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nEWS
aRCHIVE 2002
17
DEC 2002
From the homepage of WNYC
FM:
"17th
Annual New Sounds Listener
Poll - Surveying the notable New Releases of 2002.
It's
that time again, when the end of the year brings the annual New Sounds Listener
Poll. The final tallies (a mostly democratic process) will be revealed
on the New Sounds Listener Poll show on January 9, 2003, but not before host John
Schaefer has a completely opinionated look at 2002's top new music releases on
January 8."
We're happy that our CDs "musique
du quai Branly" (CD008) and "Music
from the Red Night" (CD009) have been nominated as two of the most
notable new music releases of 2002.
Wishing you happy holidays and a
great new year,
Patrick Grant & sTRANGEmUSIC
29 NOV 02
card design: PG
Original music by
Patrick Grant will be a part of SX STREET's pre-recorded
soundtrack and he will perform along live with it on Dec. 6 & 7
Magnetic LABORATORIUM
presents
SX
STREET
a neo-event
with
dancers, actors,
writers, singers, performers,
sound, video, set &
costume design
Directed by Marisela La GRAVE
SX STREET is a performance done in collaboration with international artists whose credits range from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the works of theatrical visionary Robert Wilson, the NYC scenes of new music and the visual arts, and to numerous arts centers worldwide. This event introduces an experiment in the perception of mediums and in the life of the street itself.
December
5th, 6th & 7th
131 Essex
Street at Rivington
10
PM - Tickets $10
23 OCT 02
CONCERT REVIEW
Kyle Gann
Same
World, Different Trips
The
Diverse Musical Agendas of Didkovsky, Woolf, and Grant Coexist
October 23 - 29, 2002
Read it here:
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0243/gann.php
11 OCT 02
The
film Data's
Congestion, premiering at the
Hamptons
International Film Festival, has just added
two tracks of music by Patrick
Grant to its soundtrack.
Oddfellows
Playhouse
presents a screening
of
DATA'S
CONGESTION
The
Avant-Garde Theater
of Kenneth Koch
a
film by Marisela La Grave
conceived and produced by Maria Pessino
USA, 2002, 27 minutes
World Premiere
This film documents the staging of Kenneth
Koch’s "One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays"
at the John
Drew Theater of Guild Hall in East Hampton, in a production by local theatre
company Oddfellows
Playhouse only a few weeks prior to the playwright’s death in the
early
summer of 2002.
3 Showings
Saturday, October 19,
2002
10:30 AM at
Guild Hall
158 Main Street
East Hampton,
NY
Sunday, October 20, 2002
5 PM and 7:30 PM at
United
Artists Cinema
30 Main Street
East Hampton, NY
SOLD OUT
06
SEP 02
tHE
pHiLOSOPHER'S sTONE
a tone poem after Artaud (1931) for
gamelan, strings and keyboards
a commission from the
Cornell
Gamelan Ensemble
Martin Hatch, director
will
premiere on May 6, 2003
at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
8:00 PM as
part of
more iNFO on Cornell's website HERE
or visit the composer's
web pages for this work by clicking HERE
15 AUG 02
Robert
Wilson's
9th Annual Watermill Summer Benefit:
The Red Night
Read
a feature article about Watermill 2002 at ArtNet.com
The Witness' Chair from Einstein on the Beach in the
foreground with the Watermill Center, itself a former laboratory for Western Union,
in the background.
On July 27, 2002, Robert Wilson's Watermill Center in eastern Long Island, New York held their annual benefit.
Each
summer Robert Wilson
develops new theater work at the Center, a multi-disciplinary arts laboratory
located in eastern Long Island, NY. The
Watermill Center was founded by Wilson in 1992 as an international facility
for new work in the arts, conceived to foster communication and innovation. There
he brings together an international group of artists in a collaborative and supportive
environment. In just ten seasons, the Center has developed major work for the
world’s stages and museums, and begun introducing a new generation of young
artists in Wilson’s distinctive methods.
