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Show EDITOR BACK PACE Angie Smith, Thursday, April 2, 2009 V The Number 12 Looks Like You is a band listened to by few and loved by even fewer. The main reason behind this is their music style. To put it in plain words, this band is NOT You may have heard of genres like alternative punk, emo, metal and hardcore, but this band is in the mathcore genre. Mathcore is characterized d by screaming radio-friendl- t I ", If y. one minute of mathcore chaos, followed by a sudden of jazz guitar, then percussion with soothing transition vocals, and it ends with a crescendo of grindcore. Of course, The Number 12 Looks Like Yous album is not full of these hybrid songs the band still has its roots in progressive heavy metal and grindcore. like Glory Songs Kingdom and To Catch a Tiger both share heavy d guitars, constant drum beats and screaming low vocals, almostresembling more of a metal sound from their previous grindcore and thrash albums. Although, there are songs that balance the metal and experimental sounds. Unlike the few songs that are straight metal, and the others that are extreme hybrids of their evolving vocals and complex time signatures backed up by nonstop chaotic drumming and insane guitar riffs and solos. To many people this represents noise, but to , y metal. The Number t I 12 Looks Like You formed in 2002 and has put out six albums: Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses, An Inch Of Gold For An Inch Of Time, Nuclear, Sad. Nuclear., Mongrel, Here at the End of All Things DVD CD and Worse Than Alone. Their newest album, Worse Than Alone, was released three weeks ago, and the previous five albums have followed each other very closely in a musical sense. ERIC POOLE exhibit All full-leng- - f X. fast-pace- its technical other listeners th CRAZY KELSEY MURDOCK The newest exhibit in the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery features the creative talents of graduating senior students. Different mediums the students used include UNIVERSITY JOURNAL photography, illustration, ceramics, graphic design and The exhibit continues printmakingpaintingdrawing. 2. May through grindcore, metal screaming vocals. However, Worse Than Alone has a variety of new sounds that have not been heard in the Exhibit to showcase outgoing seniors work By OLIVIA FELIX FOR THE JOURNAL Senior art students will exhibit some of their creations at the BFA Portfolio Show opening tonight at 7 p.m. in the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibit will display the talents of these students in the mediums of photography, illustration, ceramics, graphic design and printmakingpaintingdrawing. Its a chance for (the senior students) to showcase what they can produce, Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery Director Reece Summers said. He said the senior showcase has been a tradition longer than he has worked there. Summers also said this years gallery will feature the works of more than a dozen senior art students. Scott Chandler, a senior art major from Cedar City, said he will be displaying seven pieces from his Bedscapes series. He creates the subjects of these photos out of pillows and bedsheets to resemble different landscapes, he said. Some landscapes he has recreated are famous locations such as the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as Mount Everest and Grand Canyon National Park. I try to push the boundaries, he said. Chandler said he wants people initially Ceramics and graphic design projects are featured in the BFA Portfolio Show. The gallery exhibit opens tonight at 7 p.m. in the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. to recognize these photos as the actual landscapes from a distance, but then be able to realize from an view that they are actually made from bed linens. He said he believes photography is just another art form like painting, because they deal with the same elements they just happen to be different mediums. Anthony Magnetti, a senior art major from Cedar City, will be showing different pieces of pottery, such as cups, at the gallery. It shows a lot of what Ive learned throughout college, he said. Magnetti said he first began taking ceramics courses in high school more than seven years ago. During his second year in college, he took another ceramics class and found himself drawn to this medium of art not only because it was fun, but because he enjoyed working and attending classes with some of the other students, Magnetti said. He said he would make pots with some friends, go out and skateboard with them, and then return back to work on his creations. Chandlers and Magnettis work, as well as the creations of the other senior art students, will be viewable starting tonight and continuing through May 2. Summers said the gallery is open and free to the public. The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery is located on the bottom floor of the Braithwaite Liberal Arts Center and will be open to visitors Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 7 p.m. previous albums. The Number 12 Looks Like Yous current label, Eyeball Records, describes the new album as follows: Worse Than Alone miraculously fuses literally every style of music the band is influenced by, from classical and jazz to screamo, grindcore and death metal, into one molten morass of auditory carnage. And the main song that fully represents this evolution is The Gardens All Nighters. The song structure on this track is probably the most interesting of all the songs on the new album. It starts out with a jazzy metal guitar riff, then theres . listeners ears can rest, and then the This is a CD to listen to if you want to critically bob your head while you walk to school or raise your arm up and throw devil horns to your bro, then this CD isnt for you. But if you are sick of constant double bass, simple guitar riffs and monotone low screaming, then let Worse Than Alone guide your ears into a jungle of renewed, complex metal. Eric Poole is the art editor for the University JournaL He can be reached at epoole suujournal. com. , , " v-s- A- - , a mi.ijij VK-- JWIMMi'lWli IS. r, f-- f wwi w K V iX songs Holler, Dont Let Go both have calm segments when the i'vwaiiiiuiiRiii'up 1 two style, come across as the medium between the extremely different styles. Marvins Jungle and . .If They tracks demonstrate their complex mathcore segments. I was looking forward to this album with extreme and Im not excitement, disappointed. The lyrics are imaginative and entertaining to read and interpret, much like the actual songs as a whole. and progressive full-blo- smooth fast-pace- n- 8 Mathcore album worthy of genre T f 586-548- i I li .11 PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ERIC POOLE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL The Number 12 Looks Like You will perform with bands Protest The Hero and Scale The Summit April 18 at the Avalon Theater in Salt Lake City. Writers go boldly where few have gone before By GEOFF BOUCHER LOS ANGELES TIMES On a leafy hillside on the Universal Studios lot, childhood friends Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman share not just a bungalow but a single desk that sits beneath large letters that spell out vintage neon salvaged from an old diner. There, sitting and finishing each others sentences, the screenwriters crank out talcs of the for Hollywood, fantastic two of this including summers biggest popcorn Transformers: films, Revenge of the Fallen and Star Trek, as well as Foxs eerie hit scries Fringe. The two met in their senior year at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, face-to-fa- MEL Alex Kurtzman, left, and MELCON LOS ANGELES TIMES Roberto Orci met in high school. They currently collaborate as screenwriters and producers. Their latest project, Star Trek, opens May 8. the private school in Santa Monica that lists Amy Pascal, Michael Bay, Jack Black and Gwyneth Paltrow among its alumni, and their great bonding moment was their mutual for passion sex, lies, and videotape, the 1989 Steven Soderbergh film became that a writing films like that, but now, for better or worse, we have developed a reputation as guys who write big Kurtzman said. movies, And Id really like good to also be an adjective thats used. Vhat I admire about them is their work ethic. They burn the signature midnight oil and in moment American independent film. There were, support your vision full however, no giant robots or photon torpedoes in that Soderbergh script. We came from a place of passion for independent films and imagined ourselves I dont think theyre mutually exclusive. You can both. really do Perhaps, but the critics force' havent always been D.J. Caruso kind to their movies, include Mission: which Impossible III, Transformers, The Island and The Legend ofZorro. But in a town where often screenwriters are viewed as interchangeable parts, they have become a brand name and have into the role expanded of producers, a rarity for scribes. Their specialty is science fiction that is brainy but crowd pleasing, and theyve become trusted wordsmiths for Steven Spielberg, Bay, D.J. Caruso and, most notably, J. J. Abrams, director of the latest installment of Star Trek and creator of Fringe as well as the TV shows Lost, Alias and Felicity. What I admire about them is their work ethic, said Caruso, who worked with the pair on 2008s Eagle Eye. They burn the midnight oil and support your vision full force. 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