Me Mer Mo Monday CAST Takeover!
Description
March 23, 2026
Doors @ 7:00 - 10:00p
$3-10 Sliding Scale (NOTAFLOF)
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dadaLab - 2008 Alexander Ave. Austin, TX.
Featuring performances by:
BRANDON STARGRAVE
HEXPARTNER
GABRIEL BROWN
BRANDON SHEN
For the opening night of CAST week, dadaLab hosts a special CAST-curated edition of Me Mer Mo Monday, Austin’s long-running home for experimental and exploratory music. For over a decade, Me Mer Mo Monday has served as one of the city’s most vital platforms for improvised sound, electronic performance, live visual art, and boundary-pushing creative work. Since 2016, the weekly series has introduced Austin audiences to new forms of experimental music and performance, nurturing a thriving community of artists who explore sound and technology from fresh and unexpected angles.
For this CAST takeover, the curatorial team brings together an evening of artists whose practices reflect the spirit of the program and expand on Me Mer Mo’s tradition of adventurous art making. The event will feature a mix of experimental sound performances, electronic music, and live visual work from creators who are reshaping the connections between art, technology, and contemporary performance. This night sets the tone for the week to come and invites audiences into the broader world of artists working in the mediums that surround and inspire the CAST cohort.
Learn more about CAST, more events, and the composers and the visual artists participating in the 2026 season here: https://dadageek.com/cast
ABOUT CAST:
CAST (Contemporary Art & Sound Technologies) is a platform for artists working at the intersection of sound, music, and visual media — dedicated to bold experimentation and boundary-pushing interdisciplinary work.
For the inaugural 2026 season, selected composers, visual artists, and multimedia creators have been paired into collaborative teams, spending months developing new work together. Their efforts culminate in a single performance on Saturday, March 28 at dadaLab.
Throughout CAST week, audiences will experience performances and presentations from artists across the experimental sound and visual media community — building toward that final night.
Presented in partnership with UT Austin's College of Fine Arts, the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies, the Butler School of Music, SoundMap, Line Upon Line Percussion, dadageek, and dadaLab.
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Performances
Brandon Stargrave
Brandon LeJeune (aka Stargrave) is a creative technologist focused on generative, interactive, and immersive audiovisual experiences. He builds deeply interconnected systems that meld hardware, software, and protocols into tangible expressions of art and technology. Brandon has extensive experience with laser technology, including serving as the lead laser technician for the national Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular tour. He is the Lab Manager for the Lab for Immersive Media (LIM) and an instructor in the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies at UT Austin. He also designs, develops, and engineers interactive installations with dadaLab.
Hexpartner
Grace Sydney Pham is a classically trained pianist/violinist/vocalist and self-taught synthesizer/harp/theremin player who composes dungeon synth music and live visuals under the moniker “Hexpartner.”
Gabriel Brown
Gabriel Brown is a composer, audio technologist, and sound artist exploring the evolving relationship between music and technology. Gabe is pursuing a Master’s in Music Composition at the Butler School, studying with Experimental and Electronic Music Studios’ professor Januibe Tejera and Yevgeniy Sharlat. With a background in traditional composition and experimental sound design, Gabe’s work balances precision and expression, aiming to preserve music’s emotional, human qualities while embracing modern audio technology. Recent projects include original scores for the University of Texas Theatre and Dance Department and a ten-channel audio piece that reimagines how sound inhabits physical space.
Brandon Shen
Brandon Shen, Chinese-American composer and multimedia artist, hails from Chantilly, VA. Currently studying composition and arts administration at UT Austin, his current interests include internet forms and culture, ecology, and ludic music.
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