tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22870825620410770632024-02-07T12:34:33.125-08:00hopocalypse nowhopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-82301215403760275802022-09-19T20:33:00.006-07:002022-09-19T20:38:31.442-07:00Songs of Communal Becoming, A Fluxus Choir Installation<h2 style="text-align: left;"></h2><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Songs of Communal Becoming</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A Fluxus Choir Installation </span></h3><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-366b83c4-7fff-2344-ea50-d73015a3f586" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCO71e_RazbDJU-s0PcbFDxPMkjqgOz4VOomUG-QTwHZMQcxXp0P0SYk67qoj6VYb8VqibkFNbm7cM2pp9keyvvYoJbO_40yFV-1yWTuc44nrH2tNwB9trGcoiGdIyJG-pSGvrKh7bqOm-20ZcAwPByU4DMVcUhJaXknJtWztfTdfUk1ODBb8kWeYyxQ/w625-h353/Songs%20Of%20Communal%20Becoming-2.png" width="625" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-366b83c4-7fff-2344-ea50-d73015a3f586" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b><p></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://youtu.be/xdiEm5sZIHo" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Click here to watch on YouTube</span></a></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">MUSINGS AND INSPIRATIONS</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The ritual is not casual but the pedestrian contains the magnificent.</span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve been thinking about the sacred. Sacred spaces and how to reclaim them into embodied experiences. I think we have codified many experiences into a set of dances and rituals and steps whose meaning we have long lost touch with. We go through the motions of ritual but have lost their sacred essence. </span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wonder how differently we would treat embodiment and sound experiences if we weren’t searching for the niche, the oddity, the newest shade/tone/timbre, rather instead being in so much awe for that which is abundant. Our environment. The hum of our physical body. How that might expand into many tones, transforming our awareness of the body into a multi octave instrument. Tuning into our source energy vibration. </span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In kundalini yoga, of which I am a practitioner, it is taught that sound is the center of creation, the birthplace of all things. We are taught through yogic sciences about the 8 chakras of the body (and the 84 chakras of the mind) as different energy points in the physical body that all vibrate at different speeds and therefore hold different frequencies or pitches. While this is a very complex science that people use in different measures, the idea is that you can expand or shrink specific energy centers with mediation. </span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes they are thought to be out of balance with each other, causing disharmony of the full body so you will work to shrink or open whichever centers aren’t regulated with the full body for alignment, essentially tuning your system.</span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The idea of regulating your own frequency with breath and body (mantra) is soothing especially during these times when so much seems out of our control. When the only regulation we have is our minds, our breath, and for at least some of us, our body. How can that body be listened to, meditated on, questioned as a form of revealed and unraveling composition? What is our body's own masterful composition, it’s own narrative in the space time continuum? As music becomes a background hum and we are fed disassociation through fleeting conquests, I wonder what kind of deep euphoria could come from returning to the body as source composer, as living composition, perfect in form and function and poetry. </span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ABOUT THIS WORK</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was trained as a classical singer and worked as a gigging opera singer and choral singer/soloist for about five years out of undergrad before changing my focus to composition. </span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Something that I always felt a bit sad and curious about during this era was the singing world’s obsession with “a good voice” and “a beautiful sound” often relating to a pure soprano in a classical flourish. When I was teaching vocal lessons to community choirs and leading community choirs myself, I was often in the trenches of guiding untrained singers through feelings of unworthiness and desperate longings to express themselves through singing, met by impenetrable walls of insecurity, fear and mind/body dissociation.</span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the tools I created to break through this mental and spiritual block was to come up with a series of games from which physical movement was the impetus of sound. I would engage singers with the experience of movement as a focal point from which sound would emerge. With the focus on embodiment and physical gesture as a sound inspiration, the fear of the perfect sound would slowly melt and become irrelevant and true embodied singing would begin to emerge, gesture and expression taking the lead and “a beautiful sound” releasing its grip on the singers. </span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I had a voice teacher once tell me to not think of the piano or vocal range of notes as high to low but as sounds that naturally occur in nature with different contexts. Low notes are soft hums, deep sighs. High notes are Alarm! Warning! I.e. All these pitches exist in our bodies in different contexts so we don't have to grasp for them in great tension, they can be commanded by softening into context. I have since found great freedom in exploring and guiding other singers in exploring the sounds of our animal body. </span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For this work, I gave the singers 7 different vocal games that I had devised out of a series of prompts and rules and adjusted the rules as the textures began to unravel and grow. I also gave the singers journal prompts during the rehearsal process in which I asked the singers to write about something on their mind and heart recently and use that written experience as a guide to build the arc for their improvised solos. The film you are viewing is cut down from about 4 hours of sonic footage/experiments.</span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">NOTES ON OWNERSHIP/COLLECTIVE SYNTHESIS</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Something that comes up a lot in collaborative devised work is the issue of credit and who is to be credited as the composer. While I am a curator and guide of this process and nurtured the specific environment and processes with which to create these experiences, this work would not be what it is without the input, skill, ability and devised work of the collaborators involved. I modeled a workflow as a curator, guide and visionary of this work. This was a group effort with a clear guide, something I seek to accomplish in my own definition of composer as a service position in which I curate an opportunity for community building through music and performance. </span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A guiding principle for me in the creative process is an idea a kirtan teacher once shared with me, “The center is not the best place to occupy because the center is the one place love doesn’t flow.”</span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">NEXT STEPS</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The next stop for this work is to be the nucleus of an installation for a fluctuating community choir. I hope to have the instruction for movement and sound posted on the wall of the Hurley Gallery Space in The Lewis Center and host a 3 hour installation in which people can wander in and out and join the texture of the 3 singer nucleus choir, when and how they choose. A moving, fluctuating, ephemeral work for a community of voices and bodies. </span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I would like to guide a community of singers away from the idea that singing is about “how beautiful of a sound can you make”, and toward “How deeply can you inhabit yourself?” and collective synthesis, art as process, community as process.