Marginal Consort Jan 25–26, 2019
Soundscapes Jan 26, 2019
We begin by acknowledging this land is the ancestral home of the Suquamish, Duwamish, Muckleshoot, and many other Indigenous peoples recorded and unrecorded, who have been the custodians of this land since time immemorial. As guests and — in many of our cases — as settlers on this land, we extend our deepest gratitude and respect to their ancestors and elders past, present, and future.
Marginal Consort Performance: Fri, Jan 25, 7–11 pm Demonstration: Sat, Jan 26, 3 pm (1.5 hrs) There is no fixed seating for these events; the performances are designed to be immersive experiences and audience members are invited to move throughout the theater to experience the sounds from different angles and locations. Please feel free to lounge on the cushions, lie on the floor, or lean against the walls. Audiences are welcome to come and go over the duration of both events, but please be respectful of the artists and fellow audience members as you move through the space. Marginal Consort is Kazuo Imai, Tomonao Koshikawa, Kei Shii, and Masami Tada Marginal Consort is presented at On the Boards with support from the Western States Arts Federation, which is partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, ArtsWA, and the Japan Foundation. This performance has been organized in collaboration with PUSH Festival in Vancouver and Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) in Portland, Oregon.
Soundscapes Sat, Jan 26, 5–11 pm An immersive evening of sound art featuring six artists from across the Pacific Northwest. Please feel free to come and go throughout the evening’s events. Subscribers receive FREE tickets to Soundscapes! Check in with the Box Office to claim your tickets.
Filming and photography are not permitted during the performance.
In the Studio Theater
In the Lobby
5:00-5:45 pm
Holland Andrews
5:00-5:30 pm
6:00-6:30 pm
Chloe Thompson
9:00-11:00 pm REVEREND DOLLARS
7:00-7:45 pm
Nico Tower
8:00-8:45 pm
Felisha Ledesma
9:00-9:45 pm
Ben Hunter
On the cover: Diagram by Pauline Oliveros, pblished in Anthology of Text Scores by Pauline Oliveros ed. Samuel Golter, 2013.
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THE 18/19 SEASON: IMAGE, OBJECT, & GESTURE
In recent years a growing number of multidisciplinary artists have employed performative strategies in their work to interrogate a variety of relevant social and political topics. Contemporary performance has become a working method, a critical framework, and a strategy, rather than simply a medium or discipline. Additionally, many choreographers, performance art, and theater-makers working today consider their practice in a similar vein to visual conceptual artists—performative, collaborative, and multidisciplinary. This shift away from performance as medium or discipline comes at the very moment when many artists and curators are embracing and being fully embraced by technology and visual advertising branding structures. Digital tools are a way to create physical, experiential stories. The creative class is no longer a small elite group of individuals and a handful of alternative art spaces. From largescale advertising firms, to fashion houses and DIY design wearable ventures, to music videos and VR animations or video games, technological devices have blurred and disrupted the boundaries between pop culture, advertising, and art. The distinction between categories in art are not straightforward anymore. The 2018-19 season begins by asking a series of questions: How is meaning made? What actions or gestures create meaning? How are artistic movements made? How do artistic gestures inspire meaning in this world? A season is a shift in climate, or a change in the amount of daylight, or the marking of a point in time which the earth is in relationship to the sun. A season as a collection of artists and ideas presented over the course of a year in a particular setting. The idea of Image, Object, & Gesture is taken up this season as a way to think about the blurring and hybrid distinctions being made in contemporary performance today.
WORD SOUND
Sound a word or a sound. Listen for a surprise. Say a word as a sound. Say a sound as a word. Sound a word until it is a sound. Speak a sentence of sounds. Sing a phrase of words. Cross overs. April 2, 1996 Evanston, Illinois
Rachel Cook Artistic Director
Pauline Oliveros
Published in Anthology of Text Scores by Pauline Oliveros ed. Samuel Golter, 2013.
