353. "Backwards Masking in Rocks" premier & "Mechanically Repetitive / ReRecorded Records RECORD" release
- Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, us@
- Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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354. Street View Project: Sampsonia Way
- Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, us@
- Saturday, May 3, 2008
- This wasn't my project & my participation in it was minimally performative but I like the idea of it so much that I have to list it here. As far as I know, this project was created by Robin Hewlett (who invited me) & Ben Kingsley. As I understand it, Google maps have an option of providing a street view that's created by shooting panaromic photos that computer users can navigate thru like a video game - seeing what the actual street looks like. Ben & Robin conceived of having preplanned actions happening on the street durign the time that they'd invite the Google Street View team to drive thru & photograph it. I wore my turkey-feather suit & wings (the wings had been used in my "Generic As-Beenism" action from 1987-1989) & posed at the beginning of the photographer's route. The photographer made 3 passes: in the 1st, I was in a doorway, in the 2nd I was being play-acting searched by play-acting under-cover cops, & in the 3rd I was dumpster diving. As far as I know, as of this writing, the Street View scenes haven't been uploaded yet so I don't know wch they used (or if they can somehow use all).
Other people's activities included guys moving mirrors off a U-Haul, Parade Directors, a Marching Band, Parade Spectators, a Mad Scientist Lab, a Garage Band, Marathon Runners, Doug's + Ham, a Giant Chicken sculpture, actual firemen rescuing a toy cat from in a tree or some such, a biker rally, & an Angaron Battle.
355. [Circuits of Steel II promotion
- Carnegie Public Library, Main Oakland Branch, Pittsburgh, us@
- Sunday, May 11, 2008
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356. Jefferson Presents... Pittsburgh Experimental Films
- MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York City, us@
- Saturday, May 17, 2008
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357. Braxton Plays Pittsburgh Plays Braxton
- Marsh Room, National Aviary, Pittsburgh, us@
- Sunday, June 1, 2008
- tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE: sampler, wave-table synthesizer, FM-synthesis synthesizer, mixer/sampler, radio mic, small instruments, voice; Anthony Braxton: alto sax, contrabass clarinet; Ben Opie: alto sax, contrabass clarinet; Michael Pestel: 3 bird-machines, small instruments, slide whistles, flute; Tracy Mortimore: string bass; Eden McNutt: voice; Dave Kadden: oboe, english horn, percussion; Dave Ruder: clarinet; Roger Dannenberg: pocket trumpet; the birds of the Marsh Room