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Rudder gets 'Intergalactic' twist
PROVIDED
Intergalactic Nemesis combines a graphic novel with music and radio play to
create a performance that will be held Thursday in Rudder Auditorium.
Intergalactic Nemesis, a Hue
multimedia show that combines radio
play, Hue music and a graphic novel, is
set to bring its story of space battle and
alien monsters to Rudder Auditorium
at 7p.m. Thursday. The Battalion
life & arts reporter Jack Riewe spoke
with creator Jason Neulander to discuss
the live action graphic novel.
THE BATTALION: Can you de
scribe the plot of Intergalactic
Nemesis?
NEULANDER: Intergalactic Nem
esis is a pulp-inspired sci-fi story
set in the 1930s and it features
Pulitzer Prize winner Molly Sloan
and her assistant Timmy Mendez,
and also there's this mysterious li
brarian. They're up against this evil
mage magician named Mysterion
the Magnificent who seems to be
on the bad start to a descending
invasion from the planet Zygon.
THE BATTALION: It has been
nearly 20 years since Interga
lactic Nemesis got started. Can
you take us back to the begin
ning of how this idea came to
be?
NEULANDER: It all kind of started
as a radio play. We just got some
friends together in a coffee house
in downtown Austin. At the time I
was just running a computer com
pany when we released the play,
and it got so popular every few
years we would come back to it
just for fun. But in 2010, I decided
to leave the computer company
I founded and focus specifically
on Intergalactic. It just turned into
something that got to be ongoing.
I got invited to bring the original
versions of the project to our
performing arts center in Austin,
The Long Center for Performing
Arts. Getting that invitation is just
a huge, huge 2,400 audience. I
just felt like that was too big of a
cinematic experience to watch a
radiolab being performed. So, just
in a flash of amnesia, I thought
of putting projecting comic book
artwork on a screen to be enlarged
so I could fill up a room that big.
By sheer coincidence my friend
had just bought a projection sys
tem and they were nice enough
to let me use it. It was kind of a
wonderful serendipitous meaning
in the summer of 2009. It took
about 15 months to get the art
work made, there are over 1,250
individual comic book images we
constructed before the show and
in September 2010 we started and
that was that.
THE BATTALION: So this
started out as a radio play, then
morphed into what it is today.
To those who don't really know
what a radio play is, can you
describe it in your own words?
NEULANDER: Think of it as in a
movie state of mind. You've got
actors doing voiceovers for the
characters, you've got sound ef
fects creating this kind of sound
scape ambience that specific
noises like punches, or footsteps
or whatever. Then you've got this
cinematic score that goes along
with that kind of elevates the kind
of emotions of the whole thing.
Then there's the narrator who
helps provide the visual descrip
tion. So in the graphic novel we
get rid of the narrator — we get rid
of the whole verbal stuff and we
replace that with the actual things
and situations performed by the
comic book panel.
THE BATTALION: And you are
planning a sequel?
NEULANDER: We have two
sequels already, but those are al
tered. The first one is called Robot
Planets Rising, and the second
one is called Twin Infinity. Twin
Infinity just premiered in Septem
ber and the way we do it is we go
to a venue with the first one and
if that goes well we go back with
the second one and if that goes
well we go back for the third one.
We return to probably about half
the venues.
THE BATTALION: Is it true that
you have a sound effect for
everything? And you use house
hold items?
NEULANDER: There are hundreds
of sound effects for the shows
and a lot of them are made with
household items. One of my favor
ites is the sound of a train. We use
a train whistle and a box of maca
roni and cheese to get shaking in a
certain way and I swear it sounds
just like a train running down the
tracks.
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