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| Thu 5/29/08 |
New York, NY |
Battery Park - Castle Clinton |
| Sat 6/21/08 |
Olympia, WA |
Olympia Timberland Library |
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“Share
This Place” is a multi-media performance with original
live music by Lori Goldston and Kyle Hanson of Spectratone International
and Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn, and stop motion films by Britta Johnson.
Based in part on the writings of the influential French scientist/poet,
Jean Henri Fabré , the show explores the tender, dramatic,
sordid, tragic and triumphant lives of insects.
Mirah has been recording emotional and ravishingly nuanced songs
for Olympia, Washington's K Records since 1997. For“Share
This Place” she's composed a song cycle with long-time
collaborators Lori Goldston and Kyle Hanson. After leading the
critically acclaimed Black Cat Orchestra for many years Goldston,
a cellist, and Hanson, an accordionist, formed Spectratone International
in 2004 with percussionist Jane Hall and Kane Mathis on oud.
Their sound is full, subtle and meticulously rendered, moving
easily among a wide range of influences, including psychedelia,
folk and early music.
Britta Johnson has created luminous stop motion animated films
for each of the songs. The insects, created out of corks, ashtrays,
old balloons and other bits of domestic detritus, are seen singing,
hatching, rolling balls of dung and otherwise fulfilling their
destinies.
"Share This Place" draws inspiration and fact from
many sources, including Karel Capek's surreal "The Insect
Play", where the epic and dramatic lives of the insects
overpower the human in their midst. Another long-gone collaborator
is the late-nineteenth century entomologist J. Henri Fabre,
- “the Homer of Insects” according to Victor Hugo
- who wrote about every encounter with his tiny neighbors so
intimately as to give the distinct impression that he viewed
his subjects equally alongside himself as weavers of the social
fabric of provincial life.
The show was co-commissioned by the Portland Institute for Contemporary
Art and the The Seattle International Children's Festival. Produced
by Phil Elvrum and Stev Fisk, a recording of the music is available
on K Records as a CD and LP record with the same title.
Mirah and Spectratone International will perform the original
music when “Share This Place” premieres at the Seattle
International Children’s Festival in May 2007 with animator
Britta Johnson’s crazy and gorgeous stop-motion films.
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Share This Place:
Stories and Observations
K Records
2007 |
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