MUSIC

Society for the Performing Arts (SPA), presents ScrapArtsMusic, at 7:30pm Friday, February 25, 2011, in Wortham Center's Cullen Theater. Part of the 2010-2011 "Experience the Magic" Season UBS Family Fun Series.

Participants in the 2010 Winter Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies in Vancouver, ScrapArtsMusic is a Canadian quintet that tours the world transforming stages into eco-friendly musical realms vibrant with ingenious creativity and positive energy.

Led by Gregory Kozak, an inspired instrument inventor and 21st century Renaissance man, ScrapArtsMusic performs original, beats-driven music using more that 145 mobile sculptural instruments. Each musical invention is hand-built from recycled materials ranging from accordion parts to aluminum scraps, and even artillery shells.

These beautiful sculptures produce unique sounds for which special performance techniques are developed, giving life to fresh, original compositions with wide-ranging appeal. Transcending language, culture and age, ScrapArtsMusic offers a highly physical, wildly theatrical and thoroughly entertaining taste of the musical vanguard.

Rooted in street performance, jazz + world music traditions, and fueled by the same inexplicable genius that produced projects like Blue Man Group and Stomp, ScrapArtsMusic was nominated in 2002 for a West Coast Music Award in the category of BEST LIVE PERFORMANCE and has been travelling the world ever since. Athleticism, invention, and mind-blowing sound come together in a live show experience that will leave you breathless! ScrapArtsMusic... Inventive. Highly skilled. Mesmerizing. Hyper-kinetic. Powerful.

“Explosive intensity. Breathtaking.” – Philadelphia Inquirer

Pictured above:  Scene from "Synthesoid Plasmatron" -- Photo Credit: Don Lee.