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FRI OCT 8th Grape Juice PLus repetition is a form of change

hello beautiful.
my favorite oblique strategies card says this:
"repetition is a form of change"
Grape Juice Plus has played Outtaspace any times over the years. each time we repeat the ritual...it changes. sometimes, when something super special happens WE even change! ahhhhhhh humanity!
one of my favorite GJP @ outta rituals happened during a full on blizzard in 2018.
i was sure our little ritual was going to talk to some empty walls and our buddies in the... [more]

GJP returns 9/16!! IBO sighting! Dance Films!

hello beautiful...
everything has changed in the world, but i still like to remind you that you are, in fact, beautiful.ok. 
here are the things:

GRAPE JUICE PLUS RETURNS! THURS 9/16 @ SAVEMORE LIQUORS!

It's been a looooonnnnngggg time, my children, since we've done our little ritual. since March! Please mask up, vax up and join us in person for a very special night. Tony Churchill will be in the house to fever dream your senses (he has been away) and Me and space... [more]

Side 20 arrives to your ears

popping a can of Batsquatch hazy to celebrate...
The Shut-In Sides turns 20 sides old!

click here to flip it on:
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-20

bittersweet celebration.
This little audio journal project began as a way get through a few weeks of lock down, and now we are three weeks away from the one year anniversary of Side One's release.

... [more]

Side 19...first recordings of 2021

recorded jan 5-9 2021
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-19

friend.  
Side 19 of our little cultural experiment.
breaking apart?  coming together? shedding our skin...
we are all alive in this moment in time.  
i don't need to report to you what we all see.  
While our society evolves, we need to find ways to cultivate our own humanity to feed... [more]

Side 18 starts your new year....now!

hi beautiful.
Side 18 is here:
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-18

recorded Dec 15-29 2020

we've turned a corner on a new year...
ready for it? i certainly am!
approx 9 months from the initial lockdown, our little side series turns 18!
ready to vote and think about moving out of the house for sure.
thinking a lot these days about how... [more]

get your hands on Side 17!

recorded Nov 10-26 2020...SIDE 17 is HERE:
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-17

hello friends...
we're still HERE, but together we can get THERE...
it's been a minute since we've communicated this way.
music wise in the catacombs there have been lots of playing ritual going on, but i couldn't quite bear to hit record button until the election was settled... [more]

(bitter) sweet side 16 / LIVE performance with Winifred Haun & dancers

hi friend.

(bitter) sweet side 16 is here

https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-16

the "can we find a way" edition.
its just so much right now, i know.
i never thought this little audio diary would turn 16 and i sure didn't think social. economic, and environmental turmoil would all be coming to a head at the same, but here we are.
i guess, in short... [more]

Side 15. unstuck in time

Side 15 is here.

https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-15

hey beautiful...you gotta believe there is light at the end of the tunnel.
right?
one of the things i love about making things is the whole "alien landscape" fantasy.  you know, in your mind's eye, coming over the hill or out of a tunnel and seeing something that makes you think..."wow, what is THAT?!?!"... [more]

Side 14. your basic ritual...

hello beautiful...

Side 14.
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-14

my version of sitting and strumming.
you know, like that guy at the party or you see a person off by themselves on a hillside.
in my case that backpack guitar is a piano and a djembe... in this case, a rhodes mark V.
 THIS is my basic ritual.
full dance class mode.
the... [more]

Lucky 13 is here

hello lucky.

Lucky 13 is here!
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-13

Luck is an interesting concept. is it something that you make or something that happens to you? is it a recipe for helping us make sense of the universe's randomness somewhere between mysticism and religion?
my father-in-law, Graham, was really into numerology. he would have suggested that i... [more]

BB invites you to 16th Street fundraiser

hello beautiful...

a break from our regular programming today.
as you all know, i am a sound designer / composer for the theatre.
my theatrical artistic home is 16th Street Theater.
many of you on this list are patrons of 16th Street so i know its important to you.
i can't imagine a world without 16th Street and the stories we tell, the way we tell them, and the amazing people i get to help tell them with and to.

with your help, we won't have to imagine... [more]

Side 12 is here.

HelloHuman.

The Shut-In Sides continue.

Side 12 is here.
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-12

ecorded june 8th and 9th 2020

call this the watching and learning edition.
definitely inspired by my small amount of marching and a lot of looking out the window of the van as i deliver CSA produce during this time of "fed up with the status quo",... [more]

modern dance rules... New Video!

hi beautiful.

happy to share newest collaboration with choreographer/filmaker Mary Sue Reese!

https://vimeo.com/422947171

this human.  she really taps into something and i'm so honored that she finds my music helpful in realizing her vision.

like the cat in the poster says...hang in there.
we create our own culture.

you can find pandemic videos and all The Shut-In Sides here:
... [more]

Side 11! A new dance!

Hi There!!

Recorded 5/11/20
https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-11

ambient ala BBS...

during covid times, i've been mixing more ambient stuff into my listening time lately.
reminder of music's ability to transport. settle in for shared energy...
i love the attack of an electric piano. it's inspiring to me.
so
here's me, a rhodes mark v... [more]

Side 10! may the fourth be with you and your droids...

hiya beautiful...
we've reached the double digit milestone...
the coveted tenth side to The Shut-In Sides!
click!

https://barrybennett.bandcamp.com/album/the-shut-in-sides-side-10

thinking about machines and consciousness and the nature of sentience on this one. maybe its all the star wars i've taken in with my daughter-- we are taking in the skywalker saga leading up to a... [more]

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