</span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you would like to be involved with the development of this project please talk to me after the concert or DM me on instagram @hopelittwin</span></span></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Love, Hope</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ps. </span><span style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Songs are Prayers, Mantras for Self Hypnosis</span></span></p>hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-65025420327366678162022-06-30T17:45:00.003-07:002022-06-30T17:50:14.649-07:00Shakti Sync<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="401" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Us_JVJG01j4" width="482" youtube-src-id="Us_JVJG01j4"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyy3oKks1rYYhIqJXGERM1GcHmAdd_RvjHNWN3u3oV9xMCdvX2PNMDXc9MAJY9_bnjaIq280ESVTSD2utNuLw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><h1 style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> My Sound Art Object</span></h1><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><b>Copper coil wound around a single magnet, vibrating at 396 hz (the frequency of the root chakra (A), dipped into a shell of menstrual blood, to be held and contemplated by the listener. A sonic embodied meditation on raw feminine power. </b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">“The whole body will become an ear, and all sounds will come to you, the known and the unknown, the sweet, the sad, the urgent.” (Schafer, 2003, p.71)</p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i style="font-size: 16px;">About Shakti:</i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> <span> </span></span>Shakti, the primordial cosmic energy, represents the dynamic forces that are thought to move through the <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>universe. Adi Shakti is considered to be the original creator of the universe. She is the power that protects and <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>destroys. She represents the fertile, bountiful earth, and is the protector of all life forms. All goddesses are <span> </span><span> </span>considered to be a manifestation of her. </p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><i>About Embodied Listening:</i></p><p class="p6" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 46px;">“Sound works designed for the body tend to bear strong sense of ritual, conjoining physical spaces with their metaphysical complements an encounter of real and imagined spaces, wrought in the body, produces alternating fields of vibration - at times beating positively to create an augmented awareness of self, spirit, and surrounding; at other times clashing to reveal the limits of the body; that it is socially determined and determining; that it is an instrument of control; that, ultimately, it fails the user” (Embodied Sound: Aural Architectures and the Body by Gascia Ouzounian)</p><p class="p6" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 46px;"><br /></p><p class="p6" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 46px;"><br /></p><p class="p6" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 46px;"><br /></p><p class="p6" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 46px;"><br /></p><p class="p6" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 46px;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 46px;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqSIGJOzpmR5nQd89P0EslAESmnxXJQ2jN8ANmkenT_4TO-OTU6PzQW9BzXLX3M29fzACq1s35yt1gt1SWPwkQb3BhW4rlOkIDt_BZmRKqM4khUr1G8zxBlS_dtx6YYIRBP79aNa-ChEAoAxKpIDDSiGfYThR3sVKGShMwFrz52kGVn8euFkdluqiKPg/s640/Adi%20Shakti.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqSIGJOzpmR5nQd89P0EslAESmnxXJQ2jN8ANmkenT_4TO-OTU6PzQW9BzXLX3M29fzACq1s35yt1gt1SWPwkQb3BhW4rlOkIDt_BZmRKqM4khUr1G8zxBlS_dtx6YYIRBP79aNa-ChEAoAxKpIDDSiGfYThR3sVKGShMwFrz52kGVn8euFkdluqiKPg/s320/Adi%20Shakti.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“An interesting phenomenon occurs when different vibrating things/processes come into proximity: they will often start, after a little time, to vibrate together at the same frequency. They “sync up,” sometimes in ways that can seem mysterious (</span><a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-hippies-were-right-its-all-about-vibrations-man/" style="text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">).” </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scientific American</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><p></p>hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-50157480449413797412022-05-22T13:46:00.006-07:002022-11-14T13:44:33.731-08:00The Rapture of Feedback<span id="docs-internal-guid-76a70185-7fff-5d70-ab50-9d861b9c66a7" style="font-family: Arial;"><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: right;">Hope Littwin</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: right;">4/25/22</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>The Rapture of Feedback</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Composer as Container, Co-creator and Facilitator, Ep. 1</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Discovering Radigue</b></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span>Two weeks ago, in the midst of cooking Sunday dinner with a background YouTube station running through a Maryanne Amacher algorithm, I found myself transfixed by an unknown piece taking up a regal hold on my dining room. </p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span>From the kitchen I could sense that my dining room was filled with a certain rapture, the molecules felt engorged, radiant, mesmerized by a keen attention. I felt the atmosphere of my home had indelibly shifted from the carousel of themed tracks whose ambient wash had lulled my home into a sleepy trance, into a sharp focused and palpable NOW. Waves of intentional sound unraveling in transcendent rhythm.</p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span>I peered through the doorway of my newly enlivened kitchen to see a young sun-kissed woman, lost in the rapture of sound, holding a shell to her ear. She was in awe of the natural phenomenon of auditory pleasure, in reverence, handed over to the practice of deep listening. She was Éliane Radigue on the cover of her own album, L’lle Re-Sonante.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span>As Julia Eckhardt says in her book Intermediary Spaces, “Radigue always starts with a completely open attitude, without perception of what the musicians might bring her; available for the musical events that might occur. Consequently the music offers something but requests nothing.”</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span>Controlled methods of play with an uncontrollable force: Radigue’s practice could not be contained by the inflexible principles of the dodecaphonic tradition that she was trained in. She is working auditorily (no traditional score), with natural sound (tape machine and synthesizer) and new ways of composing. She reconsiders the role of the composer by dissolving the barriers between playing and listening, composer and interpreter, modulation and resolution. Radigue was developing ways of deep, activated, and concentrated listening. Her role as composer is not in controlling but in sharing and guiding the process, as a facilitator of a high level of conversation.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Defining Composer</b></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span>My discovery of Radigue’s vision has been somewhat divinely timed, as I have been working to define what, as a composer, I am actually doing. The tools of measurement for success provided to artists by our culture, such as social media attention and money, have proven to be misguided and malnourished of meaning. And so, in an effort to craft healthier guidelines for my creative endeavors, I am defining my task as composer more clearly. I am contextualizing composer as facilitator of conversation, as curator of experience. Composer as investigator of the natural world and weaver of sound and story. Composer as musical bee keeper of sonic portals to alternate dimensions. Composer as ambient, invisible host of feasts and films in the realm of emotion, relocating the artistic endeavor into shamanic territory. These all feel like frames that, at the very least, orbit the task. But the work of creativity can feel elusive and often shapeshifts as I am submerged into deeper layers of listening. </p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I find myself, once hopeful for an oasis, wading in an ocean of more and more poignant questions, observing a land mass without resolutions but full of wonder, emerging. In this disorienting expanse, I am comforted by the words of Composer/Director Heiner Goebbels, </p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span>My work is not about understanding, because understanding very often means you reduce what you see to what you already know. And I would really like to aim for a strong artistic experience - an artistic experience which can be an encounter of something you have never seen or heard before. Maybe something you have no words for, and this is what I’m trying to research</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span>I am no longer interested in “reducing what I see to what I already know.” A new paradigm of Composer as Container/Co-Creator/Facilitator is coming online for me: Goebbels identifying as composer of relationships between light and video, movement and sound, text and space has stuck with me. Radigue’s work also makes a comfortable home in this ecosystem. She is host of harmony and tension of the spheres, with her devotional and immersive use of feedback as a single thread from which a cloth is woven and scaled, searching for music that eludes her.