I sent this out a day ago, but it was not delivered by the
mail service, maybe too too long
So I shorten it and include only the things that still go on
But two events, one from APO33 in Nantes and Art Zoyd, of Valenciennes, France, happened today, and are archived, you can find
us in the list, here - https://p-node.org/
Also, there is a hang out after the Sun Ra videos, at:
https://zoom.us/j/7890593491?pwd=Yyt1cFpQOWFYTTJnWFJOdG5OaGdGUT09
Meeting
ID: 789 059 3491
Passcode: 9KZkfA
Re-run
re-run re-run
A
personal note (i knew you never expected that)
I
had a tooth extracted today, even a post/implant, sad to see it go, and to
assuage the pain, there was not much, I drank some bourbon from kentucky (now
it's the next day, and there is no pain from the tooth and only a slight
hangover from the bourbon)
And
I am listening to music on youtube, very nostalgic to me, people I photographed
in the early sixties, coleman hawkins, ben webster, brubeck and desmond, etc
But
we are re-running the tribute to Sun Ra, my film and Dave Soldier's Opera,
which was technically aborted during a snow storm in early february
And
here are a coupla other events, beginning Feb 28
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on
Monday, March 1, at 8 PM
on
Fridmangallery.com
My
film, The Magic Sun, is first
Here
is the full text of Dave's explo:
PREMIERE OF THE EIGHTH HOUR OF AMDUAT, AN OPERA BASED ON THE
OLDEST SURVIVING MUSICAL SCORE
Musicians:
Rita Lucarelli, Egyptology and translation of hieroglyphs to Italian, Sahoko
Sato Timpone, Mistress of the Boat, Mezzosoprano
Marshall
Allen, Sun Ra, saxophone & electronic valve instrument (EVI), Rebecca
Cherry, Horus of Fragrance, violin, Dan Blacksberg, Wepwawet, trombone
Nick
Millevoi, Sia, guitar, Michael Winograd, Nehes, C clarinet, Enrique
Rivera-Matos, Hu, tuba, Adam Vidiksis, Conductor, Akhmed Manedov, violin
Juana
Pinilla Paez, violin, Olivia Gusmano, viola, Carolina Diazgronados, cello, Dani
Bash, harp, Anthony di Bartolo, percussion
Thomas
Kolakowski, percussion, Dave Soldier, water bowls, electronics
Choir:
Chace Simmonds-Frith, Natasha Thweatt, Sophie Laruelle, Xiaoming Tian, Eugene
Sirotkine, Alicia Waller, Melinda Learnard, Sahoko Sato Timpone
Marshall
Allen, the leader of the Sun Ra Arkestra, is featured in the part of the
Egyptian god Sun Ra, in Dave Soldier’s new classical/jazz/electronic opera
based
on the
oldest musical score known, the 8th hour of the Book of the Amduat. In this
verison from 1425 BC, the sounds and music are clearly specified during
Sun Ra’s
nightly travels on the underworld river to age, die, and be reborn to rise
again every morning. The ancient heiroglyphs are translated to Italian by
Egyptologist
Ritat Lucarrelli (professor at UC Berkely) and the parts of the other gods and
demons are sung by mezzosoprano (Sahoko Sato TImpone from the
Metropolitan
Opera) and a choir and by additional improvisers (Dan Blacksberg, Nick
Millevoi, Michael Winograd, Rebecca Cherry) with a classical orchestra,.
In this
video premiere of the opera, Soldier has animated the ancient book from 3500
years ago.
Marshall
Allen plays the alto saxophone and EWI electronic wind instrument as Sun Ra,
who doesn’t speak in the book but calls the other gods and demons,
and this 96
year old master musician, performing in a version of the world’s oldest musical
text, sounds more Futuristic than anyone else ever has.
The Book of the Amduat is painted on walls
in the tombs of the Valley of the Kings and many papyri, using the version in
Tuthmose III's tomb, who ruled Egypt from 1485-1431 BC. He is widely thought to
be the Pharaoh of Exodus: if it wasn't him, it was a close relative. He
co-ruled at first with the female Pharaoh, Hatsepsut, and was great grandfather
to Akhenaten. He built the obelisks known as Cleopatra's Needle, one of which
is on the Thames in London, and the other is near East 81st street in Central Park
in New York City.
Each morning, Sun Ra emerges from a hole in the east and
sails on a river through our sky. After he descends he continue from west to
east on the river through the underworld, the Amudat, to reemerge in the
morning. Each night he dies, but is reborn in the 6th night hour when he unites
with Osiris and defeats the serpent, Apep.
The piece takes place during the
8th hour of the night, Mistress of deep night, in the city of the 8th hour,
Sarcophagus of her gods. Sun Ra and his companions on the boat are being hauled
by a choir on the underworld river. During the hour they are clothed and
encounter other gods who live in ten caverns along the shore, along with living
knives who defeat their enemies and four sacred rams. By earliest sound score,
Dave Soldier means that the specific sounds from each group of gods in each
cavern of the city are described quite literally during the trip.
And a few other things, now:
Audioblast
Festival #9
- From Friday 26 to Sunday 28 February
Co-production Apo33 (Nantes, France) and Art Zoyd Studios
(Valenciennes, France)
Curation: Kasper T Toeplitz & Julien Ottavi
- Niblock + Liberovskaya & Niblock +
Ottavi and Toeplitz (Noizzze)
Saturday 27 February at 22:00 in France (4pm NYC)
A set
alternating between parts featuring Katherine Liberovskaya performing live
visuals to Phill Niblock mixing field recordings and a section with
pre-recorded composition and video by Niblock accompanied by live musicians
- part 1:
Katherine
Liberovskaya (live visuals and live sounds) with Phill Niblock (field
recordings)
- part 2:
Music by Phill Niblock "Noizzze" (2020, 23
min)
[recorded samples by I R E :Kasper Toeplitz, bass; Franck
Vigroux, guitar; Helene Brischand, harp]
joined live by Kasper Toeplitz, Julien Ottavi on modified
basses and Jenny Pickett on guitar
- part 3:
Katherine
Liberovskaya (Visual Foley: live visuals via live cameras) with Phill Niblock
(field recordings)
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[Feb
28] ZOOM IN: OLAP #4 With guest Kat Mustatea
Our collaboration
with Harvestworks continues with our forth ZOOM IN: OLAP (Online Live Art Performance) community
discussion forum. For this event we have invited artist Kat Mustatea to
talk about EdgeCut , a monthly performance series curated by her and
Heidi
Boisvert that explores our complex relationship to the digital
and, since COVID, to the virtual.
Date: February 28, 2021
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm New York Time
(EST)
Location: online on Zoom. Free.
https://www.harvestworks.org/feb-28-zoom-in-olap-4-with-guest-kat-mustatea/=========