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dadageek + Fusebox Present: VOLUMES by Ezra Masch

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Fri, Dec 11, 7pm - Sun, Dec 13, 6pm CST

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dadageek and Fusebox Present:

VOLUMES by Ezra Masch

December 11 - 13, 2026
4 performances over 3 days
dadaLab - 2008 Alexander Ave. ATX

VOLUMES is an immersive audio-visual installation and performance series created by multi-disciplinary artist Ezra Masch. Using live instrumental sound, the ongoing project activates architectural-scale, site-specific lighting environments in performance spaces across the US and abroad. In each setting, local musicians and composers explore the connection between sound, light, and space. The interplay shapes each performer’s creative process and changes how the audience perceives sound and image. This December, Masch will build a brand new interactive VOLUMES installation at dadaLab in East Austin. Over three days, the series will feature collaborations with Texas-based artists including Lunar RAE, Sometimes A Legend, James Adkins, Adam Jackson, Toto Miranda, Thor Harris, and Brannen Temple.

Since its debut, VOLUMES has been installed in museums, galleries, and unconventional spaces across the US. Past presentations include the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, where 66 drummers played the lights over a month-long run; Icebox Project Space in Philadelphia; Co-Lab Projects in Austin, where the installation filled a 40-foot concrete culvert; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond; and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, a four-month exhibition in which each performance was recorded and layered into the installation. Each version is built for its site, so no two look or sound the same. The newest iteration of VOLUMES at dadaLab will feature new instruments/interactions, along with new approaches to mapping sound with color.

Performances:

Friday, December 11
Doors @ 7p | Performances at 7:30p
Featuring Sometimes A Legend and James Adkins

Saturday, December 12 (Two showings)
Doors @ 5p | Show at 5:30p
Doors @ 8p | Show at 8:30p
Featuring performances by Lunar RAE, Adam Jackson, and Toto Miranda

Sunday, December 13
Doors @ 4p | Performances at 4:30p
Featuring performances by Thor Harris and Brannen Temple
Sunday will feature an open kit jam! After the performances, the public is invited to sit behind the drums and play the lights.

Ezra Masch (b.1982) is an interdisciplinary artist and musician who creates immersive multimedia installations. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at The Ringling Museum of Art, The Mattress Factory Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Icebox Project Space, MASS Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia, TSA NY, IPCNY, Whitebox (NYC), The Visual Art Center (Austin, TX), and Galleria L’Acquario (Rome, Italy). He received a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design (2004) and an MFA in Studio Art from UT Austin (2012). Masch also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2011). He currently lives and works in Austin, Texas.

Fusebox is an Austin-based nonprofit committed to nurturing bold live performances and art. We connect artists and audiences through rich artistic experiences situated across the city, ranging from intimate galleries and theaters to unexpected sites like basketball courts, parking garages, sides of buildings, and strange empty lots. Through residencies, salons, year-round performances, and a city-wide biennial festival, Fusebox serves as a launching pad for artists whose work blurs disciplines, reimagines public space, and deepens the cultural life of Austin. Fusebox was founded in 2005 by a group of artists. That artist-led perspective continues to inform everything we do.

dadageek is a non-profit community of immersive artists and electronic musicians. Our mission is to offer education and community to those creating at the intersection of art, interactive media, and tech. Our community is filled with talented and creative technologists with a passion for sharing their expertise with others.

dadaLab is an immersive art studio and event space working at the intersection of art, design, and technology

This project is supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music, & Entertainment.

Media Release: Please note that some events may be photographed or video recorded. Registering for this event hereby authorizes dadageek and dadaLab to use said photos or videos on social media or in future promotional materials.

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  • Sometimes A Legend [Friday, December 11]

    Sometimes A Legend [Friday, December 11]

    Bowman Maze (Sometimes a Legend) experiments with electronic pop music and stop-motion animation. A student of both the fine and the unfine arts, he has performed at the White House as well as Float Fest. With a background in classical oboe and jazz piano, he is developing an instrumental technique to perform layered electronic music by hand, without the use of loops or backing tracks. Bowman’s approach confronts a recurring puzzle within electronic music - the human touch.

  • James Adkins [Friday, December 11]

    James Adkins [Friday, December 11]

    James Adkins is a professional drummer, vocalist, producer, and touring musician. With a musical background spanning R&B, soul, funk, pop, rock, and jazz, James has developed a versatile sound rooted in feel, groove, and musicality. Whether performing live, touring, or creating in the studio, he brings an energetic and authentic approach to every musical setting. Adkins’ recent accolades include performing with legendary Grammy Award-winning Jazz staple Bob James. He currently fronts the band ‘Sketch’ out of Austin, TX.

  • Lunar RAE [Saturday, December 12]

    Lunar RAE [Saturday, December 12]

    Amber Baker, professionally known as Lunar RAE, is a drummer, producer, and indie artist who was born and raised in Dallas, TX. Her artistic mantra, “Reach Authentic Essence,” forms the acronym R.A.E. Coming from a musical family, she works across multiple instruments and styles, focusing heavily on drumming and production. She has recorded and performed locally with celebrated Austin bands Blk Odyssey and Sir Woman, and made waves internationally touring with renowned acts such as Jon Batiste and Unknown Mortal Orchestra.

