Yeast By Sweet Beast Experimental Music Festival - Austin Texas

3.12.11: Chain Drive at 504 Willow Street 2-10 PM
3.13.11: Chain Drive at 504 Willow Street 6 PM-2AM
3.14.11, Plush at 617 Red River 7 PM-2 AM

Come celebrate the eleventh year of this three-day experimental improvisation and outsider music festival! 

Tentative YSXB 2011 Schedule

Sat. March 12, 2011
Admission: $5
Chain Drive at 504 Willow Street (512-480-9017) from 2-10 PM
Video projections by Katie Pipkin

2PM: Book of Shadows
2:45: Smokey Emery 
3:30: mystery band
4:15: Sprills of Ore
5:00: mystery band
5:45: Rebecca Ramirez 
6:30: Florene
7:15: 7 Inch Stitch
8:00: Attic Ted
8:45: WACO GIRLS
9:30: ST37


Sun. March 13, 2011
Admission: $5
Chain Drive at 504 Willow Street (512-480-9017) from 5 pm to 2am
video projections by Paul Baker

5 PM: mystery band
5:45: mystery band
6:30: Matamoros
7:15: Aaryn Russell and Aileen Adler
8:00: Muzak John (Houston)
8:45: JERRI SEINFELDT’S ATROPHIED SAC
9:30: Polydactyl Hemingway
10;15: Andy Hendrix & the Skwaarmalar Machine
11:00: Static Storm System
11:45 The Demon Hlatus 
12:30: Future Blondes 
1:15 AM: Dead Roses



Mon. March 14, 2011
Admission: $5
Plush at 617 Red River (512-478-0099) from 7 pm to 2 am
Video projections by RecSpec

7PM: waveshandslikeclouds (Los Angeles)
7:45: Mold!
8:30: breakdancing ronald reagan and skullcaster
9:15: Birds of Fortuity
10:00: Christopher Petkus 
10:45: Bee vs Moth 
11:30: XathaX
12:15: Sex Bruises (matt lacomette & ali)
1:00am: Aurora Plastics Company

Yeast by Sweet Beast 2011, presented by Anne Heller of Aurora Plastics Company and Church of the Friendly Ghost, is a three-day experimental improvisation and outsider music festival (now in its 11th year) to be held Saturday March 12th from 2 pm to 10 pm and Sunday March 13th from 5 pm to 2 am at Chain Drive (504 Willow St., 512-480-9017), and Monday March 14th from 7 pm to 2 am at Plush (617 Red River, Austin, 512-478-0099), during the SXSW Film and Interactive Festival. Poet, musician and filmmaker Anne Heller (of the experimental improv band Aurora Plastics Company) began the fest in the year 2000 to celebrate still being alive and to return a bit of happiness to the community by creating a manifestation of “flying the freak flag.” She organizes and funds the fest herself, paying the performing bands equally from the profits, if any. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s legendary “Exploding Plastic Inevitable” happenings, this showcase of up-and-coming tonal artists is accompanied by the film installations of video artist Paul Baker and others, creating a hypnotic ambiance throughout.
The music is the reason for the Yeast by Sweet Beast experimental music festival. Experimental music is a viable genre and should be performed live for people to see and hear. It has a history which dates back to the turn of the last century and is rooted in the jazz tradition which in turn stemmed from the music performed in voodoo rituals brought to America by African slaves. These vibrations and tones may seem unsettling or evil to the uninitiated, but in truth they are healing and cathartic. They can take one to a beautiful inner/outer space where one can be free to float beyond this drab, spastic world and its physical and spatial limitations. 
Experimental improvisational music is “art for art’s sake,” creation as a means of intense personal expression. The bands featured in Yeast by Sweet Beast are all experienced improvisers who feel comfortable and relish the magic which is creativity in the moment. Many also perform in other musical genres. Each band gets a 30-minute set with 8 or 9 bands performing each night of the fest.


Please contact Anne Heller at cfood3000@gmail.com or Christopher Petkus at johnnymeatworth@mac.com for further information…