Mikel Rouse's Gravity Radio Album Release Concert
At Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn - with Veanne Cox, ACME, and video art by Cliff Baldwin| Host: | |
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| Network: | Global |
| Date: | Friday, October 23, 2009 |
| Time: | 8:00pm - 10:00pm |
| Location: | Galapagos Art Space |
| Street: | 16 Main Street |
| City/Town: | Brooklyn, NY |
Description
Composer, filmmaker, director and solo performer Mikel Rouse will release his new album, Gravity Radio (Exit Music 1012) on Tuesday, November 3 on iTunes and at all major retailers.
Mikel will celebrate with a special album release performance at Galapagos on October 23. He'lll be joined by his band, special guests ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble) and TONY nominated/OBIE Award winner Veanne Cox. New work by acclaimed video artist Cliff Baldwin will be projected throughout the performance.
Gravity Radio features music for string quartet, singers, guitarist, bass, drums and keyboard soaring above and intertwining with ethereal shortwave radio static. Through this texture, a voice (that of Veanne Cox) cuts intermittently with scattershot reports from the AP newswire - stories from the Iraq war, statistics for cell phone usage, plastic surgery, professional football and the economy. The music is immediately familiar and comforting, just as is the text from the newswire feels known and routine. Yet repeated listening generates an odd feeling that perhaps there is more meaning there than first meets the ear.
Mikel has spent his successful and varied career creating music and multimedia projects that marry simplicity and intricacy. Gramophone reports, "We have Rouse's works as living proof that complexity need not keep listeners at a distance, and that pop music can sustain serious interest with the right person at the helm."
Previous high profile projects for Rouse include a score written entirely for iPods for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, an opera in which he portrays a Jerry Springer-esque talk show host, and another based on Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Mikel changed the spelling of his name from Michael as a kid (because he thought it should look like it sounds), briefly joined the carnival as a teenager, and had a band called Tirez Tirez that opened for the Talking Heads in Kansas City in 1978. Rouse has lived in New York's Hell's Kitchen since the 1980s.
For more about Mikel: http://www.mikelrouse.com
Become a fan: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mikel-Rouse/37175686542
Preview the album: http://www.mikelrouse.com/gravity.html
All the details about Gravity Radio:
http://billboard.prweb.com/releases/mikelrouse/gravityradio/prweb2884294.htm
Mikel will celebrate with a special album release performance at Galapagos on October 23. He'lll be joined by his band, special guests ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble) and TONY nominated/OBIE Award winner Veanne Cox. New work by acclaimed video artist Cliff Baldwin will be projected throughout the performance.
Gravity Radio features music for string quartet, singers, guitarist, bass, drums and keyboard soaring above and intertwining with ethereal shortwave radio static. Through this texture, a voice (that of Veanne Cox) cuts intermittently with scattershot reports from the AP newswire - stories from the Iraq war, statistics for cell phone usage, plastic surgery, professional football and the economy. The music is immediately familiar and comforting, just as is the text from the newswire feels known and routine. Yet repeated listening generates an odd feeling that perhaps there is more meaning there than first meets the ear.
Mikel has spent his successful and varied career creating music and multimedia projects that marry simplicity and intricacy. Gramophone reports, "We have Rouse's works as living proof that complexity need not keep listeners at a distance, and that pop music can sustain serious interest with the right person at the helm."
Previous high profile projects for Rouse include a score written entirely for iPods for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, an opera in which he portrays a Jerry Springer-esque talk show host, and another based on Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Mikel changed the spelling of his name from Michael as a kid (because he thought it should look like it sounds), briefly joined the carnival as a teenager, and had a band called Tirez Tirez that opened for the Talking Heads in Kansas City in 1978. Rouse has lived in New York's Hell's Kitchen since the 1980s.
For more about Mikel: http://www.mikelrouse.com
Become a fan: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mikel-Rouse/37175686542
Preview the album: http://www.mikelrouse.com/gravity.html
All the details about Gravity Radio:
http://billboard.prweb.com/releases/mikelrouse/gravityradio/prweb2884294.htm
Other Information
- Guests who are not attending are hidden on the guest list.
- Guests are allowed to bring friends to this event.
Event Type
This is an open event. Anyone can join and invite others to join.
Admins
- Mikel Rouse (creator)