Listen to the throb of blood pumping through a daisy stem, the hiss of gas leaking from a crashed tanker truck, the tingling of human vertebrae tumbling inside a giant rainstick, the buzz and crackle of a dozen defective radios randomly shorting out, the threading of a water scream though the plumbing of an old apartment building: this is Here Are The Facts You Requested in performance. If the environment shapes the music, then we play silly putty instruments.

Following are descriptions of some of our favorite shows:

Tour of Spain, 2003 and 2004
We toured Spain these two summers, sponsored by the wonderful label, Testing Ground Records. The second tour is commemorated on the Live In Spain CD. You can download all the tracks. See sexy and mysterious tour photos.

Cyberbuss Costume Ball, SF 1997-02
Here Are The Facts You Requested do the Bayview industrial street freak! We all live in a silver Cyberbuss.

Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay 1994-99
Here Are The Facts You Requested rubbing their artistic tendencies up against the whiskey-bar rock'n'roll experience. Electric and eclectic, town-to-town, up and down the Bay.

Radio Performances, KALX 90.7, Berkeley 1998; KUSF 90.3, San Francisco 1999
This is the purest experience of Here Are The Facts You Requested music: the Headphone Concert, live on the radio. Audience members wearing headphones hear the sounds exactly as the musicians do, as they are being conceived and played. An amazing union of brainwaves yielding some of the best live recordings of HATFYR ever made. At KALX, performed a live seamless mix of new songs, spotaneous improvisation and faux commercials. Results already documented on limited-release CD, KALX Live!  featuring cover of Rush’s Spirit of Radio.

MT-Vision, 111 Minna Street Gallery 1999
Severe short-attention-span victims found this collision of images and sound quite normal. HATFYR and The Kung Fu Grip traded the stage every three songs with commercial breaks inbetween. Popcorn, televisions, movies, balloons, beautiful confusing music

Kaleidophonics, Live Webcast, Cafe Babylon, San Jose 1999
Featuring video, film and slide mixing by Fractalvision, the wild rantings of Tenderloin performance artist Michael Peppe and the Tower of babel Chat Room hosted by El Diablo. Totally wired.

PlayaVision, Artists Television Access, SF, 1996 / Burning Man, NV, 1996 - 1998, Illumination Project, Cell Space 1998 
PlayaVision is an interactive sculpture/performance featuring images and sounds by Here Are The Facts You Requested. Gyrating and pantomiming human shadows provide stars for the surreal TV show, as audience members place their bodies between the lights and the screen, stepping onto sets constructed only of colored light and prop shadows. PlayaVision debuted at ATA as a monolithic signpost filling the entire room and directing people toward the desert. Installed as a 10-foot glowing cube on the playa, it was a giant cognitive-dissonant television beaming across the barren expanse. At Burning Man 97, it was formed as a W with one half dedicated to static images and one half to audience shadow play. 

Burning Man Decompression, Maritime Hall 1998; Abandon Studios, 1997
Returning to your normal life after a week in Black Rock City can be a shock to the body and mind. The annual Decompression event seeks to prevent "the bends." HATFYR are the rehab nurses of pop.

Burning Man 1998
We were treated to a cross-camp concert expedition on AM Productions' Runaway Chew-Chew Train, bringing kaleidophonics to the far corners of Black Rock City at the breathtaking pace of 2 miles per hour. And I think we inadvertantly interruped the Mermen who were playing on the mainstage as our noisy wagon train crept through center camp. (Sorry guys.) It sure was fun to watch all of those heads turn though. 

Defenestration, 6th & Howard Streets, SF, 1997 
A circus on a fire escape. Here Are The Facts You Requested became a troupe of musical clowns and acrobats, using only sounds to illustrate their imaginary feats and flights. Akire used her cello as a whip to tame Boomerang's vinyl lion. King Me and Alien Laine threw themselves at each other in ascending and descending trapeze guitar riffs. L. Bill served as ringmaster and suspense-builder with merely a loud voice, a snare drum and a huge hat. HATFYR also composed and performed the music accompanying Kate McQlynn's Warrior Girl aerial action team performance. 

Four Quartets, Luggage Store Gallery, SF 1996 
A collaboration with painter/performance artist Stephanie Lee, Four Quartets was part performance, part installation and part recording. A sequence of four songs was further divided into four parts using a four-track recorder. As each track was overdubbed, the music became more dense and dissonant, though the songs actually began to take shape. Meanwhile, Stephanie painted and constructed a visual expression of each song as it was being performed, "rewinding" to the first painting and "overdubbing" each one, following the tape. One of her sculptures became spontaneously interactive when the wires gave way and stuffed fish and cloth waves spilled into the audience. 

Performance in the Gutter, Cohen Alley, SF 1995
A project of the 509 Cultural Center, Cohen Alley in the Tenderloin was transformed into an oasis of color and sound featuring clowns, poets, musicians and dancers. Here Are The Facts You Requested blended live radio samples with electronic swirls and trashcan beats to inhabit the urban chaos. The band spent the afternoon sharing their stage and noisemakers with neighborhood children.