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As an introduction to sound, I offer a text score by composer, performer, and humanitarian, Pauline Oliveros. She was truly a pioneer in the field of American experimental music. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Oliveros was recognized internationally for forging new ground in the fields of sound and art for herself and others. I came to learn about her practice through David Dove, founder of Nameless Sound and Michael Galbreth, a Houstonbased artist. While I was a curator at DiverseWorks, I dove headfirst into this world of experimental sound, including authoring a multi-platform exhibition, titled SonicWorks, that explored the expanding field of experimental sound art and practice. The exhibition focused on contemporary artists who utilize a variety of materials from the conventional to the absurd and featured discrete sound works, sculptural intervention, multi-media installations, and live performances. Additionally, I became obsessed with DiverseWorks’ history as an early and active commissioner of sonic ideas, and how they influenced the creation and reception of experimental sound in Houston and the region. Galbreth aided in the culling of archive material from the 1986 New Music America Festival where Oliveros was the Artistic Director. Sound history becomes a way to get to know a city, an artistic scene, and how different art/music spaces become part of the cultural fabric of the city. Seattle is no different and contains its own sonic history--from jazz, punk, noise, sound art, to the infamous grunge scene. This weekend of sound performances, Marginal Consort and Soundscapes, is an initial scratch at a much larger exploration that I hope to produce during my tenure as Artistic Director here. On the Boards can be a place for sound experimentation
in the realm of contemporary performance. Marginal Consort has a unique biography and narrative as a collective of Japanese artists, musicians, improvisers, and performers. They were founded by members of East Bionic Symphonia, an outfit assembled from students of Fluxus artist Takehisa Kosugi’s class at the radical Bigaku school of aesthetics in Tokyo in the ‘70s. Typically, they meet once a year to play an annual performance. They formed in 1997, after attending art school together. Their structure works as a group of soloists that come together to form an itinerant ensemble. The members don’t discuss what they play before they actually perform, and they use established and homemade acoustic instruments, electronics, bamboo sticks, marbles, water, and other objects to realize their sonic constructs. Their ensemble structure is based on a fixed start and end time for their performances, and they encourage audience members to move about the space or lie on the floor over the course of a few hours in order to feel, hear, and see the performances from different perspectives. Separate, yet together, Marginal Consort members become sonically entangled, each creating their own subjective experience of the performance. Sound is something you feel in your body differently than other performance forms: the vibrations flow through you to create psychological and physical experiences. Expanded notions of sonic works create a visual landscape for our ears and truly an embodied experience of our own subjectivity. R.C.
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About Marginal Consort Marginal Consort is a Japanese collective improvisation group founded by members of East Bionic Symphonia, an outfit assembled from students of Fluxus artist Takehisa Kosugi’s class at the radical Bigaku School of Aesthetics in Tokyo in the ‘70s. Meeting only once or twice each year since forming in 1997, Marginal Consort discuss nothing before their annual performances, preferring to gather as a collective of horizontally organized independent solos rather than a cohesive goal-oriented ensemble Current participants are Kazuo Imai, engineer Kei Shii, artist and Gap member Masami Tada, and musician Tomonao Koshikawa. Their records together have been released by P.S.F. and PAN.
(North Indian classical music) and Noh chant (Kanze School). Kei Shii studied the fine arts with Genpei Akasegawa and music with Takehisa Kosugi from 1973 to 1975. Shii creates sound systems involving various sensors and sound installations making use of physical science principles. He also supports a number of performers and dancers in technical and sound design, and has worked as an engineer at Aoromi Contemporary Art Centre since December 2001. Masami Tada participated in the formation and activities of an improvisation group “GAP” from 1974 to 1979. Tada also participated in Takehisa Kosugi’s music classes at Bigakko in 1975. Tada shot the same tree every day for 365 days in 1978, which was re-printed for his first solo exhibition at Pennings Gallery in the Netherlands in 2000. Having watched old festivals in Nepal since 2002, he presented “ArtFull Nepal,” a live performance / drinking bout with local artists, in 2006.
