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Greetings new music enthusiasts! This Sunday, May 11, CAMA artist Dr.
Mabuse (aka Mike Murphy) will present a "spoof" performance/musical on
modular analog synthesizers with video work by Rev. Eric Matthew. Our
CAMA initiative, in its pilot run this season, is designed to produce
and promote the work of more local artists. We hope to see you at the
show. For more info, please visit www.newmusiccircle.org.

New Music Circle Presents Dr. Mabuse in…

An Illustrated Survey of Electro-Acoustic Stimulae on
Mammalian Extrasensory Perception - The Musical
Dr. Mabuse and Rev. Eric Matthew
Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 7:30 p.m.
Tietjens Hall, Rm. 4 (Washington University Music School)
6500 Forsyth Blvd.
Tickets: $6

New Music Circle CAMA artist Dr. Mabuse (aka Mike Murphy) will present
a spoof lecture in one act, regarding analog synthesizers. The
performance caps an 8-month genuine hands-on workshop series that
Murphy provided free to the public on Thursday evenings at the
Carpenter Branch Public Library.

In Murphy's words, he intends to "deliver a lecture guaranteed to
extol facts of dubious provenance, apocryphal myths, and just outright
made-up fibs about the pseudoscience and anti-science of making music
with analog synthesizers. The subject matter will misrepresent the
historical development, orthodox methodologies, and aesthetic
foundations of this noble class of instrument. This lofty exegesis of
pointless miscellany will be adroitly illustrated by filmmaker and
video improviser Eric Matthew."

A veteran St. Louis composer and performer, Murphy is best known for
his role as a sideman in neXt rAdio, SCSI, and the tory z starbuck
band, though the avant-garde crowd will recognize him from IN THE
SOCKET. Murphy studied electronic music formally with Merrill Ellis
at University of North Texas and software design at SLU. However, the
homebrewed concoction with which Murphy currently performs hardly
resembles any synth that you'd find in a university classroom.

Eric Matthew has been shooting and editing film and video since he was
ten years old. He received an Eastman Kodak production grant for his
film "The Distant Sound of Trains" and graduated from Southern
Illinois University in Carbondale with a degree in Cinema and
Photography in 1999.

Matthew then spent five years working in the Los Angeles film
industry. Through his time there he earned experience on the sets of
major motion pictures, music videos, independent films, and television
shows. Matthew's documentary photography has shown in various
galleries and venues in Los Angeles, St. Louis, and southern Illinois.
His film works have been screened in several venues throughout the
country as well as St. Louis' own Tivoli Theater. Matthew is
currently pursuing work on two feature length documentaries.