// 13 E. TULANE \\ Worm Man \\
Improvised Music Workshop \\ Tim Kaiser, Doctah X \\ Moody Playshop \\
Tribal Belly Dance \\ Queer Yoga \\ Clarinet Panic Deluxx \\ Metta
Bhavana \\ Pure Data \\ ||
It Looks Like It's Open (ILLIO)
- 13 E Tulane Rd, Columbus, Ohio
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Studio-mate shows not at the studio:
Friday, April 4, 8:pm
The Fuse Factory, Frequency Fridays
Vic
Rawlings/Tim Feeney + Anna Friz + Al Margolis/Tom Hamilton + Brett Burleson /
Ryan Jewell with special guest Worm
Man - Our April 2014 Frequency Fridays show features
experimental cello/circuits/percussion duo Vic Rawlings and Tim Feeney (MA/AL),
sound and radio artist Anna Friz (Berlin), sound art duo Al Margolis and Tom
Hamilton (NY), and experimental guitar and percussion duo Brett Burleson and
Ryan Jewell (CMH). Date: Friday, April 4, 2014. Location: Wild Goose Creative
(2491 Summit St. 43202). Admission: $10, $15 for 2. Doors open 8pm. Our Frequency Fridays 2013-2014
season is supported by a grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council. More
info at: http://thefusefactory.org/events/
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13 E. Tulane events:
Saturday, April 5, 11:am-1:pm
Improvised music workshop: Open to
all participants!
Instructor: Vic Rawlings
Workshop fee: $15
Learn to listen and respond to sound and music in ways that may be new to you!
This workshop invites your active participation – it is not a lecture.
Participants will engage in a series of structured exercises and generate sound
and music as a group, in real time.
ALL participants are welcome, including those who do not consider themselves
musicians. No musical background or technical skill is required. You are
equally welcome with no experience improvising or if you are an experienced
improvisor. ANY instrument is welcome, including voice. This includes objects
not commonly seen as musical instruments as well as conventional musical
instruments. If you do not have an instrument, one can be provided for you. If
you need amplification, please bring your own, as we don’t have enough to
supply everyone.
We will work directly with sound, beyond the standard use of rhythm, melody and
harmony. We will explore free improvisation as an ensemble in this context.
This is a hands-on, sound-making workshop, and thus we will not be spending
time discussing music theory or music history or referencing jazz or any other
widely recognized musical style.
Please do your best to arrive at the specified time! Once the workshop has
begun, we will not be able to accommodate latecomers.
[Note: We will not turn away anyone due to financial constraints! To make
alternative arrangements, please contact Alison Colman at alison@thefusefactory.org]
About the instructor: Vic Rawlings (cello/electronics) employs a still and
unstable sound language ranging from visceral excess to extreme austerity. He
uses an amplified cello augmented with extensive and invasive preparations of
his design, adapted from Baroqueera designs. He has developed a vocabulary of
extended techniques, approaching neartotal abstraction from the cello. As an
entirely separate instrument, he uses and continually develops a modular
electronic instrument with a highly unstable interface, acoustically realized
by an array of exposed speaker elements.
Rawlings primarily presents improvised music in the predictable settings and
durations. Exceptions to this are installationlength performances and a series
of performances in standard music venues that suspend concepts of site and
content. He has composed and recorded soundtracks for internationally
distributed films by Catherine Pancake, Jeffrey Daniel Silva, and Alla Kovgan,
as well as composing and performing live scores for theater and dance.
To learn more, please visit Vic’s website: vicrawlings.com
http://thefusefactory.org/events/improvised-music-workshop/
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Saturday, April 5th, 7-11:pm
Tim Kaiser + Doctah X
We are proud to present experimental electronic musician/sound
artist/instrument maker Tim Kaiser (MN) and experimental electronic musician
Doctah X (CMH), who will be performing at It Looks Like Its Open the evening of
Saturday, April 5. Location: It Looks Like Its Open. Doors: 7pm. Suggested
donation: $5. BYOB, all ages.
About the performers:
Tim Kaiser has been producing experimental art at various venues for the past
30 years. His video, installation and performance art projects have been
presented in Germany, Brazil, Sweden, Hong Kong, Cuba, Canada, Philladelphia,
New York and Chicago.
Tony Harrington, better known as Doctah X, is a DJ, singer, and
electronic/ambient soundscape musician who operates the House of Dub Studio in
Columbus, Ohio, and hosts a radio program on WCRS Columbus. His music is firmly
rooted in Jamaican Reggae, and he ventures deeply into the realm of Reggae
known as Dub music and Dubstep. His music encompasses Eastern and African
sounds. He performs at clubs throughout the Midwest, in his native Kentucky,
and in New York City at Roberta’s Tonic and The Knitting Factory. In the 1970s
and 80s, as a blues guitarist, he recorded and toured in Europe with Cream
drummer Ginger Baker and played with blues legends John Lee Hooker and Albert
Collins, Lele Gaudi and recorded more with Umar Bin Hassan on Stay Focused
Records.
