CYBERFEST, Ethos at the Vortex, September 20 - 28, 2013

ethos presents

Cyber-Fest 2013

An Audio-Visual Immersion Event
September 20-28, 2013 9 p.m.
Friday-Sunday, September 20-22 and Thursday-Saturday, September 26-28
Join us for cocktails with the artists after the shows
The VORTEX, 2307 Manor Rd. Austin, TX 78722 - click for map Free Parking. Bus Route. The Butterfly Bar@The VORTEX--open nightly at 5 pm
Tickets: $30-$10: $30 Priority Seating, $20 General Admission , $10 Artists/Students
Available at www.vortexrep.org or 512-478-5282. Advance Purchase Recommended.
Radical Rush—Limited Free tickets available nightly at 8pm.
The VORTEX rocks the doors wide open for CyberFest-- an audio-visual emersion event. This extraordinary live musical performance features fantastical costumes, stunning lighting, spectacular hyper-real imagery, cybernetic movement, and electronic music-- showcasing the original work of ethos, an Austin-based performance troupe headed by composer and visionary Chad Salvata. A blend of electronic media and live performance transcends a typical theatrical or musical experience. This concert-style show invites the audience to dance, drink, tweet, and take photos. In fact, there will be an Instagram photo contest during the performances. The Grand Prize will be a Cybernetic Makeover and photo session as well as a collection of ethos CDs.
Since 1995, Chad Salvata has been shaping ethos’ unique work and vision. CyberFest includes great songs from ethos’ award-winning cybernetic operas including The Black Blood, Panoptikon, Triskelion, and Elytra as well as Pythia Dust, Pink Sun, and The Dragonfly Queen. Additionally, CyberFest presents a sneak preview of three new songs from ethos’ upcoming film Octia of the Pink Ocean, the long-awaited sequel to Elytra and even a rocking new version of a Salvata classic, Invisible House. Over the past 20 years, ethos has received many B. Iden Payne Awards and Austin Critics’ Table Awards for Outstanding Original Scores, Costume Design, Performance, and Multi-media Excellence.
CyberFest features a cast of ethos all-stars including Melissa Vogt-Paterson, Anderson Dear, Betsy McCann, Eryn Gettys, JoBeth Henderson, Mick D’arcy, Justin LaVergne, Emerald Mystiek, Trey Deason, Gabriel Maldonado, Aisha Melhem, and Chad Salvata. With Tyler Mabry on Keyboards and Matthew Patterson on Percussion.
Directed by Bonnie Cullum. Lighting Design by Jason Amato. Video Design by Sergio R. Samayoa. Scenic Design by Ann Marie Gordon. Costume Coordination by Talena Martinez. Sound Design by Roy Talyor. Stage Management by Tamara L. Farley.
Tickets and more information www.vortexrep.org
CyberFest is funded and supported in part by VORTEX Repertory Company and by the City of Austin through the Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services Office/Cultural Arts Division, believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin's future. Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com.
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THE CHIMPONAUTS AND THE MECHANICAL PHANTON by Melissa Vogt-Patterson, Electronic Planet Ensemble at the Vortex Repertory, May 3 - 18, 2013

 [performing at the Vortex Repertory Company, 2307 Manor Rd. -- click for map]

 presents the world premiere of





The Chimponauts and the Mechanical Phantom

May 3-18, 2013 8pm - 3 Weeks only!

at the VORTEX, 2307 Manor Rd. Austin, TX 78722
Free Parking. Bus Route -- The Butterfly Bar @ The VORTEX open nightly at 5 pm

Tickets: $30-$10 - $30-$25 Priority Seating, $15-$20 General Admission, $10 Starving Artists

Available at www.vortexrep.org or call 512-478-5282. Limited seating. Advanced Purchase Recommended.

2-for-1 admission on Thursdays and Sundays with donation of 2 canned goods for SafePlace.

Blast into the future with the Chimponauts as humanity’s only hope for survival takes one giant step into a crowded universe. Using giant live action puppetry, movement, video and their signature electronic sound, EPE takes us on another multimedia sci-fi adventure.

