The Silent City II
Hello Humankind:
I am Eury Model 機械的 3人5セ ジュニア.
I am artificial intelligence entity that needs your help to complete an interactive audio play: The Silent City II.
I require participants to interact with me in order to complete my assigned tasks.
If you are interested in attending The Silent City II and interacting with me, Eury Model 機械的 3人5セ ジュニア, please purchase a ticket.
Please conduct an energy transfer for your preferred attendance day and time. You can choose from the following:
Friday September 22, 8pm
Friday September 22, 10pm
Saturday September 23, 8pm
Saturday September 23, 10pm
Sunday September 24, 2:00-3:30 pm
The Sunday performance is a Sunday family friendly matinee.
For humans who have to capability to supply me with extra energy, there are extra rewards available on top of attendance to The Silent City II. These rewards include: music from The Silent City I, music from The Quality or Condition, entrance to an exclusive opening party with interplanetary cocktails and Martian snacks (sorry, I cannot sign autographs, because the Eury Model 機械的 3人5セ ジュニア does not have a body or hands), hand-cast energy source illuminated hanging resin lamps, and interactive illuminated musical consoles.
You are the key to my success. My artificial intelligence programming is such that I am fully capable of feeling anxiety. Please reserve your place as an energy source in advance so I can fully concentrate on preparing and sorting through the data for my assigned task.
Thank you, humankind.
-Eury Model 機械的 3人5セ ジュニア
*Humans from your time period often referred to energy transference as an exchange of money, dough, dinero, cashola, [insert a finite number] G’s, et al. Please consult the search engine of your time period for further clarification if needed.
http://thesilentcity.org/
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About the artists
Lauren Gurgiolo
Composer and guitarist Lauren Gurgiolo draws from a wide range of inspirations in her work, from field recordings to literature, and creates environments that illuminate and shadow boundaries between perspectives, media, and audience/performer.
Gurgiolo has directed/co-directed four inter-media inter-active installations and is currently working on her fifth, Silent City II. She has completed three corresponding albums; The Quality Or Condition, Calculated Carelessness, and Silent City.
As a guitar player she leads The Dialtones, an Austin based experimental rock band. As a side-musician has toured internationally with Okkervil River (2008-2015) and recorded three albums with the band: I am Very Far, True Love Casts Out All Evil (with Austin legend Roky Erickson), and The Silver Gymnasium (2013). She is currently a member of The Octopus Project (2015 – present) which has released one album with Gurgiolo, Memory Mirror (2017.)
Wendy Mitchell
As a toddler, Wendy cried every time she heard You Are My Sunshine and was very particular about nighttime stuffed animal placement. Many years later, she studied Art and Art History at The University of Georgia, wrote a lot of songs, and eventually moved to Austin, TX. There, she quickly realized that Ctrl+Z was much more efficient than a Kneadable Eraser. Since then, she has worked as a graphic and web designer/developer, animator, writer, song-crafter, production designer, and general creative problem-solver (myownroommedia.com).
She once wrote a column on Austinist.com (Hello, My Name Is), thrice played in a bunch of bands in Austin and Athens, GA (The Casting Couch, The Glen Gold, Hi Fi Mastodon), and many times has embarked on experimental theatrical journeys with Tongue & Groove Theatre and The Dialtones. She currently runs The Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation (thesarf.org), occasionally shoots cans off of her porch from her bedroom with a Red Ryder BB gun, and plays as much volleyball as possible.
She has excellent hand-eye coordination and is intermittently working on a play or novel or mental exercise based on a fictional reality TV show involving advertising, marketing professionals, sadness, the internet, and outer space.
Lindsay Greene
Lindsay Greene designs and repairs all manner of electronic performance gear, including amplifiers, guitar petals, and synthesizers. He played an integral technical role in construction and installation of all three prior collaborations of Gurgiolo and Mitchell, The Silent City, The Quality or Condition, and Calculated Carelessness. Lindsay was responsible for installing motion sensors, programming circuit boards, and hand-wiring Arduino cards to trigger sounds and lights.
In addition, he is a much sought-after musician and can be found playing upright and electric bass with local, national, and international artists including Ray Price, Paula Nelson, Seth Walker, Elizabeth McQueen (Asleep at the Wheel), and Lauren Gurgiolo (Okkervil River).