High Evil

"High Evil": On Saturday, November 2nd, 1996, I participated in an event in Pittsburgh entitled "High Evil" organized by Ed-Um Bucholtz that took place in a building that's now demolished.  This event was significant for me as one of the 1st shows I participated in after moving to Pittsburgh & as possibly the only time I ever used the toy VideoPainter as a video improvising tool.  Since I've been too poor most of my life to afford 'professional' equipment, I've often used toys & borrowed &/or broken equipment.  The broken equipment in this instance being a WJ MX-12 AV mixer that I STILL use & that's STILL broken.  Providing improvised sound were Sharyn Lee Frederick: child's violin, measuring cups, voice; Michael Johnsen: saw, amplified oboe, baritone sax; Greg Pierce: records, intercom, guitar, alto sax, dictaphone; & Dave W(Ho)le Shim: 4 track cassettes.  I contributed projected video mixing.  This brief movie is probably a simulation of the visuals done at home - since the actual conditions of the show probably didn't involve any video recording.