This week on SoundNotion Ken Ueno discusses his evening-long chamber opera Gallo, his newest installation piece Breath Cloud, Ken’s artistic expansion and on the topic of inspiration, we try to decide which entities, if any, are fundamental?
- This week on SoundNotion, composer/performer Ken Ueno discusses his evening-long chamber opera/installation Gallo being staged by Guerilla Opera. Limited run opens May 22nd. Tickets on sale now.
- For the show, Ken managed to get his hands on a lot of Cheerios, a Bohlen-Pierce clarinet (with Amy Advocat to play it), and some thoughts on the discrete vs the continuous in humanity’s connection to nature.
- Ken also got his hands on a lot of speakers. His newest installation piece, Breath Cloud at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum uses 100 individual speakers and audio tracks.
- Due certainly to the “SN Bump,” David T. Little is named the fourth composer in residence at Opera Philadelphia.
- The first full length album from Kerry Andrew‘s ‘avant folk’ solo vocal project You Are Wolf was released May 8th, Hawk to Hunting Gone. Also available, a clever companion album, Hunting to Hawk Gone {re-imaginations}.
- Alan Lomax spent 1978 – 1985 in preparation for the PBS series American Patchwork, recording over 400 hours of footage throughout the American South and Southwest. The Alan Lomax’s American Patchwork project offers selections from the archive on Youtube, much of which never aired on the original series.
