| |
|
Art News:
|
|
|
|
Hello, friends of Jack Straw-Happy New Year! Thank you so much to those of you who chose to make a gift during the holiday season, as well as those who offer their support throughout the year. As always, we're wasting no time this year in getting right into some fantastic music and arts events.
This Wednesday, Composer Spotlight will feature a film by filmmaker Malic Amalya and a performance by musician Jac Nelson, of Black Tail Dear. Jac created the soundtrack for Malic's film Drifting as part of their recent Jack Straw Artist Rresidency.
Jim Hobbs and Kinski's A CLEAR DAY AND NO MEMORIES will, alas, be leaving our gallery after this Friday; do not miss this chance to see it. Michael Upchurch wrote a very nice piece about it recently in the Seattle Times, but words are no substitute for the experience of experiencing it live in the space. If getting here during business hours is a challenge, the Gallery will be open during Composer Spotlight this Wednesday evening.
Resident artists Eye Music will be taking over Jack Straw's studio space and the New Media Gallery on the afternoon of Saturday, January 22nd. They'll be performing work from their residency project in both spaces at once, in what is sure to be an unforgettable event.
Jack Straw is very proud to be a co-sponsor of the New Music at Town Hall Seattle series this winter and spring. Read on below about two excellent concerts they'll be bringing you this month from the Deep Listening Band and So Percussion.
Thanks very much for your support of Jack Straw. We hope to see you soon!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Composer Spotlight
| |
Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present
Composer Spotlight
 MALIC AMALYA and JAC NELSON
Drifting
Wed, January 12, 7:30pm
Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, 98105
Filmmaker Malic Amalya, a Jack Straw Resident Artist, and musician Jac Nelson, of Black Tail Dear, will speak about their collaboration on the film Drifting (16mm / 2010), which was supported by Jack Straw's Artist Support Program. The presentation will include a live performance by Black Tail Dear, accompanying a screening of the 16mm print.
Drifting is both an homage to and a polemic on nostalgia for Americana. Shot on an optical printer, Drifting re-photographs frames from 8mm home movies that would have otherwise been thrown out due to broken sprocket holes, melded frames, light leaks, and jittering frame lines. Black Tail Dear is the solo project of Jac Nelso, a genderqueer musician, writer and scholar who uses melody and dissonance, resonance and silence, a piano and a few tricks to create music that might be like the slow opening of heavy, creaky doors. Shooting through window frames, reworking found footage, constructing alternative viewing apparatuses, and exposing the properties of his media, Malic Amalya creates passageways in which perceptions shift.
Malic's films have screened across North America, including the TIE Cinema Exposition in Montreal and Milwaukee, the Olympia Film Festival, and the Around the Coyote Gallery in Chicago. Malic holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BA from Hampshire College, and has been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center and Blue Sky Project in Dayton, Ohio.
Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present Composer Spotlight, a series of talks and performances by composers, musicians, and scholars of new and innovative music every second Wednesday of each month. For more information about Composer Spotlight artists and the series, .
|
New Media Gallery
|
 A CLEAR DAY AND NO MEMORIES
a new project from Jim Hobbs & Kinski
Jack Straw New Media Gallery
Closes Friday, January 14, 2011
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
Gallery open during Composer Spotlight, the evening of Wednesday, January 12.
"Taken as a whole, 'Clear Day' leaves you feeling battered, invigorated, immersed in the glorious howl of the cloud-swept Northwest."
-Seattle Times
A CLEAR DAY AND NO MEMORIES is a new multimedia installation, created through the Jack Straw New Media Gallery Residency Program, comprised of multiple 16mm film projections and recordings on vinyl, focusing on the atmospheric and atrophied architecture around Fort Worden and Puget Sound. Taking inspiration from a Wallace Stevens poem of the same name, A CLEAR DAY AND NO MEMORIES presents the viewer with an ever-shifting sense of place - one that is never the same twice. Within the gallery, 16mm films constantly run on looping machines, implicitly guiding the viewer through various environs and monuments. The audio recordings act not as a synchronized soundtrack, but instead become a physical presence within the space redirecting the mood and gaze of the entire installation. By manipulating the complex relationship between film and sound in a way that disregards a traditional or linear narrative, the work contemplates the fluid and evocative nature of memory and place. Watch the "Internet Version" of A CLEAR DAY AND NO MEMORIES at Vimeo Hear an excerpt from Kinski's soundtrack through our Artist of the Week Podcast.More information on our New Media Gallery web page.
|
Jack Straw Artist Event
|
 EYE MUSIC
Saturday, January 22, 4-6pm
Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle
FREE
Seattle ensemble Eye Music are residents in the 2010 Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The ensemble have been using this opportunity to record pieces for a CD release. Among the composers whose works are being recorded are Stephen O'Malley, Malcolm Goldstein, Amy Denio, Mieko Shiomi, David Toop, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Christian Wolff, Stuart Dempster, Michael Shannon and Michael Parsons.
