HiTEC @ the VAF: Day 1

I was invited to be in the 1st Pittsburgh Visionary Arts Festival, organized by Alberto Almarza, way back when he conceived of it around August of 2008. I had just started HiTEC (Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative) shortly before & was mainly interested in presenting that - IF I cd manage to keep it going for another yr. &, so, the VAF rolled around & I installed 6 TVs in my assigned booth & other relevant props & logos & proceeded to play all 54 of the documentaries that I'd made about HiTEC so far. I had to do this 3 at a time, 2 TVs per each one, to accomplish this over the 3 days of the festival. We played each day at dusk under a large tent usually used to shelter people eating in the park where the VAF took place. The VAF marked the release of the HiTEC CD/book/DVD published by Encyclopedia Destructica. As such, this movie is the 1st of 3 from the VAF & shows a snippet of the making of the books, plus the day of setting up, plus the 1st day, plus the first HiTEC VAF UNCERT. This, of course, is highly abridged & meant to more impressionistic than didactic. - September 9, 2009 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

Category:

Music

Tags:

• HiTEC
• Visionary Arts Festival
• Alberto Almarza
• Johan Nystrom
• Mike Tamburo
• Ben Harris
• Jonathan Brodsky
• William Wedler
• Unfinished Symphonies
• joy toujours
• Mike Kasunic
• Hyla Willis
• Tony Balko
• Ben Opie
• Kenny Haney
• James Gyre
• Spat Cannon
• Dani Simmonds
• Josh Beyer
• Roger Dannenberg
• experimental music

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The park schematic establishing shots are brilliant. Also Tony's closeup on Ben Opie's sneaker during "Stomping and Clapping" excellent editing as always, tENT