U.V.A. is the result of a collaboration between Andrew Ranaudo (formerly of Future In Plastics and current keyboardist of Tens of Thousands) and artists Jill Auckenthaler
and Carl James Ferrero. They weave together New Wave designs and synthpop sounds while performing their music in Ferrero's projections. The elements of the project are modular units in a collective melancholic narrative. The digital music of U.V.A. is an exercise in contradictions. Graceful melodies soar over dissonant chordal structures. A hard percussive cornerstone ignites dancefloor madness while synths inspire dreamy introspection. The mix is by turns beautiful and harsh, agitated and soothing, danceable and divine. The artwork of Ferrero contends with language, the representation of experience, and the materiality of everyday life. They shift between two- and three-dimensions, using painted imagery from urban landscapes and objects—a torn seascape, noise from analog television, bleeding scabs, and tugboats floating on a sea of writing. The project is intended to be an anagram, like a sentence that can be rearranged to create multiple meanings and possibilities.

White Ribbon Highway is the latest musical endeavor of former Dead Betties guitarist Eric Shepherd and is a reference to snow covered roads in Northern Michigan where he grew up. He began writing and recording around meditations on romanticism and travel in the Fall of 2008 at 28 Below - his home and shared studio space in Brooklyn- resulting in the insular, and dream-like WRH recordings. Live performance pairs the music with film he shot from various locations around New York City, his home since 2001.