This short segment from our performance during The Battle of Everyouth at the Minneapolis Institute of Art highlights some of the unique sounds that DJ Luke Anderson produced during the performance. They come through in the mix clearly after the distorted Rhodes.
Battle of Everyouth (90.52 to 92.32)
This eleven minute section from our performance during The Battle of Everyouth at the Minneapolis Institute of Art started shortly after Jon Davis switched from playing bass to bass clarinet. Throughout this section I was mostly turning knobs on the Monotron and Pro-One while DJ Luke Anderson processed and looped the bass clarinet and Graham O’Brien played drums.
Battle of Everyouth (66.40 to 77.37)
Here’s another segment from the DKO with DJ Luke Anderson performance on Saturday, June 4, 2011 on the steps of the Minneapolis Institute of Art accompanying the projected work in The Battle of Everyouth. This was a tremendous performance experience for me. Re-living it through the recordings has been enlightening as well. Video documentation is in the works.
Battle of Everyouth (34:00 to 39:16)
On Saturday, June 4, 2011 from 9pm until midnight I will be performing with DKO (Davis, Keston, O’Brien) and DJ Luke Anderson at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) for the Northern Spark Festival. Our experimental music will be live accompaniment for an amazing piece called the Battle of Everyouth (Jenny Schmid and Ali Momeni). Here’s a more detailed description of the piece.
The Battle of Everyouth is a projection-based performance which blends live cinema, participatory theater, music and live animation. A miniature set, the Circarama serves as a tiny stage for projections and stop motion animations, while wireless devices offer ways to engage with live theater and contribute to the resulting projection panorama on the facade of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
DJ Luke Anderson joins the amazing trio, DKO, which features Jon Davis (Bass, Bass Clarinet), Graham O’Brien (percussion) and John Keston (Rhodes, Pro-One, electronics) for live experimental music on the steps of the MIA.
Students from Washburn High School are audience guides. This group has been studying youth and violence in their Art, Geography and Literature classes during the Spring, 2011 term. Their studies have included a mock United Nations focusing on child soldiers, the reading of graphic novels Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Maus by Art Spiegelman as well as discussions about artists that address controversies about borders, faith and security.
Artists Jenny Schmid and Ali Momeni are stationed at a “mixing station” which combines live video feeds from these numerous dispersed performance contexts. Jenny layers drawings and words over the input imagery, while Ali animates and manipulates the many visual elements of this project.
In preparation we have begun rehearsals to formulate musical strategies and create a vocabulary of ideas. Here’s a short segment from one of these rehearsals featuring Luke Anderson on electronics, Graham O’Brien on drums, and myself on GrainMachine with some Rhodes toward the end.
Battle of Everyouth Rehearsal Segment (Part 1)
DGK @ Try This 3 (Part 3)