Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
I’m on my way to Europe for the month of July. I’ll be visiting London, Berlin, and Calvi dell’Umbria where I will be in residency at the Art Monastery and creating a new piece as a part of their Labirinto festival on July 25th.
It’s become a bit of a summer tradition for me to escape New York for a month or so, and it’s one I always look forward to.
There are a lot of exciting things coming in the next few months for Avant Media and for myself. I’m really excited for a few big announcements and projects that we have in the works.
I hope you will be too.
Tags: Art, Art Monastery, Avant Media, Germany, Hope, Italy, Summer, Travel, UK
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
photo: Frank Sygusch
Great experience, made a piece with the Dance Company from Giessen and made a video to the monotone of ASLSP (John Cage).
Sofia was my little assistant and we had a ball!
Links from Giessen-server.de (in German)
Rehearsal writeup and photos
Performance writeup and photos
Tags: 2009, Ana Baer-Carrillo, Dance, Germany, John Cage, Links, News, photos, Video
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Our very own Kim Olson, one of our earliest and most frequent collaborating artists, will be performing her work thin WATER blue ICE tonight to open the Denver 2009 Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. The performance starts at 6:15 in the lobby of the The Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and leads into the theatre to start the awards ceremony.
If you’re in Denver tonight, definitely check it out, plus it’s FREE!!
2009 Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts
sweetedge.org
Tags: 2009, Art, Artists, Denver, Kim Olson, News, Opera, Performances
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
The Third Mind is on view starting today at The Guggenheim
I attended the opening of this show last night, and it is truly spectacular, and there is a strong musical presence as well, from La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela’s Dream House to scores from the FLUXUS era, to a huge presence of works surrounding John Cage. The inimitable Margaret Leng Tan has done the audio tour and I’m very excited to go back and listen.
There are also a ton of performances and lectures set for the 3 months or so it is open.
Third Mind Performances and Lectures
There is so much amazing art on view during this exhibit that we were literally running at the end of the night to see a full room installation on the top floor that is not to be missed.
Tags: 2009, Art, Asia, Dream House, Fluxus, Friday, Guggenheim, Installation, John Cage, La Monte Young, Links, Margaret Leng Tan, Marian Zazeela, Music, Performances, Room, Running
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
In December Ana Baer-Carrillo and I collaborated on Doleo Æternus, an evening-length work for musicians, computer, and video which was presented at the ISIM conference in Denver. This is a long and tumultuous work in the history of Avant Media, and it spans almost the entire duration that Avant Media has been in existence. From our first show in New York City in January of 2007, where we premiered what was then Anger, to our most recent performance, Ana’s work has been a powerful influence on my work and a guiding force keeping me grounded enough in reality to reign in, albeit ever so slightly, my penchant for the extreme. (more…)
Tags: 2009, Ana Baer-Carrillo, Anger, Audience, Avant Media, Collaboration, Denver, Doleo Æternus, ISIM, Music, Musicians, New York City, Piano, Randy Gibson, Video
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
I never got around to making links this Friday – although I saw some fantastic work this weekend: Welcome to Nowhere on Saturday and Siren on Sunday (which was truly spectacular).
Starting today is an interesting video project, Mondays With Merce, that should prove to be interesting as it progresses. I was particularly struck by the music used during teaching, very straightforward and, therefore, surprising (at least to my ears)
Mondays With Merce
every monday from now until, i guess, it stops.
Tags: 2009, Art, Dance, Drones, Friday, Links, Merce Cunningham, Music, Teaching, Theater, Video
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
I’ve just posted the full length recording of Doleo Æternus on this page: ISIM Recording
The recording turned out quite well, and I want to say a big thank you to all of the performers who played so beautifully.
Take a listen.
Tags: 2008, Ana Baer-Carrillo, Avant Media, Doleo Aeternus, Doleo Eternus, Doleo Æternus, ISIM, Mike Rugnetta, Randy Gibson, Recording
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
Hot Karl
I never got around to posting links last week – we were performing Doleo Æternus at the ISIM conference and it was completely insane.
There is a Flickr gallery of images we took during our trip to Denver here and more coverage will be coming as we get images from the ISIM and finalize a recording for your listening pleasure.
In the meantime – here are this weeks sporadic and miscellaneous links:
Hot Karl action on Racked Racked is hosting a Karl Lagerfeld photoshop contest. It is epic and fantastic.
Mike Rugnetta’s YouTube page has tons of interesting videos Mike and Patrick have made
Michael Wiltbank’s stunning photo project was censored by BYU – it is a fantastic idea with beautiful pictures [via]
Share your own links in the comments »
Tags: 2008, Art, Blog, Denver, Doleo Æternus, Flickr, Friday, ISIM, Karl Lagerfeld, Links, Mike Rugnetta, News, photos, Recording, Video, YouTube
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
I’m sitting in the Denver airport on my way home from performing Doleo Æternus on Friday evening. It was a really interesting experience. Mike Rugnetta and Amali Premawardhana were fantastic. They played beautifully and I can’t wait to hear the recordings. Even though the performance is over, I still haven’t seen Ana’s video. I know we ended together and I’ve heard there were some fantastic moments of synchronicity.
I’ll be posting clips and sound samples soon.
I want to say a big Thank You to Mike and Amali, to Ana, to the Playground Ensemble, and to Kate and Conrad and everyone at DU and the ISIM. It was a great experience and I’m sure I’ll look back on this as the catalyst in the next phase of this piece.
Tags: 2008, Ana Baer-Carrillo, Denver, Doleo Æternus, Friday, ISIM, Mike Rugnetta, Playground, Randy Gibson, Recording, Video
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
I’m sitting in my hotel room in South Denver after a very long day of Rehearsals and general driving insanity. I arrived in Colorado last night and it was snowing, quite intensely.
My rehearsals today with the Playground Ensemble went very well. I always run into the same problem though which is that my work has very subtle cues, and it just takes time. They’re a great ensemble, and it was a pleasure rehearsing with them. I just wish we had one more day. Although I suppose one always wishes one had one more day (wow, that was quite a oneful sentence)
Anyway. I’ve posted a bit of a photojournal after the jump. Images of the rehearsals were taken from a video on my iSight – of course it’s the first time I’m using it, and the sound didn’t record. Oh well,
Enjoy the pictures of snow, horrible donuts, and blurry rehearsals to the gallery »
Tags: 2008, Denver, Doleo Aeternus, Doleo Eternus, Doleo Æternus, Flickr, Photojournal, Playground, Randy Gibson, Rehearsals, Room, Snow, Video
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