Jeremy X. Halpern Brings His Musical Web TV Show To Williamsburg

Tuesday nights at midnight, Jeremy X. holds court in the Weirdos.TV studios in lovely hipsterville, a.k.a. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Musicians and bands of all shapes and styles will be joining him in his quest to stamp out normality!

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 musical ideas and riffing in the universal language of groove. 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 jam 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 jam!

The Tuesday Jams 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 rock comedy about female robots. He will again be performing in the NTUSA's highly acclaimed show, "Chautauqua!" in its return engagement at The Public Theatre for its "Under the Radar" festival from January 7th through the 17th.