talktalk Week One
Friday, September 05, 2008
The first two nights of the Fringe Festival performance of talktalk have gone great! The first night was, admittedly, slow. It was the day after Labor Day and people just weren't out in the city. So talktalk was attended by a small group of rabble rousers, musicians and singers. As people moved around Rocket Cat singing, playing instruments, playing their cellphones, talking into the various microphones, I was basically "dubbing" them out as they played. It was an amazing mix of live playing and my tweaking- a lot of fun!
Thursday nights performance was much more packed. For this one I got more crowd noise and conversation as the source material. There was still a few people amusing themselves by clapping or tapping on glasses in rhythm with the music I was creating. It seemed most people were just listening to the music and keeping and ear out for a mangled snippet of their own talking in the mix. The overall sound was more dense and rhythmic.
For talktalk , I basically disassembled by studio and set it up each night at the Rocket Cat. I've been recording the performances from each night. Once I get my studio back together I'll post them here so people can hear the wildly different sounds of each night.
Talk will resume for the last two shows, Thursday September 11 and Friday September 12.
I've got about a week off from talktalk. This weekend, I'm involved with another Fringe Festival performance "Assembling Minutiae" for asNexus. I've only seen some of the set, so I'm excited to see my score ("Pure" from my new album Host) in the world that Emily and Bilwa have created. Here's the info for that:
NEXUS/foundation for today's art presents asNEXUS, performance installations by member artists J. Makary and Perpetual Movement and Sound that heighten the experience of the body through technology. Seeking form in minutiae, Perpetual Movement and Sound amplify the movements of dancers using live-feed audio and video, while J. Makary's video-based performance enters a fantasy where youth subculture never dies but instead matures.
Friday, September 5 through Monday, September 8
8:30 p.m.
$10
NEXUS/foundation for today's art
Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St. #102, Philadelphia
For tickets, please call the Festival Box Office at 215.413.1318 or visit www.livearts-fringe.org
After this show Gemini Wolf is doing a Fringe after party at the Fleischer Art Memorial at 7th and Catherine. It's Wednesday 9/10 night around 10 PM. More info on that after this weekend.
Get out and see some shows!!
Thursday nights performance was much more packed. For this one I got more crowd noise and conversation as the source material. There was still a few people amusing themselves by clapping or tapping on glasses in rhythm with the music I was creating. It seemed most people were just listening to the music and keeping and ear out for a mangled snippet of their own talking in the mix. The overall sound was more dense and rhythmic.
For talktalk , I basically disassembled by studio and set it up each night at the Rocket Cat. I've been recording the performances from each night. Once I get my studio back together I'll post them here so people can hear the wildly different sounds of each night.
Talk will resume for the last two shows, Thursday September 11 and Friday September 12.
I've got about a week off from talktalk. This weekend, I'm involved with another Fringe Festival performance "Assembling Minutiae" for asNexus. I've only seen some of the set, so I'm excited to see my score ("Pure" from my new album Host) in the world that Emily and Bilwa have created. Here's the info for that:
NEXUS/foundation for today's art presents asNEXUS, performance installations by member artists J. Makary and Perpetual Movement and Sound that heighten the experience of the body through technology. Seeking form in minutiae, Perpetual Movement and Sound amplify the movements of dancers using live-feed audio and video, while J. Makary's video-based performance enters a fantasy where youth subculture never dies but instead matures.
Friday, September 5 through Monday, September 8
8:30 p.m.
$10
NEXUS/foundation for today's art
Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St. #102, Philadelphia
For tickets, please call the Festival Box Office at 215.413.1318 or visit www.livearts-fringe.org
After this show Gemini Wolf is doing a Fringe after party at the Fleischer Art Memorial at 7th and Catherine. It's Wednesday 9/10 night around 10 PM. More info on that after this weekend.
Get out and see some shows!!