</p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“I dreamt of an unreal, impalpable music appearing and fading away like clouds in the blue summer sky. Frolicking in the high mountain valleys around the wind and grey rocks and trees, like white runaways. This particular music, that always eluded me. Each attempt ended in seeing it come closer but remain unreachable, only increasing the desire to try again…” (Eliane Radigue, Intermediary Spaces)</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Episodic Work</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span>This personal exploration has taken me for quite a loop, and I want to honor the enormity of what is being developed by exploring this research episodically. Episodic work is calling to me as a form for composing. Timelines for ephemeral art forms are of particular interest to me. </p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span>What has captivated me about the music of Radigue is not only her communion with elemental sound but her excellent gauge for timeline and scale. She blasts open the intensity of duration inherent in the Concert Hall experience.</p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span>Maryanne Amacher, a contemporary of Radigue, also had this skill and believed that episodic work had special potential to create an environment capable of hosting meaningful feedback and enough space for an audience to project their own experiences, a requirement for effective dialogue in and around the art form. In seeking forms that could host music in this way, Amacher says, “I wanted the kind of engaging format television has developed - with all the ‘readymade mind stuff’ a mini-series form implies - an evolving sound work ‘to be continued’ as a form, the mini-series is powerful and challenging, yet up to now, only television develops it.” </p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span>Having a background as a theater artist and a dancer before I came to music, I have found, in the presence of a traditional concert hall, some kind of self induced pressure toward an allegiance to one domain. But my true wish is to have no hierarchy between the arts and some sort of immersive deeply sensual concert experience where the audience and maker can lose their sense of time and be transported into wonder.</p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span>Within my musical exploration as composer, I have found particular road blocks of translation, idiosyncratic to the medium, namely, translating an aural medium through written instructions. Radigue has found a way around this limitation by connecting the elusive harmony of the spheres to poetry. She says,"I could change the sound from the inside. To explain it visually, you could imagine a mountain turning into a cup, but so slowly from one state to another; it takes time by nature." Radigue found meaning in a rediscovery and modern translation of wonder.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Led by Wonder</b> </p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span> </span>Radigue’s music is bathed in mystery, led by wonder. It is a vastly different approach than our traditional understanding of compositional technique and execution. This method, of course, is also a discipline that requires dedication and precision of intention and meaning. The philosophical and emotional labor of this work is significant and while I would like to avoid remaking the wheel, I see formalizing the approach to creativity as an impossible task. I think there is some kind of key in being led by wonder that might take me where I am looking to go. </p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For some homerun comfort, I turn to Rilke in his Letters to a Young Poet,</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“...be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to <i>love the questions themselves</i> like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. <i>Live</i> the questions now...” (Letters To A young Poet, Rainier Maria Rilke)</p><p class="p4" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoXTSGEQIdc5dxqhrB_RxZfBL-SlA6VA81d5wd60WuV1L512fkkec7sdLT71C7ZNstG_L63-hWnpiXQVkGwPwNl-ezBNW8MDyLyqK9nG27DI5gOInfUG-ORckioU8aDMcY1pP9xvauMU1RKjks_f5MiJ34-YOFTe8QXLM7jTUT9LX1j4N_lh2YcbC9kg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="267" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoXTSGEQIdc5dxqhrB_RxZfBL-SlA6VA81d5wd60WuV1L512fkkec7sdLT71C7ZNstG_L63-hWnpiXQVkGwPwNl-ezBNW8MDyLyqK9nG27DI5gOInfUG-ORckioU8aDMcY1pP9xvauMU1RKjks_f5MiJ34-YOFTe8QXLM7jTUT9LX1j4N_lh2YcbC9kg" width="160" /></a></div><br /><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">💕<b> Hope</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Photo by Kelsey McMillan</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"><br /></p></span>hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-89221645959437770632021-12-01T21:42:00.006-08:002021-12-01T21:42:42.638-08:00I am listening<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwhJSy4_cC77AUZSSPpJjxkcsXbzFceUey6Gdgx1m_u3eaTJErAcmIiM8mezDmmRJRwmDjTRrX1uxgrLGUfLW48QRQ5mt7d_BHDh9iyMCrIw-CDPRtOFf9VUCYsvKctny4u-paUT0bsVSD/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1288" data-original-width="936" height="791" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwhJSy4_cC77AUZSSPpJjxkcsXbzFceUey6Gdgx1m_u3eaTJErAcmIiM8mezDmmRJRwmDjTRrX1uxgrLGUfLW48QRQ5mt7d_BHDh9iyMCrIw-CDPRtOFf9VUCYsvKctny4u-paUT0bsVSD/w573-h791/image.png" width="573" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-4202317085833093482020-04-02T11:51:00.001-07:002020-04-02T11:51:17.768-07:00Songwriting Tutorial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ukNYlSClAqQ/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ukNYlSClAqQ?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi All! Here is a teaser for my upcoming (imminent?) video (tutorial?) on songwriting games (practices?) to help get you through potential creative blocks! If you are interested in the full video, give me a follow on Patreon </span><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Fhopelittwin&v=ukNYlSClAqQ&redir_token=JO9CVxQQClmyFRV3OGSsoMNv6oJ8MTU4NTkzOTY0MEAxNTg1ODUzMjQw&event=video_description" rel="nofollow" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/hopelittwin</a><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 0px; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and you will be updated </span>hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-4071837857752121672016-08-24T22:03:00.004-07:002016-08-24T22:07:25.881-07:00Edgar's PaintingsIm having one of those wired nights where I review all my photos from my life...And came across a few of these paintings by Edgar Cuarezma from when we were dating. #Girlfriend=freemodel. I have been very lucky to have had relationships with such fine artists in my life. I wish Edgar's site was still up. He now has a baby and a wonderful wife who is also an incredible artist, Aemi Kato. He is an artesian baker in Spain at the moment. I suppose this was only 6 or 7 years ago now.....<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I have
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;">WILD BEAST </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">(A Witness To Beauty)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 1.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">When It was over + Oh trampled Hearts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 2.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Tell Me What I Want to Hear + Slippery
