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DEC 06
It
Takes a Village
6+1=x
sTRANGEmUSIC's
studio will be closed for the holidays and will open again in late January. Happy
New Year.
Come on lucky Number?
"Be
seeing you."
01
DEC 06
Legendary Avant Garde Brazilian Director Gerald Thomas Debuts New Work in NYC
EARTH
IN TRANCE
December 14
- 30 at La MaMa E.T.C.
“ a daring innovator of form and content... highly personal and visually beautiful creations” -- The New York Times
“ingenious and daring... Thomas, together with Peter Sellars and Robert Wilson, makes up that trio of wild boys who have been shaking and moving European and American theatre for the last decade.” -- The Independent
“He is a poet in the theater.” -- Philip Glass
La
MaMa E.T.C. presents the New York Premiere of Brazil's Dry Opera Theater Company
in EARTH IN TRANCE. This highly stylized comedy is written and directed
by avant garde legend Gerald
Thomas. The original Brazilian cast, which includes Fabiana Gugli and
puppeteer Juliano Antunes, stars in Thomas' new English language translation of
the piece.
Performances of this limited engagement run begin December
14th at La MaMa as part of its 45th Anniversary Season.
EARTH IN TRANCE orbits around a diva who is trapped in her dressing room. While she slowly goes mad, she tells her life story to a swan who lives back stage. Descending into madness, she never stops feeding the animal “for foie gras purposes.”
Described by The New York Times as “the eternal enfant terrible of Brazilian theater” Gerald Thomas has established a reputation as a visionary director of the avant garde while working in collaboration with artists including Samuel Beckett, Heiner Muller and Philip Glass. From 1979 - 1984 he directed 98 plays by Beckett at La MaMa; included among these were All Strange Away and That Time starring Julian Beck in his only performances outside The Living Theatre. In 1985, Thomas founded The Dry Opera Theater Company in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Here he has created nearly two dozen works including The Flash and Crash Days, The Kafka Trilogy, The Ventriloquist and Waiting for Beckett that have been seen in 15 countries with stops including Lincoln Center, Munich State Theater and Vienna's Wiener Festwochen. Thomas is the recipient of three Moliere Prizes and eighteen other awards. He has been the subject of television documentaries for the Germany's NDR 3, Brazil's TV Cultura, USA's PBS and Austria's ORF. In 2003, he was indicted for public indecency in Brazil after mooning an audience who booed his radical reworking of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, sparking debate and landing his derriere on newspaper covers internationally. He is currently working on his autobiography, Suicide Note.
EARTH
IN TRANCE runs December 14 - 30, Thursday - Saturday
at 8:00pm and Sunday at 2:30pm & 8:00pm. (Note: no performance on December
24.) La MaMa E.T.C. is located at 74 East 4th Street (between 2nd Avenue and Bowery
-- accessible from the F/V train at 2nd Avenue or the 6 train at Astor Place).
Tickets are $15.
To purchase tickets call 212-475-7710 or visit www.lamama.org.
27
NOV 06
Reviews of NEW SCIENCE
Photo:
John Ranard
"At the end, the characters
recede out of sight, and all we are left with is music. Music qualifies as an
organizing principle for this play because it is a collapse of science and art,
mathematical and emotional, imaginative. The play itself becomes a song, that
age-old bearer of history, or vision and poetry, and of freedom." - Anitta
Santiago
"The
new music, composed by Patrick Grant, adds to the otherworldliness." - Maria
Micheles
Full
reviews of the recent play NEW SCIENCE can be found HERE.
01
NOV 06
A Play with Live Music
New
Science
Directed
by Martin Reckhaus
Book by Jessica
Slote
Designed by Gary Brackett
& Pamela Mayo
Music by Patrick Grant
A rare opportunity to catch this defiant theater group accompanied by
the musicians:
Adela María Bolet -
mezzo
& Naisha Walton - acoustic bass
Theater
for the New City
Seven Performances Only! • $10
Theater
for the New City • 155 First Avenue @ 10th St.
