The Third Pillar
Dear friends and listeners,
Following the truncated, partial premiere last Saturday as part of the 2012 Avant Music Festival, William Lang and I are very excited to present the Full World Premiere of 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 on Monday, February 27th, 2012, at 8PM at The Wild Project.
Anyone that was at the performance on the 18th, is invited back as our guests to this premiere, and I’m hoping that this last minute change in schedule will allow even more people to experience Will’s transcendent playing as it was intended.
Tickets to this special premiere are now available through Avant Media
In harmony,
Randy
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
I'm very happy to announce that, Thanks to Kickstarter and the wonderful people that donated there, my next limited edition object CD release, Aqua Madora will be out officially on February 22nd through Avant Media
Limited copies will be available during the 2011 Avant Music Festival: Feb. 11-19, in New York City.
Below, check out the lovely cover artwork created by 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
Analog Apparitions now for sale
My new album Analog Apparitions is now on sale from The Tapeworm.
It's 60 minutes of dense, swirling, droning cassettes, and i'm truly, deeply proud of it. It's being released in a limited edition of 250. More details can be found here.
I was joined on the recording by Drew Blumberg and Laine Rettmer, and the beautiful cover illustration was done by Oscar Henriquez.
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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.
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.
The Third Pillar and Voices + Sine Waves
Just over a week ago Will Lang, Drew Blumberg, and I got together to record a short version of Apparitions of The Four Pillars to be included on a limited edition physical version of Voices + Sine Waves. This new piece is called: 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) and I'm really happy with how it turned out.
It's 17 minutes of droning raga-inflicted melodies all drawn from The Third Pillar. The physical version of Voices + Sine Waves is going to be limited to an edition of 100 signed and numbered units, and this will be the only place this piece will be available.
There's no release date yet for the album, but it should only be a couple of weeks.
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.
Process and Apparitions of The Four Pillars
In a week, we will be presenting the world premiere of my latest piece, Apparitions of The Four Pillars, as part of the Avant Music Festival - I wanted to share a bit about my process on what has turned into the most radical work I've written in a long time.
Ever since I got my first toy organ in early 2009 I've been brewing a piece that would involve a number of organs, sine waves, and performers. Something modular, and maybe a little tiny bit more portable than the behemoth that is Doleo Æternus.