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 3.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 6.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Where Are you Now + Whose Gonna tame My
Heart?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 7.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Black Eyed Raven + Runaway Cryin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 8.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">White Flag<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 9.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">You Can Be My Drug until The Sun Comes Up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 10.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">A River Doesn’t Struggle + Was It Always This Easy + In The
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 12.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> The Truth Is, I Chose You<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 13.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I’m Not The Belle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 15.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Concentration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 16.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Your Afraid I’ll Take It With Me When I Go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 17.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Forget your Misfortune + Choose Love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 19.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Im Such A Fool for Love + One Day At A Time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 20.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Mr. Man With The Manipulative Mind + Oh no! Not Love!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> 22. It's You<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Miranda Jean Sprague on back up vocals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Bryant Smith on Trombone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Jeremy Seeman on Cello<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Dani Rabin on Lead Guitar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Stephanie Peilok on Violin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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two weeks of August with Caleb Gray signed on again as recording engineer
(woot!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
has been very scary to write these songs. Admittedly most of them were written
while crying in my guitar practice sessions…. they were extremely cathartic…. But
it has been pretty gut wrenching to face my feelings of emptiness, loneliness,
betrayal, anger of the past six months or so. It’s a lot-but that’s why we make
art and stories-give all that a place to go…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Ironically my study of the inner beast and the beast nature represented
in our mythologies have lead me to read A LOT of Zen Buddhist literature…Most
specifically the work of Robina Courtin. More on that soon (that’s a whole
other blog)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
do have a sense that this tumultuous transition period is coming to an end and
the natural order of fall with school starting and a new life with new job and
new friends is opening a beautiful, completely unknown future. It feels
hopeful, it feels like light and I’m ready to tie this up with a bow (album)
and release it <3 o:p=""></3></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ive
got teeshirts coming for Wildbeast thanks to Alan Lerner and Aemivore! I am definitely
considering touring this album (along with HUSK) although I’m still unsure of
the timeline on that. More to come!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">In other news, I've been working on a brass quintet for Gaudete
Brass (to be preimiered at the EAR Taxi Festival), am commissioned to write for
Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble and for Alma Dance Theater’s upcoming Work,
"CASK" an evening Length Dance, retelling Edgar Allan Poe's
"Cask of Amontillado" So that is all keeping me very busy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">More news… I decided to get a waitressing gig and stop playing so
much at Potbelly. I had been feeling really stuck with my guitar playing so I
started taking some extra lessons (started up Bass lessons as well!) to shake
me out of my stuckness. I’ve been working 14 hour days Friday through Sunday at
the restaurant, crashing on Mondays, and working my songs and taking lessons
Tuesday through Thursday. I would much rather work an unmusical gig for big
money than play music on autopilot (reinforcing bad habits/unawareness) for
little money, you know?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">As some of you may know, I have had my eye on India with the
intention of studying Indian Classical Music there for a good chunk of time.
Well...I recently performed at Salonathon, an event curated by a group of
wonderful artists/musicians, one of whom is an Indian Classical singer herself
and put me in touch with her teacher here in Chicago. So, now that I have a
connection, I have decided to apply for a Fulbright scholarship through
Columbia College to study Music in India next year. Let the games begin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">FOLLOW YOUR HEART!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-24816776776759963912016-03-19T20:33:00.003-07:002019-08-21T09:10:58.024-07:00"Wild Beast!" + "A Witness To Beauty"... Completing the Triptych (coming August 2016)HUSK is a week old! My album is now officially out on Cdbaby and Spotify! Soon to hit Amazon!<br />
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So, naturally, I am in deep with my 134 voice memos from songs written in between songwriting and production for HUSK. A lot of upheaval means a lot of songs. And thats what I got.<br />
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Production was actually pretty uncomfortable for me because the part I'm best at is over...So I continued to write songs to quench the creation thirst that runs rampant....thus the 134 voice memos to now wade through.<br />
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<i>flash forward:</i><br />
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These last two days, post the last of my shows/release of the album/final breakup/birthday celebrations etc has been something like this....Wake up: try not to think thoughts, drink decaf coffee (so as not to agitate inner beast) while walking on the lake. Come home-try not to let my thoughts go to anger or heartache. Ease my body into something comfortable-nap/bath/clean some mundane, random object in my house. Make a call to cancel whatever plan I had that hour that now seems too overwhelming/pointless. Repeat X3 or until about 5pm at which point I sit with my music and start to navigate.<br />
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While walking, I am often listening to various playlists that encompass sounds, materials, textures that I'm considering/fawning over. I consider my typical emotions at different times of the day, how sounds and different daylights effect me and how my mood transfers to said sounds and how I hear and receive them.<br />
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I build up some anxiety in anticipation of creating, then go through some mantras, listen to some guided mediations, take a bath, relax, cook, lose thought.... Consider why, in this body, in this life, anxiety rushes into the open spaces...when I leave open spaces....(never empty-but open) why it bursts in with some purpose-veiled distraction...<br />
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I have a new goal for myself.... to only create in moments of ease-or when I'm not agitated (this is a huge goal because I am nearly never comfortable). Just to see if the results are more pleasing. So I will now meditate until I reach that state-then begin and only go for as long as I can stay, honestly, in that state. Its bizarre but often I must reset my mind every 5 minutes or so as not to let my thoughts runaway down some horrifying path. (often to feelings of betrayal or just plain sadness-my personal beast)<br />
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<b>"Wild Beast!" and "A Witness To Beauty" Is something of a double album completing the triptych that HUSK began. </b></div>
