Commitment Booth / Commitment Anthology (for Hope)

Commitment Booth / Commitment Anthology (for Hope)

sideling by | Oct 24, 2018 | |

The Commitment Booth invites people to think deeply about sound and decide for themselves: Where does music live? What’s it’s nature? And where do I commit to finding it in my life? Appearing at Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown LA throughout 2018-19, the event begins two hours prior to the start of numerous LA Phil concerts   Materials: the booth natural color sanded plywood and peach color sheer cotton pipe and drape, laptop, backup hard drive, video camera (Cannon 5D), shotgun microphone, cabling, mic stand, camera stand, two way mirror fitted in a florid golden frame, simple internal lighting, one chair, signage   the table 10,000 copies of the the score / contract: heavy paper with risograph print, pens, designed plywood clipboards, ancient green filing cabinets, three types of enamel buttons (3,300 X green, 3,300 yellow, 3,300 grey), two chairs, wood table,...
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XXIII

Gobabis by | May 28, 2016 | |

for Danielle Birrittella and for Aperture Duo with thanks to Stephen Mitchell for allowing his translation of Rilke for a PDF of the score: ISSUU    ...
Reality, for one person

Reality, for one person

by | Oct 30, 2015 | |

Tell 36 – 39 memories.   I just woke up having dreamt a performance of a non-existent Julia Wolfe piece. The circumstances for the concert were unclear, but what was clear, was that the concert was totally under-rehearsed, we all hadn’t even looked at the scores yet. She told us to just get started whenever we felt ready to perform one of the pieces. I picked up this one piece:  “Reality, for one person.” The instructions: “Tell 36 – 39 memories.” So I walked over to the microphone, it was broken, so I turned it off. The audience was too wide and spread out horizontally along a close wall. They were bathed in light through a bunch of huge square-shaped windows. I used a big voice. And began: I don’t remember being born, but I do remember being put in warm water after being...