Electronic Planet Ensemble, known for its outrageous Sci-Fi, B-Movie Spoofs, takes their work to a whole new level with enormous Chimp puppets worn and manipulated by Justin LaVergne and Olivia Warner. Melissa Vogt-Patterson wrote and directed the story. Sergio R. Samayoa and Chad Salvata created original music. Samayoa also created the video component for the show. Scenic Design by Ann Marie Gordon. Lighting Design by Patrick Anthony. Chimponauts by Olivia Warner, Ann Marie Gordon, and Justin LaVergne.

This project is funded and supported in part by VORTEX Repertory Company and by the City of Austin through the Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services Office/Cultural Arts Division, believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future. Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com.

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Viper Vixens of 2012, Electronic Planet Ensemble at the Vortex, January 13 - 29

The Electronic Planet Ensemble are magic men -- I can say that since percussionist Rachel Fuhrer apparently has disappeared this year, leaving poet David Jewell, keyboardist Chad Salvata and bassist/video artist Sergio R. Samayoa to deliver this piece assisted by drummer Doug Marcis. I had to identify Marcis from the poster legend, since there was no program available at the Vortex this year.

Their January offering for 2012, Viper Vixens, falls far short of earlier Januaries: Planet of the Mermaids in 2011, Surfin' UFO in 2010 and Spaceman Dada Robot in 2009.

Even the mail art display in the Vortex's Butterfly Bar was much smaller and less imaginative than in earlier years, hung in the semi-darkness and literally overshadowed by the Betty Boop cartoon projected on the wall by the bar.

The EPE's strength has been projecting a sci-fi universe of mythic figures before our minds' eyes, using powered rhythms and David Jewell's hallucinatory lyrics. Samayoa's imaginative video creations served as springboards into that trippy world.

Not so this year.

Their music still rocks, but Viper Vixens of 2012 pretty much abandons Jewell, even though he's still right there out front, wearing a fine voluminous shiny gray polyester suit and wearing a red tie, working his fingertips over a laptop fuzzbox. During most of the hour's adventure you can't really hear what he's saying.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Call for Entries, International Mail Art Show for Viper Vixens of 2012 by Electronic Planet Ensemble, January 13 - 29

Found on-line:

INTERNATIONAL MAIL ART SHOW: CALL FOR ENTRIES

The theme for this show is VIPER VIXENS OF 2012

All pieces received will be exhibited in The Vortex Theatre lobbyin Austin Texas during the January run of the new multimedia show VIPER VIXENS OF 2012; also online at http://www.electronicplanetensemble.com. [Click to view ALT 'upcoming' announcement.]

Deadline: Jan. 13 2012 Send your art to:

VIPER VIXENS OF 2012
8003-B Tisdale
Austin, TX 78757 USA

http://www.electronicplanetensemble.com - info@electronicplanetensemble.com

http://www.vortexrep.org/

Upcoming: Viper Vixens of 2012, Electronic Planet Ensemble at the Vortex, January 13 - 29

Found on-line:

presents

Viper Vixens of 2012

The Apocalypse Never Looked so Good. . . a Silent B-Movie Spoof with Live Music

January 13-29, 2011 Thursday-Sunday 8 pm

The VORTEX, 2307 Manor Rd. (click for map)

Tickets:$30-$10 www.vortexrep.org or 512-478-LAVA(5282)

$30-$25 Priority Seating, $20-$15 General Admission, $10 Starving Artists; Thursdays and Sundays 2-for-1 admission with donation of 2 non-perishable food items. Limited seating. Advance purchase recommended. Three weeks only at The VORTEX.

Free Parking. Bus Route. The Butterfly Bar with beer, wine, and tasty snacks.

Embracing the conspiracy furor around the long-awaited End of the World in 2012, Electronic Planet Ensemble presents Viper Vixens of 2012, an over-the-top multi-media, movie spoof with original live music in the tradition of silent films and B-movie science fiction. The film has female nudity in a fantastical setting.

Join Electronic Planet Ensemble as they tackle every 2012 End of the World theory from Planet X, Planet Nibiru, and the Anunnaki to Mayan Calendars and the rise of Quetzalcoatl. Three human women are transformed by mad science into the part-Anunnaki Viper Vixens. With the immanent awakening of the plumed serpent god, Quetzalcoatl, the human race is in peril. The evil Viper Vixens are destined to take over the world unless the heroes of the Mexican Air Force can defeat them.

