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 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
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
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.
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
Rediscovery
While pouring through my archives today I came across a piece I wrote in 2001 for the choreographer Courtney Krantz. Pleasantly surprised by my early output (it is a very stark 17 minute piece consisting of some wistful melodies on the bowed marimba, and some field recordings of walking and water) I've decided to share it on my last.fm page.
Check out on the Horizon of this Beach from 2001