Not Just A Glitch: The Legacy of Peter “Pita” Rehberg 1968–2021
<p>Peter had come into Austin for the final concert of a solo U.S. tour, this being preceded by some “holding court” sessions out on the town which were split between sharing a nearly bottomless knowledge of independent cultural forms and throwing boisterous, contrarian punches in the direction of unassailable cultural givens (I remember especially his mockery of “hoppy” beers and his heretical dismissal of the beloved local street taco, on the grounds that avocadoes taste like soap). More memorable than any of this, though, was Peter’s musical exhibition itself: even while being plagued with technical issues and rude interruptions like the sound of a competing band along the Red River music strip, the brief set managed to condense all the sonic signatures of the past century’s electronically-driven music into one mesmerizing storm front of rhythm, noise and strange encrypted phrases hovering on the edges of comprehensible melody. From the documentation available (Peter had been “releasing” downloadable albums of each live set on this 2019 tour),</p>
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