Bora Yoon will be performing her live score to the
theatre adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird
Chronicle at Edinburgh International Festival in August.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is directed by Stephen
Earnhart, and uses bunraku puppetry, performance, dance and film.
It will run for five nights, with six performances planned. Watch
the trailer below. More info here. Edinburgh King’s Theatre, 20–24 August,
£10–£30.
On the eve of a slot at London’s Boiler Room
clubnight/webcast, Martyn has announced full details of his next
album, Ghost People, due for release on 10 October.
The 11 track Ghost People will be released on Flying
Lotus’s Brainfeeder label, and a series of launch parties are
planned with artist Erosie, painter of the mural pictured on the
album artwork (above). Martyn says: “I did create parts of the
album with my live set in mind. The live set is very much a
performance of the album for me. That’s where the artwork comes in,
too: the sleeve, and then having Erosie recreate it live in a
venue."
The University Of California Press this month
publishes an anthology of avant garde music journal
Source. Source: Music of The Avant-Garde,
1966-1973, is edited by founder Larry Austin and Douglas Kahn,
and comprises almost 400 pages of content from all 11 issues,
including an index of all articles that appeared in the
journal.
Source, printed semi-annually in large
format in runs of 2000 between 1966 and 1973, contained interviews,
scores, essays, artwork, poetry and photos from artists and
musicians including Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley, Pauline
Oliveros, Harry Partch, Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich, Anthony Braxton,
Nam June Paik, and others. For more info and to read the
introduction by Larry Austin, head to the University Of California Press site.
Here Press will be launching its first book,
Drowned, by Seba Kurtis. The book is a
collection of documentary photography made by shooting the fenced
off coastline at the crossing between Africa’s north-west coast to
the Canary Islands, throwing the negatives into the sea, and
developing the film to create scarred, bleached images.
Here Press is a new small press founded by The
Wire's art director Ben Weaver and Harry Hardie. For more
info, head here.
Draft Records has a trio of new releases for the
summer, all on cassette in editions of 200, from Greg Davis,
Telecult Powers and Alex Barnett.
Davis's release is States (3), the third
in a series that began with States (1) on Important
Records imprint Cassauna, and continued with States (2) on
Goldtimers, and duo Telecult Powers collaborate with Emeralds’s
John Elliott and Excepter’s Lala Ryan on Stars Of The Eyes Of
God. Fore more info, head here.
The Pew Center For Arts And Heritage have announced
the twelve Pew Fellows In The Arts for 2011, each of whom will
receive a $60,000 award. The grants are awarded to people in the
Philadelphia area at any stage in their careers across a range of
fields in the arts.
The winners of the 2011 award are guitarist Chris
Forsyth (Family Vineyard, Tompkins Square), Charles Cohen, who
produces music using a Buchla Music Easel synthesizer, jazz bass
player and Ornette Coleman collaborator Jamaaladeen Tacuma, plus
poets CAConrad and Pattie McCarthy, set designer Jorge Cousineau,
choreographer Tania Isaac, architect Brian Phillips, and artists
Joy Feasley, Jane Irish, Tim Portlock and Matthew Suib. For more
info on the fellowship, head here.
A couple of weeks ago, a cassette
collaboration between MF Doom and Ghostface Killah surfaced as
a secret extra in Doom’s crate collaboration with clothing brand
Akomplice. The cassette single went on sale, and an album was
reported to be in the pipeline. Now, Lex Records has posted news of
Doom’s UK tour later in the year, which includes a one off show
with Ghostface Killah at the Lex Records tenth birthday showcase at
the Roundhouse on 5 November. More info here. Listen to the Doom/Starks "Victory Laps"
single below.
Dates for the MF Doom tour are as follows: Glasgow The Arches (3
November), Manchester HMV Ritz (4), London Roundhouse (5), Leeds O2
Academy (7), Oxford O2 Academy (10), Hatfield Forum (11), Bristol
Motion (15), Birmingham O2 Academy (16), Brighton Concorde 2
(18).
Extra summer dates are in for the reformation
of Pentangle, announced back in April. Following a show at
Glastonbury in June, Pentangle will be playing Cambridge Folk
Festival on 30 July, plus a show at London’s Royal Festival Hall on
1 August. Bert Jansch will also be appearing on 20 August at the
Edinburgh Festival.
Jansch, John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee, Danny
Thompson and Terry Cox are also reportedly working together on new
material for the first time since 1973, and plans for a full
release of the 2008 tour are also in the pipeline. For more info
head here.
Film Maker Bernard Josse’s documentary about Peter
Brötzmann, Soldier Of The Road, has been released on DVD.
Soldier Of The Road is a documentary made in collaboration
with journalist and photographer Gérard Rouy, who has been
following Brötzmann since the early 70s. It looks at Brötzmann’s
live performances and artwork, and takes in interviews and
performances with Han Bennink, Evan Parker, Ken Vandermark, Mats
Gustafsson, Joe McPhee, Michael Zerang, and others.
A screening is promised for the next edition of
Sotto Voce festival, which will run from 29
September–2 October. For more info, head here.
Rutger Zuydervelt (aka Machinefabriek)
and Gerco Hiddink have curated Bridges - an audiovisual project involving four
pairs of Improv players reacting to field recordings and video made
at four bridges between Sinderen and Nijmegen in The Netherlands.
Mats Gustafsson is paired with trumpeter Nate Wooley, Jon Mueller
is with Burkhard Beins, Steven Hess is with Erik Carlsson, and Jim
Denley is with Espen Reinertsen.
Zuydervelt paired the eight musicians not to play together, but
to react separately to the field recordings, which he then mixed
together with the primary field recordings. The four pieces will be
released on vinyl, as a double 12" picture disc, with the artwork
printed with a zoetropic series of images of the bridges.
Hiddink says: “Like music, film is time-based. Print is static.
I thought that if I could find a way to translate the video into
print, some element of time and movement would remain within the
design… I edited dozens of small film loops per bridge, and placed
frames of these in rings on vinyl, so that when the record is
played, the film comes alive again in stop-motion. It's a moving
photograhic score.”
Bridges will be released on vinyl in October, and as a
digital download in September. Those who want to stay up to date
with the project should email bridges@machinefabriek.nu.
Listen to an album preview below:
