Friends and neighbors:
This Thursday evening, I’ll be unleashing my inner shredder on Athens with “Chaos Theory” a concerto for electric guitar and wind symphony with the Ohio University Symphonic Band.
Chaos Theory fuses “progressive/hard rock intensity with classical sophistication, blurring the line between something precise and mathematical and something primal and visceral.”
The composer, James Bonney, is a Senior Composer/Sound Designer for Midway Games. He has recently finished work Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, and is currently creating music and effects for the forthcoming game John Woo’s Stranglehold.
You can listen to a preview of Chaos Theory at the composer’s website: http://www.jimbonney.com/chaos_theory.php
See you there!
John
The details:
Thursday May 31 2007 8:00PM
Memorial Auditorium
Athens OH 45701
740-593-4244
Free!
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