<h2 class="title">8 New Music Projects Among Recipients of Creative Capital’s 2013 Project Grants</h2><span class="left">By <a href="http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/author/NewMusicBox/" title="Posts by NewMusicBox Staff" rel="author">NewMusicBox Staff</a> on January 11, 2013<br>
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<br>[Veja, Leonardo Fuks, vc foi o primeiro!]<br clear="all"><p>On January 10, 2013, national nonprofit Creative Capital announced
its 2013 project grants in the categories of Emerging Fields, Literature
and the Performing Arts, representing a total of 46 funded projects by
66 artists hailing from 17 states and Puerto Rico. Creative Capital’s
investment in each project includes up to $50,000 in direct project
support (disbursed at key points over the life of each project), plus
more than $40,000 in support and advisory services, making the
organization’s total 2013 investment more than $4,140,000. Per category,
17 grants will be awarded in Emerging Fields, 6 in Literature, and 23
in the Performing Arts. The funded projects in Performing Arts cover a
broad range of sub-disciplines, including dance (both formal and
experimental), theater, puppetry, musical theater, experimental music,
multimedia performance and performance art, and include new musical
works by Taylor Ho Bynum, Corey Dargel, Dohee Lee, and Holcombe Waller.
To date, Creative Capital has committed more than $29 million in direct
funding and advisory support to 418 Creative Capital projects
(representing 529 artists). Inspired by venture-capital principles,
Creative Capital is a premier provider of risk capital in the arts,
taking chances on artists’ projects that are bold, innovative and
genre-stretching. The Creative Capital system helps artists working in
all creative disciplines to realize their visions and build sustainable
practices.</p>
<p>Below is information about each of the 2013 award winning music projects.</p>
<p><strong>Taylor Ho Bynum: <em>The Acoustic Bicycle Tour</em> (New Haven, CT)</strong></p>
<p><em>The Acoustic Bicycle Tour</em> is a performance journey in which
Taylor Ho Bynum will travel solely on bicycle, presenting solo concerts
and playing with ensembles of area musicians. The endeavor is an act of
composition, a performance art piece, a philosophical statement, a
celebration of musical community, and an exercise in extreme
physicality. Bynum sees clear analogies between choosing to travel by
bike and the pursuit of creative music: the trip may be slower and more
arduous, but it is ultimately more rewarding in its acoustic pleasures
and unexpected delights.</p>
<p>Bynum, a composer, cornet player, bandleader and interdisciplinary
collaborator, currently leads his Sextet, co-leads the little big band
Positive Catastrophe with Abraham Gomez-Delgado, and works with many
collective ensembles including a duo with Tomas Fujiwara and Quartet
Collective with Gomez-Delgado and dancers Rachel Bernsen and Melanie
Maar. Bynum’s ongoing association with Anthony Braxton is recognized as
one of the most fruitful partnerships of that iconic composer’s career,
and his work with Bill Dixon produced some of the departed trumpet
innovator’s late masterpieces. He has collaborated with other legendary
figures including Cecil Taylor and Wadada Leo Smith, and performs with
forward- thinking peers like Mary Halvorson, Jason Hwang, John Hebert
and Gerald Cleaver. He is also a founding partner of Firehouse 12
Records and the Executive Director of the Tri-Centric Foundation.</p>
<p><strong>Jace Clayton: <em>Gbadu and the Moirai Index</em> (Brooklyn, NY)</strong></p>
<p><em>Gbadu and the Moirai Index</em> is an experimental musical
composition and performance piece for four vocalists and the stock
market. The performance will be staged in New York near Wall Street,
with singers representing the Moirai (the three Fates) and Gbadu (their
West African counterpart). Each singer’s vocals are processed and
transformed by real-time financial data, mapped to character-appropriate
stock market indexes. Due to market fluctuations, although the scored
is fixed, each performance will sound radically different.</p>
<p>Jace Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice has
evolved out of his work as a DJ, built around core concerns for how
sound, technology use in low-income communities and public space
interact, with an emphasis on Latin America, Africa and the Arab world.
Performing as DJ /rupture, Clayton has toured internationally, DJed in a
band with Norah Jones, performed in two John Peel Sessions, and was a
turntable soloist with the 80-member Barcelona Symphony Orchestra.
Recent collaborators include guitarist Guy Picciotto (Fugazi) and
filmmaker Jem Cohen. In May 2012 Clayton released Sufi Plug Ins, a free
suite of audio software tools based on non-western/poetic conceptions of
sound and alternative interfaces. These artistic activities find
counterpart in Clayton’s weekly WFMU (91.1 FM NYC) radio show, “Mudd
Up”; grassroots curatorial projects such as: spearheading 2011’s
art-research residency Beyond Digital, which took place in Casablanca
and Tangiers, Morocco; hosting a book club; and a series of live radio
shows, incorporating video, held at Brooklyn’s Spectacle Theater.
