SCHICK MACHINE

WEDNESDAY, AUG 16 • RIVERWALK CENTER

11AM • FAMILY CONCERT • FREE WITH REGISTRATION

7:30PM • PAY WHAT YOU CAN

The sound of a summer storm’s distant thunder and the rain on the roofthe memory of the late night sound of his mother’s typewriter down the hall - these compel the sound collector and sonic inventor Laslo Klangfarben to attempt the creation of the Schick Machine, a wondrous mechanical device that consumes his every waking and dreaming moment. A giant motorized hurdy gurdy, a deconstructed pipe organ and an array of spinning and thrashing metal machines that seem almost to be alive - these devices and more fill the basement workshop of our possibly mad and possibly genius inventor as he nears the completion of his giant instrument that he believes can reconcile the past and the future. He thinks: “Theoretically it’s sound. It’s sound, theoretically, it’s sound.”

Collaboratively created by a multi-disciplinary team, Schick Machine features percussionist Schick exploring a visually compelling world of mechanical devices, invented instruments and seemingly infinite sonic possibilities. He occupies a stage filled with large scale invented instruments, drawing the audience into a magical place filled with creative potential. The audience quickly relinquishes its expectations about what an instrument should look like, how it should be played, and what sounds it can make, and is enticed into a sonorous world of continual aural and visual surprises. Schick Machine has been created specifically to appeal to a broad range of audiences including families, youth and students and senior citizens.

“The sounds are fresh and surprising... Schick’s playing is often mind-blowing.”

THE PAUL DRESHER ENSEMBLE PRODUCTION OF SCHICK MACHINE COLLABORATIVELY CREATED BY PAUL DRESHER COMPOSER, INSTRUMENT INVENTOR AND BUILDER

STEVEN SCHICK PERFORMER/PERCUSSIONIST

RINDE ECKERT DIRECTOR/WRITER

MATT HECKERT MECHANICAL SOUND ARTIST

DANIEL SCHMIDT INSTRUMENT INVENTOR & BUILDER

TOM ONTIVEROS LIGHTING & PRODUCTION DESIGN

The Paul Dresher Ensemble Production of Schick Machine is exclusively represented by Bernstein Artists, Inc. bernsarts.com

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