HBO - Harrison Brady Overdrive

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Friday, May 23, 2008

Harrison Brady Overdrive, or "HBO" (not to be confused with HBO, the premium cable channel that offers such fine programming as "The Sopranos", as well as a number of other shows that contain lots of swearing, that being the whole raison d---etre of cable television), is a string/percussion duo consisting of Randal Harrison and Geoffrey Brady. Employing such instruments as the violin, the vibraphone, Randal's vocals, the theremin, the electric cuica, and the chincello, HBO features improvisations based on the original compositions of the duo's (two) members, as well as EXCITING NEW interpretations of the works of such diverse composers as Debussy, Piazzolla, Schoenberg, Monk and others. Plus, HBO, like HBO, uses a lot of profanity and charges a reasonable fee for this service.