Outsound PresentsFull Moon Concerts - Quickening Moon
8 pm: Theory Garden
9 pm: VoxMaids
Theory Garden has been in various forms of gestation since 2005, led by Mika Pontecorvo with a varying cast of players exploring a range of improvised music from dark psychedelic rock to free improvisation to abstract electro-acoustic music. For the Quickening Moon performance Theory Garden will include guitar, cello, flute, percussion, sax, trumpet, bass, and vocals and live signal processing via laptop computers.
VoxMaids is made up of JoJo Razor and Cynthia Weyuker, two veteran story-telling vocalists who use various instruments and loop boxes to create garden theater. The story of the VoxMaids is considered neo-folk story music, played out in moments of insanity and beauty. Lately they have begun the arduous task of combining music, performance, film, improv and ritual together to create a fertile ground for the source, or what they like to call
Searching for the Voice of the Third. With the precision measurements of alchemists, Cynthia and JoJo aim to create a soundscaped foundation on which the Voice of the Third may not only be heard but seen. With this combination it insures that no two performances are alike and instead breathes life into the moment, not only for the performers but for the audience.
THE PROGRAM:
1. Theory Garden -
Kuu (Moon)
Kuu, like other pieces conceived and performed by Theory Garden is built on an evolving set of dynamic sonic processes architected by Mika Pontecorvo. This process architecture serves as both a ambient soundscape for the individual players improvisations and as a means of modulating the players� work.
For the purposes of this performance the primordial rhythmic relationship between the moon and the life forces it influences will be derived by looking at stages of gestational development at the time of the Quickening Moon and using that relationship to modulate the performance timbral and rhythmic structure. This will be accomplished by using the day and month of both the performers and audience to drive the generative processes of the performance electronics.
INTERMISSION
2. VoxMaids -
The Quickening Moon The Quickening Moon finds the VoxMaids asleep under the illuminated dark sky. Video projections change throughout the performance ritual, from darkness to twilight. Soundscapes provide a place for the breath, the calling voice, for improv and ritual.
Song 1 ~ Winter
The Earth Ritual Weaving (bones)
video projections: darkness, texture, mercury
soundscapes: earth, roots, dormancy
performance ritual: physical weaving
Song 2 ~ Electricity
The Water Ritual Phoning (blood)
video projections: darkness, velvet,
soundscapes: earth, roots, dormancy, drums
performance ritual: movement
Song 3 ~ MerryGoRound
The Air Ritual (lungs)
video projections: darkness, movement, patterns
soundscapes: breath, wind, bells, chimes, didgeridoo, accordion
performance ritual: the breath
Cost: $6-10