As Above, So Below - Ambient Series -Mother Foucaults Bookshop
About this Event
Friday, August 7th
Join us for an evening of ethereal, ambient / experimental. Hosting is Mother Foucaults bookstore. Located on the border of Portland’s inner southeast industrial district, Mother Foucault’s specializes in used, rare, and vintage books. Mother Foucaults creates the perfect cozy space and unique listening room for live music.
Donation - $10 (cash / venmo at doors)
RSVP Online - Cash or venmo tickets collected at doors
Doors @ 7:30 pm
Music at 8 pm
715 SE Grand
This August 7th gig – the third of the Just Above/Just Below series – features movement, sound, and poetry by Angela Falk, Anthony J. Stillabower, Jean-Paul Jenkins, & Robert Blatt
The series is inspired by the following quote:
‘The cut I Imagine making might be visualized as what lies just below and just above
“music”, as presently understood. This seems at first like an impossible space in which to
operate: below music (nothing but “raw” sound and “silence”) and just above music are
the primary materials (i.e. chords, scales, durations, etc.). And yet this is the vicinity in
which many of us continue to find things to do.’ - Michael Pisaro-Liu
BIO
Angela Falk
https://www.angelafalk.com/
Angela Falk is originally from Lafayette, California. She is currently a member of the CCN Ballet de Lorraine, based in France. She has previously danced for the Twyla Tharp Dance Company, the Limòn Dance Company, and performed in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s “Night of 100 Solos” in 2019 in New York City. She also performs regularly in La Fièvre Cabaret, based in Nancy, France. She was a Jacob’s Pillow Hicks Choreographic Fellow in 2022, and has presented her choreography in France, New York City, New Orleans, Florida, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Angela studied at The Juilliard School. She was awarded the school’s highest prize, the Joseph W. Polisi “Artist as Citizen” award for her work in the community and was a recipient of a Juilliard Career Advancement Fellowship. She was born and raised in Lafayette, CA, and received her early training from the California Academy of Performing Arts.
Anthony J. Stillabower
www.ajstillabower.com
Anthony J. Stillabower’s improvisations are shaped by voice, feedback percussion, and machine learning algorithms. Situated at the threshold of audibility, his approach to sound inhabits a moment of friction and flow, where presence flickers between memory and material flux.
What is the source of a sound? Is something sounding now?
Jean-Paul Jenkins
https://iwonderwhatthissoundslike.bandcamp.com/music
Jean-Paul Jenkins (b. Chicago Illinois, 1973) His primary focus is improvisation. While improvising his attention moves from low to high, from soft to loud, from near to far, from narrow to wide. His attention is what your attention follows while listening to him, it is your attention following his. He plays guitar, a sampler and claves. His current focus is decoding the Tim Bradley Spatialization Cues and asking himself "How old does it need to be to be considered Old Music?" Jenkins currently resides in Portland Oregon. Contact him, he will probably invite you over for tea.
Robert Blatt
https://www.robertblatt.ricercata.org/
Robert Blatt is an artist, musician, and writer. His practice investigates sound and listening through diverse media, exploring interconnections with environment, community, and language. His work expands from experimental music to include book arts, installation, new media, performance, photography, poetry, printmaking, and video, alongside difficult-to-categorize situations and encounters. Recent projects include the essay "Considering Non-anthropocentric Music," published in Solitude Journal, from which emerged both Oenothera, a collaboration with Carla Cao exploring plant acoustics, recently presented at Phonos in Barcelona, and the ongoing residency Expanded Situations of Environmental Co-Creation, engaging the gardens at Winslow House Project in Vallejo, California; Harmonie Universelle, a speculative experimental lecture-demonstration with Michael Winter reconsidering the history of acoustics as an experimental music practice, performed at The Lab in San Francisco and Trade School in Los Angeles; and How to Read a Book, an edition of bookmarks produced at Kala Art Institute containing text scores for experimental reading that have been realized as site-specific performances at Passages Bookshop in Portland and Motto Berlin.
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