Risk, October 18, beginning of play
Duration: 3 hours
Players: Sarah (blue), Mauro (black), Jacob (yellow), Dalia (late entry: green)
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Category: Announcements
Beginning Saturday, Oct 15, as part of a project tentatively titled war/games, I will be playing chess, once a day, for 30 days. If you live in the Bay Area and would like to play, please contact me.
Forgive the slightly early monthly spam!
Tomorrow, Sunday, July 31st, I’m going to begin a weeklong journey along the indirect route to San Francisco from here in Asheville. I’m a bit sad to leave Asheville – my time here has been incredible, relaxing, productive (watch out for an EP of my “pop” project emilys within the next couple of months) – but excited to start both the journey and the project that will accompany it.
what news is a participation-based Information Department project that utilizes new media (SMS, Google Voice, GPS) in the service of “old” media (the postal service, newspapers). Participating is quite easy:
- Send a text to Information Department at 575-446-3676 in the following format: what news [a name] [an address]. If you are comfortable with me taking a photograph of your postcard and posting it on my Tumblr, please also include a “Y” (please note: if your postcard is photographed, your name & address will be visible).
- The ID number is temporarily set up to forward directly to my cellphone; a postcard will be sent to the name and address you sent with the top headlines of the newspaper from the nearest locality to where your text was received.
Let’s stay informed.
RSVP here or by clicking the image below, a postcard derived from a premature text I received yesterday:
what news (prototype: doug, asheville)
I had big, cold plans to drive ruthlessly through the heart of America on I-40 next week. 10 hrs a day for 5 days, going through Little Rock, Amarillo, Flagstaff, and LA on my way to San Francisco. I mentioned this to my roommate and she replied, “that sounds awful.”
Hence:
Seems reasonable, right?
In conjunction with Information Department, I will also perform a piece while en route; I’m calling it, unsurprisingly, what news (2011):
- send a text to 575.446.3676 that says “what’s news?” and lists your address
- you will receive a postcard with the top headlines from the local paper of whatever town is nearest at that moment
That way we can all stay informed.
Read about what news (2011) on the Information Department site.
After not performing any version of the piece for a little over the year, I have revised this is it into something I not only want to perform, but have been performing for several months now. The score is for any performer(s) at any time, and can be downloaded here. It’s pretty fun.
Take a look/see:
For those of you in Asheville, come to The Magnetic Field tonight! I’m really looking forward to playing with Shane Perlowin again – and to just play in general. It feels strange to feel strange about not being used to playing shows anymore. Does that make sense? Playing shows all the time was such an enormous part of my life living in New York and every little reminder that that stage of my life has passed feels strange. It happened yesterday, too, as I was driving to and from the waterfalls, thinking about this or that road sign or landmark along I-81 between Asheville and New York, thinking wait a minute, I have no idea when I will ever make that drive again. I would say “bittersweet,” but that would be trite, wouldn’t it?
Anyway, if you can’t make it, why don’t you watch a video:
Locusts, rivers of blood-
Happy Canada Day! Today marks the end of what then US Secretary of State John Hay referred to as “a splendid little war,” where the United States defeated its vicious northern aggressors to gain control of the “Maritime Provinces” of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. The war lasted 4 years, claimed over 600,000 lives, and resulted in a deep, lasting animosity between the new Maritime states and the “lower 48.” So celebrate: grab yourself a fish and throw it in the trash.
In reality, last month was an absurd month in which I drove nearly 3000 miles, going back and forth from Asheville to New York to Athens and around, playing at Summer Stage in Central Park with Josh Roseman & the King Froopy All-Stars, the Undead Jazz Festival with the Andrew D’Angelo Big Band, and AthFest with Kenosha Kid. I also wrote an essay that I’d been mulling over for either 6 months or 6 years, depending on your point of view, read a bunch of books, lost not one but two pairs of glasses, went to the Fort Tilden for the first time, etc. This month I will probably drive the exact same amount, but not until the 27th or 28th when I head from here in Asheville out west to the Bay Area to emerge from my cocoon into a beautiful butterfly.
This month will (most likely) also see the premiere of a solo project I’ve been hiding from most everybody for a few years called emilys, an electro-acoustic pseudo-pop project that involves me singing the poems of Emily Dickinson, amongst other people. Then again, maybe I’ll freak out and never do that, ever.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13
Shane Perlowin + Jacob Wick // Shane Perlowin Trio
8PM @ The Magnetic Field
372 Depot St
Asheville, NC 28801
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Tonight at Barbès, this is not happening:
What is, happening, however, is one of my favorite bands in Brooklyn, VaVatican. With Owen Stewart-Robertson, guitar; Nathaniel Morgan, alto; and Weston Minissali, synthesizer. Their music, I would say, is emblematic of the new compositional style emerging out of my generation of composer/improvisers in Brooklyn. Do it. See it. Love it.
I decided to return to Asheville a few days early; it is an honor to be on the series at Barbès, but I was hemorrhaging money and feeling dislocated and had to go. I’ve lately been feeling similar to the way I did just before I came out ten years ago: a wall that exists between myself and the world has suddenly become visible in my mind and I must break it. Sitting around New York for four days and doing nothing about anything seemed impossible; I had to, among other things, start writing.
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