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Friday, January n, aooß | The Red & Black
Harpist plays
at University
BY SETH MCKELVEY
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Emmanuel Ceysson
speaks French, English
and the language of emo
tion.
The French harpist
performs tonight at the
Performing Arts Center
as a part of the Ramsey
Concert Hall series, which
showcases musical tal
ents from all over the
world.
“While only 20 (years
old), he won the USA
International Harp
Competition,” said Bobby
Tyler, marketing and
media relations director
for the University's
Performing Arts Center.
“The following year, he
won the Young Concert
Artists International
Auditions in New York,"
Tyler said.
The performance also
will broadcast on
American Public Media’s
“Performance Today”
radio program, which
reaches about one-and-a
half million listeners.
“It is also very impres
sive that he serves as
Principal Harp of the
Paris Opera Orchestra at
the age of 23, so he is defi
nitely a very talented
young man." Tyler said.
To Ceysson, playing
music is not all about
winning awards.
“For me, it is really
important to create a
communication with my
audience," Ceysson said.
From there, he said, it
is about conveying emo
tions to the listener.
“I try to use the music
as an emotion language,”
Ceysson said. “It can go
from anger, to love, to
many other things."
Ceysson said he is
influenced more by con
ductors and pianists than
harpists in his perfor
mances. He said he often
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Where: Performing Arts
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plays lesser-known works
because he likes to
branch out and play a
wide array of styles and
pieces.
"In each recital, I try to
change my repertoire,” he
said.
“I try to do as many
original works for the
harp as possible, because
other harpists feel that
we don’t have an interest
ing repertoire, but I don’t
agree with that idea and I
like to defend our reper
toire," Ceysson said.
Ceysson said he was
first inspired to play the
harp while listening to
Mozart at age 6, and
began learning the instru
ment at 8 years old.
He said he now hopes
to help share that love of
music with children all
over the world.
“I started an educa
tional program in
Colombia, in Bogota,”
Ceysson said.
Ceysson will be teach
ing classes through an
educational residency in
conjunction with his
recital tonight.
“We take some of our
artists into area schools
to provide much-needed
arts education," Tyler
said.
“He will provide educa
tional programs for ele
mentary and high school
students in Clarke,
Barrow and Madison
counties, and he will also
be working with music
students at UGA.”
Video Games Features Rock Band!
Go Bar hosts night of hardcore music
BY SETH MCKELVEY
The Rm> & Black
Go Bar has been known for its
DJs, disco nights and dance music.
Tonight, the bar will attempt to
move past that reputation by host
ing local thrash band American
Cheeseburger and local doom metal
duo Subrig Destroyer. Post-hardcore
Brainworms from Richmond, Va. will
also perform.
Go Bar’s management hopes to
branch out and reach a larger crowd,
said Joel Martin, bassist and vocalist
of Subrig Destroyer.
The band still is trying to figure
out how to process Go Bar’s ambi
ence. The bar’s environment stands
in stark contrast with venues the
band otherwise plays.
“You know what’s going to be
weird, is playing at the Go Bar,”
Martin said.
“It used to be one of those old gas
stations where it just has two
pumps,” he said.
Martin said it was then trans
formed into a clothing store and
later turned into the bar it is today.
"They’re branching out, they’ve
got (Jason Griffin, drummer of
American Cheeseburger) to start
doing some booking for them,’’ said
Subrig Destroyer’s drummer, Chris
Holcombe.
Holcombe and Martin have been
playing together for over three years,
and under the name Subrig
Destroyer for more than a year now.
They have no problems with their
lack of a guitarist, Holcombe said
“Bass players and drummers are
hard to find,” he said. “In this town
it’s like the missing link.”
“I was like, ‘I play bass,’ and he
was like, ’Well, I play drums,’... let’s
make some music,” Martin said as he
explained how the band came to be.
The duo has played with guitar
ists in the past, but has decided that
it enjoys the simplicity of a two
piece, Holcombe said.
CONTRABAND: Band offers gaming nostalgia
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“It’s a sense of nostal
gia, you know.” said
Kennedy. ‘T’ve wanted to
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▲ Subrig Destroyer will be performing tonight at Go Bar on
Prince Avenue.
SUBRIG DESTROYER,
AMERICAN CHEESEBURGER
When: 10 tonight
Where: Go Bar
More Information:
www myspace.com/gobar
www.myspace.com/subrigdestroyer
Price: S3 to S5. 18 and up
“Bands are a dysfunctional rela
tionship,” Holcombe said.
He said they feel they’ve found
something that works between the
two of them.
“Everybody has their own person
al tempo that they just do things by
and he and I happen to have very
similar tempos.”
Brainworms will be playing its
first show in Georgia tonight after
finishing a 10-day tour in Florida.
do this since, like, sixth
grade.”
Kennedy and McCarthy
both said they were
amazed they had the
“We just try to have a good time
and do something interesting,” said
Brainworms guitarist Brendan
Trache.
Trache describes the band's
sound as "jangling and dissonant
guitars and frantic vocals, held
together by a strong rhythm sec
tion.”
Both Subrig Destroyer and
Brainworms also acknowledge the
influence American Cheeseburger
has had on the Athens hardcore
scene.
“I’ve known Jason for a long time,
he’s pretty much a fixture with (the
hardcore) scene,” Trache said about
the drummer.
“I really appreciate people like
that steady, helpful people that
the touring machine could not work
without,” he said.
“That’s the cool thing about
Athens, the scene here is very wel
coming,” Holcombe said.
opportunity to make
money playing video
games.
“It’s exciting that I’m
actually playing Nintendo
for a group of people,” said
McCarthy. “It’s just exhila
rating.”
However, despite the
unique nature of its shows,
the band's focus is still the
music.
“It’s a lot of fun for the
band to learn these songs.
They're really well-writ
ten,” Kennedy said.
McCarthy said that the
band chooses which games
to play based on the quali
ty of its sound track.
He said that games with
very repetitive sound
tracks don't work for the
band because they can
become boring for the
audience.
“The music has to be
really good,” Kennedy said.
"It's not like when you’re
at home, you can’t just
ignore a loud-ass rock
band playing video game
music.”
Luke Fields, a former
University student from
Lawrenceville, was added
as the band’s bassist fol
lowing Kennedy’s move to
guitar in late December
He said that the adapt
ed songs the band plays
are a lot more than just
beeps and clicks.
"It doesn’t sound like it
would be that hard as far
as bass, but it’s all pro
grammed in a MIDI-like
format,” Fields said.
“It’s all sequenced notes
and they’re all very fast,
and they’re all acrobatic,
and it’s not really meant to
be played on a regular
bass guitar.”
The band also claims
“Nipja Gaiden” and
“Megaman 2” in its reper
toire, and are continually
learning new sound tracks.
“Every performance
that we do, the music, and
the game play for
(McCarthy), increases
pretty substantially,”
Kennedy said.
The band will perform
“Megaman 2” tonight at
the Georgia Theatre in
another of its incarnations,
Megaband.
“We have anew screen
we’ve gotten in the last
few months, and we have a
brand new projector too,”
said Scott Orvold, who
manages booking at the
Georgia Theatre.
“It's going to look really
good it’s close to high
definition.”
Fields also plays in We
Versus the Shark, which
will play tonight as well.
“We're a loud, fun band.
Kind of weird, kind of
wacky, kind of creepy,”
Fields said.
Local indie/powerpop
band The Buddy System
opens the show at 10 p.m.
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