more Grouper by kanoa and mariko

Grouper...by Kanoa and Mariko

my friends kanoa zimmerman and mariko reed came to the Grouper performance last week to lend their photo eyes to the affair...here's a first batch that is featured in a little article on the artcards blog

GATHERINGS part 3 pf 4.... GAMELAN

join in for part 3 of Gatherings, it's going to be a wild one...



FRIDAY JULY 30
GAMELAN SEKAR JAYA
with a reel to reel recording of an a cappella mix of The Beach Boys' PET SOUNDS

BERKELEY ART MUSEUM
2626 bancroft way
berkeley ca
6pm, doors open and Pet Sounds begins
7:30pm, Gamelan performance begins
$5 please.


Gamelan Sekar Jaya performs traditional Balinese music and dance. The orchestra, led by I DEWA PUTU BERATA, consists of 20 musicians playing interlocking, pattern based parts on bronze, iron, wood, and bamboo percussive instruments. With each instrument tuned to just slight variations of notes, there is a mounting tonal vibration that is quite hypnotic.

Dancers will be led by a special guest teacher NI KETUT SRI LAKSMI.


For the first portion of the evening, we will enjoy a distinctly different expression of tonal meldings...Devin Woolf has helped unearth a rare recording of an a cappella mix of The BEACH BOYS album PET SOUNDS. Played on reel to reel, this tape will cast spells through the museum as the ultra-rich layers of vocal harmony ring out and disappear.



Come listen and find the larger order!

GATHERINGS part 2 pf 4.... GROUPER

FRIDAY JULY 23
GROUPER
presenting SLEEP
with a harpsichord performance by EUGENE PETRUSHANSKY

BERKELEY ART MUSEUM

2626 bancroft way

berkeley ca
6pm-9pm (sharp!, don't be late!)
$5 please.

this is liz.
she is grouper.
she makes heavy tunes.


this is what they sound like:

this is eugene.
he built his harpsichord.
he also plays heavy tunes.

come on out to the museum for some heavy haunting holy tune time...

Terri Tells it Best... SUN CEREMONY!

terri... ruler of the lens, again and again to infinity.
here's terri loewenthal's looks on the sun ceremony last friday at BAM. she made fully appropriate joke that these are photos of her joining a cult. which is totally on point, and especially funny to me, since I once joined her cult for her wedding day (check out the cult picks here). What's so culty about lots of people wearing all white with newest age space frocks, all drumming and singing together? I don't get it.

THE SUN CEREMONY

GATHERINGS at Berkeley Art Museum

I'm having an art show at the Berkeley Art Museum.
It's called Gatherings.
It's all about bringing things together.
And I'm very excited.

I'll be at the museum working on the installation all summer (til Aug 20), taking trips to round up things and feelings to bring back and build with, draw from, and think about. I'd love to have anyone join me on some journeys or with the installation growth. Just come to BAM any day during the week...I'll either be there...or I'll leave a message and a map as to where I am.


And if you're into excitements...there will be 4 gatherings at the museum as part of the show

JULY 9 SUN CEREMONY (group drumming and sound sharing..collaboration with Chris Duncan, with light projections and visual guidance by Jeffrey Manson and Misto Reef Light brigade, and a special performance by Meara O'Reilly) ... we're making a giant 8' sun to shine light upon and orchestrate our drum times. see photos below...

JULY 23 GROUPER (Liz Harris joins us from Portland to share a new composition of layering and spiraling tape collage called SLEEP. Her sounds will be sent throughout the museum and this will debut a new scultpure that is a mirrored cascade. This performance will open with a harpsichord performance by Eugene Petrushansky, playing early music on the harpsichord he hand built.)

JULY 30 GAMELAN SEKAR JAYA (25 person Gamelan ensemble share traditional balinese music and dance. This evening will begin with a rare listening experience to a reel to reel recording of an a cappella mix of The Beach Boys album Pet Sounds. As many players form one unified sound in the Gamelan ensemble, the layering of voice and richness of production forms one voice.)

AUGUST 13 JAMIE STEWART (XIU XIU) and FILM PROGRAM by MAX GOLDBERG (Xiu Xiu front man Jamie Stewart takes the opportunity to step back from his song craft and debut a new composition in field recording inspired by the night, animal calls, and quietness. Local film critic Max Goldberg responds with a selection of short 16mm films from Canyon Cinema archive that “materialize the call of the wild and give ecstatic form to the way of nature.”)

THE SUN CEREMONY
JULY 9