Cantanker presents Optophonique [opto’ phon’ eek]: A Collision of Video, Sound, & Performance

Saturday, March 10, 2007 from 8 pm – 12 midnight
Salvage Vanguard Theater’s New Home, 2803 Manor Road, Austin, Texas
Contact/Curated By: Christina Hiett,

Sound, light, video, installation and performance collide to create Optophonique [opto’ phon’ eek] a ONE NIGHT ONLY event presented by Cantanker visual art magazine and hosted by Salvage Vanguard Theater in their new arts facility. This all-encompassing sensory experience will showcase artists, performers and musicians uniting as scientists of synthesis. Visual artists Eric Gibbons, Allegra McCoy, Ryan Lauderdale, Michelle Mayer, Hunter Cross, Christopher Brown, Eric Power, Travis Nichols, William Sellari, and many others will manipulate space and time with site-specific installations on the interior and exterior of the space. Meanwhile, performances by Neo-Arcadia, Aux Armes, Many Birthdays, Audio Inversions, Omega Monster Patrol, Calm Panic Party, and other local collaborations will fuse a multiplicity of musical styles with light and video projections.

Optophonique multi-media bliss is a great way to kick off the SXSW festival, support local artists, and get your copy of the newest Cantanker magazine. Cantanker issue # 3: Region features articles on the Texas Biennial, cultural planning, the Post Secret project and profiles of local artists Heather Johnson and Melissa Miller.

“There will be a day when a composer will compose music with a notation that will be conceived in terms of music and light…and that day, the artistic unity we were talking about will probably be closer to perfection…”

— Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné, inventor of the Piano Optophonique, 1925

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