A U S T I N N I T U S

There is bold, creative experimental/noise/avant-jazz/improvisational music in Austin (and Houston) (and elsewhere in Texas).

The Austinnitus newsletter has ended. From 1996 until 2009, Austinnitus sent out 328 email issues listing 1358 performances in Texas of an experimental, noise, difficult, avant-jazz, sound art, action performance nature. 37 artists were interviewed and about 30 exclusive .mp3s were made available for free download. The audio files are still available through the link below and there will be a few more amazing recordings added to the collection.

-Josh Ronsen

LINKS and RESOURCES

Austin Performers — not a complete list!

• Alien Time Ensemble — improv/jazz ensemble
• Cory Allen — synthesizers & electronics
• Aunt’s Analog — Matt LaComette’s noise project
• Aurora Plastics Company — noise from Anne Heller & friends
• Austin New Music Co-op — composers and performers working together
• Book of Shadows — Carlton Crutcher, synthesizers, and Sharon Crutcher, vocals, + ...
• Laura Brackney — clarinet, piano, bicycle concerts, composition
• Brekekekexkoaxkoax — sound art, performance art, creative improv from Josh Ronsen and friends
• Christina Carter — guitar, voice
• Henna Chou — cello, composition, etc.
• Chris Cogburn — drums, percussion, movement
• Alex Coke — jazz saxophone and flute
• Spencer Dobbs &mdash guitar, vocals, soundscapes; solo and in duo called Virginity with multi-instrusmentalist Parham Daghighi
• Brent Fariss — double-bass/electronics/composition
• Flowertops — Mallory Watson solo project with synthesizers and misc. instruments
• Frequency Curtain — electronic music & video from Rick Reed & Josh Ronsen
• Douglas Ferguson — guitar and electronics
• Vanessa Gelvin — field recordings and installations
• Ghosts of Electricity — electronic project by Bradford Kinney
• Ingebrigt Håker Flaten — double-bass, electric bass
• Deborah Hay — modern dance
• Greg Headley — guitar and electronics
• Katie & Rachel — avant-garde chamber quintet of Fariss/Fore/Gelvin/Laktas/Ronsen
• Alex Keller — electronic/computer/mechanical music
• Leaf Chimes — free improvisation project
• LSJ — trio of Lisa Cameron, Shawn McMillen & Josh Ronsen
• Macho Blush — inovative noise project
• Shawn David McMillen — guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, formerly of Iron Kite
• Microminx — noise project of Stephanie Demopulos
• François Minaux — flute
• Marina Peterson — cello
• Rick Reed — noise musician par excellence, founder of the Abrasion Ensemble, Knob Jobs, Field, Ghost Time, Voltage Spooks & SIRSIT
• Colin Andrew Sheffield — electronic music
• Venison Whirled — (Lisa Cameron) feedback, electronics
• Travis Weller — violin, electronics/computer, composition

Houston Performers — not a complete list!

• Brian Allen — jazz trombone
• Charlie Naked — saxophonist and more
• Dave Dove — free improv trombone
• Sandy Ewen — guitar, artworks, projections
• Thomas Helton — upright bass player
• Jandek — a bit of everything...
• Carlos Pozo — electronic music
• Rotten Piece — noise duo

Dallas/Fort Worth/San Antonio/Etc. Performers — not a complete list!

• Larry Austin — noted electro-acoustic composer
• Jane Henry — violin, electro-acoustics
• Philip Krumm — composer & performer
• Rod Stasick — sound artist and mail artist
• Tear Ceremony/Sonogram — electronic projects by Todd Gautreau

Photos • Videos • Audio

Information

• Austin Fanzine Project — an archive of Austin zines
• Austin Museum of Digital Art — sponsors electronica and electro-acoustic shows
• Austin Show List — the original Austin Show List was an inspiration to start Austinnitus. Dan M. has brought this rock resource back to life
• Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia at University of North Texas
• the Church of the Friendly Ghost — Important performing organization for many musicians listed on this page
• Co-Lab — innovative art space that hosts performace art and installations
• End of an Ear— Austin record store where many Austinnitus groups perform
• Epistrophy Arts — Austin promoter of touring jazz shows, responsible for recent ICP Orchestra and Matthew Shipp showsM
• Monk Mink Pink Punk — Austin print/online zine on creative music and mail art
• Monkeywrench Books — a collectively-owned and operated radical bookstore in Austin
• Nameless Sound — (formerly the Pauline Oliveros Foundation Houston) sponsors shows and educational opportunities in Houston
• Phonography Austin — organization dedicated to exploring phonography and acoustic ecology
• Progressive Austin — a site for political activism
• Purrfect Sounds — Josh Ronsen’s database of downloadable cat purrs
• Sherwood Forest Zine Library — Austin zine library; sign up for a free card and check out zines.
• Yeast By Sweet Beast — a yearly noise festival happening in Austin mid-March

Interviews — Austinnitus interviewed some two dozen local creative musicians and printed one in each issue. These interviews will be printed on paper or posted online sometime in the future should there ever be any interest in doing this.

Goodbye - these musicians used to live in Austin/Texas, but now live elsewhere. We miss all of your contributions and want you back!