For this event, Grant
supplied three elements:
Gamelambience - this was an installation throughout Watermill's forest using sounds that were sampled in Bali 2001. Wilson chose this work because of the way that it highlighted the many Indonesian monoliths he has placed in the woods. Some are over 12 feet tall and weigh many tons. They date from 3500 B.C.E.
Stones in party dress
Pre-show music
-
these were tracks mixed live by Grant to accompany actors modeling costumes on
a huge and long red runway as a prelude to the world premiere/main event which
was...
The
Ladder of Red
scenario,
design, and costumes by
Andrey Bartenev
original
music and found text by
Patrick Grant
(via Roget's Thesaurus on
the word "red")
poetry by
Christopher Knowles
artistic
direction
Robert Wilson
see a Quicktime
movie edit HERE
(hi-speed connections
recommended)
Here's some photos of the event from the NYTimes:
Gabrielle
Henkel and Robert Wilson, Andrey Bartenev,
??? and Patrick Grant, the evening's
composer
Performers in tin-can
headdresses during the finale
Performers spout paint
The
stage
July 27: The guests at the annual benefit for the Watermill Center on its grounds
in the Hamptons village of Water Mill, N.Y., were asked to dress in red for their
walk entering the grounds through the surrounding woods, which are dotted with
large stones. The stones, slip-covered in white paper for the party and painted
with scarlet faces, looked otherworldly. So did wandering performers dressed like
the stones. Andrey Bartenev, the Russian artist, created this magical installation.
He also conceived a performance, which took place on a lacquered red stage in
a clearing between the center's buildings. There were 34 performers wearing costumes
that recalled Russian Constructivism. They were made of white cardboard and paper
painted with red patterns. At one point, three performers painted themselves red
with crimson paint jetting from under their wide collars. Afterward, there was
dinner and dancing under a huge tent. The evening, which included an auction of
donated artworks, was attended by 550 and raised $600,000. The event was underwritten
by Louis Vuitton. The center, founded by Robert Wilson and the Byrd Hoffman Water
Mill Foundation, is a summer art school. It has 108 students from 30 countries,
including the United States, and they made the costumes and
props.
Pre-show
Art auction
"Ladder
of Red" in rehearsal
20 JUN 02
Here's
the state of the musée du quai Branly's construction as of 14 June 2002
in a photograph taken from atop the Eiffel Tower by André Citroën.
*
musée du quai Branly
17 JUN 02
A
review of our March 3rd concert just came out in The New Music Connoisseur - a
quarterly journal dedicated to the contemporary music scene. You can read the
review at this link:
NMC
Review
26 MAY 02
PREMIERE:
"A Purple Elegy for Hortencia" premiered in Argentina. More details TBA.
25 MAY 02
PREMIERE:
"Slippery Music" premiered at the American Festival of Microtonal Music's MICROFEST 2002 at NYC performance space Roulette.
17 MAY 02
Grant
to work with Robert Wilson at the Watermill Center in Summer 2002
Patrick Grant has been officially welcomed into the Watermill Summer Program to
work with Robert Wilson on projects in July and August. Each
summer Wilson develops new theater work at the Center, a multi-disciplinary arts
laboratory located in eastern Long Island, NY. The
Watermill Center was founded by Wilson in 1992 as an international facility
for new work in the arts, conceived to foster communication and innovation. There
he brings together an international group of artists in a collaborative and supportive
environment. In just ten seasons, the Center has developed major work for the
world’s stages and museums, and begun introducing a new generation of young
artists in Wilson’s distinctive methods.
Robert
Wilson website
21 APR 02
Paris
to commission new live music for silent film
The
Cinémathèque de la Danse at the Cinémathèque Française
& Musée du Cinéma in Paris, France will commission Patrick Grant
to create original scores for films taken of dance performances in Bali, Indonesia
in the 1920s. The music will be scored for electronic keyboards and percussion
using digital samples of Semar Pengulingan and Gong Kebyar gamelan ensembles that
Grant recorded in Bali. The music will be performed live with the films at the
Palais de Chaillot over a weekend in January 2003 plus there will be an additional
concert of other Grant works given at the cinémathèque during that
same time.
