Appparitions of The 2012 Avant Music Festival
We're gearing up for the 2012 Avant Music Festival in a big way. We've recently released a little preview video as a part of our Kickstarter campaign:
This whole campaign culminates in a one-night-only preview performance and thank-you party on Monday December 19th. I'll be performing a new solo vocal work: The First Pillar Appearing in Palindrome with The Harbinger of The Second Pillar under the 27/28 Triple Primal Region from Apparitions Of The Four Pillars that acts as an introduction into this year's realizations of Apparitions Of The Four Pillars. Please consider making a pledge on kickstarter and coming to hear this special performance. Plus there will be free food and drink and performances from The Pierrot Project and Eve Beglarian. Plus, if you donate $25 or more, you get a copy of the 2012 Avant Music Festival EP featuring my own Third Pillar recording from Voices + Sine Waves (previously only available on the CD version) as well as works by Eve Beglarian and Jenny Johnson.
In February, the festival will open (February 10th) with Circular Trance Surrounding The Second Pillar with The Highest Seventh Primal Cirrus, The Utmost Fundamental, and The Ekmeles Ending from Apparitions of The Four Pillars performed and commissioned by Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble.
Here is a clip from the November 2011 World Premiere at Music At First:
The festival will close (February 18th) with a new work written for trombonist William Lang: The Third Pillar in Primal Imperfect Palindrome with The Souvenir of The Second Pillar, The Floating Cirrus over the Pumping Slush, and The Highest Moving Chordal Motif from Apparitions Of The Four Pillars - This work takes the same basic idea as what I'll be performing on December 19th and transforms it into a one-man symphony of dense droning pure textures.
Full information on the 2012 Avant Music Festival, including ticketing, can be found here.
Aqua Madora featured in Textura
This month's Textura magazine features a delightful review of Aqua Madora and an interview with yours truly.
Appropriate to the title's water allusion, the reverberations produced by the piano's sustain creates an impression of fluidity between the notes played, as if they possess a liquidy dimension that allows them to flow into one another. ... a ponderous and spacious meditation, the generous spaces between the notes enabling the sine tones to once again be heard.
I'm humbled.
To get one of these special limited edition CDs click here or here
Aqua Madora: Release Party and Screening April 3rd
To celebrate the release of my limited edition album, Aqua Madora (Released Feb. 22nd) and the March 22nd release of the super-limited hand-embellished version, Avant Media will be hosting a free record release party at Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street) on Sunday April 3rd, from 7-9pm.
We'll have some free food, and beer and wine can be purchased from the Wild Project bar. At 7:30 we will screen the full performance documentation of the V-ii-2008 performance as released on the album, recreating a little bit of what the performance is like - the scent of roses will waft in the air and the beautiful visuals created by Ana Baer-Carrillo and Dani Beauchamp will accompany the actual performance video.
Seating is limited, so please RSVP on the Facebook Event Page, or by sending an email to tickets [at] avantmedia.org.
Click Here to buy a copy of Aqua Madora
2011 Avant Music Festival
This is the first video clip from the performance of Apparitions of The Four Pillars with Their Lowest Additive Primes as limited to the 3rd, 7th, 9th, and 11th New Primes chosen Cyclically, The Toll of Premonition, The Memorial Connector over the Outlying Primal Abyss, and The Mid-Winter Ending during this year's Avant Music Festival. There is also a great set of photos up on Flickr taken by photographer Tear-n Tan.
Performance of Randy Gibson's "Apparitions of The Four Pillars with Their Lowest Additive Primes as limited to the 3rd, 7th, 9th, and 11th New Primes chosen Cyclically, The Toll of Premonition, The Memorial Connector over the Outlying Primal Abyss, and The Mid-Winter Ending"
February 11, 2011 - Avant Music Festival, New York City
Randy Gibson: Just Intonation Toy Organs
William Lang: Trombone
Drew Blumberg, Catherine McCurry: Violins
Mariel Roberts: Cello
Projection: Oscar Henriquez
What’s ahead for 2011
First up in 2011 are two big things.
On Monday January 10th, the Kickstarter Campaign to fund the release of Aqua Madora closes. This nearly fifty minute piano solo is one of my favorite works, and I'm really looking forward to finally making the recording available.