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(the urgent timing of these is a combination of the intense feeling that they must be done by summer otherwise they (their essence-muses-wherever songs come from) will disappear into the ether, never to return....... and that I begin grad school in the Fall, so these songs need to get done and out before I start a very intense study of Music Composition for the screen at Columbia College)<br />
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With<b> "Wild Beast!" </b>I will be exploring the violent nature/emotions that desire awakens. The aggressive needs-the completely terrifying beast that takes hold of you and drags you by the collar through humiliating altercations whilst you are constantly reminded by the beast itself that you have no control over your emotions until further notice.... Until he/she, hopefully, drops you in pursuit of a new victim...<br />
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Emotions like a Chinese finger trap that feed themselves into greater and greater hysteria.<br />
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On a scholastic note...I was deeply inspired by the setting and themes of nordic mytholgy- specifically Odin and his Ravens: Huginn (thought) and Muninn (memory). (ravens had been following me around all winter-these are very intense creature to have watching/swooping/circling you)<br />
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In Norse myths, the Gods play both sides. Odin and Loki grant favors/victory to the honorable and dishonorable...just to...i dunno...mimic the brutality of nature? For a culture in which a man's survival is based completely on his honor and the validity of his word, this is extremely traumatizing/amazing.<br />
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Anyway I love the wild feeling of those times, the stark setting, the necessity for a strong survival instinct and the culture's connection with nature and the BEASTS OF MYTHOLOGY.<br />
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My friends and I have been recently discussing the feeling of having a beast inside that is mostly guarded and sometimes dormant but very much at the edge of his/her seat-with fantasies of wrath and destruction in the name of self protection (all lies)... This album is lighting that up. Think lamps not fires.<br />
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Orchestration and texture wise, I plan to play with electronics and explore more of my blues influence.<br />
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<b>"A Witness To Beauty" </b> will explore more of my jazz roots, I'm still split in some dichotomy of my musical influences...I'm sure they seep into one another from an outsiders perspective, but from the inside of my brain/guts they still need separate canvases.<br />
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It occurred to me, suddenly, while taking time to walk through the Columbia Contemporary Photography Museum before my grad school meet and greet, that maybe <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We stay busy because we are horrified at the grandness of our life.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> I</span><br />
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Thus, this exploration begins!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*these are my musings during the creation process-everything maybe completely change.</span></div>
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All photos by the one, the only... Matthew Gregory Hollis</div>
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<br />hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-64619964826310453422016-03-11T01:46:00.001-08:002016-03-14T07:31:42.917-07:00HUSK release<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">H</span><span style="font-size: large;">USK, my first album of original songs is out for the world today!</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I have been performing, writing, and recording for more than ten years, yet this is my debut album. HUSK is an intensely personal, post-apocalyptic emotional transformation, which closely mirrors the transformation/life cycle of a moth.</span></div>
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A. Ravenous Larvae:<br />
1. Apocalyptic State of Mind<br />
2. Persistent Hum of Desire<br />
3. I'm Always Losing Myself (In Someone Else)</div>
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B. Cocoon:<br />
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5. Bombyx<br />
6. Desire, Desire, Desire</div>
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C. Bashing Against the Light Until Certain Death<br />
7. I'm Still In Love With You<br />
8. Your Inconvenient Love<br />
9. Maybe It's The End of Love<br />
10. Now That We're Not in Love</div>
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HUSK: (n) The hardened protective layers that shelter a gelatinous being for the duration of his/her metamorphosis.<br />
(adj) A quality of vocal production that is granulated, raw and worn from excessive misadventures.</div>
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MOTH: (n) Nature's most incredible metamorphosizer.<br />
(n) A winged, nocturnal messenger from the spirit world that navigates not by sight but by inner knowing.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I wrote these songs in a folk/country style to pay homage to my musical roots. Please enjoy as you partake in this shared journey.</span></div>
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CREDITS</div>
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All songs written by Hope Littwin.</div>
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Guitar, Vocals: Hope Littwin<br />
Drums: Alex Atchley<br />
Bass: Matthew Salvatore Coglianese<br />
Violin: Mallory Linehan</div>
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Recorded by James Teitelbaum at Tribeca Flashpoint.</div>
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Overdubs and tracks 9 and 10 recorded by Caleb Gray</div>
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Mixed by Caleb Gray and Robert Littwin</div>
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Produced by: Hope and Robert Littwin</div>
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THANK YOUS!</div>
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<i>My Brother!</i><br />
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Many of you know my brother, <b>Robert Littwin</b> and have benefited from his enthusiasm, encouragement and support of Chicago's arts community. The world is undoubtedly a better place because of him and it is because of his support and encouragement that this album has become a reality. He has been the most patient, the most loyal and the most encouraging voice through this journey. I won the genealogical lottery by being born his little sister.</div>
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<b>Alex Atchley:</b> Devoted, inventive, attentive, always going the extra mile to make subtle shifts in arrangements to serve the music. Always introducing me to new artists and new possibilities</div>
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<b>Matthew Coglianese:</b> A funky bassist with a heart of gold, a stand up human and musician who is always down to experiment and expand.</div>
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<b>Mallory Linehan:</b> A goddess. An incredible violinist and artist that can style hop like no other. A sharp mind, always positive, and always playful</div>
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<b>Caleb Gray: </b>Devoted engineer and trustworthy friend, dedicated a huge amount of time and expertise to making these tracks extra special. </div>
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<b>James Teitelbaum:</b> An incredibly encouraging voice and a stellar engineer with a heart of gold and a sharp ear who organized the studio time and made the space and equiptment resources possible. You are a true blue.</div>
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<b>Tina Radler:</b> filmaker extraordinaire who reimagined these songs into film. My Viennese soul sister. </div>
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<b>Matthew Gregory Hollis:</b> Photographer. Genius. Album cover artist. He makes it seem so easy.<br />
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My first guitar teacher <b>Scott Emmons</b> who gave me Joni Mitchell's entire library at my second lesson and encouraged me to start writing songs. A mentor and a friend for life.<br />
