Deirdre Morris performed an aerial fabric piece in collaboration with the Eisenstadt-Jonas-Deanne Trio.

Cohdi Harrel danced with fire and brought the crowd to their knees while Ray Charles Ives rocked out.

Alessandra Ogren ate cake on the trapeze.

Masnavi performed a multi-media dance piece in collaboration with Andrew Cryptic.

David Stout video images were in conjunction with the audio you hear.

Basement Films, Saul T. Rodgars, Joe Picard, and Martin Back all connived with various musical acts in providing live film, video feedback and other thrown imagery.

Billionaires for Bush came and threw their influence and cash around - we were nearly privatized.

Cohdi and Jasmine wrapped themselves in cloth and escaped from a spandex bubble.

Many other such examples exist for all the acts. In no way does merely listening to Rod Harrison compare to the total effect of seeing Rod, pantless, in a tux midst monologue...that sort of thing.
Soon enough, you'll be able to watch performance clips at the site - a documentary is in the works.

PRODUCTION NOTES
It was no small task, documenting three-days of performances by challenging multi-media artists, (let alone, the LIVE production), and so technical failures and human errors were bound to happen. In a few cases, recordings of performances were accidentally destroyed or became corrupted. In those cases, we asked the artists to submit either pre-recorded material so that we may deservedly represent them, or we held a show after the fest so we could capture them live (our preference). For the most part, of course, the recordings did come of the festival itself, but we thought you should know, that Ether and mi were re-recorded live at a High Mayhem Studios event and that Hypothetical Entity gave us a prerecording it had made live in it's home studio.

CREDITS
So many credits are in order: Some are printed on the packaging itself, but what if this is a dupe and you don't have that handy? Well, you'll find that information, and extended media at the festival 2004 site. This CD-ROM was compiled by a half-dozen High Mayhemites, but we especially wish to thank James Bixler of Wu Wei Design for help with the architecture and last-minute tweaks.

MORE ABOUT HIGH MAYHEM:
Founded in 2001, High Mayhem Emerging Arts is a not-for-profit emerging arts facility, record label and multimedia production collective based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We challenge the homogenizing effect of pop-culture groupthink by providing opportunities for and fostering collaborations with underrepresented "experimental" artists.

High Mayhem curates performances and organizes workshops year-round with musicians and performance artists who come from near and far. We seek out other brave explorers (and welcome those who have discovered us) to join us in producing innovative and thought-provoking experiences for our communities. Further, we encourage and organize collaborative experiments across disciplines; new forms emerge from mutated traditions and pure invention.

We provide a venue and voice for creative tinkerers who challenge our notions of aesthetics in music and art, especially those who employ cross-media synthesis, improvisational techniques and the unorthodox...the often indescribable...