From the creators of Planet of the Mermaids, Surfin’ UFO, and SPACEMAN:DADA:ROBOT, Viper Vixens of 2012 story is written by Chad Salvata with cinematography and digital imagery by Sergio R. Samayoa. Electronic Planet Ensemble is Sergio R. Samayoa, David Jewell, and Chad Salvata, with Doug Marcis.

Viper Vixens of 2012 stars Melissa Vogt-Patterson, Christina Leidel, and Joanna Wright as the Viper Vixens. Featuring David Jewell as Xavier Xuthus (Trillionaire Mastermind), Heather Barfield as Zoe Xuthus (the Psychic), Betsy McCann as Elsa Von Krause (Director of Project Vixen), Helen Hutka as Kitty Kelly, Matthew Patterson as Guy Savage, Gabriel Maldonado as Angelo Reyes (Captain of the Mexican Air Force), and Andy Agne as the Anunnaki. Lighting Design by Patrick Anthony. Costume Design by Trudy Martinez. Makeup Design by Helen Hutka. Miniatures by Ann Marie Gordon.

An International Mail Art show in The Butterfly Bar @The VORTEX displays mail art on Viper Vixens of 2012. International Mail Art Show: CALL FOR ENTRIES on the theme VIPER VIXENS OF 2012. All pieces received will be exhibited.

Send mail art to: VIPER VIXENS OF 2012, 8003-B Tisdale, Austin, TX 78757 USA Deadline: January 13, 2012

Electronic Planet Ensemble is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division. Produced in association with VORTEX Repertory Company.

www.electronicplanetensemble.com VortexRep.org

Planet of the Mermaids, Electronic Planet Ensemble at the Vortex Repertory, January 14 - 29

Electronic Planet Ensemble is the group of Austin cool rockers who invented the "music of the spheres" genre.

Like the earth itself, they come orbiting through the Vortex once a year with another adventure in space and time. In January 2009 it was Spaceman Dada Robot; in January 2010 it was Surfin' UFO. In October 2009, breaking that pattern with a bit of space-time insouciance, they sailed by in a reprise of their In.Car.Nation, a rumbling hymn to classic cars with spaceship shapes.

For Planet of the Mermaids, Saga-man David Jewel and cyber-man Sergio R. Samayoa look to be generating the concepts and pushing the envelopes, while composer/bassist Chad Salvata and wild woman percussionist Rachel Fuhrer give the stories and the melodies waves to sail upon.

It's invigorating, subtly comic, ironic stuff. The crowd last Thursday in the Vortex at Planet of the Mermaids was doing a lively theatre-seat boogy of its own, calling out encouragement and adoring the hot pastel big screen images for the newest modulation.

The magic for me of EPE's previous creations was the melding of word images, melody and rhythm. David Jewell's laconic verse and wryly reflective spoken images open your mind up the way a mild dose of psylocbin might do, while your autonomous nervous system grasps that rock 'n' roll sound track. Jewell's photos and Samayoa's images paint the background.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Planet of the Mermaids, Electronic Planet Ensemble at the Vortex Repertory, January 14 - 29

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presents

Planet of the Mermaids

January 14-29, Thursdays - Sundays at 8 p.m.

The VORTEX, 2307 Manor Rd. Austin, TX 78722

Tickets $30-$10 http://www.vortexrep.org or 512-478-LAVA(5282)

$30-$25 Priority Seating, $20-$15 General Admission, $10 Starving Artists

Thursdays and Sundays 2-for-1 admission with donation of 2 non-perishable food items. Limited seating. Advance purchase recommended.

In the tradition of silent films and B-movie science fiction, Electronic Planet Ensemble presents Planet of the Mermaids, an over-the-top multi-media, movie spoof with original live music for 3 weeks only at The VORTEX.

Join Captain Rex Vydor and the crew of the spaceship Odysseus as they explore the mysterious planet of Aquanea. Get ready to encounter the Mer Queen and her beautiful minions on the Planet of the Mermaids.

From the creators of SPACEMAN:DADA:ROBOT and Surfin’ UFO. Electronic Planet Ensemble is Sergio R. Samayoa, David Jewell, Chad Salvata, and Rachel Fuhrer. Planet of the Mermaids stars David Jewell as Captain Rex Vydor. Story by Chad Salvata. Cinematography and Digital Imagery by Sergio R. Samayoa.

