Earth Stories in the Illuminated Forest

Featuring performances and talks by Paul Rudy & Peter Rand, Jay Kreimer and AmbientBlack

Tall tales from the third rock from the Sun. Sound artist Jay Kreimer becomes a sound farmer conducting live and recorded sounds and audience members playing the handmade instruments. “Green Corn and the City” is an innovative audience-interactive composition and installation exploring the minute sounds in our environment and the human intervention of these sounds. Using three sets of sound sources: field recordings of growing corn, live sound feeds from a piezo-wired performance space, and the sounds of handmade musically instruments, mostly constructed from repurposed materials such as weed wacker cord remnants, hollow core doors, old return springs from lawn mowers.

Composer Paul Rudy and Video artist Peter Rand presents “Gaia/Sophia Stories”, a new composition finding the voice of the earth. Gaia is the Greek deity of the earth and Sophia the goddess of wisdom. Rudy explores his personal journey to learn the songs of mother earth, and invite listeners to take a closer look of their interaction with our planet. The performance uses vocalizations, drums, singing bowls, rattles, cactus and other small instruments, and live video by artist Peter Rand exploring wind, rain and clouds. Sonic duo AmbientBlack conjures “Green Electrons” investigating social and environmental responsibilities using a variety of electronic devices, resulting in a two-dimensional sonic tapestry. For centuries, electrons created technologies that assist us and have adverse consequences on our social fabric, communications, health, and environment. AmbientBlack explores electrons that are “green” not by their nature but by virtue of their application. Kriemer and Rudy will conduct artist talks of their work after the performances.

Paul Rudy, composer, has won Rome Prize, Guggenheim, Fulbright and Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowships. His music has received international awards and performances. He teaches at the Conservatory at the University of Missouri at KC. In 1994 he completed the Colorado Grand Slam after climbing all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000 ft peaks. That goal completed…his current goal is to enjoy surfing the unknown and catch all the things he missed getting to all those summits…Rudy’s 2012 Stories are available online at iTunes, and also in live performance. Visit: www.paulrudy.com for more information or Facebook (Paul Rudy and MotherEarths Voice) and myspace.com/twistedtrailmusic. CD’s are available at aucourantrecords.com.
http://r.web.umkc.edu/rudyp/prudy.html

Peter Rand’s (1983) focus in the realm of visual arts, has been embodied by collective works in cinema, installation, video, photography, interactive media, music, and performance. He has designed and taught curriculums for visual arts and new media for the city of Albuquerque NM, and has worked extensively with juvenile detention centers and at-risk youth promoting art as a means of therapy. His work has been screened internationally, and he has performed in conjunction with pop artists Moby, Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk, BT, The Killers, Benny Benassi, Prodigy, and The Crystal Method. Peter Rand continues to use multimedia and diverse forms of expression as resources for which to navigate the individual towards his own perception of values and meaning. - www.peterrandart.com -

Jay Kreimer is a musician, instrument maker, sculptor, composer and educator. More to the point, he is an alchemist of hardware stores, surplus catalogs, and discarded objects, who assembles new things out of scraps of possibility. Kreimer has performed across Europe, including Dublin, Cork, London, Glasgow, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris, and played at D-22 in Beijing. He presented an interactive talk/performance at the 2008 ISIM conference in Denver, and Santa Cruz. In collaboration with Wendy Weiss, he has shown sound and sculptural work in Beijing, San Francisco, Vancouver, New York, Washington D.C, and showed a major installation in Kansas City and Tulsa. He spent the winter of 2009 in Vadodara, India, rewiring neuromuscular circuits by studying tabla. Kreimer also performs with The Mighty Vitamins and Seeded Plain.

AmbientBlack is Jim Henriques and David Graves., a premier audio performing and recording duo from their solar-powered music studio is San Francisco. David Graves has been writing and recording music for more than 30 years. He studied composition at the University of Nebraska as well the SF Conservatory of Music and City College of SF. He writes “neoclassical,” ambient, jazz, and rock pieces, and has also scored music for film and theater. David was awarded the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellowship with the Djerassi Resident Artist Program. He wrote six pieces for the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and scored music for Mark Jackson’s production of Miss Julie, as well as pieces for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra. Jim Henriques holds two graduate degrees, one in Physics and the other in Music Composition. Jim had a stint as musical director for the Miami production of The Rocky Horror Show (1978), the film scores for Missing Children (1987), Bloodsuckers (1997), and The Third Society (2001), and the Four for Four classical guitar quartets, published by Dobermann-Yppan in 1995. In addition to AmbientBlack atmospheric recordings, he has a rich portfolio of experience, spanning genres from country and folk to modern art music, rock, and electronica.
http://www.ambientblack.com/
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