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Sunday, April 6th, 1-3:pm
Playshop with Howard Moody
Play!
Unlock energy, intelligence and joy! Howard Moody, Omega Institute's long-time
play facilitator, will lead us in two classes of lightheartedness, joy and all
out fun. Howard has been teaching and facilitating play for 20 years. He
is cofounder of Adventure Game Theater, which has been featured on NPR and
PBS.
Feel free,
have fun and learn some simple and amazing games. Come and join us in a
laughter-filled Playshop.
Cost $20
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Sunday, April 6th, 6-7:00 - and most Sundays -
Sacred Shimmy - Advanced Tribal
Belly Dance
This class
is designed for the dancer with some mastery of Levels One & Two who feels
ready to develop her dance into something greater. Teacher permission is
required to attend. Please contact angienever@gmail.com with any inquiries.
Ongoing, most Sundays from 6:00 - 7:00 PM. $15 drop in, $60 three class pass. Sacred Shimmy
updates here.
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Tuesday,
April 7th 7:30pm - and every Tuesday except April 15th-
Queer Yoga's Tuesday Tadasana
Queer Yoga
is Columbus's first queer-focused yoga class that offers professional yoga
instruction in a designated Safe(r) Space. We endeavor to cultivate an
atmosphere of acceptance and community in all we do, from sun salutations to
post-yoga snack time. Whether you are new to yoga, or you can complete a
headstand without assistance, you will find something to challenge and deepen
your practice.
Class fees are $6 for ALL participants. Everyone is welcome. Bring a mat.
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Sunday,
April 13th, 2-4:pm
Open Meditation: Renewing Mindfulness
This session
will focus on re-introducing and re-newing meditation practice. Participants
are welcome to practice any form of meditation or quiet prayer they feel
comfortable with and are invited to share their techniques and the experience
of getting to know themselves with awareness. Two 20 minute sessions will be
followed by tea. There is no cost. Donations are welcome.
The benefits
of a daily sitting practice are clear, but it may feel difficult to add
something new to our already busy lives. As the Spring comes with wind and
rain, I've found my practice deepen, not by adding anything, but by
subtracting. Doing less and enjoying more. A process of simplifying.
There are
definitely times when action is necessary. But there is little benefit to
suffering over the things we cannot control. To practice daily mindfulness is
to practice patience. Lately, seeing new sprouts arrive, I've been reminded of
the poem by Bashō:
Sitting
quietly, doing nothing,
spring
comes and the grass grows by itself.
Let's try
this simple practice together.
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Thursday, April 17, 7-10:pm
Clarinet Panic Deluxx (Toronto) +
Fissure Shaft (IN) + Forest Walker (CMH)
We are proud to present experimental chamber music/avant garde math rock
ensemble Clarinet Panic Deluxx (Toronto), dark experimental musician Fissure
Shaft (IN), and ambient musician/composer Forest Walker (CMH), who will be
performing at It Looks Like Its Open the evening of Thursday, April 17.
Location: It Looks Like Its Open. Doors: 7pm. Suggested donation: $5. BYOB, all
ages.
About the performers:
CPDLXX is a ensmeble born in 2009 as vehicle for the dense music of cellist
Cory Latkovich’s dreams. Clattering ahead like the score to a never ending
horror film, they inch towards a climax as cello and sax play a game of back
& forth only to be driven forward by systematically antagonistic drum
patterns and their own instrumental curiosity: bastard chamber music meets math
rock.
Fissure Shaft is John Jude Windland, from the village of West College Corner,
IN. Fissure Shaft is at the moment creating between dark experimental and
something you can groove to, utilizing current, advanced modern electronic
techniques, as well as unique sounds via circuit bending and hommade custom
instruments.
http://thefusefactory.org/events/performance-clarinet-panic-deluxx/
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Friday, April 25th, 7-9:pm
Intro to Buddhism for the
Curious: Metta Bhavana, a talk by Keith Warren
Keith
Warren, experienced Buddhist practitioner and professor of Social Work at OSU,
will give an introduction to the the Buddhist cultivation of
loving-kindness.
Hosted by
the Buddhist Network of Central Ohio
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Saturday, April 26, 1-4:pm
Workshop: Intro to Pure Data
Workshop instructor: Nick Arner
Workshop fee: $35
This workshop will give an introduction to the Pure Data, an open source
graphical programming language developed by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for
the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works. Pure Data can
be used to quickly create interesting sounds that you can use in sound design
or electronic composition, as well as interactive visuals.
Topics covered include:
-Installing and getting started with Pure Data
-Making a basic synthesizer
-User interaction
-GEM and visuals
-PD with other programs
-PD on your phone
Workshop attendees are encouraged to bring their own laptops. If you want to
bring your own MIDI controller as well, feel free!
