Final Poster (i hope!)

 

 

Spaceship Saturn

Spaceship Saturn ~ Celebrating Sun Ra’s Original Arrival

 

 

Spaceship Saturn ~ The Voyage Continues ~ This Multimedia event will benefit the future structure of Sun Ra’s gravesite from footstone to appropriate headstone marking his departure from Earth as well as a permanent monument/hologram in the 4th Ave. District, Birmingham. There will be musical, dance and poetry performances by local/regional/national artists including opening acts Them Natives, Roger Stellar, Matt Layne, and others. Spaceship Saturn will headline as an Intergalactic Arkestra which will be led by Dr.(“Doc”) Adams (who spent many tears playing with Sun Ra) and Hunter Bell (Spaceship Saturn Commander and Founder), LaDonna Smith, Michael Calhoun, Clifford McPeek, Van Cofey, Hunter Bell, Brian Teasly and many more. This event will include several visual artists with works regarding Sun Ra themes and theories. A video montage and historic memorabilia from Sun Ra’s personal collection will also be displayed/shown. Doc Adams will also be signing his new book Doc: The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man.

May 25th, SATURNday.

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In works and/or Final Product

 

Art at Rojo

 

I designed this piece specifically with Rojo in mind / for Rojo's permanent collection. This picture sucks, but I will post a better one later. The space (next to the corner of the bar) is where it WAS located. However, after a 2 month run in this wonderful space, Rojo has allowed me to replace the "custom-designed Rojo piece" with more of my artwork. Thanks, ROJO!!! Please take a look at the works below. I hope you'll have the opportunity to see them in person while enjoying the friendly, fun, eclectic, delicious atmosphere at Rojo.

 

"I AM the I AM

Upside~Down CIRcle"

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"aNgEl BrEaTh"

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Both pieces sharing same area as the first piece displayed in this area. I hope this will be a regular gig and be able to change out and rotate works

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Manic

video from Nick gig in March

THIS IS A TEST:

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“PLAY” - NEW AND IMPROVED IMPROV MASTER PIANIST/COMPROVISER THOLLEM McDONAS
with regional masters of free improvisation

Sat., Sept. 22nd, 7:30 pm
Homewood Community Center - CDF
1715 27th Ct. South, Homewood AL
$10/$5 students (sliding scale) kids freeHomewood, AL - On Saturday the 22nd, YOU will be treated to the music of master comproviser Thollem McDonas. In addition to his solo exposition “Thollem Sworld”, he will be joined by a host of diverse artists from Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, master improvisers of our region.
Also on the show, Diane McNaron (with Michael King), presenting a ‘preview’ performance of her upcoming show, “Angel” a Marlene Dietrich retrospective(details: www.dianemcnaron.com) and Homewood High School’s Caroline Karson featured student soloist, performing some of the darker Chopin Waltzes.

The evening will openwith improvisations on traditional Balanese gamelan, Tibetan Bells, Middle Eastern rebab and Japanese Shakuhachi. Also appearing in quartet with Thollem will be dancer Stella Nystrom, Birmingham guitarist Davey Williams, cellist Craig Hultgren and saxophonist Andrew DeWar. As if this is not special enough, a final soirée is planned, lead by the omni-instrumentalist Hunter Bell, multi-instrumentalist Si Reasoning, saxophonist Holland Hopson and violist LaDonna Smith who will be inviting other artists to join in a collective collaborative piece to close the evening.

But what about the master pianist/composer/improviser known world-wide? Thollem McDonas has been traveling perpetually these past six years, as a soloist and also as a collaborator with artists Pauline Oliveros, Nels Cline, William Parker, Mike Watt, and the late Italian master contrabassist Stefano Scodanibbio among many more. Signal To Noise describes his music like a "supercollider centrifuge of innumerable disasters, a churning black caldera bespattered with beautiful madness. It seems beyond the capacity of one human being to contain so much densely-packed creative energy". Terry Riley notes that Thollem ”inhabits a world uniquely his own, rhythmically, harmonically and formally. A true original.”Asked about his ever-diverse music, Thollem observes, “I make music that I hope stimulates the mind and the body, that’s intellectual and sexy and meditative and ferocious and poetic and athletic and revolutionary and spiritual and political and loving and that will shake people awake, starting with me first.”

Facebook invite and info here: http://www.facebook.com/events/468353943204124/

Hunter Bell at Artwalk 2012 (be there or be an upside down circle)

2318 1st Avenue N., Birmingham, AL

See: http://www.birminghamartwalk.org/profile.php?cn=288

Facebook invite: http://www.facebook.com/events/190066847792825/

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