Tenderloin Opera Co. AND Meridian Project performing and presenting Saturday Aug 22nd

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Tenderloin Opera Company will perform some songs, and Meridian Project will give a presentation about our group at the Trinity Rep Co.'s Season Kickoff Party. This event highlights Rhode Island-based performance groups through a one day mini-fest of performances and discussions.

Saturday, August 22
1:20 pm • Aborn Street stage— Tenderloin Opera Company will perform
3:40 pm • Chace Theater—showing-and-telling about Meridian Project
Trinity Repertory Company
201 Washington Street
Providence, RI
FREE






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Video from Tenderloin Opera Company Performance

Here's an album of videos from
Tenderloin Opera Company's performance of

"Can of Worms (two-stent heart)"

April 25, 2015
The Black Box Theatre
at Mathewson St. United Methodist Church


The album contains videos of the full performance, songs from the performance, and each individual song, so you can pick and choose your greatest hits!  Lyrics are also posted in the individual Vimeo video pages.







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Performance of Windeye @ Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, July 13 + 23

Andie Springer will be performing my piece Windeye at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival this month.

Performances will be in and around Fairbanks, Alaska
on July 13 and 23rd, 2015.

Full schedule and ticketing information is HERE







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Meridian Project and Tenderloin Opera Company Weekend!

Last weekend was a big one, with performances from my two favorite collaborative groups.  Both we're very successful.  Sorry I didn't post earlier.  Documentation up soon...

Friday/Saturday, June 12/13, 2015 – 8 pm

Meridian Project presents
Sun and Moon
a new multimedia performance
combining astrophysics and the arts
with astronomer Scott MacNeill
Frosty Drew Nature Center and Observatory
Ninigret Park
61 Park Lane
Charlestown, RI
Admission: $5 suggested donation
— plus —
Friday and Saturday at 6 pm
Chime building workshop (kid-friendly)

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Sunday, June 14, 2015 – 2 pm

Tenderloin Opera Company
will perform songs from
Can of Worms (Two-Stent Heart)
as part of the Providence International Arts Festival
Mathewson Street Theater
134 Mathewson Street, 4th floor
Providence, RI
FREE

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Video Documentation from Forty-Eight to Sixteen

Video Documentation from a live performance I took part in of Brian House's biometric piece Forty-Eight to Sixteen.
May 7, at MIT Bartos Theatre, Cambridge, MA
as part of the Ampersand Concert Series

https://vimeo.com/127508591







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Peformance with Brian House at MIT, May 7, 8pm

I will be playing bass on Brian House's piece Forty-Eight to Sixteen at MIT, Thursday May 7.  The piece is based on biometric data readings of Brian's bike commute through NYC, accompanied with the video of that commute.  Neat stuff!

Thursday, May 7, doors 7:30pm, music 8pm
MIT Bartos Theatre (20 Ames Street, Building E15, Atrium level, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$3 w/MIT ID, $5 at the door (cash only at door)

For more info, please click HERE






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Review of Latest Tenderloin Opera Show

Click HERE to read the Indy's review of last weekend's Tenderloin Opera Company* performance: "Can of Worms (Two-Stent Heart)." (page 5 in the issue, article "Buses into Landsharks")  There are some beautiful drawings of the Tipsy Tree, RIPTA Landsharks, and other critters from the show.

The performance was a big success.  Thanks to all who took part and came to the show. (documentation up soon)

Also check out the impressive interview with Junot Díaz.

*I am a proud member and co-music director of TOC.






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Write-Up on URI Website

Here's a write-up of me and my colleague, photographer Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, about the RISCA Fellowship Award by the University of Rhode Island website.  Author Elizabeth Rau discusses my piece The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery and the Rhode Island murder story that inspired that piece.

http://www.uri.edu/news/releases/index.php?id=7356






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RISCA Fellowship Events Feb + March

Event schedule for RISCA Fellowship Exhibition:

All events are located at the
Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery
Salve Regina University
Corner of Lawrence and Leroy Avenues
Newport, RI

Opening Reception
Friday, Feb. 13th, 6-9pm
I and other RISCA fellows will be there, video documentation of my performances will be on display

Writers Night
Thursday, February 26th from 6:30-8:30 PM
Literature Fellowship Award Winners will read from their most recent works. This event will also feature a presentation and performance by RISCA's Folk Arts Fellow Rachel Rozenkrantz(!)

Fellowship Film Night
Tuesday, March 3rd from 6:30-8:30PM
Screenings of video shorts by Peter Glantz and Laura Colella’s acclaimed Breakfast with Curtis.

Artists Talk and Closing Reception
Friday, March 6th from 6-8 PM
I and other Fellowship artists will talk about our work and creative process.

All events are free and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: 11 AM to 6 PM Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 AM to 5 PM Wednesdays and Fridays and Noon to 4 PM Saturdays and Sundays. The gallery is closed on Mondays.








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RISCA Fellowship Award in Music Composition

Thanks so much to the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts for awarding me the 2015 Fellowship in Music Composition!  RISCA is a fantastic organization that does an incredible job supporting the arts in Rhode Island.  Please check out the other fellowship winners here.