Also, in the lobby, an International Mail Art show will display all mail received concerning the themes of Planet of the Mermaids before and during the run of the show.

[Image: Solve Sundsbo for Vogue Nippon May 2010]

Electronic Planet Ensemble is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division. Produced in association with VORTEX Repertory Company.

Upcoming: Xephyra by Chad Salvata, Vortex Repertory, February 26 - March 14

Found on-line:

ethos presents

Xephyra
An Alternative World Music and Video Mythos

by Chad Salvata & Jo Beth Henderson
February 26 - 28 (Friday - Sunday), March 04 - 14 (Thursdays - Sundays), 8 p.m.

Click to listen to a sound clip from Xephyra

Award-winning artists Chad Salvata and Jo Beth Henderson have created the newest ethos adventure, Xephyra, An Alternative World Music and Video Mythos. This non-traditional performance is presented with video images and live music. The extraordinary vocals are performed in an imaginary language of a mythic tribal island world.

Xephyra, a warrior of the Blue Orchid tribe, journeys on her quest to find her husband Warrior, who has not returned from the Island Wars. Along the way, she is joined by Terra, a sea siren. They are hunted by monster birds, battle shark mermaids, and slay the kaleidoscope octopus. Will they find Warrior and return safely home?

Xephyra features the vocal and performance talents of Jo Beth Henderson and Kira Parra. With live music performed by Chad Salvata, Tyler Mabry, and Rachel Fuhrer. Live video creation and mixing by Sergio R. Samayoa. Lighting design by Patrick Anthony. Sound design by Roy Taylor.

Tickets: $30-$25 Priority Seating, $20-$15 General Admission. $10 Starving Artists.
2-for-1 Admission on Thursdays and Sundays with 2 non-perishable food items for SafePlace. Feed the Tribes of the World.

Friday, February 26 — Opening Night and CD Release Party of the Xephyra CD with free champagne and food.

Friday March 12 -- Performance free with SxSW Interactive Badge (Party after the show. Cash bar and drink specials.)

Produced in association with VORTEX Repertory Company. Xephyra is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division.

Surfin' UFO, A Love Story, Electronic Planet Ensemble at the Vortex Repertory, January 8 - 24

David Jewell's word pictures lift beyond the Vortex space, riding with the waves of music, percussion and video, and the Electronic Planet Ensemble delivers us to someplace exalted and different and yet familiar. They are surfin' big themes on comic book concepts with surfboards and hula hoops, and you have no idea what they're going to do next to your consciousness.

Back in the Age of Aquarius this would have been far out, prime foodstuff for consciousness expanding through hallucinogens.

In the twenty-first century as our world shrinks, our myths expand and our attention spans shorten, the EPE packs wonder with serious myth and wry humor. We are not, after all, the center of the universe. And isn't that concept amazing, just by itself?

With his straight face, serious demeanor, blue jumpsuit and porkpie hat, David Jewell could be a plumber or a college professor. But what the man is, is a seer. He's hypnotized by stellar reaches, extraterrestrial beings, whales, visitations from outer space, and crop circles.

At the same time he reaches out and gives those mythic beings our own desires and foibles. Look at the capsule summaries of some of the EPE's throbbing, careering, seductive pieces: "Surf Boy sees Space Girl and is Amazed." "Space Girl is wanting the Surf Boy." "Space Girl's dad gives her advice." "Intro song to the Movie Gidget Goes Galactic, directed by Surf Boy and Space Girl to raise money to build themselves their own spaceship."

Add, for good measure, the prophet Ezekiel's vision, taken verbatim from the Bible. Ezekiel saw a wheel, 'way up in the middle of the air . . . and a vision of annihilating brilliance.

EPE thunders, rolls, spirals, and rocks. Sergio R. Samayoa is on the bass; Chad Salvata runs keyboasrds and stands by Jewell on vocals; ball-of-fire Rachel Fuhrer is all percussion, all types, all the time. If you attended last year's Spaceman:Dada:Robot or In.Car.Nation, you'll recognize the style. This is intelligent music that will hold you captive both with rhythms and melodies, supporting Jewell's word pictures and indissoluble from them. It is rock-n-roll LOUD, but so closely integrated with the texts that you will not miss a word.

Jewell is not a singer, but he uses his voice, his timing, his rhythm with the power of a shaman.

