New Adventures in Sight and Sound

The goddess smiles! Lookit them dimples!

Through a fortuitous chain of events, I've been privileged to be sucked down into a most amazing new rabbit-hole of musical adventure: The Convergence Conspiracy Collective Psychoto-Electro Arkestra.

In September '05 I was lucky enough to be invited as a guest artist to the C3 Vernal Equinox show on the big muddy, right smack dab along the Katy trail near Booneville, Missouri. Knowing only one of the many participants and having relatively no idea what would come of this I struck out all intrepid-like to the venue. Sooo surreal: a campground and river landing along the Missouri River, miles and miles from the nearest paved road. I met the members of the cast and plunged into the show. It was pure freeform improvisational music. Not even a tempo or a key, certainly not a chord structure, no head, no preconceived notions. Just rear back and jam! These guys certainly gave me abundant space to stretch out. In return I did my Boy Scout best not to abuse the space. All in all, it gelled beautifully. And I was asked to join the happy fools party.

C3 performs four times a year, on solstices and equinoxes. Each show is recorded, resulting in a CD release. The full cast includes not only musicians but visual artists, jokesters, dancers, visioneers and synaesthete pilots. But don't just take my word for all of this. Check out the C3 Web site:

http://www.ceethree.us/

and surf on in to the past shows... all posted in their raw splendor in MP3.

Psyche-fricking-delic! Hope to see you at the Spring Equinox show, wherever it may be. Stay tuned to the Web site.