We’re kicking off our You Tube channel with one of our earliest collaborations. Ana Baer-Carrillo and Randy Gibson’s Mujeres de Juárez.
In honor of the launch, Randy Gibson is making Mujeres de Juárez (off the album Voices + Sine Waves) available as a free download.
Click here to find out how to download Mujeres de Juárez
And please join us on our YouTube page to watch Mujeres de Juárez
This weekend, March 26th and 27th at 8:30 PM, we will be presenting Mémoire-en-Ciel at Highways Performance Space in Los Angeles. In 2007 we presented the west-coast premiere of Aqua Madora here, and it’s a great pleasure to be back.
On the program are Undress Me Not by Ana Baer-Carrillo, Pat Stone, and Caren McCaleb; Mujeres de Juárez by Randy Gibson and Ana Baer-Carrillo, and to close the night: the world premiere of Mémoire-en-Ciel by Dani Beauchamp and Randy Gibson.
It should be a great night of dance, film, and music. Click here to read the full press release [PDF].
Highways is located at 1651 18th street in Santa Monica.
Tickets are available through Highways Performance Space
We have posted some photos of the World Premiere of Doleo Æternus over on our Flickr Page.
And we have posted a little video of the performance on the Doleo Æternus minisite and on our Vimeo Page.
We’ve also created an album on our Facebook Page. If you’re not already a fan of Avant Media on Facebook – now’s the time.
Thank you to everyone that come out to this monumental performance. We can’t wait for the next one.
Tickets for the special, one-night-only, world premiere of Randy Gibson‘s Doleo Æternus with video sculpture by Oscar Henriquez will go on sale on Monday November 2nd.
Tickets will be $20 for general admission, and $10 for students/members. Click here to learn more about becoming a member. The performance will take place on November 21st at Wild Project in the East Village, NYC.
Check back soon for a special microsite all about Doleo Æternus.
photo: Frank Sygusch
Sofia was my little assistant and we had a ball!
Links from Giessen-server.de (in German)
My Friend Josephine posted this to her twitter today, and it has proved endlessly interesting.
They have also posted an interesting blog post about using this as a teaching tool. Which is a big part of what I think is so interesting about it. So many people look at modern dance and don’t necessarily understand what is going on, maybe because there’s no story being told, it’s not narrative etc. A tool like this breaks down the dance into a series of themes and connections, which is what I, as a composer, find so intriguing about writing for dance.
For those of you familiar with the protools, final cut model there is a beautiful score of the dance shown in real time that really delineates how this dance is working, and what exactly is going on.
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…)
The week in looking ahead.
First off, wow to yesterday’s miraculous plane landing on the Hudson, and to the incredible Chesley Sullenberger.
Looking ahead to the Obama administration in only 4 days!
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)
I’ve just uploaded a new audio sample of Aqua Madora. The video on the page is still from the Permanent Wilting performance with Dani Beauchamp dancing. I’ve added a sample of the “Table” section of the Triplicate performance which was expertly recorded by Mike Rugnetta here.
I’m also including the sample after the jump. here
