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Hot Little Hands
Ill-Starred
@ IFCC (through 11/14)
Jim Lommasson @ NAAU
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Powell’s (w/Inara Verzemnieks)
11/16 @ 7:30PM (reading)
Performance Works Northwest presents
BANDAGE A KNIFE
Linda Austin/Seth Nehil
Through 11/22 (tickets)
Michael Paulus‘
The Preoccupied Occupant (short film)
NW Film & Video Festival
Through 11/14
This is the final week for SQFT in Portland (click above to see artists). The show, including 50 or so artists, closes this Saturday at the Fishbowl II/Blackfish Gallery (420 NW 9th Ave). After Portland the momentum continues as the show plans to pick up an additional half dozen artists prior to each site in which it lands. The next visit will be to the historical Egyptian Theater in downtown Boise, sponsored by Boise State University Visual Arts Center, opening in mid-November. I will keep you posted on further plans here.
You know, being on the coast (where it was 20-35 degrees cooler) without cellphone/internet connectivity over the last several days was refreshing. I should just turn it all off every other day. Start my own personal (r)evolution. The following days have me installing SQFT at Blackfish Gallery. Don’t forget to peak inside the window on 1st Thursday, the Fishbowl II that is. Then I’m off, taking an 18-hour train ride towards the city by the Bay.
PROMENADE
Featuring Bill Boese, Seth Nehil, Linda K. Johnson, Bill Will and more…
Place: South Waterfront AiR Series
Time/Tix: 1 Hour Before Sundown, Free (bring a picnic)
FLASH CHOIR/Caesar’s Gate
by Portland Musician and Composer Sarah Dougher
Place: Reed College Chapel
Time/Tix: 7pm, Free
LOOK/LISTEN: This is my curatorial non-profit arts radio debut. Broadcast on London-based ResonanceFM today (2PM PST/10PM GST). The station is live 24 hours a day on 104.4FM, they are heard direct in the South Bank and Bankside districts of greater London. Their license covers “practising artists and engaged consumers and persons standing outside mainstream media”. This is part of the show ‘Framework‘ produced by Patrick McGinley (aka Murmer) of Perruel, France. For this invitational I selected work from international composers cross the dividing lines of Asia, The Americas (with a few folks from the region represented here), Oceania and Europe. The sound works presented are generated from or within a perspective of visual/space, most making their debut right here. These works use kinetics, or are related to film/video work, or have been used in an installation context. Presented as part of ‘Continental In[di]visibility‘ they form an invisible bond as these artists all work with a/v environments, bringing about a deeper listening and visualization experience for listeners. ResonanceFM (The Guardian says) is celebrating ten years, having originally debuted with a program by the legendary John Peel.
You can either stream (for up to one week) or listen live. Below is a complete tracklist. Sit back and relax, enjoy the show….
_1
Brume
“Avec Pas Grang Chose”
Time: 5:50
Taken from: Erzatz #0 / Tout
_2
Seth Nehil
“Twine”
Time: 6:59
Unreleased (inspired by sci-fi sound design).
_3
Yann Novak
“Studio Window (edit)”
Time: 4:00
Unreleased (based on recordings taken outside his studio window).
_4
Pe Lang + Zimoun
“Untitled Sound Objects”
Time: 6:15
Live Installation Performance Recording.
_5
Ethan Rose
“Rise” (excerpt)
Time: 5:53
Unreleased and taken from “Rise” (a film by Ryan Jeffery).
_6
skoltz_kolgen
“uskuge 01c”
Time: 7:49
Taken from a performance / installation “ASKAA”
Inspired by China tour using field recordings and Chinese instruments in digital processing. This installation uses an aleatorik meditative garden on 5 screens.
_7
Alexei Borisov & Anton Nikkila
“Lecture on Electronic Music”
Time: 00:55
Unreleased
_8
Gal
“shinkai” (excerpt)
Time: 3:09
This is an excerpt from the audio portion of an “audio-architectural” installation in collaboration with Yumi Kori (presented 2006 at ISE Foundation, NYC, and 2007 at Japan Society, NYC).
_9
Clinker
“Provody - to accompany a new terrain”
Time: 5:44
Completely re-worked excerpt from ‘Provody’ with vocal treatment.
_10
Steve Peters
“First Light, Last” (Edit)
Time: 6:00
Taken from the video installation with Christine Wallers at Portland Art Center. The sound is all derived from a field recording made on the beach at Kalaloch, WA as night fell.
_11
Richard Francis
“Her Watery Eyes”
Time: 5:10
Originally for a group sound installation. Remixed and unreleased. Inspired by a short moment of sound captured while walking past a water fountain in Auckland.
