Saturday November 9 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
RE(space) performs Parable Dust (Obscure Geographies), A Live Multimedia Installation for Sound,movement,visuals navigating themes of cryptic communication, social negotiations, and sanctuary (personal and communal). RE(space) is a project the grew out of Paul Steven Ray’s Deceleration Trilogy featuring Ray and Triniti Ernest. It aims to create site specific live multimedia installations through their synergy exploring sonic, physical, poetic, and visual narrative/non-narrative excursions.
Paul Steven Ray's work has been heard in a wide range of venues including Issue Project Room, The Stone, ShapeShifterLab, Trans Pecos, and KnockdownCenter. He has composed work for WHITENOISE V, the International Electro-Acoustic Festival, Cosmoson-Paris, CERF Festival, North River Music Series, and Composers Now. He has collaborated with Bora Yoon, Vernon Reid, Nate Wooley, Oblaat, Pheeroan Ak Laff, Brandon Ross, Yuko Fujiyama, Cyro Baptista, and Val Jeanty. He is the leader/composer of BlueBlackDream, NineNine, and partner with Theresa Rosas in the Ray-Rosas Project. He has composed four operas: Sally Distance (premiered by Bora Yoon at Galapagos Art Space), Sleeperhold (Issue Project Room), SplitRock (ShapeShifterlab), and the Good Narrow Night (The Church of the Intercession Crypt. His poetic soundscape multimedia piece I Wish You Were There When I Was There, was performed at The GreenKill Gallery Kingston NY. Recent releases: The Ticking and Some People Float, Conjure Steps and 5 Days in February available on bandcamp. The first part of his DECELERATION TRILOGY was performed at Super Secret Arts in May of 2022. Deceleration 2 premiered at The Center for Performance Research on February 3rd, 2023.
Triniti Ernest is a recent arrival to NYC helping to restore the edge to its artistic community with her sensuous and probing dances. Her eclectic choreography draws on Flex, Krump, Modern dance and whatever expressive movement genres serve her imagination. Her performance energy evokes the duality of a naïve/sage.
Jack Wright is a saxophonist in the Philadelphia area, one of the originals of American free improvisation. Now 81, he has lived some diverse lives, as activist and academic, until settling into music full-time in 1979--free playing is all he's done since then. He tours Europe (April 2023) and the US, where he acquired the moniker the "Johnny Appleseed of Free Improvisation" in the 80s. He started out in the free jazz direction, but by the late 90's found that boring and conventional; shifting gears a few times he is now playing sounds that few have heard before--distorted pitches, precise timing, intrusive multiphonics, sudden changes of direction, obscene animalistic sounds, and occasional "real" notes. He partners mostly with Zach Darrup, Ben Bennett, Evan Lipson, and Ron Stabinsky. He published a book in 2017, The Free Musics, sold to most of the free players in the US and many in Europe. He also released a book of mostly political critique, drawing on his background, Shaky Ground. For info on books, sounds, and more bio go to Spring Garden Music.
Ben Bennett is a Philadelphia-based percussionist. He usually plays a compact pile of self-made drums, stretched membranes, and other objects which are continually rearranged in the course of playing, and sounded with techniques of the hit, rub, and blow varieties. A branching path of musical de-materialization has led to other forms of performance, including self-vitiating monologues, and the long and repetitive YouTube series, Sitting and Smiling and Walking and Talking. His work tends toward themes of pointlessness, paradox, and stupidity.
“The enigmatic musician and artist Ben Bennett has a mind-bogglingly wide variety of fascinating work that covers both poles of extremes. As a percussionist, his improvised performances are wild, exciting and constantly changing, using an arsenal of drums, cymbals, homemade instruments and found objects that are struck, rubbed or vibrated using air from his lungs, unlocking hidden universes of unfamiliar sounds.” -Ernie Paik
Peter Redgrave is a Baltimore based cultural worker. In his solo practice, Redgrave works with movement, musical instruments, and scores. He is currently working on expanding his PROP series, books that hold dances that dancers hold, and letting the power of the fool pass through him. Peter studied at the SAIC and the University of Maryland. He has toured across North America and Europe. Redgrave has taken lessons from Tadashi Endo, Lynne Price, and Donna Oblongata. Since 2017, he has facilitated the Move Move Collaborative. He is a regular participant in the Freedom From Freedom To series in Chicago. Peter performs with Orlando Johnson and Che Davis as Breath of the Magi.