Brandon Lee

My theory now is that UNB is dead.

How else do you explain the hundreds of crows in the trees behind the SUB and in front of the LBR every night around sunset. It's eerie. Not all but some of them stay in the trees in front of the Old Arts Building all night. When I walk under them on the way home their wings sound like dozens of old leather straps flapping against the branches in the wind... in the dark. AAAAIIIEEEE!

I should also mention... as others have before me... that the one and only Ja Born has an important performance at Memorial Hall tomorrow evening. The details are outlined as such:

GroundBeat #1: John Born Drum Performance at Memorial Hall January 13

GroundBeat is a showcase series highlighting the eclectic character of our community's art, music and performance. Challenging prevalent conceptions, GroundBeat is set to change perceptions, delight, and inspire everyone with eyes to see, ears to hear and senses to be tantalized.

Born to Reincarnate: Undivided Man – John Born Drum Performance
"Without music, life would be a mistake" F. Nietzsche
Memorial Hall
Friday, January 13
$5
8:30 pm

It starts with a message, embodied and organic, and the need to connect with others, to create allegory through music and have the rhythm of life awaken in all hearts that hear. It is as basic as it is polyphonic - the experience of the spirit as it crosses the line into the afterlife and meets itself - and is as rudimentary as the equation which connects the drumkit and the bloodstream pounding out our often taken for granted days.

Performance sets aside time: time to reflect and interpret, orchestrate meaning and arrange sound. Born to Reincarnate: Undivided Man is a measured and studied exploration of five international pieces of music and one original score - though, as in all musical interpretations, once reworked a version is more homage to the original (voice) than direct copy.

As an investigation of music, this piece intimately understands how sound makes meaning; as performance, it believes in our time on this earth; and as rhythm, this piece speaks from heart to heart.

For more information contact Andrew Titus, Program Development Officer, UNB Art Centre 452-6360 or atitus@unb.ca

This is my artist's rendition... knowing nothing of the details of the show... of what you can expect:



SEE YOU THERE!!!!!!!