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<b>Keith and Katy Morrison</b> and <b>Manuel Garrido Lecca </b>for letting me cut my teeth in the studio as a teen and being voices of encouragement.</div>
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My Parents <b>Helen Bordon, Nestor Bordon</b> and <b>Michael Littwin </b>for their steadfast support and encouragement</div>
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HUSK is in its final stages! Big thanks to Caleb Gray and James Teitelbaum at Tribeca Flashpoint and to my brother Robert Littwin for engineering and mixing sessions with me these last few months. Additional big thanks and gooey love to my musicians Alex Atchley (drums), Matthew Coglianese (Bass) and Mallory Linehan (violin) for their incredible work in the studio and last but NOT least, Matthew Gregory Hollis for capturing in picture, the feeling and "it isness" the album in his incredible shots. (one of which is the photo in this post which I am considering for the album cover)<br />
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I am hoping to release this album on my birthday 3/11 so I can have a big party for all the things..... I want an excuse to have a Vietnamese food and karaoke party at this hole in the wall place near my house... #dreams<br />
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I am thinking of releasing the full album online in a "pay what you can" scenario. Not sure how that works yet but I am open to suggestions if you know better than me! (you probably do)<br />
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I also have three music videos created and edited and ready to go (just waiting on final audio mixes to release) envisioned and created by my Viennese friend and filmmaker Tina Radler. Very excited to share those soon as well!<br />
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I have lots of thoughts on what this album has meant to me to make. The thing that keeps coming to mind is that this is only the beginning. I am almost hesitant to keep discussing my thoughts behind the work and just keep moving forward and making new songs...speaking of which...<br />
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I have already started on my second album tentatively titled "Wild Beast" which captures the movements of my internal beast. That extreme desire and wanting for something.... like animalistic craving...that really carnivorous human state that can never be satisfied just from the nature of those feelings and how they work.....That intense longing for something outside of your self that you want to consume and merge with but it cannot be given to you....<br />
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HUSK paved the way for WILD BEAST. Each album is a crystalized/fossilized moment of a violent stage in development/metamorphosis. It feels to me that HUSK is the first in a triptych of albums/works... Perhaps that is part of my hesitancy in discussing its it-isness in too much detail at this point. HUSK is somehow missing its two limbs which are coming together hard and fast! Songwriting has been fast and furious these last few months and it continues build momentum.<br />
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I am loving the explosion of creativity and support in my life right now and though times are emotionally challenging, I am feeling on top of the world and rich beyond measure thanks to my team. <br />
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Other than one last song, I have all the tracks from the album, <i>in very scratch form, </i>up on my soundcloud now! This is mostly thanks to my brother, Robby, for believing in me and making the pilgrimage from the suburbs once a week to patiently record all these songs and smile and nod while I talk crazy and pee every hour.. I wish there was an explanation...dont have one...<br />
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I have been paying him in food (scraps from my fridge) and free metropolis drink cards that Ive accumulated from drinking....a lot....of coffee these last few months. Its less that I want caffeine and more that I love things that taste like earth/dirt. hot things. dirt things. acidic things. things that you can put cream in. All good.<br />
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Ok. So. Some of these are meandery as hell and have a lot of gibberish lyrics right now....but it feels good to just get them out there and listen/take notes compulsively and kick my ass to make these rewrites for a more polished album.<br />
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I thought I just wanted a trio but I keep hearing orchestration on some of these tracks! I hope I can snag some of my buddies and convince them that its okay to work for free for me because art. Terrible terrible.<br />
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TANGENT 2: My friend and fellow composer, Dom, just sent me a text saying "HUSK= sexy desolation" haha! v. true DimmyDom. The world is ending and all anyone wants to do is get intimate.<br />
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TANGENT 3: October has been weird. Im use to being crazy busy with many projects and..... well, Im in this weird place that I made...on purpose...a more reflective, quiet space to plan what comes next and its driving me crazy a little. I'm really restless. That is all.hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-31980983314376087102015-10-27T11:26:00.000-07:002015-10-27T11:26:07.402-07:00HUSK photos by Matthew Gregory Hollis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My brother Robby has been coming over and helping me record these scratch tracks in my living room. He is the most patient and supportive big brother a girl could ask for.<br />
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First half of the scratch tracks for the new album. Not super happy with these, honestly. It is the first time I am playing them with a click track and having an earbud in one ear with the metronome blocked off a lot of my sensory resonance so I couldn't quite feel my voice/was prolly pushing.<br />
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Maybe I will rerecord some of these without a click......<br />
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Having said that - man Im just feeling like I want these songs wrapped already. Im feeling like I'm starting a new cycle in life and want to write a new album already! haha. seriously. its an illness. amazing tho.<br />
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I played a fun live gig with the full trio recently with full arrangements of all the songs on the album - I will upload a version of that soon-waiting to fix my computer so I can separate those trax.<br />
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I did a photoshoot with Matthew Gregory Hollis recently along the lake path that I walk EVERYDAY and walked everyday while I was writing these songs. That space is a sacred space for me and has been a consistent source of comfort and inspiration through this metamorphosis. I'm pretty sure the escape to the lake is what kept me sane this summer.<br />
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There is never anyone at this part of the lake and we were pretty discreet but someone still called the cops on me at this shoot.....cause I took my shirt off....are you fucking kidding me? W/e...Worth it. These shots rock. Matthew Hollis is a genie!<br />
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hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-7480859594484308542015-10-04T22:18:00.000-07:002015-10-08T08:52:12.978-07:00Not to express an opinion, but to seek a presence and pray for a spirit<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A snippet from mass today that resonated with my feelings on the creation process and the duties of the artist...
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"For we come to this sacred table, not because we must but because we may; not to testify that we are righteous, but that we sincerely love and desire; not because we are strong but because we are weak; not because we have claim on heaven's rewards but because we, in our frailty, stand in need of constant mercy and help; not to express an opinion, but to seek a presence and pray for a spirit"
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As a composer and performer I have often been urged to "tell my story". Well meaning professors have urged me to discover "what it is I have to say" and deliver said message via music/art/etc... This never sat well with me.
