For his own performance, Haire presents dozens of masterfully filtered and otherwise sumptuously processed location recordings of industrial expanses, exotic locales, and nature recordings from around the world. Prior to entering Polestar, you'll want to catch the evening's prelude on a secret broadcast frequency (hint: It's near 100 on your FM dial) at 7:00 p.m.
"I want to sonically soak the Polestar performance space," states Haire. "Not by necessarily being loud but by having sound emanate from all directions, much like how we experience sound in our everyday lives. By using a conventional method of distribution in an unconventional way, I can load the space with small speakers and surround the audience."
Included with admission is a new CD, The Crawford Opera. About his disc, whose title alludes to President Bush's Texas ranch, Haire is cryptic. "I've made an opera full of lies and deceit and it can't be trusted as a compact disc." Do not miss this gig. CHRISTOPHER DeLAURENTI
Hear Removed & Haunted Fri Dec 12 at 8 pm (Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Ave at E Union St, 329-4224), $6.