This weekend is the next in the Alembic series of nights of new performance at Performance Works NorthWest (4625 SE 67th). Alembic #9: Organizam: A Mutant Cabaret of Non Acts runs two nights, Friday and Saturday, April 2-3 at 8 PM.
Curated by sound poet, Fluxus artist Mark Owens, Organizumb is “humor-based, conceptual, non-dramatic events informed from experimental traditions such as Dada, Situationists, and Fluxus. Two nights blending words, laughs, music, dancing, props, concepts, video, (non-) acting, games, sounds, implosions, with live humans with John Berendzen, Tony Christy, Maria Jose Gonzalez, James Yeary, Maryrose Larkin, Eric Matchett & Jake Anderson, Anna Daedalus, Leo Daedalus, David Abel, J.A. Lee, Crag Hill, Linda Austin. ”
POSTED: April 2nd, 2010 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: performance | TAGS: alembic, anna daedalus, crag hill, david abel, eric matchett, j.a. lee, jake anderson, james yeary, john berendzen, leo daedalus, linda austin, maria jose gonzalez, mark owens, maryrose larkin, tony christy | No Comments »
Performance series “The Metaphysics of Notation” finds abstract notation interpreted through a kaleidoscope of methods: theater, movement, music, and sound poem. Third Angle and Portland Center Stage have invited a number of artists from different disciplines to interpret “The Metaphysics of Notation,” an epic graphic score by Mark Applebaum currently installed on the mezzanine at the Gerding Theater at the Armory. Today at noon, sound poetry ensemble Blum Blum Shub Sound Poetry Coincidence (featuring David Abel, Leo Daedalus, and mARK oWEns) interpret the 72-foot long work.
Leo Daedalus of Blum Blum Shub (named for a random number generator) said this about the performance:
“The Metaphysics of Notation” score comprises three sets of graphic expression:
1) structural marks; 2) marks that are proxies for other marks; 3) indecisive marks
Applying to those sets the methodologies advanced in E. S. Segrob’s Handbook of Unforeseen Categories (El manual de las categorías imprevistas, Naguara, 1936) I will construct a vocal body of filler concepts (see Wirklichstein, Der Füllselbegriff) in blind concordance with the blackbox predicates (Bazzutti, Gli sguardi incombenti; Jäänenä, Miksi kuka?) of my colleagues, Messrs. Abel, Owens, and Nenhum (in absentia).
The series is in anticipation of Third Angle’s concert “Chance/Perchance: A Musical Happening,” on Friday, March 5 — featuring work by David Schiff, Terry Riley and Mark Applebaum — at the Hollywood Theatre.
Performances happen each Friday in February at noon at Portland Center Stage on the Mezzanine, Gerding Theater at the Armory. Next up are the Quadrophonnes Saxophone Quartet on the 19th and dancer/choreographer Linda Austin on February 26.
POSTED: February 12th, 2010 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: performance | TAGS: blum blum shub sound poetry coincidence, david abel, leo daedalus, linda austin, mark applebaum, mark owens, metaphysics of notation, pcs, quadrophonnes, third angle | No Comments »
