Tonight's event will showcase three acts, followed by an after party hosted by DJ Sesso.
Ram Squad, a local break-dancing group, and artists from the Pittsburgh-native hip-hop company Blackout Entertainment, will open the show. The main act will be various members from Audio Imagery itself.
"[Audio Imagery] just brings a different style and quality of music to the rap genre," Blackout Entertainment artist "Bricks," otherwise known as Dane Childs (sophomore-crime, law and justice), said. "They're very professional ... and very different and original."
The "block party," as it is being dubbed, is just one of a few places to catch Audio Imagery Inc. around State College.
Members of the group also host "Spoken Word Saturdays" at Bobalicious, 436 E. College Ave., at 7:30 Saturday nights.
"It started as just poetry, but we've branched out," said Audio Imagery Inc. member Malcolm Hurley, also known as "LP."
"Now it's poetry, comedy, open mic ... anything," he added.
And although the group has been unable to get its original material on the local airwaves, co-founder Jason Browne (senior-mechanical engineering), also known as "Agress," and Webster worked around the hurdle to add yet another notch to the Audio Imagery Inc. belt -- remixing.
"We were trying to get on 107.9 for a while, but they play mostly mainstream," Browne said. "George came up with an idea: Take a song that people are familiar with, not change it too much, add our voices, and we can get it on."
That song was a remix of Destiny's Child's "Lose My Breath," and it's been on the station's top countdown for three weeks and counting. The station has also agreed to accept future mixes by the group.
"Once Destiny's Child stops playing, there will be a new song," Browne said.
The future is bright and busy for Audio Imagery Inc.
The group is currently recording a sophomore album, which the group hopes to have out by early next semester.
"Our second album will have a totally different sound than anything you've heard from Audio Imagery before," Webster said.
The group is looking to get a contract with a major label, and members have been in contact with a few, Webster added.
After winning last year's battle of the bands competition to play at Movin' On, the group hopes to move to the main stage for this year's show.
To top it off, the group is also in the planning stages of shooting two music videos.
The group traveled to Canada to talk to Much Music, and members have established contacts that they hope will allow them to get the videos aired next year, Browne said.
Audio Imagery Inc. is always looking to expand its roster.
Interested artists can find out more at the group's Web site, www.audioimageryinc.com.
"Even if they're just getting into music, we're their best bet," Hurley said. "And if you want to talk to us, we're always at [Bobalicious]."