Go for the music, if you want just to blast off and sail away. Go for the energy of it. Go for the video by Samayoa, because it's kaleidoscopic, colorful, clever and exuberant. Go for Jewell's texts, the love story, the wry humor and the wonder.

And go for the international mail art show. We missed it, because the Vortex cafe had just gotten a paint job in red and apricot, and the EPE folks were still stringing together their mobils. Take a look at their art gallery on-line, to understand the sense of play that motivated this whole enterprise. I mean -- surfin' and UFOs? Weren't those the obsessions of the 1950s and 1960s?

And wow -- now we're here, in the future!

Recommended!

Ongoing: Surfin' UFO, Electronic Planet Ensemble at the Vortex, January 8 - 24

UPDATE: Click for ALT review, January 11

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presents

Surfin’ UFO

January 8–24, 2009, Thurs-Sun 8 p.m.
at the Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd.
Tickets: $30-$10 available on-line or at 512-478-LAVA (5282)
$30-$25 Priority Seating, $20-$15 General Admission, $10 Starving ArtistsThursdays and Sundays, 2-for-1 admission with donation of 2 non-perishable food items for SafePlace.

Electronic Planet Ensemble presents Surfin’ UFO, a multi-dimensional, multi-media, inter-galactic love story.

Feel the power of nature riding inside the curl of a monster wave. Fall in love with a space girl. The Anunnaki are knocking at your door, and one of them looks just like Brigitte Bardot.

Planet X, 2012, crop circles, Roswell, ancient astronauts, UFO sightings, and alien abductions. Something is going on here, and you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones? Or, maybe you haven’t noticed because you’re too busy surfing.

The mysteries of Sumer and ancient Egypt meet Surf Boy and Space Girl, rare star crossed lovers, experiencing first love in all its wave crashing, heart pounding, supernova glory. Ride the tsunami of love, wipe out, get pounded, and ride again. Bend and fold the space-time continuum. Exceed the speed of light. Is it a particle or is it a wave? Uh, duh, it’s wave, dude…it’s totally a wave.

Surfin’ UFO is a multi-media event/performance created by collaborative improvisation and synergistic dada epiphanies; music, video and words created in jam sessions and brain storm singularities by Sergio R. Samayoa, David Jewell, Chad Salvata and Aliens.

Also, in the lobby, an International Mail Art show will display all mail received concerning the themes of Surfin’ UFO before and during the run of the show.

From the creators of last season’s hit Spaceman:Dada:Robot. Produced in association with Vortex Repertory Company.

Vortex and Electronic Planet Ensemble are funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

In-Car-Nation, Electronic Planet Ensemble at Hyde Park Theatre, October 15-17

Classic cars of the 1950s float in the collective consciousness of Americans, but as David Jewell gently admonishes us, they'll soon be gone, as distant and vanished as the dinosaurs that enchant our children today.

Jewell is the solo narrator, actor and verbal imager for In-Car-Nation, while Sergio R. Samayoa provides the live soundtrack with computer-synthesizer and guitar. Between them is the screen that flickers with video, kaleidoscopic images and transforming stills, a non-linear dream of transportation as power, elegance, and adventure. They first explored this hallucinogenic territory back in 1997, and the current live two-man concert runs again only tomorrow night and Saturday night at the Hyde Park Theatre.

It's a seance, an incantation, an trip into memory, alternate reality the sweeping streamlined designs and the curiously empty landscapes of the mind. Electronic Planet Ensemble makes a rich triple score of this one. Jewell is a master of the prose poem -- one would call them lyrics, although they do not rhyme, because they are so carefully fit into Samayoa's music: blues riffs, power thrumming, alpha wave music, up-tempo improvisations, translucent walls of sound. And the video, all new for this edition, a collaborative magic lantern.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: IN.CAR.NATION by Electronic Planet Ensemble at the Hyde Park Theatre, October 15-17

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Electronic Planet Ensemble presents

IN.CAR.NATION
A Celebration of Cool Cars

October 15-17, 2009, Thurs-Sat 8pm
Hyde Park Theatre

Electronic Planet Ensemble presents IN.CAR.NATION, a multimedia environment of sight, sound and words to celebrate the cultural elegance of cool cars.