  • Adam Jackson [Saturday, December 12]

    Adam Jackson [Saturday, December 12]

    Adam Jackson is a drummer and vocalist based in Austin, TX. He began playing drums in church at the age of 4, and performed professionally throughout his youth in a variety of settings. At 18 Adam moved to NYC where he joined the Jazz and Contemporary Music Program at The New School. There he studied under many Jazz greats such as Reggie Workman, Joe Chambers, Billy Harper and Nasheet Waits. Over the years, Adam has recorded and performed with numerous acclaimed artists including Bilal, Jose James, Emily King, Takuya Kuroda, Deva Mahal, Amber Marks, Ciara, J-Lo & Lin Manuel Miranda. Since relocating to Austin in 2020, Adam has become a fixture in the local music community, performing with well-known artists like Ephriam Owens, Andre Hayward, and Elias Haslanger. In 2022 he joined the UT BSOM Jazz Faculty as Lecturing Professor of Jazz Drum Set, mentoring young musicians while sharing his passion and knowledge with the next generation. These days Adam splits his time between Austin and Las Vegas, where he leads a band that performs monthly at The Pinky Ring By Bruno Mars (Bellagio). When he isn’t in Vegas, you can catch Adam around town with The Peterson Brothers, or at Monks with some of Austin’s finest Jazz musicians.

  • Toto Miranda [Saturday, December 12]

    Toto Miranda [Saturday, December 12]

    Toto Miranda is an artist and musician best known as a founding member of the band Octopus Project, a 3-piece ensemble of multi-instrumentalists, composers and designers whose output includes 6 studio albums and 5 film scores. The band is known for immersive performances, such as 2010’s Hexadecagon performance at SXSW, devised as an in-the-round show with the band (and audience) surrounded by a custom 8-channel PA setup and multi-screen video; and Loom II at Fusebox 2019, for which they designed and constructed and operated giant mirrored chandeliers as part of an extended, improvised ambient set with spatial audio. Miranda also works as a professional percussionist, lighting designer and VJ, touring with bands such as space-surf OGs Man..or Astro-Man?? (lights) and Japanese “action comic punk” group Peelander-Z (drums). He has designed and performed generative visuals for artists ranging from electronic beat-makers (Botany, Devras Plexi) to atmospheric experimentalists (HxH Expanse, Isabel Crespo Pardo). His work explores pattern and texture, light and sound, rock n roll and synesthetic experience.

  • Thor Harris [Sunday, December 13]

    Thor Harris [Sunday, December 13]

    Thor Harris (born February 7, 1965) is an artist, sculptor, musician, painter, carpenter and handyman. He was the percussionist for Swans (2010–2016). He has performed with Shearwater (2001–2010), Bill Callahan, The Angels of Light, Lisa Germano, Yonatan Gat, Gretchen Phillips, Devendra Banhart, Rebecca Cannon, Xiu Xiu, Flock of Dimes & Amanda Palmer, Whalesong, and the Grand Theft Orchestra. He has recorded at least six instrumental albums with the Austin producer Rob Halverson. He also contributed to Ben Frost's 2014 album, Aurora. He joined the touring lineup of Xiu Xiu as a percussionist in February 2017 and he has enjoyed touring with Thor & Friends since 2015. On October 28, 2010, Harris wrote a short outline on "How To Tour In A Band Or Whatever". This set of '21 rules' spread widely across the internet. Harris also wrote and illustrated the 'zine/pamphlet Ocean of Despair, about depression, as a companion to his recorded album of the same title.

  • Brannen Temple [Sunday, December 13]

    Brannen Temple [Sunday, December 13]

    Brannen Temple is a three-time Grammy Award-winning drummer from Austin, Texas. He’s a highly sought-after session drummer who has recorded and performed with numerous renowned artists, including Janet Jackson, Jimmie Vaughan, Dixie Chicks, Eric Burdon, Patrice Rushen, and Chaka Khan (just to name a few). He also appeared on the soundtrack for Robert Rodriguez's motion picture Grindhouse: Planet Terror. He lives in Austin and has several local jazz/funk bands, including 'Temple Underground', 'Black Red Black' (featuring Red Young and Ephraim Owens), and 'The Brannen and Red Show' (a drums-and-organ duo). Temple has received several Austin Music Awards over the years in the "Best Drummer" or "Best Jazz Band" categories for his bands Hot Buttered Rhythm, Blaze and Black Red Black. In 2020 as part of the studio band for Gary Clark Jr. he received a Grammy Award for "Best Rock Performance", "Best Contemporary Blues Album" and "Best Rock Song" for the album and song title This Land.

Ezra Masch: VOLUMES at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art

Mark Guiliana / VOLUMES / Bemis Center

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