The Brooks Museum history:
When the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, first named the Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, opened its doors in 1916, the collection included just a handful of art works.  
Today the museum's holdings have grown to nearly 9,000 significant art objects across world cultures and millennia of history. Much of the art acquired during the museum’s first two decades were paintings by popular American artists of that period such as Cecilia Beaux, Edward Redfield, and William Merritt Chase. Through the years, with the addition of many notable gifts and purchases, the collection is now encyclopedic in scope. 

The first important purchase was the acquisition of 38 Old Master paintings from Warner S. McCall of Saint Louis in 1943. A few years later, Dr. Louis Levy gifted the institution over 1,000 prints from his personal collection; these works form the foundation of the Brooks’ expansive holdings of works on paper. In 1960 the Samuel H. Kress Foundation gave the museum one of its most significant gifts to date, a group of superb Italian masterpieces. This was followed by Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Dixon’s gift of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. 

Other important gifts came from the collections of AutoZone corporation, Morrie A. Moss, and Mrs. Julie Isenberg. In addition, purchases by museum support groups such as Art Today, the Decorative Arts Trust, and the Brooks League have greatly expanded the scope of the museum’s holdings. The collection, which offers a broad survey of the history of art, now ranges from the works of ancient Pre-Columbian cultures to the forefront of the contemporary world.The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art’s permanent collection of paintings highlights Italian Renaissance and Baroque as well as British, French Impressionists, and 20th century artists.

Quando eu morrer batam em latas,
Rompam aos saltos e aos pinotes,
Façam estalar no ar chicotes,
Chamem palhaços e acrobatas!

Que o meu caixão vá sobre um burro
Ajaezado à andaluza...
A um morto nada se recusa,
Eu quero por força ir de burro.

Mário de Sá-Carneiro

Trans Lucent Microcosm aka Translucent Microcosm aka Chuck Spencer1 Anti pop aka ME.  I love sounds.  Ambient flow with texture and DE-tonal cinematic drama is what draws me into it all. My inspiration came from a Mini-Moog. It has absorbed all that I am. I hope you like what I hear. 

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Est. 1997 (Almada, Portugal) currently living in St. Petersburg FL.
Co-Founder of Thisco Records, Lisbon.

Mostra Jovens Criadores, Portugal, 1998
Coldcut, Stealing Orchestra @ Festival do Fim, Lisbon, 1999
@ Festival Musiques Violetes, Metz France, 
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@ How the Sound Go, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 
TAAG, Matta, Mykel Boyd @ Amurica Memphis, 2017
@ Flux Festival, Arkansas, 2018
@ Memphis Concrete Festival, Tennessee, 2018

Trans Lucent Microcosm is following