Kazuo Imai studied the guitar with Masayuki Takayanagi from 1972 to 1985. He started his activities mainly in the field of improvisation in 1974 and participated in Takehisa Kosugi’s music classes at Bigakko in 1975. Imai launched “Solo Works” in 1991, which has been performed 69 times since then. In 1997, he started collective improvisation with Yasushi Ozawa, who passed away in 2008, and the current members of “Marginal Consort.” In 2005, he formed “Kazuo Imai Trio” with Atsuhiro Ito (optron) and Manabu Suzuki (handmade electronics). Tomonao Koshikawa participated in Takehisa Kosugi’s music classes at Bigakko in 1975. Koshikawa creates tape music and has experienced rock and jazz bands as an amateur since becoming a local government employee. He is also familiar with Indian music 7
About the artists of Soundscapes Reality has offered a fertile canvas for violinist, storyteller, educator and community enterpriser Benjamin Hunter’s endeavoring mind. Cross pollinating multiple artistic disciplines for more than a decade, the Seattle based polymath has dedicated his life to transforming the world’s stale status quo into a vibrant, inclusive, communal, and compassionate society. Hunter’s first tool was the violin accompanying him on laps around the world. Playing since age 5, he was fortunate to travel the world and absorb various musical styles at a young age. Receiving his degree in Performance Violin, with keen interest in politics and philosophy, Hunter set his sights on the intersection between art, community, and a rapidly evolving clash of culture. The multi-disciplinarians latest adventure has taken him to the stage as composer and musical director and cast-mate in acclaimed director Dani Tirrell’s Black Bois. The incomparable performance art piece explores and shakes to the foundation the concept of Black masculinity, suffering, and ultimate triumph. The piece helped Hunter destroy toxic stereotypes still assaulting America’s “unwanted stepchildren.” benjaminhuntermusic.com
more than 50 contemporary dance works, appearing in every major dance festival in Washington state. Her works with collaborator Maya Soto have received support from 4Culture, Office or Arts and Culture, Cornish College of the Arts, and Velocity Dance Center in partnership with 10 Degrees. NicoTowerStudios.com Chloe Alexandra Thompson is a Canadian, Cree, artist and curator, living and working in Portland, Oregon. Using Pure Data, Arduino, hardware and voice, Thompson creates unique sonic experiences and expressions through the spatialization of isolated frequencies. Thompson’s work has been shown at Corridor (Seattle), Quiet City (Vancouver, Canada), The Wiltern (LA), Qubit (New York), Panoply Performance Lab (New York), Wayward Concert Series (Seattle), Subharmonic: Sonic Arts Symposium (PICA), Sl*t Island (Montreal, Canada), Littman and White Galleries, Variform Gallery, Compliance Division, Open Signal, Bronco Gallery, and PCC. She has also presented in collaborations for Converge45, Disjecta, Out of Sight (Seattle), PICA T:BA:17, PICA T:BA:16, and Nationale. Thompson has given lectures and facilitated workshops as a part of T:BA:17 Institute in dialogue with Tanya Tagaq, Subharmonic: Sonic Arts Symposium (PICA) with France Jobin, PNCA, PSU, Open Signal, and home school pdx. Thompson’s written work has also been been released through Art in America, Zero Cool, Provision, Cig Thesis, and Blankstairs.
