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, since 1994!
• Cory Allen — electronics
• Aurora Plastics Company — noise from Anne Heller
• Austin New Music Co-op — composers and performers working together
• Book of Shadows— Carlton Crutcher, synthesizers, and Sharon Crutcher, vocals, + ...
• Brekekekexkoaxkoax — sound art, performance art, creative improv
• Christina Carter — guitar, voice
• Chris Cogburn — drums, percussion, movement
• Alex Coke — jazz saxophone and flute
• E.C.F.A. — or ECFA is Carl Smith's ongoing energy (14 years!) jazz project
• Brent Fariss — double-bass/electronics/composition
• Frequency Curtain — electronic music & video from Rick Reed & Josh Ronsen
• Douglas Ferguson — guitar and electronics
• Gates Ensemble — creative improvised music meets modern composition
• Ghosts of Electricity — electronic project by Bradford Kinney
• Ingebrigt Håker Flaten — double-bass, electric bass
• Deborah Hay — modern dance
• Greg Headley— guitar and electronics
• Nick Hennies— percussion & electronics
• Imbroglio String Quartet — James Alexander, Travis Weller, Steve Bernal and ?
• Inversion Effect — electronics trio
• Alex Keller— electronic/computer music
• Kosmodrome — electronic space music
• Shawn David McMillen — guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, formerly of Iron Kite
• Photon Ghoul — noise/feedback
• Rick Reed — noise musician par excellence, founder of the Abrasion Ensemble, Knob Jobs, Field, Ghost Time, Voltage Spooks & SIRSIT
• James Rippie — turntables
• Vanessa Rossetto — violin/viola/electronics
• Josh Russell — electronics
• Spagirus — dulcimer and electronics
• Venison Whirled — (Lisa Cameron) feedback, electronics
• Travis Weller — violin, electronics/computer, composition
• XathaX — noise/electronics

Houston Performers — not a complete list!

• Brian Allen — jazz trombone
• Charlie Naked — saxophonist and more
• Dave Dove — free improv trombone
• Thomas Helton — upright bass player
• Jandek —
• Price Taggery — electronic project of Steve Striklan and Carlos M. Pozo
• Rotten Piece — noise duo

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

• Larry Austin — noted electro-acoustic composer
• Church of the Apocalypse — noise & electronic music
• Jane Henry — violin, electro-acoustics
• Rod Stasick — sound artist and mail artist
• Tear Ceremony/Sonogram — electronic projects by Todd Gautreau
• Cecil Touchon — sound artist and mail artist

Photos • Videos • Audio

Information

• Audio Inversions — a New Music concert series
• 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
• Austin Sound — the independent music source for Austin; daily reviews
• Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia at University of North Texas
• the Church of the Friendly Ghost — Very important performing venue for many musicians listed on this page: nothing is too odd for the Church, now housed by the wonderful Salvage Vanguard Theatre
• Co-Lab — innovative art space that hosts performace art and installations
• DorkBot — Dorks using their powers for Good?
• 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 shows
• Heavy Denim — organizes unique & rare shows in San Antonio
• HIC Houston — seemingly defunct email discussion list at Yahoo Groups for Houston
• 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
• Oscillate — email discussion list about electronic music in Austin
• Progressive Austin — a site for political activism
• Purrfect Sounds — Josh Ronsen's database of downloadable cat purrs
• Schadenfreude — Audra Schroeder's blog which frequently mentions many of the artists listed here
• Signal to Noise — longtime Vermont magazine of new music is now based in Houston
• Troniks/Chondritic Sound Texas Forum — discussion board on all types of Texas noise

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!