Video of 60×60 Dance Available
A video of “Man Unseen” (Theme) with dance choreographed by Laura Shapiro and performed at Galapagos Art Space in New York city last September is now available on the 60×60 Dance blog.
RUhere x60 released in the Vox Novus 60×60 CD
60×60 is a project containing 60 compositions from 60 different composers, where each composition is 60 seconds (or less) in duration.
My RUhere x60 is included in the 2006-07 edition and has already received many performances. Read the rest of this entry »
Lily Maase’s Vanishingpoint project
Guitarist and composer Lily Maase and her band The Suite Unraveling release their album, Unbind. today. It includes a fascinating blind collaborative project of Lily’s called Vanishingpoint. I contributed some sounds to this project by improvising some short musical passages using samples of things recorded by other contributors.
Check out the album at CD Baby.
SoundLAB Edition V — soundSTORY
My RUhere has been included in a web-based exhibit presented by SoundLAB with the theme “soundSTORY.” The exhibit is presented as part of NewMediaFest 2007.
See the exhibit here (you might need to disable pop-up window blockers).
StillMotion with ChameckiLerner Dance Company at TWU
I was selected to create the interactive electronic score for this collaborative work involving site-specific dance and photography at Texas Woman’s University, exploring the impossibility of capturing the mundane. The event was part of The Body and Performance Symposium: Discussions Exploring Collaboration Across Disciplines.
All source sounds were recorded during an average day in the lives of different people. In performance, the sound clips are fractured, so that the treble, middle, and bass frequencies of the sound act as three facets of a flexible beat pattern that articulates time. As they are played, the sounds travel toward, past, and away from the observer independently, causing their speed and pitch to be warped in time and space. The result is a texture of fragmented scenes, woven together, from multiple and mobile points of view in time and space, presenting the sound events as ephemeral strands of instants in time. StillMotion explores the ordinary sublime: on the one hand the impossibility of recording the everyday (as soon as it is marked, it is elevated in some way), and the impossibility of recording a performance (as soon as it is recorded it is a frozen text).StillMotion was originally created for a collaboration with guest choreographers Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner, and the dance and visual arts departments of Texas Woman’s University. Photographs and sounds were taken of the dancers acting out an average day in their lives. The photos were used as a basis for the choreography, and the music, choreography and set design grew together organically. The performance consisted of dance depicting functions or feelings captured in the photos, stylized versions of photos on scrims hanging within space (sometimes invading the dance space), and this music, from processed sounds of the “average day.”
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