Mentalist R.J. Williams is set to perform his amazing feats on Jeremy X. Halpern's new weekly variety show, Brooklyn Basement Tuesdays, aired on www.Weirdos.TV. Tuesday nights at midnight, Jeremy X. holds court in the Weirdos.TV studios in lovely hipsterville, a.k.a. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Artists and performers of all shapes and styles will be joining him in his quest to stamp out normality! R.J. Williams is scheduled on Tuesday, April 27th.
Unsuspecting musicians and other talented individuals will be lured into the depths of Williamsburg, to the underground laboratory known as "heddroom", where Jeremy X. has been cooking up his latest mayhem. They'll be induced to improvise with the Head Weirdo, co-mingling their ideas and falling under the spell of weirdness. Nonsensical interviews with the participants will result in little information, and lots of fun. The spirit of psychedelia will ooze through the room as the event is broadcast live to http://www.Weirdos.TV
Viewers watching live on the web will be treated to multiple camera shots of the performance, mutated through the power of the Weirdos.TV video processing. They can even call in to 800-934-7367 to join in the show!
R.J. Williams has performed for countless shows, ranging from private events and charity shows, to comedy clubs and restaurants. He is also the "house" magician/entertainer for three different venues. He has performed for and amazed audiences everywhere for over ten years. R.J.'s skills stretch from magic and sleight of hand to mentalism and hypnosis (with other amazing feats in between). Easy on the eyes, he can draw in quite a crowd, while getting into their minds while flipping their world around and bending reality on itself! R.J. performs classic strolling magic and stage illusions, mentalism, hypnosis, escapology, fire breathing and fire eating, juggling, and more. For more info: www.middletonowhere.com
The Brooklyn Basement Tuesdays are a special weekly feature in addition to the nightly Weirdos.TV live shows. At the stroke of midnight every night, Head Weirdo Jeremy X. Halpern switches on the live feed at www.weirdos.tv and spews out a stream of bizarre flowing words and visuals, accompanied by improvisational electronic musical creations and weirdos calling in from around the world. Each episode of the show is an adventure into the imaginary experiments of automatic creation. Technology is utilized to its utmost potential in every aspect of this ground-breaking, frame-breaking, and mind-bending experience.
During each broadcast, music is created using a dizzying array of digital synthesizers, including samples of callers and physical modeling of acoustic instruments. In addition, audio processing in realtime using digital effects and MIDI controllers creates an aural landscape that stimulates the imagination of the viewer. The visual technology includes realtime video processing of multiple cameras and multiple video overlays creating a psychedelic cornucopia of delicious eye candy.
The live shows also have interactive elements - callers to 800-934-7367 are instantly mixed into the audio feed, and often play musical instruments over the phone line for a live interactive jam! In addition to that, viewers with webcams via instant messaging software are mixed into the video feed from the third computer. Participants are encouraged to express their inner-weirdness and overcome their normality.
After the live broadcasts end, the technology is just getting started at 1-800-Weirdos! Pre-recorded videos from the 1-800-Weirdos vault as well as previous episodes of the live show are shown on the site all day and night...whenever a live show is not taking place. Also, each episode of the live show is distributed as a video podcast on Apple's iTunes Music Store and as a standard RSS feed. Shows are recorded live and are available immediately after the broadcast on DVD from www.weirdos.biz. Excerpts of the best bits from the shows are uploaded to YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook for fans to feed on. Viewers also follow Weirdos TV "tweets" on Twitter.
Jeremy X. Halpern is the sole proprietor of 1-800-Weirdos, and founder the multimedia performance group Verge,. He has just returned from the "Weirdos.TV Discovers America" national tour to, through, and back from the Burning Man Arts Festival. As an actor, he has worked with such notables as Anne Bogart, Jerzy Grotowski, and Eugenio Barba. As musical director of Verge, he has masterminded and composed music for such bizarre epics as "Speak of the Devil (A Satanic Cabaret)" and "Battle of the Dead Celebs (A comic dance of historical significance)", and is currently composing the score for "Mogulopolis", a music spectacle about female robots. He recently performed again in the NTUSA's highly acclaimed show, "Chautauqua!" in its return engagement at The Public Theatre.