Thurs.-Sun., Nov. 16-19
• Fri.-Sun., Nov. 24-26
For
information go to
Theater
for the New City
Limited Seating • For reservations call (212) 254-1109
23
OCT 06
A
HALLOWEEN CLASSIC
iMAGINARY hORROR fILM
Free MP3s HERE
Part One
01. Main Title & The Accident
02. Hospital
03. Nine Months Later
04. Daily Living (Gnossienne No. 3.5)
05. Baiting the Trap
06. Going for a Drive
Total Running: 8'48"
Part Two
07. Cemetery
08. Hitchhiker No. 3
09. Unsuspecting Victim
10. Under
the Knife
11. Evening Prayer
12. New Day to Face
13. End Title
Total Running: 7'45"
03
OCT 06
PG Performs on Barbara Benary's New World Records Release
New
World Records has released a recording of the music
of Barbara
Benary called Sun
on Snow. PG is a performer with old pals Gamelan
Son of Lion on her piece "Aural Shoehorning."
The title refers to the listener’s tendency to confront unusual tuning systems,
such as those of Javanese gamelan, by trying to “shoehorn” them into
the framework of our familiar diatonic scales. Heterophony is the overall theme
of the piece, and the various ways in which a gamelan and a diatonic ensemble
of clarinet/bass clarinet and keyboard percussion can interact as a mixed marriage
in which neither partner attempts to convert the other.
More
iNFO HERE
27
SEP 06
Internet Killed the Video Star...?
A
clip of Part 3 from the Columbus performance noted below can be seen above and HERE on YouTube. Thanks to Jeff Sims at
the Columbus Museum for creating this and getting it up. As he said, just
gotta love that YouTube compression quality <---
irony
HISTORICAL BLACK
MUSIC ROLLER COASTER
Featuring Shequida
Music
arranged and produced by Patrick Grant
A
co-commission of the Columbus
Museum of Art and Kehinde
Wiley Studio
Part 3: Rap Medley (06:16)
Crazy in Love (Intro)
Naughty Girl
Golddigger
How
Many Licks?
Nasty Girl
Push It
Soprano
solo - Shequida
Tenor
- Eric
McKeever
Baritone - Patrick Carmichael
Bass
- Cory Williams
The
West Village Ensemble
Flute
- Richard
Stewart
Violin - Orlando Wells
Violin
- David Burnett
Viola - Adam Hill
Cello
- Ryan Murphy
Harpsichord - Byron Sean
Double
Bass - Jonathan Colbert
15
SEP 06
Shequida
& The West Village Ensemble
Performing Historical
Black Music Roller Coaster Featuring Shequida at the opening of Kehinde
Wiley: Columbus on September 7 at
the Columbus Museum
of Art.
From Columbus Alive:
Royal
Treatment
by
Nikki Davis
To get a little perspective on the artist behind the Columbus Museum of Art exhibition
Kehinde Wiley: Columbus, last Thursday's opening reception was a great place to
start.
After the introductions were made, an all-black orchestra accompanied
by the striking black drag queen Shequida launched into a rousing operatic version
of Salt 'n Pepa's "Push It."
Rhythmically challenged or not,
most everyone from silver-haired arts patrons to neighborhood teenagers sang along
while Shequida, looking exquisite in her pistachio appliquéd evening
gown, launched into the worm.
It was an amazing spectacle, and probably
the most incongruent gathering of people seen at the museum in recent memory.
But it all seemed so right—and it was hands-down the best place to be in
the city that night.
Read
more...
Photo
credits: Pam Edwards - Columbus
Museum of Art
===============================================================
11
SEP 06
New
York City
10 SEP 06
COLUMBUS,
OH & The Art Parade, NYC
For
the opening of Kehinde
Wiley's exhibition COLUMBUS,
the Columbus Museum
of Art and Kehinde Wiley Studio co-commissioned two pieces of music
for the events collectively called HISTORICAL
BLACK MUSIC ROLLER COASTER (Hip-Hop Experience V).
The first piece, Featuring
SHEQUIDA, performed on Sept. 7, was a veritable
cantata in 12 parts making up its four larger sections. It is scored for Shequida as soprano solo, tenor, baritone and bass singers, flute,
2 violins, viola, cello, double bass and harpsichord.
PERFORMANCE
PIX COMING SOON
The
second piece, performed on Sept. 8, is called hIP-hOP
eXPERIENCE IV, a suite of instrumental pieces of hip-hop played
the the musicians for both of these events, The West Village Ensemble.
Inquiries
regarding the AUDIO files of the performance can be sent to: iNFO@strangemusic.com
Kehinde
Wiley on The TODAY Show - May 06 - YouTube
The
performance took place in the museum's Derby Court.
