The Anagram of Scot Gresham-Lancaster
This is a running log of the ongoing occurances.
Click on the title of postings to hear the associated mp3 and videos.
I am very proud of the new retrospective of my work with this landmark computer music network group.
From the Tdzadik website, "A new recording by the band that pioneered laptop ensembles over twenty years ago coupled with an historic overview of their recordings, unreleased tracks and video clips of the band in performance. Functioning in the West Coast tradition of composer as instrument builder—redefining music from the ground up—The Hub makes music using electronic and digital systems of their own devising. A natural extension of the late 1970’s ensemble the League of Automatic Music Composers, the group has performed worldwide over the past two decades and continues to break new ground in the ever-growing laptop medium. "
Here is a picture of Guy van Belle (gevan bella) the now Eastern European racountuer and instigator in Berlin on a fine afternoon at the Tesla new media center in June of 2005. You see the experimental stuffed panda balloon in the distance. Photo by Tim Perkis
On 7-7-07 at 7 pm Guy was playing "tubes and flutes" on his mac through the t-u-be vst plugin to the inventive people at t-u-b-e from his front room in Brataslava. As he said in an email:
contributing for the workshops by http://www.t-u-b-e.de/ (it is in an old brewerey in a very beautiful cellar in münchen with a good technological setup but I guess since I am playing from home missing out on that too .. hihi)
and isn't that the problem with doing network music. Concert promoters save so much on air fare. I like the deep listening convergence scheme cooked up by Vonn New and Pauline Oliveros to rehearse online and then fly everyone in to play together. Much better and very special, I was so happy to be a part of it.
Don't miss my recent interview that is now available on the turbulence.org Networked Music Review. It was so very nice of Helen Thorington to have me. If you haven't checked the site out your really should. It is fantastic.
Click on the title above to hear my own rendition of "Extraordinary Rendition" that I performed as part of the Deep Listening Convergence at Lifebridge Sanctuary in High Falls, NY on June 10, 2007 Monique Buzzarte' trombone Pauline Oliveros accordion David Arner harpsichord Katharina von Rütte vocal Scot Gresham-Lancaster piano
Click here to get access to a "live" score of "Extraordinary Rendition" the instructions are to follow the green ball.
"Extraordinary Rendition" grew out of two sources. First my unstoppable attraction to bad puns. As a musician and a purveyor of rendition after rendition in the course of my life the repeated references to the U.S. governments new improved, indeed, extraordinary renditions had to be met by my own "Extraordinary Rendition". Around this time while studying Mark Levine's book "Jazz Theory" I came across a set of changes that took the core of John Coltrane's remarkable "Giant Steps" and modulated through all 12 keys. I thought to myself while playing through them, there is the essential material here for an extraordinary rendition of this classic jazz standard. So I felt it was my patriotic duty to do my little part for this administrations endless ill defined "war" with my own "Extraordinary Rendition".
This is dedicated to the wonder of "habeus corpus" and the Geneva convention and to all those who truly know that the "rule of law" is what makes our nation great.
Also, check out this cool flash animation based on "Giant Steps" by Michal Levy. John Coltrane continues to inspire ...
From WFMU's "Beware of the Blog" comes this treasure. John Cage performing "Water Walk" on the national TV show "What's My Line?" I remember watching this show as a kid, but I must admit I don't remeber seeing this episode.
Here is a transcript of my unsuccessful attempt to have 9 remote players perform in the Concert Hall in the Music Department at SJSU. Mercury was obviously in retrograde on this one ;-) but the link on the title of this entry is one Pauline Oliveros posted of a really fun mp3 of what everyone was doing online that we couldn't get a feed of onstage at the time. It was a bit frustrating up on stage for me, but everyone tells me they had a great time online. So that is great.
Here is a bit of the text chat transcript just before I gave up: Scot Gresham-Lancaster 4/25/07 7:58 PM add me back in Stuart Dempster 4/25/07 7:58 PM meltdown Marc Jensen 4/25/07 7:58 PM uh oh Monique Buzzarté 4/25/07 7:58 PM only 9 add in Marc Jensen 4/25/07 8:03 PM is something happening now? I'm still dropped Scot Gresham-Lancaster 4/25/07 8:05 PM Thank you not working got to go Thanks a million Michelle Nagai 4/25/07 8:05 PM i'm on hold again Stuart Dempster 4/25/07 8:06 PM Have a good rest of concert! Michelle Nagai 4/25/07 8:06 PM looks like scot has moved on! Scot Gresham-Lancaster 4/25/07 8:07 PM bye Stuart Dempster 4/25/07 8:07 PM anybody get hurt? Marc Jensen 4/25/07 8:08 PM no, we survived the riskiness Viv Corringham 4/25/07 8:08 PM better go before we do Michelle Nagai 4/25/07 8:08 PM i've got sleepy business. i think i must go... Monique Buzzarté 4/25/07 8:08 PM viv back in? Michelle Nagai 4/25/07 8:11 PM i'm going to sign off. do i just hit the hang up? Monique Buzzarté 4/25/07 8:11 PM yep Michelle Nagai 4/25/07 8:11 PM by eall - have fun! Viv Corringham 4/25/07 8:11 PM i'm back i think Marc Jensen 4/25/07 8:28 PM crash? or is it just me? Monique Buzzarté 4/25/07 8:28 PM I'm ok Marc Jensen 4/25/07 8:28 PM okay, it's back Monique Buzzarté 4/25/07 8:29 PM zzz for meeeeeee 4/25/07 8:29 PM xo to all Viv Corringham 4/25/07 8:31 PM lovely to play with you all- sleep got me too. 4/25/07 8:31 PM byeee!
I am very proud of the new retrospective of my work with this landmark computer music network group.
