Pangaea: Trinity Sun
Monday, January 05, 2009
Happy New Year. I'd like to take moment to thank all the musicians and artists I was able to work with in 2008. Last year was a tremendous year of growth for me as as a composer, a producer and an artist.
2009 is here and is looking to be an even more exciting and action packed year than 2008!
People close to me have been hearing me talk (and joke) about my "rock opera" Pangaea for years. It's been something I've been kicking around for almost 15 years now! Last year I sat down and wrote out the story and I've sketched out about 3/4 of he music on piano. Last year, I was planning on performing it late this year and maybe early 2010. However, with the amount currently slated for Gemini Wolf, earSnake and other solo work, I would be rushing to get it done in a year. I've waited 15 year, so what's another year or two?
I want to take time, get some funding, meticulously craft the score and recording, and make it the best production I've ever done. Therefore, I've decided to make the opera premiere and recording release Pangaea: When the Continents Were One on November 11, 2011. I've always been a fan of patterns with number, an an opera about one unified super continent seems like it should happen on 11/11/11 (plus it's a Friday).
This will also give me some time to premiere some supplementary narrative and artistic work to help contextualize and tell the mythological tale of Pangaea, which bring us to this Saturday.
This Saturday, Solomon Slowburn (earSnake MC/Poet/Musican) and I will be premiering Pangaea: Trinity Sun on air for NEXUSradio. Trinity Sun, is an epic poem of the creation myth of Pangaea in the vein of Judaeo-Christian story, Genesis, or the hundreds of other Creation Myths out there. The idea came from Christian (Solomon Slowburn) to make the first chapter in the Pangaea story the myth that the tribes on Pangaea belive, which gives them a moral and spiritual guidance in their lives.
This will be the first in a series of smaller scale Pangaea performances leading up to the opera in 2011.
The performance will be Christian reading the text with orignial ambient music I wrote and will perform on air at NEXUSradio. In December 2008 and January 2009, Nexus Gallery has been turned into a low powered AM station for the comminity in North Philadelphia. If you're in Philadelphia you can tune in to 1650 AM or drop by the gallery. The performance will be around 5 PM on Saturday January 10. From noon until 6 PM that day is earSnake day with performances by some intrumental / experimental earSnake artists. Check earSnake.com for details.
After the performance, we'll record the piece and post here and on the forthcoming Pangaea website.
[Image credit (croped image) NASA/JPL-Caltech]
Happy New Year. I'd like to take moment to thank all the musicians and artists I was able to work with in 2008. Last year was a tremendous year of growth for me as as a composer, a producer and an artist.2009 is here and is looking to be an even more exciting and action packed year than 2008!
People close to me have been hearing me talk (and joke) about my "rock opera" Pangaea for years. It's been something I've been kicking around for almost 15 years now! Last year I sat down and wrote out the story and I've sketched out about 3/4 of he music on piano. Last year, I was planning on performing it late this year and maybe early 2010. However, with the amount currently slated for Gemini Wolf, earSnake and other solo work, I would be rushing to get it done in a year. I've waited 15 year, so what's another year or two?
I want to take time, get some funding, meticulously craft the score and recording, and make it the best production I've ever done. Therefore, I've decided to make the opera premiere and recording release Pangaea: When the Continents Were One on November 11, 2011. I've always been a fan of patterns with number, an an opera about one unified super continent seems like it should happen on 11/11/11 (plus it's a Friday).
This will also give me some time to premiere some supplementary narrative and artistic work to help contextualize and tell the mythological tale of Pangaea, which bring us to this Saturday.
This Saturday, Solomon Slowburn (earSnake MC/Poet/Musican) and I will be premiering Pangaea: Trinity Sun on air for NEXUSradio. Trinity Sun, is an epic poem of the creation myth of Pangaea in the vein of Judaeo-Christian story, Genesis, or the hundreds of other Creation Myths out there. The idea came from Christian (Solomon Slowburn) to make the first chapter in the Pangaea story the myth that the tribes on Pangaea belive, which gives them a moral and spiritual guidance in their lives.
This will be the first in a series of smaller scale Pangaea performances leading up to the opera in 2011.
The performance will be Christian reading the text with orignial ambient music I wrote and will perform on air at NEXUSradio. In December 2008 and January 2009, Nexus Gallery has been turned into a low powered AM station for the comminity in North Philadelphia. If you're in Philadelphia you can tune in to 1650 AM or drop by the gallery. The performance will be around 5 PM on Saturday January 10. From noon until 6 PM that day is earSnake day with performances by some intrumental / experimental earSnake artists. Check earSnake.com for details.
After the performance, we'll record the piece and post here and on the forthcoming Pangaea website.
[Image credit (croped image) NASA/JPL-Caltech]