Weeks, Months and Years
Sunday, March 23, 2008
I had a really super time at the latest installment of Perpual Mvmt<>Snd's Rashomon Effect. This was the fourth such performance of a four part interactive round-robin dance and music improvisation. This time I decided to leave all the electronics at home and just go simple and lo-fi. I played a melodica and a severely out of tune auto harp. It became very visceral and immediate for me since I could produce a dense and immediate sound with out having to have my electronics all sorted out before I could make a sound, which can be limiting in an improvisational settings. It was fun to just bash on the side of the auto harp or scream with the melodica when the mood struck me. Something about turning a knob or triggering a laptop sample that doesn't give you that same immediacy.
We also added to this Rashomon Performance to keep it a little more true to the Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon, in which four people describe a murder from four different vantage points. Visual artist Blane Sigel choose a provocative video and the performers and audience all saw this video at the same time and we re-told what we saw through our performance. A nice added touch that I hope to work with more in the future.
The next installment of The Rashomon Effect will be on April 26. This will feature another layer of complexity. Myself, Bilwa and electronic musicians, William Fields and City of Horn's Rick Henderson will take a live recording from the March 22 Rashomon Effect and use that performance as source material for the fifth Rashomon. This "remixed" electronic score will be another layer abstraction and memory. I'm not 100% sure how the movement will be re-interpreted and de-constructed, but I'm sure Emily and crew having something up their sleeve.
Next week we will be playing our final Gemini Wolf show (I think) for several months. Since the Josiah release party back in May 2007, the band has been going full steam. We've played shows all over the North East. We've got so many songs in the incubation stage, we just need to bite the bullet and not book any more shows so we can sit down and work out these songs for the next album. So this is your chance to finally come out and see Gemini Wolf, if you haven't already. The show is going to quite a party with DJs Bilwa and Diamond Girl, a special long Gemini Wolf set we're were pretty much going to play our entire catalog and visuals by the Klip Collective. Here's the flyer with all the info
Gemini Wolf
Thursday 04/03
The Barbary
940 Frankford Ave. Philadelphia (Fishtown area)
10 PM - Post-Beach House Show
So April and May are going to quite busy with this show, the string quartet performance, a duet performance with Bilwa at Slought Foundation and the Mascher Space Coop FUNstival at Johnny Brenda's (where I'm going to my best at being a jazz cabaret pianist).
Then afterwards I'm looking forward to writing, recording and enjoying the summer by preparing for the many projects and performance that await me this fall.
We also added to this Rashomon Performance to keep it a little more true to the Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon, in which four people describe a murder from four different vantage points. Visual artist Blane Sigel choose a provocative video and the performers and audience all saw this video at the same time and we re-told what we saw through our performance. A nice added touch that I hope to work with more in the future.
The next installment of The Rashomon Effect will be on April 26. This will feature another layer of complexity. Myself, Bilwa and electronic musicians, William Fields and City of Horn's Rick Henderson will take a live recording from the March 22 Rashomon Effect and use that performance as source material for the fifth Rashomon. This "remixed" electronic score will be another layer abstraction and memory. I'm not 100% sure how the movement will be re-interpreted and de-constructed, but I'm sure Emily and crew having something up their sleeve.
Next week we will be playing our final Gemini Wolf show (I think) for several months. Since the Josiah release party back in May 2007, the band has been going full steam. We've played shows all over the North East. We've got so many songs in the incubation stage, we just need to bite the bullet and not book any more shows so we can sit down and work out these songs for the next album. So this is your chance to finally come out and see Gemini Wolf, if you haven't already. The show is going to quite a party with DJs Bilwa and Diamond Girl, a special long Gemini Wolf set we're were pretty much going to play our entire catalog and visuals by the Klip Collective. Here's the flyer with all the info
Gemini Wolf
Thursday 04/03
The Barbary
940 Frankford Ave. Philadelphia (Fishtown area)
10 PM - Post-Beach House Show
So April and May are going to quite busy with this show, the string quartet performance, a duet performance with Bilwa at Slought Foundation and the Mascher Space Coop FUNstival at Johnny Brenda's (where I'm going to my best at being a jazz cabaret pianist).
Then afterwards I'm looking forward to writing, recording and enjoying the summer by preparing for the many projects and performance that await me this fall.