COTFG
East Austin sonic arts 🔊community organization et cetera since 2003.
We are not the “music industry”

Just helping you mentally prepare. We will have a group activity August 19 - 23. ( it’s not the festival ). More on this in the coming months.

Thanks to VOCAMOV RITES for participating in our rehearsal series last week. Looking forward to their future projects !
Thanks to all who have been attending our rehearsal sessions. Can’t wait to see the eventual results of your work!This video is from a moment with Mongoose on Saturday 5/2/2026

Our next community exercise is at the end of April.Tell ya more about it soon.
April 29 - May 3rd
Open rehearsal situations

Thanks to Geoscience Research Engineer and trombone player Dillon Buhl for participating in our programs over the years !! Here he is showing one of our old @nmassfest shirts to the Thwaites Glacier a few months ago!
The Thwaites Glacier is a massive, highly unstable ice mass in West Antarctica roughly the size of Florida or Britain. It is losing 88 billion tons of ice annually, contributing significantly to global sea-level rise, and threatens a further ~65 cm (over 2 feet) increase if it completely collapses. 😱

Thanks to @uxelite for helping us in administrative capacities this past year 💙✊🏼🏹🍀!
Check out his recent track in bandcamp !
“Accretion which began with the cover art, a score based on a cellular automata simulation. This score is interpreted for digital piano and synthesizer that translates sonically to notes accumulating in density filling the sonic field; the cacophony allows for observation of resulting patterns and evolving structures. Where entropy seems dominant, order unfolds. Harmony and dissonance are not antagonists but complimentary.
Music for piano, FM synthesizer, and reverb”
Accretion
by Juan Andres Cisneros
released March 6, 2026
Follow @uxelite for more information

Thanks to @uxelite for helping us in administrative capacities this past year 💙✊🏼🏹🍀!
Check out his recent track in bandcamp !
“Accretion which began with the cover art, a score based on a cellular automata simulation. This score is interpreted for digital piano and synthesizer that translates sonically to notes accumulating in density filling the sonic field; the cacophony allows for observation of resulting patterns and evolving structures. Where entropy seems dominant, order unfolds. Harmony and dissonance are not antagonists but complimentary.
Music for piano, FM synthesizer, and reverb”
Accretion
by Juan Andres Cisneros
released March 6, 2026
Follow @uxelite for more information
Thanks to everyone who donated to our campaign!
If you forgot to do it you can still help us out via our Amplify Atx page - 🐾
https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/cotfg

Thanks to everyone who participated on Saturday !Performances by gravemind, Hexpartner, and Nudo. Curation by Juan Cisneros. Photography by Charlotte Keene. Sound engineering by John-Mike Reed. Hospitality by Melissa Seely and Josh Thomson.Space provided by Cloud Tree Studios and Gallery.
This project was funded in part by Austin UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts.
Additional photos can be found on our Flickr page.Video documentation coming soon!

Thanks to everyone who participated on Saturday !Performances by gravemind, Hexpartner, and Nudo. Curation by Juan Cisneros. Photography by Charlotte Keene. Sound engineering by John-Mike Reed. Hospitality by Melissa Seely and Josh Thomson.Space provided by Cloud Tree Studios and Gallery.
This project was funded in part by Austin UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts.
Additional photos can be found on our Flickr page.Video documentation coming soon!

Thanks to everyone who participated on Saturday !Performances by gravemind, Hexpartner, and Nudo. Curation by Juan Cisneros. Photography by Charlotte Keene. Sound engineering by John-Mike Reed. Hospitality by Melissa Seely and Josh Thomson.Space provided by Cloud Tree Studios and Gallery.
This project was funded in part by Austin UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts.
Additional photos can be found on our Flickr page.Video documentation coming soon!

See you here tonight. Thanks to @cloudtreegallery for sharing their space with us tonight. 6pm - 9pm. Free admission.
This date is curated by JU4N Cisneros. This project is funded in part by Austin UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts.

Hexpartner is a multi-instrumentalist, synthesist, and VJ based in Austin, TX. They are fascinated by the interplay between electroacoustic composition, improvisation, and generative visuals, frequently utilizing synthesizers, string instruments, layered vocal harmonies, and audioreactive TouchDesigner networks for live performances. Hexpartner enjoys playing local mixed-genre shows and electronic music showcases (including Exploded Drawing and &bops), providing local support for a variety of diverse touring acts (including Mortiis and The Body), performing at events (including the Houston Cinema Arts Festival), VJing for other musicians (including Austin bands Holy Wire, nolo, and SKATELAND), and taking creative technology classes at dadaLab.
See y’all Saturday, December 13th evening at Cloud Tree Studios between 6pm and 9pm !

gravemind : The shadow of the guitar amplifier casts an isolated atmosphere equal parts hardcore show and spectral analysis of a cortisol rush.gravemind bends towards the evocation of concrete spraypainted with sweat and saliva as the body processes the atmospheric pressure of amplified sound.
See you Saturday between 6pm and 9pm @cloudtreegallery
This project is funded in part by Austin UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts

Hey!here’s some more information about artists presenting this coming Saturday at Cloud Tree Studio !
nudo is a psychic handshake/brain trust between Joaquin Tenorio and Eric Hernandez. Hailing from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, MX and Eagle Pass, Texas, USA, respectively. The pair met while living in Austin, TX and have been making music together since 2017. Throughout this time, their sound has journeyed from something like an improvised industrial, to more aleatoric collage passages, and is currently honing in on a more song based, corrido oriented zone, however pried apart. They’ve integrated bassist Alonso Camacho to round out their sound and are working on their 3rd full length LP.
Thanks so much to @nudotxmx for visiting us this weekend!
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