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Meridian Project's
DARK MATTER multimedia album
is now available on bandcamp as an audio/visual download, EP audio download, or as a Limited Delux Edition USB with handcrafted packaging and album notes designed by Joshua Lantzy. 
The perfect stocking stuffer!!!






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Meridian Project DARK MATTER Multimedia Album Release Party – Saturday, Dec. 6th, 8pm

!!!Meridian Project Dark Matter Multimedia Album Release Party!!!
audio/visual performances by Meridian Project
with special guests JPA Falzone & Musicians and TRUNK
Southside Cultural Center
393 Broad Street
Providence, RI
Tickets: $5 at the door
Album available on bandcamp 12/6/14






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Golden Bantams @ Fiddle & Folk Fest, Sat Sept. 13!

I'm playing bass with old time string and keys band Golden Bantams
Come see hear some great music for FREE!
@ the 4th Annual Local Brew Fiddle and Folk Festival
Sat. Sept. 13, 12:30pm (festival runs 11am-5pm )
rain date Sun. Sept. 14 
Haines Memorial Park
10 Narragansett Avenue
Barrington, RI
FREE







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Tenderloin Opera Company @ Sweet Little Variety Show in Providence, Thurs. Sept. 11, 8pm

I will be performing with the Tenderloin Opera Company at the
Sweet Little Variety Show
Thursday, Sept. 11, 8pm
@ Eighty Eight Lounge
55 Union St.
Providence, RI
$6 at the door









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RISCA Arts Project Grant Award!

This week I was awarded a project grant award from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts to help fund further work of the Merdian Project.

We will use the funds to develop a new piece about the sun, as well as a glass marimba building workshop and performance open to the public.  More details to come.

Thanks to RISCA for their continued support for the creative community of Rhode Island!

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Upcoming Performances/Events Spring 2014!

Upcoming Events:

!CityArts! Staff Show
a gallery showing of work by ¡CityArts! teaching artists
I'll be screening the videos Speak, Stone and Three Scenes from Fox Point


Thursday, March 6th 5:30-7pm
Providence CityArts for Youth, Inc.

891 Broad St, Providence, Rhode Island

FREE! Snacks will be served!

Meridian Project presents
Dark Matter

a multimedia performance and lecture series inspired by astrophysics and cosmology

Friday, April 25, 2014 – 2 pm and 7 pm
Saturday, April 26, 2014 – 2 pm and 7 pm
Roger Williams Park Planetarium
1000 Elmwood Avenue
Providence, RI
Planetarium admission: $3
Additional donations accepted to support the artists
Cash only; first come, first served

Tenderloin Opera Company presents
Paradise of Sighs (Survive the Day)
a music and theater piece inspired by the stories of homelessness in Rhode Island

Sunday, May 4, 2014 – 7:30 pm
Mathewson St. Theater
4th floor of 134 Mathewson Street
Providence, RI
FREE
 
as part of THIS IS FREE PROVIDENCE, an annual festival of performance promoting dialogue around art and our shared public space.
May 2: Wilbury Group's An Iliad
May 3: Strange Attractor and Out Loud Theater
Mathewson St. Theater
4th floor of 134 Mathewson Street
Providence, RI
FREE
Donations accepted for RI Coalition for the Homeless

Meridian Project presents
Comets & Meteor Showers
a multimedia performance and lecture inspired by astrophysics and cosmology to correspond with predicted meteor shower of fragments from comet LINEAR.



Saturday, May 24, 2014  8pm - late
Frosty Drew Nature Center and Observatory
61 Park Lane
Charlestown, RI
FREE (donations accepted for artists and Observatory) 







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Meridian Project Funded!

 

Thanks to the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts for providing seed funding for The Meridian Project, a series of performances that will take place this spring at the Planetarium at Roger Williams Park mixing music, multimedia, and presentations of concepts in cosmology/astronomy/astrophysics. 

More info will be available soon, but please check out these links for the project summary and list of collaborators: 

https://www.newmusicusa.org/?project_preview=7963&msg=preview

http://www.meridian-project.com/

And save these dates for the performances, (times TBA):

March 27 + 29, 2014 @ Cormack Planetarium at Roger Williams Park
April 24 + 26, 2014 @ Cormack Planetarium at Roger Williams Park
May 29 + 31, 2014 @ outdoor under the stars location to be announced

-j

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RIPE Podcast Review of Cowboy Mouth

I was part of a group review of the OUT LOUD Theater's production of Sam Shepard's Cowboy Mouth (directed by Kira Hawkridge) for the Rhode Island Performance Exchange. 
The podcast can be heard HERE (RIPE Reviews Episode 8.5)







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I am presenting a little interactive video installation whose working title is "It's Mark's World, We Just Live In It" at a performance of Mark Snyder's band Nature Boy Explorer at

9pm Friday, Dec. 13
Sudo Shoes

1771 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge,MA

(a few blocks south from Porter Square)

Facebook event

Come check it out!!!

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Article on Roving Performances Published at Howlround

An article I wrote on roving performances was published at the theater/performance journal and blog, Howlround.

http://www.howlround.com/towards-a-working-method-of-audience-movement

Thanks to Jamie Gahlon, Polly Carl, Srila Nayak, and the rest of the team at Howlround.  Special thanks to Adara Meyers for help editing the article.






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