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being a cow. I saw some goats and
sheep. I decided that I liked one of
the goats and gave it a huge hug.
The goat didn’t really know what
to think of that and started making
goat noises.
The wind was really starting to
to me, I guess. I was beginning to
understand how it could drive
many of the settlers on the prairie to
the brink of madness.
The fish at the Game and Parks
Commission booth were my favor
ite, though. They had catfish and
turtles and sunfish and trout and
sturgeon and bass and paddle fish
and perch and all sorts of fish on
display. They had a huge yellow
catfish in one of the tanks. I got up
really close to the tank and loSked
at the fish. The fish looked at me.
1 had fun wondering if I was really
just an experience in the fish’s
brain.
They also had a huge tank full
of all sorts of fish. People gathered
around to look at them. This little
boy and I had fun being amazed
about the fish. Who would ever
think of fish? They’re ingenious.
By this time, I was gone. I had
gotten too high on life. 1 spent the
rest of the day walking around the
fair just being and feeling free,
enjoying the people and the expe
rience. The fair showcases many
of the good things Nebraska is all
about. I left feeling exhausted and
thoroughly satisfied.
Music visual release wraps up
Nebraska artist in one package
By Trevor McArthur
Staff Reporter _ |
A question that musicians com
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one to hear it, no stores sell their *
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companying it, that is the question
which helped to give rise to “Power in
the House: A Music/Visual Compila
tion.” The compact disc or chrome
cassette contain more than 70 minutes
of music by 18 Nebraska audio artists,
sold in a package with more than a
dozen seriographs and a piece of
Omaha’s soon-to-be extinct Jobber’s
Canyon.
The music is an interesting and
very diverse sampling of local musi
cians, although the sound might lean
too heavily on synthesizer music. The
collection is definitely eclectic. For
instance, the post-punk band For
Against plays “Fate.” The next cut
Randall L. Snyder’s “Sabbatical
Music, Movements I and II." Snyder,
a University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
professor of music theory and compo
sition at the School of Music, re
corded the orchestral piece at
Lincoln s First Plymouth Church.
Later, Reinhold Marxhausen’s
almost abstract “Sound Sculpture/
Drop by DropCollagc” is followed by
Ja’Boi’s pop soul/funk “Planet
Jumper.”
This wonderful diversity might
also be considered the compilation’s
biggest problem, as listeners inter
ested in certain types of music may
not care lor other types represented
here. Even those with wide ranging
tastes will probably find certain
tracks they do not care for. But for
those wishing to expand their hori
zons, this offers a good sampling of
what has been growing out here with
the com.
The visual part of “Power in the
House” is an interesting collection of
four-color scriographcd, or silk
screened, pictures, photos, poems and
humor. The visual was originally put
together as a large, brown cardboard
poster on which all the artists were
presented side by side.
The large work was cut apart into
individual squares which easily tit
into the rather small box that pack
ages the collection.
The only real criticism of these is
that the visual should have been
printed on white, since the brown
cardboard does a disservice to the
detail and color in some works. Some
artists, such as Ed Green and Harry
Dingman III, were also represented
on the audio portion.
The package is comparable to
Lincoln’s own Broadside compila
tions. “Power in the House” is techni
cally much belter recorded (the CD
surely would have given away even
the slightest flaw) with underwriting
by the Collaborative Arts Project, a
non-profit organization which sup
ports creative arts in Nebraska and
Iowa.
“Power" also covers a much wider
range of music than Broadside com
pilations have, so far, since Broadside
has been primarily rock. Broadside’s
presentation of visuals in a book form
was more convenient for browsing
through, but “Power’s" individual
squares would allow favorites to be
framed or otherwise mounted.
This comparison is not at all meant
to imply there is any competition
between the groups. Rather, this new
collection should fan creative flames
in Omaha, Lincoln and the rest of the
slate.
“Power in the House” is available
in Lincoln at Pickle’s, Twister’s and
Project record stores.
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