Clayton is writing a nonfiction book on music at the dawn of the digital
century to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.</p>
<p><strong>Complex Movements (Carlos Garcia, Invincible, Wesley Taylor and Waajeed): <em>Complex Movements: Self Titled</em> (Detroit, MI)</strong></p>
<p><em>Complex Movements: Self Titled</em> is an immersive environment
built on the aesthetics of hip hop designed to embody the communal
lessons found within complex sciences. Through interactive hip-hop
performance, video projection mapping and creative technologies, this
performative installation explores the relationship between art,
science, and social justice movements. Inspired by Grace Lee Boggs and
decentralized, community-led social justice movements, the project
provokes audience members to participate through physical and vocal
responses, feeding their own concepts into improvised sections that
support the premise that change occurs through critical connections
rather than critical mass. </p>
<p>Complex Movements is a Detroit-based artist collective composed of
graphic designer/fine artist Wesley Taylor, music producer/filmmaker
Waajeed and hip-hop lyricist/activist Invincible, with creative
technologist Carlos (L05) Garcia. Their multimedia performance
installations, hand crafted songs and trans-genre experiments explore
the relationship between complex science and social justice movements.
Complex Movements is a recipient of a 2012 MAP Fund grant, Michigan
ArtServe/Creative Many’s CSA project and winner of ArtPrize’s juried
time-based performance category. They have presented their work at The
Detroit Science Center for Kresge’s Art X Detroit festival, Re:View
Gallery, the Network of Ensemble Theater’s Microfest, Cranbrook Art
Museum, and SiTE:LAB at the old Grand Rapid’s Public Museum.</p>
<p><strong>Corey Dargel: <em>The Three Christs</em> (Brooklyn, NY)</strong></p>
<p><em>The Three Christs</em> is a 90-minute music-theater piece by
composer/lyricist Corey Dargel inspired by true stories of people who
believe they are Jesus Christ. It takes a sideways look at the concept
of fundamental beliefs. <em>The Three Christs</em> distorts and
transforms real-life case studies of psychiatric patients with Messianic
delusions by incorporating Christian gay-rehabilitation therapy
sessions, visions of the Virgin Mary, and a psychologist who, it turns
out, may be as delusional as his patients. The piece is scored for four
singers (including Dargel) and the amplified chamber ensemble, Newspeak
(clarinet, electric guitar, electric drums, vibraphone, keyboard, violin
and cello). Contributing artists also include playwright Honor Molloy
and stage director Emma Griffin.</p>
<p>Texas-born composer and singer-songwriter <a href="http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/corey-dargel/" target="_blank">Corey Dargel</a>
has shared the stage with artists ranging from Owen Pallett, Joanna
Newsom, and Grizzly Bear, to the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the string
quartet ETHEL, NOW Ensemble, and the electric guitar quartet Dither. His
fourth commercial album, <em>OK It’s Not OK</em>, songs about composure
and depression, will be released in 2014 by New Amsterdam Records.
Dargel studied composition at Oberlin Conservatory with John Luther
Adams, Pauline Oliveros, and Brenda Hutchinson. He is also a founding
member of the Brooklyn-based experimental theater company, Laboratory
Theater.</p>
<p><strong>Degenerate Art Ensemble (Joshua Kohl and Haruko Nishimura):<br>
<em>The Predator’s Songstress</em> (Seattle, WA)</strong></p>
<p><em>The Predator’s Songstress</em> is a series of multi-disciplinary,
site-transforming portraits revealing the stories of six invented
anti-heroines inspired by historical, mythical, and contemporary women.
This work aims to redefine what a portrait can be, approaching the
subjects through multiple interpretations set in an immersive
environment including theatrical dance, diorama, video portraiture, and
live music developed by the Degenerate Art Ensemble (DAE)’s team of
artists and artisans. The inner world of these characters is explored
through emotive song, visceral dance, physical theatricality, and DAE’s
punk-comedy-horror sensibility and audience interaction. Large format
video portraits explore the iconography of each character. Sculptural
dioramas created in collaboration with the innovative firm Olson Kundig
Architects encapsulate the world the characters inhabit. Animation
pieces tell their stories. These elements are bound together in an
environment infused with live, post-genre music for strings,
electronics, and idiosyncratic voice.</p>
<p>The work of Seattle-based multi-art group Degenerate Art Ensemble,
co-founded and co-directed by Joshua Kohl and Haruko Nishimura, has been
presented by major dance and music venues, as well as shown in
galleries and was featured as the subject of a large scale exhibition at
Seattle’s Frye Art Museum in 2011. Nishimura’s passion as a director
and performer is to question the relationship between audience and
performer—to put them in each other’s way, to cause collision and
conflict—with the goal of awakening and transformation. Kohl’s approach
to music is similarly combustive, dedicated to the exploration and
proliferation of genre-free music that utilizes all of the available
tools of music-making, from classical instruments to electronics and new
inventions. In addition to his work with DAE he is also an avid
conductor of indie classical music. DAE recently worked with legendary
theater director Robert Wilson to create <em>On the Beach</em>, a re-interpretation of Wilson and Philip Glass’s <em>Einstein on the Beach</em> for the Baryshnikov Center in New York. DAE’s recent work, <em>Red Shoes</em>,
which received a Music Theatre Now award from the German-based
International Theatre Institute, will be presented in Jönköping, Sweden
as part of the Swedish Biennial for Performing Arts in 2013.</p>
<p><strong>Dohee Lee: <em>The Mago Project</em> (Oakland, CA)</strong></p>
<p><em>The Mago Project</em> is a performance installation integrating
music, dance, animation, ritual, and mudangism (Korean shamanism).
