Larry Austin: Hybrid Musics vinyl record

Larry Austin: Hybrid Musics vinyl recordIrida Associates U. S. A., an obscure and short lived record label formed by composer performer Jerry Hunt (19431993), offers a glimpse into the revelatory world of new music and composition in the artists native Third Coast. Based first in Dallas and later in Hunts home outside the rural town of Canton, Texas, Irida presented the innovative and daring experimentsinto aleatoric methods, environmental acoustics, improvisation, homemade technologies,

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able to cut through facade and artifice in pursuit of truth

with an art edition of 25 featuring a hand-drawn insert by O’Dwyer

” a 1937 song written in protest of black lynching and American racism

the subject of one of his most harrowing works of video art

Before their disbandment in 2002

including his first single “Try Saying You’re Alive

who would become a formative figure for Hennix and introduce her to both Henry Flynt and her eventual guru

play with toys

and we say thanks

unpublished

Áine O’Dwyer