museum's upcoming Machines exhibition. Ms. Lori 16mm Varga's slide, 16mm film, and organic/avant-sampled noise projections mingle with robot pantomime and string band tunes from America's industrialization. Don't miss an evening of sci-fi junk jazz, industrio-hillbilly chamber music, a medley of train songs, and disembodied voices from two centuries of high technology! Can a violin sound like an airplane landing? Can a single upright bass reproduce the sound of automated factories? What happens when the Cathedral of Junk becomes the world's largest percussion instrument? Find out at MachinesMimesis™!

We dig visiting the Cathedral of Junk, one of Austin's weirder and more elaborate yard art locales, and if you haven't already, this looks like it will be a supreme time to do so.

Museum of Ephemerata's MachinesMimesis™
Saturday, January 28th, 2006, 6-9pm
The Cathedral of Junk: 4422 Lareina Drive, S. Austin
Fundraiser - $5-8 suggested donation