ITCHY-O
Lauded as one of today’s most unique musical-performance groups. With a driving drum corps battery, taiko drummers, an arsenal of electronics including synthesizers, theremin, vocoders, and other custom-made sonic devices, itchy-O completely engulfs an audience from every angle in an electric bog of music, ephemera, and spectacle. The group disrupts traditional performance protocols with a form of chaos that unifies spectators and audiences with a powerful and immersive musical experience that features elaborate costumes, large-scale puppets, teams of provocateurs, and SpFX engineers. Drawing inspiration from many cultures – Japanese Taiko drumming to Chinese Lion dancing, Mexican street processions, ancient esoteric symbolism and American drum corps, itchy-O offers a transcendental musical experience that dissolves the divide between performer and spectator. Itchy-O performances awaken the senses, test assumptions, and create an opening for new experiences where identity and boundaries surrender and disband.
CONTENT AND FORM
Itchy-O creates transcendent musical experiences by blending many cultural iconographies in an effort to provide a distinctive offering that 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. Shaking all tenants of tradition, the percussive rhythms of the drum battery and taiko drums intermingle with unique custom-crafted electronic devices, providing a primal-futuristic spiritual immersion.
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.
THE PLAYERS
Bryan Aquino
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Snare
Scott Allen Banning
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Roto-Toms
David Britton
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MicroKorg
Robert Drew Burleson
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Cymbalist
Carlo Campagna
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Cymbalist
Russ Cochrane
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Bass
Joe Hatfield
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Timbales | Guitar
Colin Elliot
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Sampler
Nick Gonzales
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Audio Effects
Ethan Klein
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Lighting Designer
Ethan Kotel
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Audio Effects | Guitar
Lyndsey Hays
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Creep Unit
John Knudsen
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Creep Unit | Chaos Tech
Thomas Knight
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Taiko
Roger Liu
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Guitar
Sean O’Malley
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Quint Tenors
Mariah Becerra
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Special Effects
Rex Blatter
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Chaos Tech
Megs Burd
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Lion Dancer
Khena Bullshields
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Lion Dancer
Jackson Ellis
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Industrialist
Evelyn Fugate
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Creep Unit
Jen GaNun
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Creep Unit
Sarah Harman
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Creep Unit
Andrew Linares
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Polyphonic
Joanne M.W. Liu
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Lion Dancer
Rae Loun
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Creep Unit
Allison Marcellus
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Lion Dancer
Mark Moffett
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SpFX Industrialist
Corey Phare
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Publicist
Shay Phoenix
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SpFx Industrialist
David Poore
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Lion Dancer
Chey Rawhoof
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Cymbalist
Toni Ribb
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Taiko
Brad Schumacher
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Polyphonic
Wayne Scott
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Lion Dancer
Jiah Shin
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Creep Unit
Thomas Silaghy
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Special Effects
Brad Smalling
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Live Engineer
Jenny Smalling
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Creep Unit
John Smith
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Chaos Tech
Aaron Spriggs
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Theremin
Matt Steitle
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Taiko
Will Tuttle
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SpFX Industrialist
Sara Valentine
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Creep Unit
Kirsten Vermulen
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MicroKorg
Niza Volair
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Creep Unit
Wakenyan Zyphier
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Chaos Tech
Cetan Zyphier
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Chaos Tech