The harpsichord was built and supplied by the clavier guy of Central Ohio, Ben Bechtel. Beautiful instrument.
Back
view of the Derby Court.
At
reheasal - members of The West Village Ensemble from NYC: Orlando Wells (violin), David Burnett (violin), Adam Hill (viola), and Richard Stewart (flute).
At
rehearsal - the continuo, the rhythm section for the performances: Ryan
Murphy (cello), Byron Sean (harpsichord), and Jonathan Colbert (double bass).
At
rehearsal - Kehinde Wiley talks with one of the students visiting from
the neighboring Columbus College
of Art & Design.
Introductions
just before the Sept. 7 performance of HISTORICAL
BLACK MUSIC ROLLER COASTER (Hip-Hop Experience V) - Featuring SHEQUIDA: Nannette
Maciejunes
(Acting
Executive Director of the Columbus Museum of Art), Kehinde Wiley, and Joe Houston (Associate Curator of Contemporary Art).
PERFORMANCE
PIX COMING SOON
The
West Village Ensemble performing hIP-hOP
eXPERIENCE IV at The King Arts
Complex on Sept. 8.
On Sept. 9 NYC had its 2nd Annual ART
PARADE, a co-production of Deitch
Projects, Creative
Time, and PAPER magazine.
It had floats and art from As
Four, Ryan McGinness, Steve
Powers, The
Citizens Band, Os
Gemeos, Brad
Kahlhamer, Kehinde
Wiley, Fischerspooner, Vanessa Beecroft, The
Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, etc.
Performing
in the parade was The Marching Band of the Malcom X Shabazz High School from Newark, NJ. They
performed the music for the opening of Kehinde Wiley's Rumors
of War (Hip-Hop Experience II) last November at Deitch Projects.
Rumors
of War at Deitch Projects - Nov. 05 -
Quicktime Movie - 77 MB
Making
a joyful noise...
During
the march, band director Hassan Williams gives a shout out.
Self-portrait
taken in a passing mirror.
11
JUL 06
BIG BANG Going to the Next Level
The
musical work BIG
BANG Version 1.0 is been further developed for multimedia building upon the work done last spring.
Stay tuned for next phase!
More details TBA
23
JUN 06
Musée du Quai Branly Opens in Paris
The Musée
du quai Branly, known in English as the Quai Branly Museum, nicknamed MKB, is a new museum in Paris, France, situated close to the Eiffel Tower.
It opened on June 23, 2006.
The
Quai Branly Museum features indigenous art, cultures and civilisations from Africa,
Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. It contains over 300,000 objects and has 10 special
exhibits every year.
During
its creation PG's music has been used in its promotional videos and he was commissioned
to create music for one of its interactive installations, a piece titled, appropriately, *musique du quai Branly.
04
JUN 06
LA
/// KEHINDE WILEY BRINGS THE HEAT...
hIP-hOP
eXPERIENCE III by Patrick
Grant was performed by string quartet members of The Young Eight at the opening reception June 3rd.
(From Supertouch by Jaime O'Shea): LA's native son Kehinde Wiley brought the heat back home when his new show "Columbus" opened at Roberts & Tilton last nite. Needless to say it was a mob scene as K-Dub's fans packed the gallery, spilling into the parking lot as the nite wore on. Six enormous paintings were debuted along with a small series of drawings, all spoken for before the doors even opened. The highlight of the evening? A quartet of violinists playing classical versions of hip-hop songs. Our man does it up right...
More
pictures etc. HERE
22
MAY 06
BIG BANG: Any Questions?
vidcaps
from performance video
On May 21, the new music series ONE-TWO-THREE-GO!
Version 3.0 finished its season at THEATERLAB with Patrick Grant Group performing
the initial version of BIG BANG, instrumental works, and screenings of
films by Gary Beeber.
Charles Liu narrated, Meredith
Borden sang, and Kathleen Supové, Marija Ilic and John
Ferrari rocked the roof off. Audio &
video to be posted soon.
Click HERE for more iNFO
08
MAY 06
Could a Flute Get Much Fiercer?
On May 7, the new music series ONE-TWO-THREE-GO!
Version 3.0 continued its season at THEATERLAB with Margaret Lancasterr - Fierce Flute Fusion + Guests..
Complete photos from this event can be found HERE.