The strong desire to create and engage has always been strong in me-consumed me even-but the impetus was never, ever related to expressing opinions... Opinions are far too weak of a force to ever contend with the magnitude that is creative life. Neither have I ever felt I have "something to say". ever. I dont experience this as a negative statement.
My life is experiential. I have felt desire. I have used art to invoke experiences that the spark of desire suggest exist just beyond what I currently understand. The process of creating and performing is much more an invocation to new experience, more rarely an expression of my current experience, and NEVER an opinion...
Anyway, "We come to this sacred table not to express an opinion, but to seek a presence and pray for a spirit" sums up what I believe my duty as an artist to be. thought I'd share.
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hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-815844632703082592015-09-18T01:04:00.002-07:002015-10-24T22:31:06.492-07:00HUSK studio album in Process #3<h2>
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I am prepping for a live show with a small trio at Uncommon Ground here in Chicago where we will play all the tracks from this album in the works. Click on the link to hear some new stuff. I have a lot to say but Im also just fucking exhausted from doing all the gigs and all the rehearsals and barely sleeping. So I will just leave you with these tracks for now and come back with words. <3 nbsp="" p=""><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Moths, the symbol of transformation. A nocturnal, ultra sensitive clairvoyant who can find light in darkness and navigate by night using their inner knowing. The greatest symbol of metamorphosis in the natural world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">3 months of steady purge has me relating very intrinsically to this transformative creature.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">A series of traumatic events have led me to weave a solid cocoon, die to everything I know, liquify, reform and... well I haven't gotten past that yet.. so TBA!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Rebuilding a self, a mythology/belief system after something comes along that levels everything you knew, makes way for reflection and contemplation on habits and rituals you never knew you had.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Picking up the pieces to build a new structure, allows for all these pregnant hesitations and flashbacks as you, more carefully, place each piece of a new life..... It is so very complentative</span><br />
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WHY HUSK? Husk to me feels like hardened layers built up around a sensitive subject. Husk is the human cocoon. Maybe not visible by most eyes, but perhaps certain people will recognize...<span style="background-color: #444444;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><b>I </b><span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>enjoy husk as relating to voice as well, since I am a singer and my voice and soul and emotions are all tightly woven/linked/bonded, I like this link to the</b> </span><b style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">cry/shout/wail of metamorphosis</b></span></span><br />
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One thing I learned from working with dancers this last year is the beauty of "in process" showings. From my experience, this concept is completely lost on musicians. In conservatory, us composers were required to share parts of our -in process compositions- in class to receive feedback from other composition students, but never, would we ever share this material in front of a general public. The "in the works" messyness of a work in progress is often just opening yourself to pointless criticism from people who don't have the composing/making experience to hear what is good raw material-where it is going, what it's potential is and what to say that would be helpful feedback for a composer.<br />
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That being said, I think it is helpful to know/see and hear peoples works in progress. Even if it makes all involved uncomfortable and confused. It makes us less perfectionist centered, it helps us realize how long a good piece of work takes to shape-even after its initial structural/bare-bones map or skeleton is created. It helps us view our art as a craft that is not instantaneous, even though there may be moments of inspired improvisation.<br />
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So here are two first takes of tracks that I think will be on my album: (These will be rearranged, probably reharmonized in many places and rerecorded. I will be adding other instruments and back up vocals- lush harmonies- orchestration etc.)<br />
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Most of my writing comes out of the ether. There is a lot of sitting in silence, messing around with chord colors on guitar until words come, that seemingly make no sense...then slowly stringing the right ones in some sort of order that feels right - followed by lots of crying...then a feeling of complete depletion..collapse..waking up the next morning feeling like Ive been hit by a truck...<br />
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That being said, I was, retrospectively, inspired by the life cycle of moths, specifically the larva "bombyx mori" stage. Coming out of a long two years of insane extroverted energy thrown out into the world to create four mainstage productions of my own as well as a few for others as a freelance performer, left me feeling pretty depleted from all the <b>moth-like bashing against the light until certain death (metaphorical-kind of). </b>I have been feeling the intense need, not only as an individual human, but as a part of our society and larger consciousness to return to a more introverted, nourishing, complentative, reflective space as a more sustainable way of life and a way to experience more depth in thought and creation.<br />
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I have been researching moth symbolism recently. Here is some information pulled from spiritlodge.com (feel free to share your moth info in the comment-I will read!):<br />
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Moth will beat themselves against a light until they die. Do you have perseverance beyond reason? Do you keep working at something without ever achieving your desired results? Look at the situation fronm a different perspective and know that you can attain those results without striving so hard. Moths eat holes in clothes in dark closets. Is something being eaten away without your awareness?<br />
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*Ted Andrews in Anmial Speak recommends one study Butterfly Medicine to understand the stages of growth and development of Moth.<br />
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Keynote: Sexual activity, fertility, increased relationships.<br />
When moths persist in flying around you, a letter will shortly be coming your way bringing important news. The size of the moth often determines the size of the letter and the importance of the news. This and many other superstitions exist around moths and their closest relatives, the butterflies.<br />
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The actual difference between moths and butterflies is not always clear and are relatively minor. Butterflies re diurnal, and most moths are nocturnal and because of this, they rely on different senses. The moth cannot rely on its sight, but has a highly developed sense of smell, which it uses at night. Most butterflies have clubbed antennae, and most moth antennae are feathery and threadlike.<br />
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Like their cousins the butterflies, moths also go through metamorphosis. Moths spin cocoons while butterflies create a naked chrysalis. The cocoon is a more sheltered, outer covering. This can often indicate a need to be more sheltered in our creative transforming activities and relationships when the moth is the messenger.<br />
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There are many thousands of moths throughout the owrld and they each have their own unique abilities and qualities. If you can identify the specific species of moth, it will be easier to become more clear in interpreting the meaning.<br />