05 APR 02
Concert to be scheduled
at Haim Chanin Fine Arts
Patrick
Grant to perform new duets with Kathleen Supové at this recently opened
NYC Chelsea art gallery in the autumn.
Further details TBA.
Haim
Chanin Fine Arts
27
MAR 02
French Museums commission new music for multimedia
Patrick Grant received a commission from the musée du Quai Branly to create music for the film component of a touring exhibition to be initially installed at the Louvre, the musée de l'Homme, and the musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie in Paris, France. These exhibitions are being created to generate interest and support for the musée du Quai Branly. They will go on display simultaneously in May 2002.
To
order see a photo of the current state of the museum's construction, click here.
More on
the musée
du Quai Branly
and its collection, currently at the Louvre...
This collection,
on view at the Louvre since April 2000, belongs to the musée du Quai Branly,
which will open in 2004. In a new gallery, refurbished by the architect Jean-Michel
Wilmotte, a selection of nearly 120 masterpieces from the earliest civilisations
of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas are displayed.
These works
of art, selected by Jacques Kerchache, scientific adviser at the musée
du Quai-Branly, come from public collections - the Laboratory for Ethnology of
the Museum of Mankind (musée de l'Homme), the National museum of Arts from
Africa and Oceania (musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie),
and some regional and foreign museums. Some acquisitions have enriched the collections,
however it is impossible to claim exhaustiveness.
The display is arranged
around the four continents: Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. A "resource
centre" provides free access to most of the information available today on
each of the works.
21 MAR 02
sTRANGEmUSIC's new music series is reinvented as "ONE-TWO-THREE concerts" under a new partnership with SERIOUS MUSIC (LA)
We are now presenting our live events as a "permanent floating new music series". This means that we are able to maintain our indentity in a multitude of alternative spaces: galleries, clubs, warehouses etc. while retaining the high level and great vibe that our concerts have become know for. In order to do so, we have formed a partnership with Serious Music LLC who, through their generous support, have made all of our currently scheduled events possible.
We are actively seeking new venues to present in and, when found, we will do our best to reschedule any events that may have had to be postponed while we restructured the series.
The
current schedule can be found here.
Serious Music
Company Info
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visual media understands how top quality score music will enhance the overall
quality of his product. However, two limiting factors prevail. Number one, due
to limited budgets, very few can afford to hire composers with proven track records
that are capable of delivering a high quality music package. Number two; great
composers of our day, many of whom are "brand names," are often without
the proper channels into Hollywood, making them and their work unavailable.
Serious
Music is a music development and publishing company that intends to brand itself
as the comprehensive music resource and solution to the creators of product for
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We will draw upon the skills and talents of these composers to provide a value-effective
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visual media. Through our value-effective model, we will generate profits while
at the same time affording our customers the opportunity to utilize high quality
music and related services for the same price they are paying for lesser music.
SERIOUS
MUSIC
12
MAR 02
Patrick
Grant receives a performance grant from Cornell University
The grant is for the conducting of workshops in Autumn 2002
with the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble, under the direction of Martin Hatch, in the
creation of a new piece for the gamelan with two keyboard soloists. A performance
will be given on December 11, 2002 at Cornell University.
13
FEB 02
European documentary "RESIST NOW!" to use
theater music by Patrick Grant
Award-winning German film and theater director Dirk Szuszies is using newly remastered digital recordings of Grant's theater music in a documentary about the Living Theatre, "Resist Now! To be with the Living... 50 Years of the Living Theatre". The film is scheduled for a 2002 release.
07
FEB 02
Patrick Grant auctions a commission to benefit the Continuum Center for Health
& Healing
At an event to benefit the Continuum Center for Health & Healing, the wholistic branch of Beth Israel Hospital, the Patrick Grant Group performed and the composer offered an original composition at silent auction. The winning bid went to Grant Ruthizer of NYC and his wife Mimi. The piece will be "A Purple Elegy for Hortencia" and will receive its world premier in Argentina in May 2002.
Continuum Center for Health & Healing
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