Attention, Houston-based friends and relations. Upcoming, two events at Aurora Picture Show, the non-profit arts venue in downtown Houston that will excite & delight your eyes and ears. Psychaesthenia is funny and Adam and Brad’s visuals and music are meltingly, absorbingly gorgeous.

Video/Audio collaborations by Adam Kendall and Bradford Reed

The multimedia trio of Adam Kendall, Bradford Reed and their guest musician perform collaborative multimedia pieces stressing improvisation and rules-based techniques. They create and process video and sound in real time, integrating their images and music for an fully immersive experience.

See Aurora’s site for more info and tickets

Tales from the Datastream Jukebox

Storytelling meets the sampling culture. Live video, sharp narration, and a stream of vintage movie stills interweave to create a universe of runaway nanobots, psychic anarchists, and frustrated cyborgs. An immersive evening of strange tales and startling imagery from The Psychasthenia Society, bringing you the finest in satire, beats, and visuals.

The Psychasthenia Society is dedicated to the performance of political and cultural satire as digital spectacle. Its members are author and storyteller Jon Keith Brunelle, and video artist Daniel Vatsky. For two years, they mounted multimedia story programs in collaboration with renowned guest musicians at Brooklyn’s Galapagos Art Space; other engagements include New York?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s MonkeyTown and P.S. 122. Their first theatrical production, “The Nanolove Report,” enjoyed a successful run at Collective: Unconscious Theatre in Manhattan.

See Aurora’s site for more info and tickets