August 27, 2010
Archived video of last week's performance with James Ross and Michael Waller. Produced for ImprovFriday by Richard Lainhart and Jim Goodin.
July 2, 2009
Two excerpts from my recent video clip for the second section of Excavation Patterns. This section uses baritone guitar, delays and multiple amps. Layered video shot in Prospect Park and Park Slope in Brooklyn, June 2009.
March 15, 2009
Video animation made from multi-layered still images. Officially a demo until I can record the audio on Disklavier.
July 10, 2009
Two shows coming up:
July 19
Share @ Issue Project Room
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY
8pm, free admission
Guest set with Michael Waller, Kyle Bobby Dunn & James Ross
MORE INFO ABOUT SHARE
July 20
Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY
9pm, free admission
With David Beardsley, James Ross & Joseph Benzola
LIVE WEB STREAM
July 1, 2009
The second half of 2009 promises to be really exciting. Other than a few shows in the pipeline, I've been building a new video system which essentially realizes a visual analogue to an improvisational approach I often use in solo electro-acoustic performance scenarios (e.g. Deep Golden Flourish, Excavation Patterns). These scenarios involve one or several long audio loops (5-23 seconds), which begin as near-blank "canvases" and are built on in real time via a delayed feedback/response cycle.
This process is different to perhaps more standard layered looping processes in that it does not begin with a structural foundation in place, or in mind. Rather, the structure evolves from - and is determined by - the layering process itself.
I like to think of this performance activity as a kind of "tending." It is not the willing-into-existence of an already known thing, but a careful and reverent listening and responding, which ensures the thing grows from, and stands on, its own foundations.
What results is a growing "organism" that is neither purely a product of the performer, nor completely reducible to the processing mechanism. The performer contributes new material, but he/she is always guided by what is played back, and what is played back is always the sum of his/her previous recorded "guidances." In another sense, you could say the organism's path of development is shaped by its own previous experiences and memories, and the impression they have upon those looking on and reacting.
Taking this analogy further, perhaps there is a kind of dangerous seduction at play between the organism and the reactor. The organism needs to seduce the reactor in order to grow and flourish, but peril is always present in that the reactor may at any time wittingly or unwittingly obliterate the organism, either by not responding sensitively or by exerting his/her power to reduce it to his/her own will.
Watch this space for details of screenings and demonstrations in New York.
November 21, 2008
Alex Carpenter performs with Kyle Dunn this Tuesday Nov 25 at Pianos, 158 Ludlow St, NYC. Supporting Boduf Songs and To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie. 8pm.
September 5, 2007
Chord From The Second Delphic Hymn CD now available (via this website only). Many thanks to those who preordered a copy of the LP that never was. Your understanding and patience throughout this whole debacle has been greatly appreciated. CDs have now been posted to all preorder customers who requested a copy.
August 8, 2007
If you reserved a copy of the MOTM lathe-cut LP Chord From The Second Delphic Hymn, you will have received an email about the latest news. In short, regretfully, the records are completely flawed and cannot be released. My sincere apologies. Read the full story HERE.
July 27, 2007
CHORD FROM THE SECOND DELPHIC HYMN LATHE-CUT LP NOW SOLD OUT. NO MORE ORDERS PLEASE. ORDERS SHIPPED AUGUST 8TH.
June 16, 2007
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