no.223 | BIG THICKET STOMP LIVE
Performed at Co-Lab Projects as a part of PSO curated series VAST IS THE SEA
This week’s piece comes via VAST IS THE SEA, a series of presentations and performances highlighting the interconnections between sound, image, and community. The music comes from a larger piece composed for my show and book, LOST PINES. Originally performed and recorded as a solo piece, Paul Stautinger has written a guitar accompaniment and has made it into an intricate duet. Paul often uses an e-bow, which creates an electromagnetic sustain akin to a cello’s bow. You can hear it soar in the opening salvo of this piece.
It was FREEZING on Saturday, but our community came out and stayed out for the duration. It was an amazing evening. Anthony Francis and Xavier Gilmore killed it. Their piece, LOVE: IN THREE PARTS, held us all in awe. You can hear some audio from their pieces and Anthony and I in conversation on the PSO podcast.
LOTS MORE TO SEE AND HEAR in VAST IS THE SEA!
NEXT UP SATURDAY, JANUARY 27
7PM MARK MENJIVAR will present a new video and sound processing work about migration via the lens of a wild population of Quaker Parrots making their homes in transmission towers in San Antonio.
You can hear more about it on the PSO podcast dropping on Thursday, which will include this week’s PSO piece and a tiny snippet of audio from Mark’s upcoming presentation.
At 8 PM, ANA TREVINO will present a new video work based on a workshop she and Mark collaborated on collecting migration stories at the Contemporary Austin-Laguna Gloria.
VAST IS THE SEA: a series of live events exploring sight and sound.
January 20th through February 24, 2024
“Vast is the sea of hearing around the raft of vision.” ― Michel Chion, La Toile Trouee (Cahiers Du Cinema. Essays Collection)
Vast is the Sea is a series of presentations from eight artists whose diverse works are united by their explorations of images and sound. The title comes from a translation of the composer and film theorist Michel Chion's analysis of the relationship between sound and image in cinema. In their presentations, each artist constructs new oceans through live performances, video, and sound processing. Viewers are invited to gaze at visions projected on the ceiling and swim among the sounds in real-time.
All presentations are maximally 45 minutes long.
There will be a 15-20-minute intermission between presentations.
Each presentation is ticketed separately.
January 27 - Performances
7pm Mark Menjivar
8pm Ana Treviño
February 17 - Performances
7pm Ariana Gomez
8pm Gavin Watts/The Reformers
February 24 - Performances
7pm Jessica Mallios
8pm Thomas Hooper X Skloss
This project is supported in part by grants from the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department, The Texas Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and H-E-B.