Join me and Carrie Dashow on Thursday January 11, 2007, for a performance of Under Island and a shape note singing school at Gigantic ArtSpace in New York. The singing school will be held from 5-7 PM and the performance begins at 7:30 PM.
Singing school participants will learn the basics of shape note singing and will learn original shape note songs that will be featured in the performance later that evening. Carrie Dashow will join the singing school to give an introduction to the Under Island story and the practice of subliminal history.
During the performance of Carrie’s Under Island story, the singing school class will join Carrie, Jesse, and the audience in singing several shape note songs, from the workshop.
I’m proud to announce the release of a new CD, Under Island, in partnership with Gigantic ArtSpace. The CD, a collaboration with Carrie Dashow, features eleven original shape note songs telling the subliminal history of Roosevelt Island.
The limited edition CD comes packaged in a paperboard case with a screenprinted cover, and includes an editioned, hand-printed tunebook containing scores to the songs so you can sing along.
You can listen to the Under Island CD at Gigantic ArtSpace at 59 Franklin Street in Manhattan, where the disc is for sale through January. On December 9, you can buy the CD at La Superette at Eyebeam in Chelsea.
Documentation of the Subliminal History of New York State, Rosendale Edition, will be included this week in “LOOK@ROSENDALE,” a show at Rosendale’s No_Space Gallery. The show is a part of Listen with Your Eyes, a video festival held annually in Rosendale.
Our video is a three minute reprise of the event, featuring the song “Mortal Mortar Made of Death,” and edited by Carrie Dashow. The show at No_Space Gallery opens November 10, with a reception from 6-9 PM and will remain installed through November 17.
Visit the Festival web page for more information.
Gigantic Art Space is exhibiting Under Island, Carrie Dashow’s artist’s book featuring my typography and original shape note compositions. The show “Special_Reconnaissance” at GAS will also include new sound recordings of 11 songs from Under Island, recorded at the Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale, NY.
“Special_Reconnaissance” opens Thursday November 9 from 5-9 and stays open through January 19. On January 11, I will lead a shape note singing workshop at the gallery with Carrie, followed by a performance from The Subliminal History of New York State.
North Adams, a sound installation created in collaboration with Carrie Dashow, will be included in “Made in North Adams,” a show set to open this Friday November 3, at the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, MA.
North Adams is a sound installation featuring an original shape note song that I wrote in 2005 to a text written by Carrie Dashow. The song was a component of the sound for Pent-Up and Under Gone. The North Adams installation features a recording of the song sung by five shape note singers and is accompanied by a score, typeset for the show.
I’m five days into my weeklong AIRtime Residency at free103point9’s Wave Farm in Acra, NY. I’ve been making a lot of progress toward realizing an interactive installation of the Azariah songs in a forest setting.
I’ve also been captivated by the abundance of mushrooms along the paths through Wave Farm’s forest. There must be tens of thousands of mushrooms here, and dozens of varieties. I’ve been photographing the mushrooms as I work in the forest, and I’ve been posting the pictures to Flickr along with text mostly about the mushrooms, but intermittently detailing the work I’ve been doing.
See the Mushrooms:
I’m excited to have the opportunity to work on an installation version of my MFA Thesis project Azariah: Whom Jehovah Helps in an AIRtime Residency at free103point9’s Wave Farm. My week-long residency this September will explore the thematic connection between radio and prophecy.
I will also be creating a prototype for an outdoor, radio version of the Azariah story installed in a forest setting.
See the free103point9 newsroom for more information on my project and a list of this year’s other Residency recipients.