A musical performance by the Stop Motion Orchestra at Mohawk Austin.
Stop Motion Orchestra plays Mohawk Austin on Saturday, August 1. It's a single-bill night, so they're the only act on the program.
If you're not familiar with them, the name is a pretty good clue to how they work. Stop motion is all about taking a series of still images and playing them back in sequence to create the illusion of movement, and that's exactly what they do with sound. They build their music from small, distinct fragments—little loops and rhythmic cells—and then layer them on top of one another. As the set goes on, those pieces start to shift and overlap, and what sounded like a simple pattern slowly turns into something much larger and more complex. It's a process of gradual accumulation, where the music doesn't so much change as it grows.
Because they build from the ground up, the set has a natural arc to it. It starts small and quiet, and by the time they've layered enough pieces together, it's a full-room sound. It's the kind of show that rewards staying for the whole thing, because the real payoff comes when all those separate parts finally lock into place.
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Doors open at 8 PM and the show starts at 9 PM. Tickets are $25 and it's all ages, so you can bring whoever you want. It's at Mohawk, right in the heart of Austin.