This
6 concert series takes place on aLTernate Sundays with the next event taking place
on May 21.
Click HERE for
more iNFO
01
MAY 06
Hip-Hop String Quartet Music for Art Gallery Opening in LA
Kehinde
Wiley, The Three Graces, 2005
Kehinde
Wiley
Columbus
June 3 – July 8, 2006
Opening Reception Saturday, June 3rd,
6 - 8 pm
Columbus, an exhibition
by New York based artist Kehinde
Wiley, whose portraits of African American men combine elements of modern
culture with an Old Master’s influence, will be on view June 3, 2006 through
July 8, 2006 at Roberts
& Tilton.
hIP-hOP
eXPERIENCE III by Patrick Grant will be performed by members of The Young Eight at the opening
reception.
The exhibition will consist of an environment referencing staid,
museum traditions and philosophies. Each of Wiley’s paintings included in
the exhibition is based on specific masterworks from the Columbus
Museum’s permanent collection where the exhibit will travel in September,
2006. For this event the music's instrumentation will be augmented to that of
a full baroque ensemble and will feature the vocals of the coloratura soprano Shequida.
25
APR 06
Anti-Dyspeptic Inflammable Flapping Chewable Cymbal Crushers
On April 23, the new music series ONE-TWO-THREE-GO!
Version 3.0 continued its season at THEATERLAB with David Simons and Lisa
Karrer - New Music for Voice,
Theremin, Slide Guitar & Percussion. Audio
& video to be posted soon.
This 6 concert series takes place
on aLTernate Sundays with the next event taking place on May 7.
Click HERE for more iNFO
22
APR 06
Downtown Gamelan on WNYC
Listen to the clangorous sounds of gamelan-inspired music from New York’s "downtown" scene on this New Sounds. Gamelan is a group of instruments meant to be played together, generally struck or hammered, from the Javanese, "gamel," and can include tuned metallophones, various gongs, flutes, drums and other percussion. Hear works from the new music ensemble Gamelan Son of Lion, whose instruments were built by Barbara Benary using hubcaps, PVC pipes, steel keys and cans. There’s also music from composer David Simons, whose instrument textures range from theremin to the chain saw, and from the Slinky® to gamelan. Plus, music by Patrick Grant, and more.
PROGRAM
# 2538, Downtown Gamelan
(First
aired on Friday, April 21, 2006)
ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
David Simons |
Prismatic Hearing |
The Unraveling [6:00] |
Tzadik
#9001** |
Patrick Grant |
Music From The Red Night |
Monogram for Gamelan [4:30] |
Private CD http://www.strangemusic.com/ |
Gamelan Galak Tika |
Dangerous Things |
D.Schmidt: A Dangerous Thing [5:30] |
Gamelan Galak Tika, no # http://www.galaktika.org/ |
Evan Ziporyn & Nyoman Windha |
American Works For Balinese Gamelan |
Kekembangan [15:30] |
New World #80430 http://www.newworldrecords.com/ |
Gamelan Son of Lion |
Bending The Gending |
Pitu Ping Pitu [5:30] |
GSOL #3 http://www.gamelan.org/sonoflion* |
Gamelan Pacifica |
Trance Gong |
Jeff Morris: Rain [11:00] |
WhatNext #0016 http://www.gamelanpacifica.org/gamelan |
10
APR 06
The TODD & LUKE Show
On April 9, the new music series ONE-TWO-THREE-GO!
Version 3.0 continued its season at THEATERLAB with Todd Reynolds and Luke
DuBois - Audio & Video
Tag-Teaming for Fun & Profit a.k.a.
The Todd and Luke Show. Audio &
video to be posted soon.
This 6 concert
series takes place on aLTernate Sundays with the next event taking place on April
23.
Click HERE for more iNFO
27
MAR 06
IN the dOGhOUSE with BORDEN & CATLER
On March 26, the new music series ONE-TWO-THREE-GO!
Version 3.0 continued its season at THEATERLAB with DogHouse Blues performed
by vocalist Meredith Borden and composer/guitarist Jon Catler.
Audio & video to be posted soon.
This 6 concert series takes place
on aLTernate Sundays with the next event taking place on April 9.
Click HERE for more iNFO
15
MAR 06
SUPOVÉ & WOOLF Rock 'em & Sock 'em at the ONE-TWO-THREE-GO! Opening
On March 12, the new music series ONE-TWO-THREE-GO!
