I’m Joe Krause, a multidisciplinary artist living in Detroit.

Community radio, films, performances, music, city tours, zines, sound design, audio theater, cultural documentation, podcasts and so on. Join my newsketter, follow my socials, smash the things.

Thanks for visiting my Personal Homepage on The World Wide Web.

I’ll be appearing in this show on both evenings as a butterfly playing an accordion in a cherry orchard. Show up early for a good seat!

 
 
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Open Spark Project

This 2012 collaboration with the Tesla Orchestra’s “Open Spark Project” is a presentation of original Zelda and the Unibrows music as performed with bolts of electricity on musical Tesla coils. Paul Szewczyk composed the music – a tribute to Detroit’s elevated rail system, The People Mover – Lisa Raschiatore performed clarinet overdubs, and I arranged and engineered. We also produced this video out of the footage.

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The Job

In 2008 I was crew for production and postproduction on this indie dark comedy featuring Ron Perlman and Joey Pantoliano. The experience was a film school unto itself and influenced my future production style. The film won best screenplay at the San Diego film festival in 2009.

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Zelda and the Unibrows – Unreason

For the third album, Zelda and the Unibrows introduce a host of new collaborators and eschew mid-2000s Detroit hipsterdom in an hilarious send-up about “City Kids” that will have you splitting your sides with nostalgia and smug judgement! Don’t miss: “Couch” is mesmerizing! “Adaptive Reuse” is a charming fixer-upper! And “Secret Penis” mystifies critics and scientists alike.

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The Zelda and the Unibrows Podcast

A six-episode experiment with the new-fangled “pod-cast” format. Includes all kinds of goodness unavailable elsewhere including a great ambient piece called “Stretchy Penis,” an hour-long takeover of WPHS, and guest appearances from collaborators.

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Waiting For Lunch Radio Theatre – The Mangler

The Mangler devours future criminals as babies, preventing their lives of crime. Join this heroic figure and his Uncle, Dr. Horatio, on a twisted journey of craven insanity. This one-season serial produced by Waiting For Lunch Radio Theatre reveals some of the foundation under Erie Canal Theatre’s formation a decade later.

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Chinese Happy – Apathy Is Worse Than Hatred

This is the second of four albums I recorded for high school friends Chinese Happy with co-engineer Jason Sterle. We set up our gear on a card table, mixed with home stereo speakers and backed up to an iPod, because they could be used as hard drives. Early Aughties suburban punk.

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Zelda and the Unibrows – Greens

“Greens,” the second Zelda and the Unibrows album, stands as two one-act plays: “Happy Tape,” a charming suite of original music scored to the voices found on a thrift-store cassette circa 1978, and “The Inconceivable Excursions of Captain Spacerocket In The 24th Century,” a rather noisy space opera of sorts.

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