I hope you'll consider pledging to make this CD a reality
Then, also next week, tickets for the 2011 Avant Music Festival will go on sale. In addition to curating the festival with Megan Schubert, this year will see the premiere of a new version of my major work, Apparitions of The Four Pillars, the recent London performance of a section of which was described by Liminal's Scott McMillan as "a moment of relative calm, of stillness, and of pleasingly soporific and mind-emptying purity."
The full title for this new version is Apparitions of The Four Pillars with Their Lowest Additive Primes as limited to the 3rd, 7th, 9th, and 11th New Primes chosen Cyclically, The Toll of Premonition, The Memorial Connector over the Outlying Primal Abyss, and The Mid-Winter Ending - I'm being joined in the performances by Will Lang, Drew Blumberg, Catherine McCurry, and Mariel Roberts.
I also have new commissions in the works for Ekmeles, bassoonist Annie Lyle, and The Guidonian Hand, but more on those to come.
Here's to a happy and creative 2011
Aqua Madora on Kickstarter
I've recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to make a beautifully packaged CD of my piano piece Aqua Madora.
The really cool thing about Kickstarter, and the reason I wanted to go this route with this project, is that the funding only happens if we meet the goal. There's no risk: "Every Kickstarter project must be fully funded before its time expires or no money changes hands."
This is a great thing, because it means that the project itself can actually happen fully as envisioned. When we're talking about the type of packaging Oscar and I want to make happen for this release, this is doubly important. I believe fully in the physical format. The experience of making a Cassette for The Tapeworm has further opened my eyes to the possibility of physical formats. With the embellished packaging we're planning for Aqua Madora we intend to capture a slice of the ritualistic performance experience in a little take-home package.
I hope you'll consider pledging to help make this beautiful object a reality
- Randy
The Season Ahead
It's shaping up to be a pretty big season this year. A bunch of performances, some recordings, and the second annual Avant Music Festival.
Plus, I've started a mailing list, which you should join, I'll only email for new and exciting things.
So here's what's coming up.
Mujeres de Juarez
In honor of the video of Mujeres de Juárez finally being available, I've decided to make the track available as a free download on last.fm until July 8th.
Click here to download Mujeres de Juárez from the album Voices + Sine Waves
And if you do, please consider taking the time to rate/review the album on iTunes or Amazon
Plus, there are still copies of the limited edition of Voices + Sine Waves available - only $10!
Check out the beautiful video by Ana Baer-Carrillo for Mujeres de Juárez
Voices + Sine Waves Limited Edition CD out today!
Now available!
a special edition of 100 CDs of my album Voices + Sine Waves.
Individually hand-numbered and signed copies are available now for only $10. Click here to purchase your copy
Voices + Sine Waves is a collection of short works by Randy Gibson written over the last 10 years. These works represent the most primal and basic of materials; voices ethereal and guttural; sine waves pure and distorted. Most of these pieces have been scores for short films or dances, but exist on their own as recordings of a single performance.
Exclusive to this CD release, and not available for download, is the raga influenced The Third Pillar with its Lowest Primes and Memories of The Second Pillar from Apparitions of The Four Pillars III-iii-2010 20:02:56" - 20:20:17" (Brooklyn). Following the world premiere of Apparitions of The Four Pillars, The Third Pillar immediately struck us all as the most melodic and raga-like of the Pillars, and thus the most readily suitable for a short-form recording. The third take of the evening recording session, The Third Pillar..., is a single improvised performance by Randy Gibson on toy organ, William Lang on trombone, and Drew Blumberg on violin.
There will not be a second printing of this CD, and The Third Pillar will only be available on this recording. Don't miss the opportunity to own this remarkable collection of works.
Apparitions – Avant Premiere
Thank you to everyone who came out to the World Premiere of Apparitions of The Four Pillars. It was an amazing and meditative night.
I've uploaded a bunch of the photos to Flickr here and this is one of my favorites:
Drew Blumberg and Tom Chiu - Photo by Travis Dubreuil
The projection created by Oscar Henriquez is a true psychedelic pleasure to perform in.
The avant-premiere, with Will Lang on trombone, will take place on February 27th at 8PM at Wild Project, 195 East third street - as a part of the Avant Music Festival,
I hope you can join me for another immersive meditative experience.