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PERPETUAL MVMT< >SND's Interests
General
Since 2006, Perpetual Movement and Sound has explored the intersection of various artistic media, the way these media inform and inspire one another in a perpetual loop, and the way this intersection creates a sensory state that impacts a part of us that can’t be reached by a single sensory stimulus. Inspired by research into memory, sensory experience, and culture, we seek to create work that illuminates humans' perception and use of our bodies.
From June 2006 through May 2008, Perpetual Movement and Sound found a wonderful home at Mascher Space Cooperative in the South Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. While working there, we developed and performed five installments of a performance series called “The Rashomon Effect,” a constantly morphing and expanding improvised score inspired by the storytelling methods employed in Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon. We have also developed collaborative pieces in response to visual art at NEXUS/foundation for today’s art, as well as light, movement, and sound installations to transform unlikely spaces like a Laundromat (the site of our first public performance). For the 2007 Philly Fringe Festival, we collaborated to create “gasp,” in which all the audio and visual accompaniment was generated by the dancers in the course of their movement, then recorded and manipulated live in order to enhance the impact of the dancers’ bodies in the space, connecting them with the audience via multiple senses.
Perpetual Movement and Sound is an exploration and experimentation-driven ensemble, and all of our works are process-oriented and stem from queries that emerge from the practices of our collaborating video, movement, visual, and sound artists. We have been fortunate to count among our collaborators: Mikronesia, Rebecca Patek, Allison Lorenzen, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Daniele Strawmyre, Helena Espvall, Blaine Siegel, Christina Zani, Jil Stifel, Jeb Lewis, Sean Mattio, John Phillips, Tyler Gibbons and Robin MacArthur (Red Heart the Ticker), Pandar (Gemini Wolf), Bianka Brunson (Lillie Ruth Bussey), Amanda Louise Lewis, Loren Groenendaal, Martha Savery, William Fields, and Rick Henderson.
In spring 2008, Perpetual Movement and Sound is building a new studio and work space (a "white box"). We'll post photos when it's done!
Music
mikronesia: http://www.mikronesia.com/
earSnake: http://www.earsnake.com/
espers: http://www.espers.org/
fursaxa: http://www.fursaxa.net/
red heart the ticker: http://www.rhtt.net/
Movies
rashomon, gummo, vertigo, spellbound, the third man
Television
Heroes
Allison Lorenzen
Susan Sgorbati (www.emergentimprovisation.org)
Pauline Oliveros (www.deeplistening.org)
Nancy Stark Smith
Dana Reitz
Eva Karczag
John Coltrane
Autechre
John Cage
About me: Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd will present a performance installation as part of the 2008 Philly Fringe in asNEXUS, a shared evening with video and performance artist J. Makary. asNEXUS features two works that heighten the experience of the body through technology. Seeking form in minutiae, Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd amplify the movements of dancers using live-feed audio and video, while J. Makary's video-based performance enters a fantasy where youth subculture never dies but instead matures.
Four performances will be offered at NEXUS/foundation for today's art (Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American Street #102, Philadelphia, PA). Performances begin at 8:30 p.m., Friday, September 5, through Monday, September 8. Tickets are $10. For tickets, please call the Festival Box Office at 215.413.1318 or visit www.livearts-fringe.org.
Who I'd like to meet: mvmt and snd improvisers, visual artists, writers, and anyone else interested in collaboration. william forsythe, ivar hagendoorn, merce cunningham, john cage, j.d. salinger, nabokov, tristan murail, anna halprin
check out our music profile. link below. our first friend. also - we have a website proper: www.perpetualmvmtsnd.org
Just stopp'n by to say Hi!... To send peace and love... And to wish you and yours a most blissful, Holidays... "may your dancing be as happy as can be"...
Fall 2007 Get it in YOU.
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HI. Thanks for the request and sharing your space with us. Love your photo's. Keep up the great work. Trust me, I know how hard it is to do what we do. Keep us posted of what your up too. We'll do the same. Merde,
