Past Events

HEARding Cats Gelatin Orchestra
Sunday, June 27, 2010 – 2 pm
University City Library
6701 Delmar Blvd
Free and open to the public

HCC invites adventurous souls to come worship with us at the U-City library on Sunday, June 27 for the STRANGE and WONDERFUL sounds of HEARding Cats Gelatin Orchestra.  Featuring the sometimes-erratic, often ecstatic, always fantastic Tory Z Starbuck on koto; see-saw drumming, tam-tam strumming, percussion-cunning Rich O’Donnell; brilliant all the while, and never short on style, Zimbabwe Nkenya; the pseudo-scientific alchemist of the analog Doc Mabuse; painter of the airwaves Venus Slick on electronics; and on the ‘Ramone-a-phone’ (playing the parts of Tommy, Paco, Isolde, and Holofernes Ramone) his holiness, Msgr. Thomas Sutter.

The aforementioned will be a non-denominational service, during which believers in consonant melodies, regular tempos, and repetitive rhythms are guaranteed to have their “faces melted off” by the improvisatory (and mostly blasphemous, depending on your perspective) interjections of the Gelatin Orchestra.

When asked to describe the aesthetic in his own words, galactic-cat Tory Z Starbuck said, “It will be more of a Hearding Cats Gelatin Orchestra…where several of us experimental musicians ‘gel’ as opposed to ‘jam’ (which is what rock musicians do when they get together).  We would not ALL just start making noise right away but ‘pockets of us’ would improvise…some of us would leave the muzik area and others would take the place.  Meow.”

HEARding Cats Gelatin Orchestra – poisoning the minds of otherwise innocent people since 2010.

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