Cheryl Pyle, piccolo, C flute, alto flute Sylvain Leroux, C flute, Fula flute Gene Coleman, piccolo, bass flute Michael Eaton, soprano saxophone
I'm very much looking forward to convening three ensembles at Scholes Street Studio in Brooklyn on Sunday, April 19. These are three distinct sides of my musical interests played by some brilliant improvisers! (Big thanks to Loren Broaddus for the flyer design, with a nod to Stanton Macdonald-Wright.)
March 8: "Rauschenberg Windjammers" for the Michele Brangwen Dance and Music Ensemble [MBDME] premieres at FOTOFest in Houston, Texas
My piece for dancers and jazz ensemble, Rauschenberg Windjammers, inspired by the work of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), will be performed by the Michele Brangwen Music and Dance Ensemble at the 40th Anniversary of FOTOFest in Houston. Inspired by a combination or conjunction of themes, the work includes musical and visual elements based on: fabric works (“Jammers”) made by Rauschenberg from 1975-1976, when he lived on Captiva Island, which he described as "[t]he foundation of my life and my work; it is the source and reserve of my energies”; photos of primarily NYC urban areas reflecting immediacy, transferred to fabrics worn by the dancers, but also inspired by Rauschenberg’s fabric solent transfer process and his Hoarfrost fabric series; and the incorporation of heterogeneous toys, tools, and found objects played by the dancers, reflecting the influence of Duchamp’s “readymades” on Rauschenberg’s “combines”. This is my first commission for dance ensemble.
Mary Edwards "Everywhere We Are is The Farthest Place" in Columbia Climate School's State of the Planet
