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.

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.

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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.

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Aqua Madora (Chordal Excerpt) from Avant Media on Vimeo.

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

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

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

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.

On October 4th, my tape, Analog Apparitions, will be released by The Tapeworm. I spent the summer recording a ton of cassette layers with Drew Blumberg and Laine Rettmer of music for Just Intonation Toy Organs, Voice, and Sine Waves. I'm really proud of how it turned out, it's some deep, droning music. Much more info to come on this very soon.

On October 12th Avant Media is hosting a special Fundraiser and performance for the 2011 Avant Music Festival. I'll be performing with Drew Blumberg a version of my piece The Third Pillar with its Lowest Primes and Memories of The Second Pillar from Apparitions of The Four Pillars with video by Oscar Henriquez which is available on the limited edition version of Voices + Sine Waves. Tickets are on sale now for as low as $20

In late October we'll be launching a Kickstarter campaign to release a special limited edition of my major Just Intonation piano piece, Aqua Madora.

On December 9th I'll be performing The Third Analog Pillar with video by Oscar Henriquez in London alongside Philip Jeck, Zerocrop, and Cathi Unsworth as a part of The Tapeworm's Unleashed in The East night at Cafe OTO. Tickets are on sale now for just £6

Then in January, we're scheduling the release of Aqua Madora as a digital download and limited edition CD.

And finally, on February 11th I will open the 2011 Avant Music Festival with a new, world premiere, 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 with video by Oscar Henriquez and performed by Will Lang on trombone, me on Just Intonation Toy Organs, and The Apparitions String Ensemble. There will be a second performance on February 19th, and on February 12th, Will Lang and I will play John Cage's marvelous Two⁵. A limited number of deeply discounted five night passes will be available at the October 12th Fundraiser.

So that's what's in store in my world for this year. I hope you'll join my email list, follow me on twitter, and come to the fundraiser on October 12th, there will be free beer and food.

R

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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

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.

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.