Version 3.0 kicked off its season at THEATERLAB with The Exploding Piano performed
by pianist/rant-euse Kathleen Supové with composer/CD turntablist Randall Woolf. Audio & video to be posted soon.
This 6 concert
series takes place on aLTernate Sundays with the second concert taking place on
March 26.
Click HERE for
more iNFO.
01
MAR 06
sTRANGEmUSIC on the SUNDANCE CHANNEL
RESIST!
with the Living Theatre
Winner for Best Picture - San Francisco
Documentary Film Festival
Winner of the EuropaCinema Award for Best Documentary
2004
- 89 mins - Color
Nudity, Violence, Adult Language, Adult Content
The
SUNDANCE Channel
Monday, March 6 at 09:00 PM
Monday, March
6 at 05:15 AM
Wednesday, March 15 at 12:00 PM
Watch the trailer HERE
More
than 50 years ago, Judith Malina and her husband, painter Julian Beck,
founded The Living Theatre, a revolutionary ensemble that altered the history
of the western stage. Filmmakers Karin Kaper and Living Theatre veteran Dirk Szuszies trace the
company's dramatic and colorful history with interviews and archive film clips.
Today The Living Theatre remains vibrant under the direction of Malina, and is
seen staging politically active events and locations around the world, from the
Genoa G8 conference in 2001 to New York's Ground Zero.
Starring Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Hanon Reznikov & the Living
Theatre
Narrated by Dirk Szuszies
Produced by Eric Van Beuren (Belgium/Germany)
Screenplay by Dirk Szuszies
Photography by
Dieter Vervuurt
Edited by Alain De Halleux
Original Music by Carlo Altomare, Patrick
Grant, & Andrea Liberovici
IMDb:
Internet Movie Database
09
FEB 06
ONE-TWO-THREE-GO! Version 3.0 New Music Series Starting March 12
ONE-TWO-THREE-GO!
Web Page
06 JAN 06
A Commission for a Concert
Theater Work about the Big Bang and the Origins of the Universe
The City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate
Center New Media Lab has commissioned a new piece of concert theater that
will be created and directed by Patrick Grant for its Spring
2006 Science & the Arts series. The piece will feature renowned astronomer Charles Liu as narrator.
The premiere will take place on May 15, 2006 at CUNY's Elebash Recital Hall.
More
details TBA
05 JAN 06
PG Named
Co-Director of the Paralelo Festival in Madrid, Spain & Monterrey, Mexico
The impact that a Festival like Paralelo has on the community is primarily due to the possibility offered to all citizens to be active in this cultural melting pot. This is an event of the highest artistic level and it involves everyone. Paralelo brings artists and music closer to the public, with the ultimate purpose of musical creation in a much less rigid structure.
Parelelo takes advantage of public and private spaces, to use them as auditoriums that revitalize the city and free the music from clichés. Paralelo is directly involved with and participates in the cultural and artistic development of the neighborhoods that are chosen, regardless of their economic status. Paralelo brings the artists and the public closer together. Paralelo is a cultural meeting point where artists of all nationalities find the right setting for artistic creation.
Paralelo presents concert cycles that take place in un-conventional venues, with the main objective of stimulating and welcoming all citizens to enjoy the music of our time. Paralelo offers the public an unusually broad repertoire and premieres a significant number of new works. Paralelo constantly searches for a public that is stimulated by an attractive, dynamic and innovative offering.
Paralelo not only presents different musical trends, but it also fosters interaction with other artistic disciplines which encourages creation.
The Sociedad Artística
Daniel is in charge of Paralelo's
programming. The Sociedad, founded in New York City almost one hundred years ago,
has been responsible for the promotion of classical music in North and South America
as well as in Europe. NYC composer Patrick Grant,
founder of sTRANGEmUSIC, and Indonesian musician Ananda
Sukarlan, pianist responsible for the premier of more than 100 works,
are co-directors of Paralelo.
More
details TBA
01
JAN 06
Duty Now for the Future
Hey
spuds! It's a silly song for the New Year
sung by PG's nieces and family in Detroit.
Written by Patrick & Daniel
Grant
Performed by Courtney & Meghan Gowan, Mike & Gael Giles, Patrick
& Daniel Grant
Engineered by and recorded at the studio of Warren Williams
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