“Pue” -- Experimenting with accent colors and variations in typeface size … this one has been on my mind recently (as of 04/03/2024) because, while working on the 4XU poster and including the detail that the concerts were unsanctioned, I kept thinking about how this poster contained “at: MCAD (Not Confirmed)” because it was still up in the air at the time of having to post the flyer, lol. This is the first one to feature an “excerpted” block of text, which I used a few more times in the future and always enjoyed doing. Generally, I just tried to freestyle first-take it with a focus on creating that kind of doublespeak meaningless-meaning and trust that whatever idea was expressed would probably subliminally / subconsciously capture something essential about the show. Joe once described interacting with people at the bar like that, to me. “it’s just like jazz … it’s about the kinetic energy and form as much as it is about the words being used.” Syntax over semantics, in a way. Looking at this block of text now, I can see it actually kind of articulates this very idea, lol. High Viscosity Music was a set I did, set to a variety of tracks I’d composed, where I was making smoothies live at a pretty humongous rig of ingredients and blenders, next to a synthesizer and rack gear and roto toms. I don’t think I intended for it to go this way but it got very much into some Gallagher realms at times as I tossed pineapples into the air and tried slicing them before they hit the ground. I remember the smoothie stains were on a particular pair of pants I wore for a good several months afterwards. Tiffany’s House were some friends on tour from Philadelphia doing a sort of demonic doll-house puppet show. Mitch played a beautiful solo processed flute set, which filled the cafeteria space at MCAD in a sonorous and subaquatic way. Basketball Group was intended to be a free improv jazz group “directed” by two basketball players/dribblers but both of them were unable to make it, day-of … so a basketball was interjected into the large group jam (which, given attendance numbers, came to include everyone who was there) … I do remember some attempts at the basketball bouncing or rolling to represent a visual score being followed. I think it was a pretty great jam … or, at least, fun. This might be the first flyer with a symbol on it (the music notes.) O, nevermind, they’re on the Naomi Punk one … which is good cos I can use it to mention that I generally start each flyer by using the previous one as a template … and, often, find that, in that little rectangular room / garden, some items are already perfectly placed. It looks like the music notes have moved slightly from where they were in the NP one … but, if you look at other flyers, you’ll see things recycled and still blooming where they were initially placed.