Nico Tower is an intermedia artist with a thirst for the unknown. Educated in multimedia design, she works with graphics, photography, video, and lighting design in tandem with her music and dance practices. Over the past seventeen years, Tower has released ten albums and performed in more than 40 cities across the US. This SeattleDances 2018 Dance Crush Award recipient has scored 8
Holland Andrews is an extended technique vocalist, composer, and performer based in Portland, OR who combines delicate vocal layerings to create dissonant and cinematic soundscapes. Andrews is a musician whose influences include contemporary opera, musical theater, as well as experimental genres such as ambient and noise music. Holland also performs under the stage name, Like a Villain. In addition to creating solo work, Andrews also collaborates with artists for dance, theater, and film. Their vocal stylings traverse a vast terrain of textures ranging from opera to distorted vocalizations. Andrews’ composition style is marked by the multitude of dense vocal layers and textures used to weave together a sprawling emotional tapestry to command space for both discord and intimacy. Andrews received recognition from the New York Times, Le Monde, La Republica, etc., and continues to tour festivals worldwide. Holland Andrews is currently based in Portland, OR.
REVEREND DOLLARS (Renee Jarreau Greene) is a Seattle-based DJ and producer who is the founder of the Darqness Seattle Queer and Trans People of Color Arts Collective, as well as a member of the TUF and BabexHouse collectives. Her work focuses on bringing together marginalized Black, Trans, Queer, and People of Color communities through the mediums of music and dance with energetic DJ sets known for club, house and hiphop beats played at a frenetic pace. After a series of EPs dating back to 2011, she is currently working on her latest project WHEN THE GIRLS ARE FREE as well as a collaboration with vocalist Jazz Goldman called JAZZ/REV.
Felisha Ledesma is an interdisciplinary artist and organizer based in Portland, Oregon. Ledesma is the Director of S1, an artist run space that focuses on experimental sound, critical contemporary art, and non-traditional education. Felisha co-founded the Synth Library — a low-cost resource for hands-on access to synthesizers, DJ gear, recording equipment and other electronic instruments for people of all experience levels. She has been exploring field recording and tape collage, modular synths, and the sound of secrets. Soundcloud.com/ felishaledesma 9
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“[In Spite of Myself] is a show, like Gunn’s others, that exists on many and complex levels: you can enjoy it simply as a funny clown show, or as a sophisticated comic metacritique examining the validity of art... It’s hilarious.” — Van Badham, The Guardian Join Nicola Gunn as she presents her fictional self as the subject of a fictional retrospective of her fictional work. Part performance lecture, part exhibition, and part cultural sweatshop, In Spite of Myself is a slippery exploration of the nebulous line between who we are, who we say we are, and who we seem to be.
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IN KIND & MEDIA SPONSORS DAVE HOLT
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Seattle owes many of its most significant and magical moments to Jeff Gerson, who passed away this month. Artists would come to Jeff and say, “I’ve got this cool idea, but I'm not sure it is actually physically possible” — and he would figure out how to make it happen. Jeff was radically accomplished at turning artistic vision into reality, and often in a much cooler way than anyone thought was possible. Artists and technicians who worked with Jeff were consistently moved by his creativity and generosity. The booth in the Merrill theater is called the Jeff Gerson Power and Light Booth, and he will always be part of the way On the Boards’ building works, and the way the OtB production team approaches their work with a genuine openness to all the wild possibilities of an artist’s vision. We will remember Jeff when the lights work, when they don’t work and we fix them, and when an artist proposes a far-fetched idea, and the OtB technical team can support them in making the impossible possible. 15
COMING SOON FEB 14 Valentine’s Studio Supper by Brothers & Co. (featuring table-side Karaoke!) FEB 27 PERFORMANCE LAB MAR 15–16 OntheBoards.tv’s First Ever 24-Hour Telethon starting at 8 AM on the internet! MAR 15 “OntheBoards.tv LIVE!,” hosted by the marvelous Betty Wetter at The Clock-Out Lounge in Beacon Hill. Bring your friends and voting dollars. Doors at 9 PM. For more information, follow us on Facebook or visit ontheboards.org. MAR 22-24 KEYON GASKIN:
: A SELF PORTRAIT
MAR 23 LECTURE: ALI ROSA-SALAS
THE BAR IS OPEN! Our lobby bar is open for the duration of all our weekend performances. Sip a cocktail while you immerse yourself in sound art.
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