In connection with this residency, Eye Music will give a free performance on Saturday January 22nd, 2011 at Jack Straw Productions. The music will begin at 4 PM and include pieces that were recorded during these sessions.
|
Sponsored Event
| |
New Music at Town Hall Seattle
The composer collective Deep Listening Band - Stuart Dempster, David Gamper, and Pauline Oliveros - elevates improvisational music with a passion (and reputation) for site-specific pieces that use space and resonance as inspiration. Now, after a weeklong residency, DLB presents a surround-sound concert featuring the premieres of Great Howl and Town Haul, enhanced by the Expanded Instrument System tonal "time machine" and state-of-the-art sound from the UW's Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media.
Called an "experimental powerhouse" (Village Voice), "astonishing and entrancing" (Billboard Magazine), and "brilliant" (The New York Times), Brooklyn-based quartet So Percussion's innovative work with today's most exciting composers, plus original music, has won international acclaim. The program features the influence and compositions of Steve Reich (Music for Pieces of Wood) and John Cage (Child of Tree and 3rd Construction), as well as selections from So's Imaginary City and Jason Treuting's Amid the Noise.
 | | So Percussion |
|
|
| Sonarchy Radio | 
Sonarchy Radio airs on Sunday nights, midnight-1am, on KEXP 90.3FM or kexp.org
Sonarchy Radio is a program of Jack Straw Productions. Doug Haire is the producer and mixes these shows live in the studios at Jack Straw. This hour-long broadcast features new music and sound art made by Pacific Northwest artists, and is now in its 14th year (!) of airing on KEXP Seattle (90.3 FM). The show can be heard live at KEXP.org and is available in its entirety for two weeks following the broadcast in several streaming audio formats. All shows are now also available as podcasts. to find the Sonarchy Podcast. Contact Doug for more information at (206) 634-0919 or doug@jackstraw.org.
SHOW SCHEDULE
January 9th: However
Quiet, focused, inside music from Torben Ulrich - voicings, Lori Goldston - cello, Angelina Baldoz - trumpet, mutes, flute, Jason Scott - percussion.
January 16th: Helix
Four master improvisors in the classic sax and drum duo times two. Very powerful. Eric Barber and Greg Sinibaldi - tenor saxes, Greg Campbell and Paul Kicuchi - drums.
January 23rd: Labyrinth and the Desert
Maximum sound pressure and overtones from Andrew McInnis - juno 106, casio MT - 68, piano and harmonium. Text by Martin Schilde.
January 30th: David Marriott's Pop Culture
Exploring the themes of popular culture through original compositions and arrangements. David - trombone, Marc Fendel - alto sax, Geoff Harper - bass, Brad Gibson - drums.
|
|
|
Support Jack Straw
Jack Straw Productions relies on the support of individual contributors to make our programs possible. Please help us continue to support the work of Pacific Northwest artists working with sound and all our art and technology education programs.
Become a Jack Straw Member!
For a $35 annual membership donation, you can receive discounted recording time in our studios, as well as discounted rates on Jack Straw audio workshops. A Jack Straw membership pays for itself in no time! Donate any amount by clicking the button below, or sending a check directly to us 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195.
Match your donation
If your company participates in an employee matching gifts program, you could double or even triple your gift to Jack Straw! Just ask your HR or personnel department. Questions? Please contact us at (206)634-0919 or jsp@jackstraw.org.
Thank you for your support!
Jack Straw Productions is a nonprofit organization, exempt from taxes under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to Jack Straw Productions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Pursuant to RCW 19.09, Jack Straw Productions is registered as a charitable organization with the Secretary of State of Washington. For more information, call the office of the Secretary of State, 1-800-332-4483.
|
|
| Jack Straw Productions gratefully acknowledges The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, City of Seattle's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, PONCHO, The National Endowment for the Arts, ArtsFund, Humanities Washington, Wells Fargo, University Rotary Club, HumanLinks Foundation, The Russell Family Foundation, and individual contributors for their support of our Programs. |
|
If you have questions about any of our events, please call us at (206) 634-0919.
Jack Straw Productions(JSP) is the Northwest's only non-profit multidisciplinary audio arts center. A community-based resource since 1962, we provide a production facility that is unlike any other in the region for local artists who work creatively with sound. Jack Straw focuses on annual artist residencies through our Artist Support Program, our Writers Program, and our Gallery Residency Program; art and technology education for all ages; arts & heritage partnerships; and radio production. Our full-service recording studio is also available to the community for a broad range of projects.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jack Straw Productions | 4261 Roosevelt Way NE | Seattle | WA | 98105
|
| |
#
|
| YOUR FIRST STOP FOR ART ONLINE! |
|
Discover over 150,000 works of contemporary art. Search by medium, subject matter, price and theme... research over 200,000 works by over 22,000 masters in the indepth art history section. Browse through new Art Blogs. Use our advanced artwork search interface.
Call for Artists, Premiere Portfolio sign-up for your Free Portfolio or create an Artist Portfolio today and sell your art at the marketplace for contemporary Art! Start a Gallery Site to exclusively showcase your gallery. Keep track of contemporary art with your free MYabsolutearts account.
|
|
Copyright 1995-2013. World Wide Arts Resources Corporation. All rights reserved
|
|
|
