CONTENT AND FORM
Itchy-O creates transcendent musical experiences by blending iconographies in an effort to provide a distinctive offering. The resulting chaos dissolves familiarities, awakens possibilities, and employs the true nature and power of hive-minded ceremony. With a performance troupe of over 50+ musicians, dancers, puppeteers, and special effects experts, itchy-O creates a space where the performer and audience co-create an ecstatic artistic experience. The percussive rhythms of the drum battery and taiko drums shake all tenants of tradition and intermingle with unique custom-crafted electronic devices, providing a primal-futuristic spiritual immersion.
• compel-fratorum • hyper-intentus • desumo-acoustic • artifex voluptus • celebratio professio •
• compel-fratorum • hyper-intentus • desumo-acoustic • artifex voluptus • celebratio professio •
IMPACT~ ARTISTIC, INTELLECTUAL, COMMUNAL, CIVIC, SOCIAL:
Societies today largely choose what to see, hear, and believe. Our lives are carefully curated and programmed by ourselves and outside influences. Itchy-O challenges that hierarchy of choice and control by inserting its one-of-a-kind creative chaos. We invite our audiences to embrace mystery by passing between knowing and unknowing, self and other. Performances create a temporary community of co-creators who surrender control as observers to become a part of manifesting a shared artistic experience.
The Calling
RADICAL, TRANSCENDENTAL, MUSICAL-PERFORMANCE, INCLUSION
Itchy-O aspires to create transcendent spiritual experiences with performances that confound the senses and disorient perceptions of place, time, order, reason and categorical identity. We invite our audiences to embrace mystery and join us in passing between knowing, unknowing, self and other.
• compel-fratorum • hyper-intentus • desumo-acoustic • artifex voluptus • celebratio professio •
• compel-fratorum • hyper-intentus • desumo-acoustic • artifex voluptus • celebratio professio •
THE PLAYERS
Ethan Alexander Bass
Bryan Aquino Snare
Scott Allen Banning Producer | Director | Roto-Toms
Nicole Banowetz Inflatable Arts
Mariah Becerra Special Effects
Rex Blatter Chaos Krüwe
David Britton Synthesizer | Noise Division
Geoff Brent Vocoder | Chaos Krüwe
Megs Burd Lion Dancer
Robert Drew Burleson Cymbalist
Carlo Campagna Cymbalist
James Nelson Guitar
Jackson Ellis SpFX | Pyro Technician
Evelyn Fugate Kriēchén
Mike Grimsley Chaos Krüwe
Joe Hatfield Timbales | Guitar
Lucinda Herrera Kriēchén
Colin Elliot Keys | Sampling | Noise Division
Maristella Frisch Wardrobe | Chaos Krüwe
Elliott Grossman Keys | Sampling | Noise Division
Nick Gonzales Sampling | Noise Division
Ethan Klein Lighting Designer
Lyndsey Hays Kriēchén
David Kessner SpFX | High Voltage Technician | Engineering
Micah Kessner Fog Wiz | Chaos Krüwe
John Knudsen Kriēchén
Thomas Knight Taiko
Andrew Linares Vocoder | Chaos Krüwe
Jackson Lynn Taiko
Henri Francois Mamet Chaos Krüwe
Allison Marcellus Cymbalist | Lion Dancer
Mark Moffett SpFX | Pyro Technician
Sean O’Malley Quint Tenors
Tim Pettit Cymbalist
Cory Phare Publicist
Tim Pettit Bass Drum
Toni Rib Taiko
Brad Schumacher Noise Division
Wayne Scott Lion Dancer
Thomas Silaghy High Voltage | SpFX | Special Effects | Chaos Krüwe
Brad Smalling Live & Studio Engineer
Erin Smith Lighting Designer
John Smith Chaos Krüwe
Aaron Spriggs Theremin
Matt Steitle Taiko | Quint-Tenors
Sara Valentine Kriēchén
Kirsten Vermulen Co-Producer | Art-Director | Synthesizer
Niza Volair Kriēchén | Larry Dancer
Bernard Wooten Chaos Krüwe
Wakenyan Zyphier Chaos Krüwe
Cetan Zyphier Lion Dancer | Chaos Krüwe

Mystery is certainly key to itchy-O, Denver’s own astoundingly large 50-member-plus percussive and electronic musical collective, whose wild, immersive shows completely tear down the walls between performer and audience, stage and dance floor. For example, there are few interviews where the band answers as a collective in the interest of keeping their individual identities secret. But in an era of ego-driven individualism, where even the most intimate personal details of our lives are ripe for peacocking on social media, there’s something refreshingly genuine and artistically rebellious about a commitment to collectivism, community, and anonymity.
Sarah Baranauskas • Marquee Magazine