ONE-TWO-THREE-GO!
Concert #6
Sunday, December 16, 2001 at 4:30 PMRead the review from NewMusicBox
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EVE BEGLARIAN
Songs from A Book of Days
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with special guests:
Margaret Lancaster (flute)
Taimur Sullivan (baritone saxophone)
Cory Dargel (voice)
Phil Kline (voice)
Joanna Parson (voice)multimedia by:
Cory Arcangel, Eve Beglarian, Chris "Duff" Dufresne, Hunter Ochs, & Clifton Taylorlive sound mix by:
Patrick Grant===================================================================================
A Book of Days is a long-term project of 365 text/music/visuals, one for each day of the year. This afternoon's Songs from A Book of Days is the first time I have devoted a concert to this project.
I think of these pieces as "mulling over" pieces, made in the spirit of commonplace books, collections of found thought that please me, and of medieval books of days.
If you like, you can visit www.evbvd.com for a daily dose.
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--- Songs from A Book of Days ---
04.15 UNTIL IT BLAZES
text: Gospel of Thomas 10
music: 2001
visuals: Cory Arcangel11.14 FIVE THINGS
text: Zen Lesson #40
music: 2001
visuals: W. Eugene Smith02.21 DO NOT BE CONCERNED
text: Gospel of Thomas 36
music: 2001
visuals: Eve Beglarian01.31 SAMURAI SONG
text: Robert Pinsky
music: from Forgiveness (2000)02.27 GUST
text: Rainer Maria Rilke: Sonnet I:3
music: from Overstepping (1991)
visuals: Hunter Ochs11.27 ALL WAYS
text: Stephen King
music: 200111.18 OPEN SECRETS
text: Hebrews 11.1
music: 1998
visuals: Chris "Duff" Dufresne
01.29 WONDER COUNSELOR
text: Proverbs 30:18-19
music: 1996
visuals: Eve Beglarian07.03 CAVE
text: Eileen Myles
music: 2001
visuals: Clifton Taylor01.01 GOOD DEAL EASIER
text: chorus - K. Schwitters / Psalm 118:22
verses - Corey Dargel
music: from typOpera (1994)===================================================================================
"One of new music's truly free spirits" (Kyle Gann - The Village Voice), Eve Beglarian is a composer, performer, and audio producer whose work has been performed in the most mainstream concert halls and theaters as well as in clubs and lofts. Her chamber music has been commissioned and performed by the California EAR Unit, Relâche, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Crosstown Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex, and the New York New Music Ensemble, among others.
Her experience in music theater includes music for Mabou Mines' Animal Magnetism, directed by Lee Breuer; the collaboration Hildegurls' Ordo Virtutum, directed by Grethe Barrett Holby, which premiered at the Lincoln Center Festival; Forgiveness, a collaboration with Chen Shi-Zheng and Noh master Akira Matsui; and the China National Beijing Opera Theater's production of The Bacchae, also directed by Chen Shi-Zheng. Her duo, twisted tutu, with keyboard player Kathleen Supové, blends high technology with theater; twisted tutu's CD Play Nice was recently released on OO Discs.
Current projects include an opera based on Stephen King's The Man in the Black Suit; a Meet the Composer co-commission for The Bilitis Project, a song cycle/concept CD with boombox virtuoso and composer Phil Kline; and A Book of Days, a long-term project of 365 multimedia pieces for live performance as well as internet delivery.
Recordings of Eve's music are available on CRI Emergency Music, OO Discs, Accurate Distortion, Atavistic, and Kill Rock Stars. In addition to her composing and performing work, Eve directs and produces audiobooks of authors including Stephen King and Anne Rice for Random House and Simon & Schuster.
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--- Guest Performers---
Synth-pop sweetheart, Corey Dargel, is a songwriter, performance artist, and a member of the Brooklyn-based Laboratory Theater and the Walter Thompson Orchestra. He is writing, recording, and producing a new album of (love) songs about illness and social dancing, tentatively titled Dance Your Dreams Away.
Phil Kline is the boombox guy. His latest CD Unsilent Night is available on Cantaloupe.
Margaret Lancaster likes to dance, act, and play the flute...
Joanna Parson is an actress/singer who hosts the Happy Hour Salon, a weekly new works salon for actors, writers, musicians and performers of all stripes.
Taimur Sullivan has performed internationally as a soloist and member of the PRISM Quartet and this past season with groups including the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Recently, one critic even wrote of him as "...far more interesting and dynamic than Kenny G.'s and Paul Winter's kitsch-laden meanderings."
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Special thanks to Grethe Holby, Clifton Taylor, and Cory Arcangel for advice and assistance with this presentation.
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sTRANGEqUOTE:
"Don't blink."
"mUSIC history is being made right now. In front of you, behind you, down the street, around the corner, before your very eyes. New composers are putting things together in all sorts of sTRANGE ways, and new audiences are figuring out how to listen to them."
David Lang
composer and co-artistic director of Bang on a Canprogram notes from The 3rd Annual People's Commissioning Fund Concert (2001)