Two events this weekend!
Saturday (June 8) is the opening of Water Stories, an exhibition at BioBAT Art Space in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. My friend Anne Hollænder and I are presenting a new version of our interactive musical installation Water the Sounds. The opening event is 5-8pm on Saturday, but if you can’t make it, the show will be up for almost a year. The venue can be hard to find, so check the directions!
Sunday (June 9) is Soundscapes, the annual celebration of sound art at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. Come out to see the latest sound sculpture commissions and visit the permanent ones like my Stone Song! Caramoor is a pleasant ride out of the city on Metro North, so you get to start at Grand Central Terminal.
Performance: Foulbrood Orchestra, 5PM Saturday Feb 17, at BioBAT Art Space, Brooklyn
Join me, sound artists Thessia Machado and John Roach, and violinist Concetta Abbate as we swarm from location to location in the vast, dark, and echoing ground floor spaces of the Brooklyn Army Terminal. The show starts around 5, but come early to explore the exhibition – there’ll be some delicious honey ice cream available to sample courtesy of B-Line Ice Cream, honey mulled wine, and some other bee themed takeaways. John has posted some previews of the performance on Instagram here and here. We’re all working on weird new instruments for this gig!
The performance is part of the exhibition “Embodied Futures and the Ecology of Care” at BioBAT Art Space in Sunset Park and is an extension of John Roach’s installation “Scorched Honey Archive” that explores the complex ecological role of honeybees and other pollinators. BioBAT has more information about the exhibition and more upcoming events.
Getting to BioBAT Art Space can be confusing, because the Brooklyn Army Terminal is a vast maze! Do not enter BAT from 2nd Avenue – take 58th or 63rd St all the way to the parking lot on the river, and you’ll find BioBAT’s entrance facing the river towards the south end of the gigantic building. (Google will tell you it’s in the middle, and Apple will say it’s the north end. Lies!) You can even take the ferry to Sunset Park / BAT and you’re almost there!
ancient animals
To learn how to work with clay, I’ve been copying ancient animals that I find on the web. These were made, with air-dry clay and acrylic paint, between November 2021 and April 2022. Here they are, arranged from youngest to oldest.
Whale effigy, Chumash, 1200-1600 CE
Rattle dog from Athens, 3rd century BCE
Horse, ancient Greek, Boeotian, 6th century BCE
Animal figurine, Late Mycenaean (14th–13th c. BCE)
Hedgehog on wheels, Susa, Iran, Middle Elamite period (1500–1200 BCE)
Spotted dog, Pakistan, Chanhu-Daro, 2600–1900 BCE
Boar, Tepe Sarab, Iranian Neolithic, 9th millennium BCE
COLLAB: JAMIE MARIE ROSE
A collaboration with Jamie Marie Rose!
collab feb: Andrea Dezsö
Andrea Dezsö and I sent a postcard back and forth for a month, drawing on it each time.
I’ll post video here when flickr’s working again; meanwhile you can watch it on instagram.
collab feb: Sam Underwood
Sam Underwood turned an old tape deck into a drum machine, so I turned my old dog into a drum.
I’ll post the video when flickr finishes updating their video servers. Meanwhile, you can watch most of it on instagram.
collab feb: Justin Lacko
Justin sent me some field recordings and a picture of this manuscript page from Luc Ferrari’s Presque Rien #1. I used the page as a score to fade and trigger bits from Justin’s recordings.
I’ll post the video when flickr finishes updating their video servers, or you can watch it on instagram.
collab feb: Martin O’Leary
Martin sent me a recording of his robot plotter doing its thing. I cut the recording up randomly into samples and played Bach’s Invention #6 on it.
collab feb: Andrew Sempere
Andrew sent me an odd assortment of videos, so I decided to see how much I could mess them up using nothing but iMovie.
collab feb: Stephanie Sara Lifshutz
Stephanie (stephaniesaralifshutz.com/) brought the neon, I brought the laser cutter offcuts I’d been saving for years, and we built this blinky disco palace just for one night.