Randy Gibson
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July 16th, 2020
Dia Profile
July 16th, 2020
Dia Profile
I'm pleased to help launch a new series of profiles on Dia Art Foundation's blog. I talked with Dia about my background, and my history of working with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela and how that has influenced my own working methods. Read the full profile here
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November 17th, 2019
Art in The Netherlands
November 17th, 2019
Art in The Netherlands
Ostensibly the reason I went to The Hague was to seek out James Turrell's Celestial Vault . I had only seem photos of this work, and as a completist, I felt I needed to see it. I took a train down from Amsterdam, where I was staying for other reasons, and then a couple of buses, and then a long walk before I found myself, in the cold grey …
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October 14th, 2019
Amplified Perception
October 14th, 2019
Amplified Perception
Tonight is the premiere of a new work commissioned by Albert Cerulo, Expanding Rhythms in Harmonic Time . Al came to me and asked me to write a work for solo bass drum. Quite the challenge, considering how wrapped up in tonality so much of my work is. Al was well aware of this and asked me to write this work for just that reason. I think this is …
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June 11th, 2019
SVA Residency
June 11th, 2019
SVA Residency
I'll be spending this summer in residency at SVA as part of their Contemporary Practices residency program. I lucked out with a beautiful north-facing studio, and am looking forward to expanding my practice here and seeing what this beautiful space and fellow residents and advisors spark. There will be open studios at the end of June, where you …
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October 1st, 2018
On Tuning
October 1st, 2018
On Tuning
I'm very pleased to have contributed a new essay On Tuning to the current issue of Sound American - appropriately the Just Intonation Issue - about my relationship to tuning, and the ways in which I currently think about it. Expanding now my use of Just Intonation beyond tuning in the sonic realm the ratios can be explored in their purely …
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June 19th, 2018
Summer Studios
June 19th, 2018
Summer Studios
I've been experimenting more and more with the relationship of my audio work to the physical realm. Since my first show of objects - last year's Rational Time at the Wild Project Gallery - I've been honing and developing my own relationship to paint and the edge - both physical and perceptible. This summer, during July and August, I'll be opening …
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April 24th, 2018
A Drone for Sunrise
April 24th, 2018
A Drone for Sunrise
On Sunday morning I will greet the sun with a new composition for earth gong and harmonic resonators entitled Harmonic Twilight Accretion . As part of 24 Hour Drone at Basilica Hudson in Hudson New York , I'll perform this new work beginning at 5AM on Sunday April 29th as the sun rises over Hudson for the 18th hour of the marathon performance. I …
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September 17th, 2017
Objecthood
September 17th, 2017
Objecthood
My show of objects and installations, Rational Time , has been up at the Wild Project gallery for a couple of weeks now, and I’ve begun to think a lot about the psychological difference of presenting this type of work as it relates to my previously established working methods. When I present a performance, there is an overwhelming amount of work …
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September 12th, 2017
On Time
September 12th, 2017
On Time
A few months ago, Arden Reed, the critic and writer of a new book about James Turrell's symbolism called Slow Art reach out to me. Arden was putting together an issue of The Brooklyn Rail about time and art, and, came to me for a perspective from the music world. How can time manifest in performance, object, or environment? How, through the use …
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June 20th, 2017
Appearing in Tennessee
June 20th, 2017
Appearing in Tennessee
On Thursday, the incredible R. Andrew Lee will be performing my landmark work for equal tempered piano and harmonic resonators. The Four Pillars Appearing from The Equal D under Resonating Apparitions of The Eternal Process in The Midwinter Starfield will be presented at the seventh Nief Norf summer festival in Knoxville, Tennessee in a new …
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June 17th, 2017
NY Times Profile
June 17th, 2017
NY Times Profile
My work with time and minimalism is profiled in this weekend's New York Times with musings about my new piano release for Irritable Hedgehog , as well as my piece for TIGUE and some of my earlier works. The amazingly attentive writer, Seth Colter Walls, has provided a truly incredible introduction to the breadth and focus of my work. Read the …
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June 16th, 2017
The Four Pillars Appearing released on Irritable Hedgehog
June 16th, 2017
The Four Pillars Appearing released on Irritable Hedgehog
I'm thrilled that today, Irritable Hedgehog is releasing the digital version of my The Four Pillars Appearing from The Equal D under Resonating Apparitions of The Eternal Process in The Midwinter Starfield 16 VIII 10 [Kansas City] as recorded by R. Andrew Lee last year in Kansas City. This was a truly incredible recording experience, three days, …
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April 6th, 2017
Epiphany
April 6th, 2017
Epiphany
While I was sitting there, listening to the performers of ChampdAction rehearse and then perform Apparitions of The 27:28 Symmetry under The 72:81:88 Differential Cirrus at the Transit Festival, something dawned on me. Recently I have been performing in most of my own work, and, due to the duration of the works I’ve been developing, we rarely get …
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April 1st, 2017
On Perception
April 1st, 2017
On Perception
There was a moment, a little over a year ago, when three people, each independently and unprompted, suggested I read the same book: Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees about the artist Robert Irwin. I must have been putting out the feeling of searching for the next step. I was preparing a performance and installation of …