HBO - Harrison Brady Overdrive

Art in the cafe...

Tamara Lea Kaufman


"pretty ~ ugly"


February 2026



Artist Statement Tamara Lea Kaufman’s personal artwork ranges from serious to quirky, dark, adult-themed humor. She creates multimedia assemblage, collage, and dioramas made from HO-scale railroad hobby miniatures, preserved insects, paint, embroidery, found objects, and typically discarded materials such as candy wrappers and the overlooked debris of everyday life. Her work explores topics of consumption, waste, desire, relationships, psychology, politics, societal pressures and the levity of humor needed to survive it all. It gives her joy to repurpose materials into something new, useful, or...
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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.