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http://www.projectsoundwave.com. Mythical orchestra Moe!Kestra! surrounds the audience and perform special improvised compositions and orchestrations moving around the space concocted by leader Moe! Staiano. Created for Soundwave ((3)) Festival MOVE SOUND on August 2, 2008 at the Community Music Center, San Francisco. Produced by ME'DI.ATE Art Group http://www.me-di-ate.net

Moe!Kestra! is "a pounding, moving experience that surrounds the audience (literally; there are dozens of musicians taking up the room). When it's over you feel as if you've heard a whole new form of music." NY Times. Moe! Staiano founded the Moe!kestra! project in 1997. It began when he gathered a dozen or so musicians playing a one sustained note from soft, quiet, crescendoing into a loud frenzy. At the end of the show, people were cheering and shouting "Moechestra! Moechecstra!" Some shows have as many as eight drummers mixed in with massive amounts of guitars, reeds, strings, etc. Visually, Moe! runs frantically like a madman, cuing musicians, arms flailing about, being very visual and very into his work.