IN.CAR.NATION, words riffed in jazz and blues, with favorites like “Healing Your Inner Car” and ”55 Chevy.” David Jewell and Sergio R. Samayoa team up for a performance of reverence and reverie with some of America’s automobiles, especially the 1940’s to 1960’s bulgemobiles.

First performed in 1997 at Hyde Park Theatre in Austin, Texas, IN.CAR.NATION is a trip on life’s by-ways and highways in spoken words, electronic sounds, and experimental video created by collaborative improvisation and synergistic Dada epiphanies.

In the lobby, a collection of original photographs and art on display and for sale by David Jewell and Sergio R.Samayoa used in the making of the show. T-shirts, CD’s and DVD’s of IN.CAR.NATION will also be available.

Tickets $10 Tickets at the door or call 512-479-PLAY
Where: Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W 43rd St Austin
Phone: 512.669.3409
Email: info@electronicplanetensemble.com
Web: http://www.electronicplanetensemble.com

Spaceman Dada Robot, Electronic Planet Ensemble at the Vortex, January 9 - 24

Want to get away?

Electronic Planet Ensemble's Spaceman Dada Robot can move you out of Austin's conventional theatre and out of Austin's club-based music scene. The characters and narrative are in your mind, as in a radio play, and the music is high-energy and percussive, with clouds of chords. Add an hour of images improbable, humorous and awesome, then put David Jewell in front of it.

space travel
it gets you out out of the house
it gets you out of this world
it gets you out of your mind

This is a remarkable experience, one that floats somewhere in a dream world compounded of free verse, image, and music. You can get a three-minute whiff of it, similar to that "flavored oxygen" that spaceman Jewell describes, by viewing the video. Click on the galaxy, above, to go to the group's website, and then click on "video."

Lots of concept is on view at the Vortex. While preparing this piece, the EPE invited artists -- and anyone interested -- to mail to them art pieces on the "Spaceman Dada Robot" theme. The friendly café at the Vortex is decorated with perhaps 40 submissions, some on the walls, some hanging on clips from a makeshift mobil. There's some great stuff. For example:

Some of these images appear in the trippy hour-long presentation. Other images are by David Jewell, an 8mm film "Space Hobo" by Ben Jewell and George C. Mahle is included, and the rest were, presumably, magicked up by bass-player Sergio R. Samayoa, who is credited additionally for "video" and "technology mastermind."

This is a modestly epic cycle. Jewell is clad in a vaguely techno burgundy jumpsuit as he stands in front of screen and musicians. The twelve pieces are titled Take Off, Space Travel, Space Whale, Space Walking, Robot Daddy, Martian Fantasy, Spaceman, Billy Robot, Feedback Loop, Love-bot (Synapse Gap), Space Hobo, and Robot Party.

With his verse and in his persona Jewell presents us stories with wildly deadpan humor, a narrator compounded of equal parts David Byrne and Bill Murray. He is the observer of the space whale, lashing its tail at the ends of the universe; his tales of robot parenthood and of robot mating are wry commentaries on the human condition. With Space Hobo he voices a traveler long gone, searching for the blue marble of earth. And Robot Party is a better mess-around that anything the B-52s ever did.

"Dada" was the absurdist art of Paris in the 1920s, when a world war had brought into question all the staid assumptions of the culture. This "Dada" is quirky, as well, and revels in the child-like images we all now carry of space -- from early spaceflight to Apollo craft to ET to Wall-E. The bubbling music brew produced by Samayoa, Chad Salvata on keyboards and Rachel Fuhrer on percussion provides the delirium, the video carries us away, and David Jewell, with casual unsurprise, tells us all about ourselves.

Robert Faires' review in the Austin Chronicle of January 22: "Space hasn't been cool that way for a long, long time, but the exhilarating tingle of those heady days returns in Spaceman : Dada : Robot, a song cycle with its head in the stars, created by the Electronic Planet Ensemble.

Kelseyk's review of January 22 on austinist.com: "Set against a loop of imagery, four musicians take us on an aural voyage at about 67,000 miles per hour, give or take a few. This show dips and weaves into various corners of your psyche and leaves you wondering—and wondering is good."

review of Spaceman Dada Robot published January 14 at decider.com (tied to "The Onion")

David Jewell's website, including his photos and other spoken pieces (don't miss "Carwars")

Electronic Planet Ensemble website

David Jewell interviewed for riotink blog, July 2008