Ron
Slabe has been a seeker of unusual sounds for over twenty years,
and will hit just about anything to find out what it sounds like. He has
been using electronics to make sound since the late 1970’s, and burning
things and blowing things up for considerably longer. Using electronics
and found objects, he weaves diverse influences into a dense sonic web designed
to invoke a variety of emotional states. His work has been featured at the
Cleveland Performance Art Festival and at Cleveland Public Theatre, the
Psychedelicatessen, and small and large venues around Northeast Ohio. He
has performed regularly at ACE events since 1986 beginning with the first
MusicStar Festival, and he has been the primary performer and mastermind
of StarWood’s Brushfire Island Multi-Media Show since 1991, with his
performance group Pyrosonics. Objects in close proximity to him display
a curious tendency to burst into flame.