Last performances of The Carpetbag Brigade's Vanishing Point, coming up soon!

I just heard news from The Carpetbag Brigade, a physical theater company that briefly passed through Boulder in 2007, that they will soon stop performing Vanishing Point.  Their last performance in San Fransisco will be May 21st and 22nd at the International Arts Festival, and the very last performances will be in Prescott Arizona, June 17th and 18th, at Tsunami on the Square.  This show is quite amazing - it has toured both North and Latin America, as well as Europe, and has been performed over 200 times.  If you are in either city on these days, I wouldn't miss it.

In 2007, a group of University of Colorado acoustic and electronic musicians had the wonderful opportunity to work with them, creating a version of their incidental music that was unique to the Boulder performance.  This was one of the defining collaborative events from my time at CU Boulder.  The group was lead by Michael Theodore, and included several dear friends of mine, Curtis Peel, Steve Snowden, and Chris Rippey.  At the time, I was working with SuperCollider and a Yamaha Silent Brass mute as a microphone (!), playing trumpet.  Here is an excerpt...