Guest Composer Residency In collaboration with
with the Nobles eXperimental interMedia Group
(Mary Garvie, Steve Goldstein, David Means and Guests)
F R E E C O N C E R T
Friday, September 12th
7 p.m.
Fine Arts Studio 677 eXperimental interMedia
Metropolitan State University
677 E. 7th St. St. Paul
Our longtime friend of the Strange Attractors Festivals has returned to speak to our music and intermedia classes, and to work with students on their individual and group composition and improvisation projects. Johnny Rodriguez’s Residency was made possible in part with funds from Dymaxion Intermedia, an independent experimental intermedia provider. While in Minnesota, he will speak to classes and perform at Metropolitan State and Artech Charter School of Arts and Technology in Northfield, Minnesota.
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Water Spirit Ritual (2003)
Johnny Rodriguez, voice and flutes
David Means, digital wind controller and live processing
Steve Goldstein, laptop computer
Video by Mary Garvie
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Cross / Fades (2008)
Johnny Rodriguez, voice and flutes
Mary Garvie, voice and narration
David Means, digital processing
Archival photography from the Farm Security Administration
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Primitive Wires (2008)
Johnny Rodriguez, voice and flutes
Mary Garvie, voice
David Means, cigar-box banjo and infrared processing
Steve Goldstein, laptop computer
Guest performers
Photography by Mary Garvie
Program Notes:
Water Spirit Ritual was commissioned by Dymaxion Music and created during a one week collaborative residency on the North Shore of Lake Superior.
Cross / Fades was commissioned by the Border Learning Conference, and premiered in Las Cruces, New Mexico in February, 2008.
Primitive Wires is an improvisation to Mary Garvie’s photography shot during the Strange Attractors 17 Festival concert by the group Toybox.