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All moths have unique defenses. Some are able to emit sounds that confuse the echolocation of bats. Some are bad tasting. Several make clicking noises to warn their predators, while others flash bright colors to startle off predators.<br />
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Unlike butterflies, most moths are active at night. Durin gthe day, they find a place to hide and sleep. Around dusk they begin to awaken and look for food. As they feed, they come fully awake and they spend the night feeding and flying about. The male spends most of each night looking for a female to mate with. As dawn approaches, they seek out a safe place to sleep until night comes again, and the search for food and mating can be continued.<br />
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The female moth raises her abdomen to protrude a pair of glands and released from them a scent known as phermone. She flaps her wings to send the scent out into the air to attract males. For many years, scientists were unable to prove that such a scent existed. It is found in such tiny amounts that scientists had to collect the secretions of a half million moths in order to amass and amount as small as twelve milligrams.<br />
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Moths are able to find each other by following a scent trail over great distances. Because they are active at night, they need this scent to find a mate. Moth totems and messengers usually indicate an awakening sense of smell. It will be the fragrance of the opposite sex that will most attract and discourage. Trusting in one's own outer and inner sense of smell will be important in relationships--sexual or otherwise.<br />
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*Mary Summer Rain/On Dreams:<br />
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In Yorkshire, white moths flying at night are believed to be the souls of the departed; hence, it is unlucky to kill them. contrariwise, should a black moth fly into your house, it is said someone in the house will die. Some traditions hold that death will occur within one month, while others extend it to a year. Among some country folk, a moth entering a house indicates an important letter will arrive the next day.<br />
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Moths are messengers from the spirit world, telling us that a ghost is around. I realize that moths are attracted by light and fire, but once again one must study the behavior of the moth to determine if it has gone out of its way and normal pattern to communicate a message. For example, if it lands on your shoulder, ear, or head and keeps following you, it is a messenger from a ghost. A good ghost will give you a warm feeling; a bad ghost will feel cold and eerie, and perhaps pester you. To get rid of it, use the smudge purification ritual and ask the good spirits to take it away.</div>
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It's been great. The home is built on a beautiful prairie that I get to spend a lot of time in; My room has everything I could possibly need (keyboard/bathroom/patio/lots of light/lots of work space etc) and the other artists in residence are wonderful people-mostly writers (novelists, poets) who are always up for helping me weave more effective narratives around my work and help me understand what it is that I am trying to say. I sort of verbal vomit then they repeat back to me, in full sentences, what I might be trying to say. It's a wonderful, magical translation system.</div>
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I've played silly songwriting games getting me to write as many as 8 songs in two hours and have spent three days editing one line of a song... Ive read a lot about the dirty 30s (my desired setting for the post apocalyptic world the main character in my concept album will live in-more on that later!) and watched hours of musicals and documentaries on musicals. Ive listened to a dozen new songwriters and sightread work from my favorite composers (my current binder is a bizarre combo of Debussy, Copeland, Tori Amos and Sam Cooke).</div>
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Although I accomplished many of my goals, I was often so far over my head that.... I don't even know... So many bashings and hard knocks. So much miscommunication filling up the cracks of an insanely busy career that lead to tragically broken relationships with people I love and care about... Just because I was not available to put silly rumors to rest or comfort people when they were scared that they had followed me onto a race track or be still long enough to hear my own guidance system teach me how to protect myself against the many many many attacks that artists who put themselves out there-to lead and to be part of the conversation-receive. </div>
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Anyhow, as this residency comes to an end, I cant help but think that gratitude doesn't even begin to cover it. So many people were involved in me being here, now, "chicken scratching for my mortality" (long live JONI!), reading, score study, writing, recording into the night, discussing art and the humanities, building large scale dreams of lyrical narrative that could open up new worlds of feeling and compassion of myself to myself, of myself for my people and of my people for myself and on and on. As a performer and composer, I face myself every day-its a stark, terrifying feeling. There is no where to hide when your escapist form of storytelling depends on being entirely present and staring intensely at your soul, your feelings, your intentions and beliefs until you collapse from overwhelm. That being said, it's a beautiful privilege and I wouldn't trade it for the world. </div>
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hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-29343402838808055942015-02-27T13:23:00.001-08:002015-02-27T13:23:40.144-08:00Tech week is around the cornerTech week begins on Monday for Faces of Eurydice! I woke up at 3am today with racing thoughts of how to fix all of the gaps, flat lining solos and narrative blocks. I didnt have enough energy to act on any of them so I sat in the bathtub and watched Teal Swan videos on youtube and tried to put myself back to sleep.<br />
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This afternoon I am turning, what I see as the main song, into a duet to give it the life it needs. Im contemplating adding in some reharmonization and modulations for more effective reach..<br />
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Figuring out how to set up the sporadic sound flashes for the "Hell Sequences" is a big puzzle. Still haven't figure that out. Spent my time creating a pop song collage that ended up getting cut and kicking myself for not putting that time into the "Hell Sequences" now.<br />
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Still pushing to reach our indiegogo campaign goal and create a production schedule of tech week.<br />
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I am grateful for this learning curve but I will be happy to go back to being a composer and performer after this show and take a break from producing.<br />
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<a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/899749">GET YOUR TICKETS</a> to Faces of Eurydice!hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-76253588715707217482015-02-22T12:52:00.002-08:002015-02-22T12:52:58.480-08:00Help fund my new opera! <iframe frameborder="0" height="445px" scrolling="no" src="https://www.indiegogo.com/project/cube-ensemble-presents-faces-of-eurydice/embedded/3412161" width="222px"></iframe>hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-71742269361717942522015-02-22T12:51:00.001-08:002015-02-22T12:51:10.111-08:00My Youtube ChannelI've started to upload videos of my recent performances on Youtube! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgP-nenNkl7dPIsm2a3u3VA">Check it out!</a><br />
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<br />hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-39966454154060328652014-03-19T23:34:00.000-07:002014-03-19T23:34:25.026-07:00Intimacy Project Rehearsals Had the best rehearsal with our Dancers involved in the intimacy project. Super inspired to write the score for this!hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287082562041077063.post-6821031365687560332014-03-16T23:28:00.003-07:002014-03-16T23:28:37.475-07:002014 challenge. Just do it.Day 1. A poem a day keeps a shrink away.hopocalypse nowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14632366681328814760noreply@blogger.com0