Through an exploration of the myth of Mago and Dohee’s own life story,
the piece unfolds in six chapters. The project will culminate in a
series of performance/installations at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
in San Francisco in 2013-2015.</p>
<p>Dohee Lee’s rigorous training in the rituals of Korean
shamanism—chanting, dancing, singing and costuming—form the foundation
for her innovative explorations in sound and movement. Since her arrival
in the U.S., Dohee has been a vital contributor to both the traditional
and contemporary Asian-American cultural arts landscape of the Bay area
and beyond, working with Degenerate Art Ensemble, inkBoat, Kronos
Quartet, Larry Ochs, Kunst-Stoff Dance, Anna Halprin, New York-based
ensemble ETHEL (work commissioned by Meet the Composer), Dance Monks and
many others. In 2004, Lee founded the PURI Project, which presents a
fusion of dance, music, visual art, and audience participation.</p>
<p><strong>Mondo Bizarro (Millicent Johnnie, Sean LaRocca and Nick Slie): <em>Cry You One</em> (New Orleans, LA)</strong></p>
<p><em>Cry You One</em>, a collaborative project by Mondo Bizarro
(choreographer Millicent Johnnie, composer Sean LaRocca, and
writer/director Nick Slie) combines a site-specific performance with an
outdoor procession to highlight how rapidly one of the world’s most
vibrant cultures is disappearing. Every half hour, we lose nearly a
football field’s worth of the Louisiana coast to the Gulf of Mexico—more
than twenty-four square miles a year. Shared on the sites of erosion in
South Louisiana, <em>Cry You One</em> will use the artists’ bodies and
the music, dances and stories of their home to create a series of
community processions to bless and remember the land as it gives way to
the gulf.</p>
<p>Sean LaRocca is a composer, music producer, publisher, and performing
musician. Born in Laurel, Mississippi and raised in New Orleans, LA,
Sean has lived, studied and performed in Boston, MA, where he attended
Berklee College of Music; in Santa Fe, NM, where he attended St. John’s
College and studied privately with Joseph Weber; and in Annapolis, MD,
where he received a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree from St. John’s and
studied privately with Douglas Allanbrook. Since returning to New
Orleans in 1989, Sean has studied, performed and recorded with numerous
local musicians, and has composed and performed works for video,
television, film and theater. In 1997, Sean began collaborating with New
Orleans theater company ArtSpot Productions, and has since composed and
performed music for ArtSpot original works and productions including: <em>Rumours of War</em> (2011); <em>Loup Garou</em> (2009); <em>Flight</em> (2008); <em>Beneath the Strata/Disappearing</em> (2006); Chekhov’s <em>Wild Ride</em> (2004); <em>The Maid of Orléans</em> (2004); and <em>The End and Back Again, My Friend</em> (1999).</p>
<p><strong>Holcombe Waller: LGBT Requiem Mass (Portland, OR) </strong></p>
<p><em>The LGBT Requiem Mass</em> will leverage the unique
trans-disciplinary, trans-institutional convention of the modern Mass to
honor LGBT people persecuted, or abandoned to persecution, in the name
of religion. Intended to explore music’s role in shaping cultural,
political and religious ideology, the project will spark dialogue among
artists, religious congregations, arts presenters and communities
seeking common ground in the global movement for LGBT safety and
equality.</p>
<p>Holcombe Waller is a singer-songwriter and performance artist living
in Portland, OR. He has authored five albums and three touring
interdisciplinary concerts. He was awarded a 2011 United States Artist
Berresford Fellowship in recognition of artistic excellence in music. He
is known for his songwriting combining folk, popular, and liturgical
influences, as well as his approach to music as “total theater.” He is
an accomplished video-maker, directing his own art-music videos and
generating video design within his own performances. His music-theater
performances have been presented or commissioned by On the Boards, PICA,
Under the Radar, YBCA, Centre Pompidou and many others. He is an avid
collaborator, including work with Miguel Gutierrez, Zoe Scofield, Joe
Goode, Ryan Trecartin and a feature-length score for filmmaker David
Weissman. He most recently released <em>Into the Dark Unknown</em>, a
compilation of songs taken from the eponymous 2008 MAP Fund-supported
touring show. Outside of the performing arts world, Waller has worked
with and/or performed with The National, Feist, Mia Doi Todd, Bob Mould,
Storm Large, China Forbes, Gabriel Kahane, Menomena, Justin Vivian
Bond, The Oregon Symphony, and The Magnetic Fields.</p>-- <br><div>carlos palombini<br></div><a href="http://www.researcherid.com/rid/F-7345-2011" target="_blank">www.researcherid.com/rid/F-7345-2011</a>
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