Saturday April 22 : Starting @ 7PM (2 acts)
Center for Musical Arts, 200 E Baseline Rd, Lafayette, CO

Carbon Diablo Ensemble - Live Cinema Performance

The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble and Diablo Montalban join forces as the Carbon Diablo Ensemble to present a multimedia deconstruction, reconstruction, and live score for the 1910 silent film Frankenstein.

The Carbon Dioxide Ensemble performs improvisational musique concrète with interactive visuals. Members include Thomas Lundy on Copper Heart articulated with dry ice, Victoria Lundy on Theremin and Live Electronics, and Mark Mosher on Live Sampling, Visuals, and Mix.

Performance artist Diablo Montalban, the Master of Audio Disaster, mixes live art through sound collage, drawing inspiration from music, pop culture, and noise. Diablo works spontaneously, creating pieces that are unique for the moment.

In Diablo’s live pop-up performances, he combines multiple sound sources with natural atmospherics — combining, overlapping, reversing, whatever — to create something original, never to be performed the same way again . . . Diablo is obviously influenced by Wayne Coyne’s parking lot experiments. While Wayne’s celebrity is able to attract hundreds, Diablo is often left to his own devices with a handful of quizzical looks for his troubles. . .

Ryan Wurst and Aaron Alexander - Live Constructed VisualSonics
Ryan Wurst and Aaron Alexander perform an improvisational mix of generative ambience and camera-based visuals processed and mixed in real-time. Hailing from Pueblo, CO where both teach media-based music and art at the University of Colorado, the duo explore slow-moving sonic motifs that surge and swell through live visual pan/tilt/zoom explorations of intimate environments constructed in tiny terrariums.

LEAF2023: Schedule:

March 10th – April 30th:
Sync Exhibition @ The Collective Gallery

Friday, April 21st, 7pm – FREE:
Rue/Bainbridge @ CMA

Saturday, April 22, 8pm – FREE:
The Carbon Diablo Ensemble @ CMA

Saturday, April 22, 7pm – FREE:
Ryan Wurst & Aaron Alexander @ CMA

Sunday, April 30th, 7pm –
Morton Subotnick and Lillevan @ The Arts Hub:  Go here for tickets

SCREAM SCREEN PRESENTS
Noche de Terror
Hosted by Theresa Mercado
Double Feature Saturday, October 29 at 7pm • Cemetery of Terror/Don’t Panic
pre-film performance by Carbon Dioxide Ensemble (CO2E)
With a special Halloween party in the Henderson-Withey Lounge starting at 5:30pm with tricks, treats and prizes for best costume!!

Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave. Denver 80206

TICKETS and LINKS: https://linktr.ee/CO2E

About the CO2 Ensemble

CO2 Ensemble, a collaboration with Thomas Lundy, Victoria Lundy, and Mark Mosher, is an improvisational musique concrète ensemble performing with copper heart and dry ice, theremin, and live sampling with interactive visuals. In this unique music and multimedia act, Mark uses the Elektron Octatrack dynamic performance sampler and other electronics to live-sample Thomas Lundy as he manipulates a Copper Heart with dry ice and other objects. Victoria Lundy accompanies on theremin and live electronics. The only audio source for Octatrack besides drum samples is the input from the contact mic on the Copper Heart. Mark also provides interactive visuals with live camera input to enhance the experience.

Since 2014, CO2 Ensemble has performed multimedia concerts in and around Denver. We played the long-running Concréte Mixer concert series at the Walnut Room, were the opening act for day 2 of the Denver International Noise Fest, collaborated using graphical scores with the filmmaker Taylor Dunne, and were invited to play a music convocation for the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver performing on stage at the Gates Concert Hall.

CO2E descends from Denver’s Carbon Dioxide Orchestra, a group that performed in the 1990s and early 2000s. An earlier incarnation of the CO2 Orchestra performed in the 1980s.

About Scream Screen
Scream Screen - an ongoing series of films hosted and curated by Theresa Mercado - presents a terrifying trip to Mexico to spotlight two of Mexican gore-master Rubén Galindo Jr.’s most remarkable entries to the horror canon: CEMETERY OF TERROR and DON’T PANIC!

Cemetery Of Terror: The directing debut of Rubén Galindo Jr. (DON’T PANIC, GRAVE ROBBERS), CEMETERY OF TERROR is easily the wildest zombie movie to ever emerge from Mexico! On Halloween night, a group of bored teenagers steal a corpse from the morgue and take it to a nearby cemetery. Once there, they perform a Satanic ritual in an attempt to bring it back to life. Unfortunately, the kids chose the body of a savage serial killer who had just been shot dead by police. Whoops! The group of fun-seeking youngsters unwittingly revive the undead sadist, and only occult expert Dr. Carden (legendary Mexican character actor Hugo Stiglitz) can end the madness! Filled with gratuitous gore effects that would feel right at home in a Fulci film, CEMETERY is non-stop thrills and bloodshed from beginning to end.

Don’t Panic: A bonkers tribute to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET from Mexican horror king Rubén Galindo Jr. (CEMETERY OF TERROR, GRAVE ROBBERS), DON’T PANIC is a surreal and action-packed rager that’s guaranteed to leave audiences awestruck and dumbfounded. It’s Michael’s (Jon Michael Bischof, who also performs the film’s memorable theme song) seventeenth birthday. His friends have decided to surprise him with the ultimate gift: breaking into his house and playing with a Ouija board! But this harmless fun quickly transforms into a supernatural terror, as newly-summoned demon Virgil possesses and murders Michael’s friends! Defying reality at every turn, DON’T PANIC is an awe-inspiring 1980s horror classic, now newly restored from the original 35mm camera negative.

Here's some CO2 Ensemble action from Drone Day 2022: 

Start your Saturday night right with a Forty-Five Plus One happy hour! Some regular favorites will be joined by a few newbies, all combining to make some awesome noise for your weekend! This is an early one - starts at 4pm on Saturday July 9th at Englewood Tavern!

Facebook event link

Forty Five Plus One
Englewood Tavern
4386 S. Broadway Denver
July 9, 4pm

I had the pleasure of playing a couple pieces at Opera On Tap's variety show at Enigma Bazaar in April 2022. It was fun to play with a live accompanist. 

Wax Trax Sidewalk Show
638 E. 13th, Denver
September 19, 1pm - 3pm

Solo theremin set
Appearing with Pythian Whispers  and Orbiting Olympia 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2021, 9 - Midnight

Tooey's Off Colfax, 1521 Marion St.,  Denver, CO 80218

The Ape will be playing vinyl records - hawaiian, exotica, lounge and surf - and will give each record to a human in attendance once he has finished playing it! The Ape will be joined for a few numbers by two special guest human musicians - Victoria Lundy on theremin, and Ian Gilchrist on surf guitar.

Cover is a mere three dollars!

As it turned out, the last live show before lockdown. Freq Boutique is a modular synth event sponsored by WMD Devices at Ft. Greene in Denver. I brought my Moogerfoogers and my Moog Slim Phatty and fed midi from my laptop to be as modular as possible. 

Coming up on Wednesday, July 8: online streaming youtube concert, featuring members of the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet. I'll be doing "mood pieces and classical theremin."

I will be demonstrating the theremin and talking about early electronic instruments at WhimsyCon 2020 as part of the presentation "Tunes and Tones of Steampunk," by Lorelei Suzanne, Saturday, Feb. 29, 4:00 PM-4:50 PM.