Thursday, October 25, 2012

The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery, Nov. 3rd + 4th



The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery 

dissertation performance piece by Jacob Richman


8pm, Saturday and Sunday, November 3rd and 4th, 2012
Mathewson Street United Methodist Church
134 Mathewson St. Providence, RI
FREE

 The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery is a multimedia installation and roving performance piece based on a murder story that took place in Rhode Island in the early 1990s. It is a setting which utilizes four dancers, nine musicians, and almost a dozen rooms of the Mathewson Street United Methodist Church in downtown Providence. It is a mobile murder ballad based on dreams and echoes, fragmented words, images, sounds, and objects inspired by this heartbreaking story. In The (unfinished) Ballad… the audience moves throughout the five floors of the building, filled with performers and various interactive media technology, from large video projections to nine-foot tall robotic curtains, cell phone buzzers, broken lobster traps, blue cellophane, cloth, and the haunting presence of the historic Mathewson St. Church itself, all unified to recreate and reinterpret a tragic and unexplainable act of violence and the folklore that surrounds it.

 Featuring:

Adrian Moore, Anna Muselmann, Brandon Shaw, and Stephanie Turner (dancers/choreographers)
 Yayra Sanchez (soprano)

Aliana de la Guardia (mezzo soprano)
Rossana Chung, Abigale Reisman (violin)
Ken Allen (viola)
Anna Seda (cello)

Kirsten Volness (piano/keyboard) 

Peter McGrath (trumpet)
Jeffrey Neilson (percussion)

Matt Desmarais (seismic activity)


For more information visit: http://www.jacob-richman.com/ballad.html

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Thanks for your support!
Jacob






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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Presenting at Conference "Crusing in the Ruins" @ Northeastern U. Sept. 22



Saturday, Sept. 22nd, 2pm
Northeastern University
Curry Student Center, McLeod Suite B, rm. 320
346 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA

I will be giving a brief presentation at the conference Crusing in the Ruins, organized by the BABEL Working Group.

The talk will be entitled Rhode Island Murder and Horror Stories in Performance: Adam Emery, Mercy Brown, and the Devil’s Footprint and I will discuss setting past and contemporary Rhode Island folk, horror, and murder stories to performances, including the projects Mercy Brown and the Devil's Footprint and The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery.

I will talk about reenactment, playing with bones, haunting the scene of the crime, seance, and using these things to try to understand incomprehensible stories.






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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Lisa Dowling performs Pretty Polly in NYC April 26




Fantastic bassist Lisa Dowling and I will perform Pretty Polly

in a bass recital TRIPLE HEADER
also featuring Doug Balliett and Florent Ghys

Thursday April 26, 2012
8pm
Spectrum, 115 W. 23rd St. #22, Manhattan, NY
Wine and beer will be available
$10 suggested donation







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Three Scenes from Fox Point - Screening @ U Wisc, Whitewater 4/24



The Sonict Ensemble will screen a stereo version of Three Scenes from Fox Point at a performance at University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

April 24, 2012

more info HERE






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Saturday, March 17, 2012

St. Patty's Day Performance @ Mathewson St. Church




I'll be playing bass and singing a song by Kirsten Volness with The Tenderloin Opera Company, a homeless-advocacy writing/storytelling group we work with at the Street Sights Celebration. The performance will be an excerpt from our upcoming Opera performance. The event will also include free corned beef and cabbage, poetry readings, and more!

1:30pm Sat March 17th
Mathewson St. Church,
134 Mathewson St., Providence, RI






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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Sleeping Weazel Inaugural Party and Performance Mix




Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:30pm

As part of the collaborative theater group
Sleeping Weazel's Inaugural Party, I will be setting up an installation version of
Three Scenes from Fox Point
and will be playing bass with Lauretta Pope and Bill Solomon of Exilkabarett, and Kirsten Volness for a performance of her cabaret song Rats!

The Factory Theatre
791 Tremont Street
Boston, MA
(This is a private party approaching capacity, but email me if you'd like to come!)






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Tenderloin Opera Company

Saturday, December 3, 2011 - 2:00 pm

Tenderloin Opera Company
Baby Blue Starswork in progress showing
Original musical and theatrical material by, for and with people who are
homeless, homeless advocates, and the Brown University/Providence community.
Join us for a round of new songs & scenes composed by the group.
Come for the entertainment, free food, and with questions
about how to share in the work of TOC, the Speaker's Bureau,
or how to take part in this creative group whose aim is
to help this overlooked community express its own story in its own voice.
One hour, free food, all are welcome.


Mathewson St. Methodist Church
Providence, RI
FREE






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Electro-Acoustic Barn Dance Events



Friday, October 28, 2011 - 4:30 pm

Electro-Acoustic Barn Dance events:

Three Scenes from Fox Point (2011, ~15min)
An exploration of the relationship between images, sounds, textures and nascent characters found in three locations at Fox Point. All images and sound recorded at Fox Point, Providence, RI.
@Pollard Recital Hall
University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, VA

FREE


Paper Presentation: Digital Performance and Audience Reception
Abstract:
the issue of audience reception is often overlooked in digital performance, a field that can be preoccupied with the breakneck development of technology, and the theory—technical or cultural—involved therein. In this presentation, I will define and discuss three major issues important to audience reception of digital performance: the development of performance personae, action-response relationships and process-communication expression by digital performers. I hope to start a conversation with artists and scholars about the way our work is received and perceived by an audience and how aspects of this relationship are important to the expression of the creative work.
@Pollard Hall, rm 213
University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, VA

FREE







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the infinite space between



Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 5 pm
the infinite space between
for building, musicians, dancers, and interactive electronics
will be premiered at the
Music in Architecture - Architecture in Music Symposium

featuring Carolyn Somes (voice), Joanna Martin (alto flute), Connor O'Meara (bass clarinet), Eric Peterson (percussion), Alex Heitlinger (trombone+dance), Katherine Hodges (dance), Claire Augustine (dance)

project design by: Jacob Richman (video tracking/audio processing system design and performance), Josh Lantzy (project design) and Kirsten Volness (music composition and vocal performance), with visualizations by Yan Da

University of Texas at Austin
Visual Arts Center
23rd and Trinity Streets
Austin, TX

FREE






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the infinite space between - in progress show @risd museum

Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 8 pm

work in progress showing of
the infinite space between
for building, musicians, dancers, and interactive electronics
featuring Annie Rose London, Sofia Unanue, Stephen Higa, Peter Scartabello, Josh Lantzy, Jacob Richman, and Kirsten Volness
RISD Museum After Dark
Moore Terrace - 2nd floor outside Chace Center
224 Benefit St.
Providence, RI

FREE




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