Bain Project Performance
The Bain Project installation weekends are over, but the reverberations of this grand, all-enveloping art event will echo for a very long time. Not since David Ira Wood’s multimedia theatre event “X” (in Thompson Theatre in 1970 when “multimedia” had just been coined) has Raleigh been blessed with such a massive infusion of cool. And to think – Bread & Puppet comes next weekend!! Raleigh, Raleigh.
I’m still reeling from the sights, sounds and interactions of Bain. Huge crowds included many like me who visited several times. You couldn’t possibly see everything in one pass, and I kept running into wonderful reunions as well as Bain participants, who were amazingly present and available throughout the building. One thing I didn’t catch til near the end were the sound performances in the main hall of tanks. Below are links to two 30 second clips of the performance.
The Call for Performance
Shrieking Pipes Video
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Banging Pipes Video
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Though one of the best parts of the Bain installation was the seamless and credit-less array of work, Dana Raymond should be credited with leadership in the sound project above. I will be posting more special features of the Bain Project as I gather my thoughts for a central review. Stay tuned for Marty’s yellow room, four-day views of the ball floor and the watershed map, Tim’s magic lab, my urban explorer interview about Bain, and much more! It will all be referenced on my Bain Page.
taintradio hits the netwaves
Out of Raleigh to the world, indeed. Do yourself a favor and go to taintradio.org, download itunes if you don’t have it, listen to taintradio for a few hours, and prepare to be transformed. This is radio as it should be, probably as it never has been.
Welcome to taintradio.org. We are an alliance of independent, unpaid volunteers dedicated to presenting music on the Internet 24/7. There is no format, there is no “target audience.” Each program host presents only what they want to present.
Bob Rogers and Dave Tilley have begun a revolution, and it is going great! They have a workable infrastructure in place and wonderful, wonderful contributors (including themselves). I promise you will be amazed – and have not one friggin’ idea as to what might be coming next. Not to imply it’s a random jumble. It’s just fascinating revelations, one after another, as to what is out there that you haven’t heard and are so glad to be hearing.
Bob is an old friend whose book, Non-Fiction Poems, I published in 1985. He has been in and out of professional radio for many decades, though he has been processing word data since arriving in Raleigh over twenty years ago. He once drove Buck Owen’s Cadillac around for a spell as part of a give-away promotion. That’s just the tip of the iceberg of his radio industry stories. Dave Tilley has the substantial tech chops to make this thing work, but also has a broad set of interests and has been running a stage at the (upcoming) Festival for the Eno for a while. The two of them have been plotting this thing for years. Bob’s predilection is the midnight to six audience – he volunteered weekend overnight shows at WSHA for years. Dave has been hosting a roots music radio show for 18 years. Now the two of then have undertaken what really does amount to a major new format for providing listener supported radio. Please check it out.
Elise Witt – local girl gone global
Elise
Elise Witt is a proud product of Knightdale, UNC-CH, and the Raleigh area. She is in Atlanta now and always doing amazing things. Her wonderful music is informed by classical training, world-wide folk traditions – and Elise’s unique, enthralling and amazing voice! She writes, performs and produces wonderful music, and betters the world while she’s at it – working with Alternate Roots over many years as it has grown, traveling around the country giving workshops about enriching your life with music, and exemplifying with her own life and career the commitment to enlightened, positive existence.
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Where to start! In the last year, she has visited China:
From December 9-18, 2007, I was invited as a guest to fly to China, to sing with the Chiang-Su State Chorus from Nanjing, and the Beijing Central Conservatory Chorus, along with the Jiangsu Province Symphony Orchestra, with guests from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, and Russia, under the direction of reknowned Chinese conductor Mu-Hai Tang (former assistant conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, under Maestro Karajan).
She has sung in support of the natural environment.
She sang to help meld a world of differences.
She has also presented and/or participated in her usual plethora of workshops focused on using singing and music for personal enrichment, attainment of harmony and peace, and for plain old fun. Check out her website and buy her stuff! Go Elise!
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