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0 Pouember 9,2000 The Blue Banner PdgeS Features Concert benefits Manna Food Bank Rebecca Trauers staff Writer UNCA introduces its first-ever faculty, staff and student oriented dance performance. Food For Thought, Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. in Lipinsky Auditorium. This show is a combination of art and charity. UNCA members and Warren Wilson students will per form an array of dance pieces for the Manna Food Bank. You can buy yourself a seat with three canned goods, or $5. All pro ceeds will go to Manna Food Bank. Manna will then distribute the do nations to day-care centers, after school programs, institutions and families. Food For Thought is a combina tion of various efforts and inten tions. Friday’s performance will be an example of “dancers coming to gether, sharing their gifts with au dience members, while benefiting the community,” said Connie Schrader, a UNCA health and fit ness lecturer, as well as the coordi nator of Food For Thought and UNCA’s future dance program. The project was first thought of last spring, but Schrader was wary of the idea at first. PHOTO BY WALTER aYER Dancers from UNCA and Warren-Wilson will participate in the benefit concert Preuiew “I have always avoided the idea of getting a concert/dance company together, mostly because in every other venue, 1 have seen that be a nasty, political fa voritism kind of thing,” said Schrader. As UNCA stu dents began show ing heightened interest in dance, a result of limited exposure to the medium from other academic classes, the idea of a dance concert as well as a dance program devel oped. The purpose of both the Food For Thought concert and the upcom ing UNCA dance program is to provide a genuine outlet for those interested in dance. Schrader aims to stray from the See FOOD page 6 Local bands with eclectic style John Locke staff Ulriter Three local bands performed at the Asheville Music Zone on Nov. 2, along with a band from Greenville, NC. In all, I was impressed by the local bands. Asheville seems to get an undeserved reputation as a musical monoculture, where banjos are king and drum circles are omnipresent. The variety of genres juxtaposed and the innovative instrumentation and effects used by several of the bands seemed to point to a resurgence of local music of all conceivable types. Opening up was The Heist, a local band featuring several UNCA stu dents. The Heist played a sort of robotic music that, according to one observer, made Radiohead’s most recent release sound “fiizzy and per sonable.” The Heist was also reminiscent of Timinaction, a local band of regional repute who sounds like a version of Mr. Bungle’s “Disco Volante” al bum. Clearly in the avant-garde of the electronic genre. The Heist’s vo cals were virtually inaudible, al though that might have been by design. Another Asheville band, the Makeout Room performed a pi quant potpourri of abrasively me lodic post-rock that ran the gamut Reuiew from Emerson Lake and Palmer to the Dictators to The Velvet Roadkill. The Makeout Room featured cameo appearances by a violinist and somebody in an executioner’s mask, introduced as “The Carnomancer,” who played the “prepared glockenspiel.”This instru ment appeared to be merely an am plified glockenspiel played with vari ous types of meat, including chicken, alligator, and “long pig.” The glockenspiel, by the way, is a German percus sion instrument similar to the xylo phone. It is used in both religious and secular set tings, and a version is often used in military bands. Piedmont Charisma played next, featuring the unique vocal stylings of Charles Corriher, described by one onlooker as “the love child of David Byrne and Wesley Willis.” Their guitarist played with a screw driver at one point, which was a good thing. The art of doing unfor tunate things to a guitar is an eter nal one, resistant to trends and to good sense. They also had a key board player, playingaCasio, which contributed to the overall girth of their sound. The Death Heart closed the show. They were, unfortunately, anticli- mactic. The bass player sounded good, with a sort of flat-wound- string sound. In general, they had excellent equipment, which I would like them to give me immediately. Or, if not to me, then to anyone who has something else to do with it other than create easy-listening indie rock. They had a sound that made me think initially that each of their songs was a cover. Not a cover of anything in particular, instead, they just all sounded like something I had heard quite a few times before. The Death Heart was extraordinar ily bland, featuring the usual mumblings characteristic of this sort of band. Perhaps they might be better on al bum. By the time they played, most people had left, or were sitting around twiddling their thumbs. This may have been some manifestation ofthe inexplicable“look how much fiin I am not having” attitude some people affect when they are secretly enjoying them selves, but want to look cool. Although conspicuously casual glances at one’s watch may just be a prerequisite to the jaded hepster im age, The Death Heart were clearly not exempt from blame. They had thissortoflow-key, self-effacing qual ity, which, coupled with their bland ness, made them sound like they were playing somewhere down the street instead of right behind me. The only memorable thing about them, really, was how forgettable they were. The Asheville Music Zone is a fairly new venue which has already hosted an eclectic variety of music, from Elliott Smith to Leon Redbone. Rabi Maharaj, a former Hindu Yogi will present "Encounters with the Supernatu ral " on Nov. 13 and "Krishna, Buddha, Muhammed or Christ?” on Nov. 14. Both lectures will be held in Lipinsky Audito rium at 7:30 p.m. A free lunch in the Lau rel Forum followed by a question-and- answer session will be held on Nov. 14 at 12 p.m. The events are sponsored by Illu mination and the Veritas Forum. ICM Asheville + North Carolina Employment Hotline: 828-255-1144 Visit the Biltmore Estate Web site at www.biltmore.com for Estate information and links to our job postings. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY Interested in a health and rehabilitation profession that enables you to vsrork in a creative way with people of all ages? Occupational Therapists help injured or aging people relearn basic living skills to lead independent, productive lives. Earn your master’s degree in Occupational Therapy at Milligan College in Northeast Tennessee. Find out more about your future in our program at the Graduate School Fair on Tuesday, Nov. 14,3-5 p.m., in the Highsmith Center Lounge. Visit www.milligan.edu/ot for more information or to apply online. 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