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Tatsuya Nakatani December 2011
Tatsuya Nakatani is a contemporary percussionist, originally from
Osaka, Japan. Currently on tour throughout the U.S., Tatsuya performs
internationally including performances at the Smithsonian, The Kennedy
Center, Chicago Cultural Center, and Musee d'art moderne et
contemporaine France.
He utilizes drumset, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal
objects, bells, and various sticks and bows to create an intense,
organic music that defies category or genre. His music is based in
improvised/ experimental music, jazz, free jazz, rock, and noise, yet
retains the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese
folk music.
Opening for Tatsuya will be Matthew Dotson with visuals by vodstrup.
Friday, December 9th. Doors 7p.m. performance at 8p.m.
$7-10
Toros with Etienne Bellan-Huchery October 2011
This is an amazing film shot by filmmaker and long-time friend Etienne Bellan-Huchery. Having grown up in Southern France, Etienne has long been intrigued with the sport. I am currently working on the score for this film as well as developing it as a Live Cinema experience. We are hoping to be finished by the end of the year.
"Toros" is a working title.
Latin Jazz Dance Party October 2011
A fun night of salsa dancing and musical performance from the NIU Latin Jazz Ensemble. Dr. Gregory Beyer, percussion professor at NIU, asked me to invite my Video Art students to "VJ" for the Latin Jazz Ensemble. This event was sponsored in part by the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies.
Excerpts from Xmalia September 2011
Since working with Ryder on Animalia, I have wanted to bring her to NIU for a performance. I had an amazing time producing this experience with Ryder as she gave both an indoor and outdoor presentation of her work.
XMALIA features songs about extinct animals such as the Tasmanian Tiger, the Pyrenean Ibex the Xerces Butterfly, plus a Dodo-trapeze act. This entertaining tragedy is hosted by a lonely mortician, who summons the animals back to life for her Graveyard Cabaret.
C. Ryder Cooley is an inter-disciplinary musician and artist. Weaving together songs on ukulele, singing saw and accordion with projections and movement, her work reveals a terrain of lost dreams and phantom memories.
Tutorial Videos September 2011
It didn't take me long to realize that life is much easier if I put my tech lectures online. Besides, that leaves more class time to talk about art. It takes more time to de these than I thought... still, I should be able to churn out 5-10 a semester - so follow me on Vimeo.
Solar Sculpture August 2011
Sculptor Eric Fuertes asked me for some help with a solar powered sculpture he was designing for his 2011 ARTlab submission. ARTlab is NIU School of Art's annual "think-tank" initiative that has the goal of creating new art through developing inter-departmental collaborations on campus. Eric's goal is to use a solar array to power a video projector. With the assistance of NIU's Electrical Engineering professor Dr. Zinger I spec'd an array, batteries, and inverter. After testing the array all summer, I turned the project over to Eric. I'll post pictures when Eric has finished. Below is a link to a lecture I gave for ARTlab about basic electronics and using solar power in art projects.
Over the past month my colleague Greg Beyer and I have been working on proposing a video projection project that will accompany a forthcoming performance of George Crumb’s Madrigals Books I-IV. Since this composition includes lines from the poetry of Federico García Lorca we will be using some of Lorca's drawings (he was also an artist) as inspiration for the video-projected animation sequences.
We have just been notified that we will be receiving the 2011-12 Harry D. Castle Memorial Fund in support of this project. This is a deeply personal honor for me as Harry was a fellow student when I began as a student at NIU in the early 90's. Harry was a uniquely gifted and creative musician and artist. It is with sincere gratitude for us to receive this award in his honor.
I am quite honored to be included in "Transmission Arts" - a new book by Galen Joseph-Hunter, Penny Duff, and Maria Papadomanolaki. This book is "a genealogy of 150 artists and artworks—and more than 250 images—from 1921 to the present that encompasses performance, video, radio theatre, sound art, media installation, networked art, and acoustic ecology."
The book will be released on July 23, 2011 and can be pre-ordered here.
I believe I have been 'crowdsourced.' The band Small Scale Collisions found my video work on Vimeo and asked me to produce a video for one of their pieces of music. It was completely open-ended and experimental, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
This project was fun to do and involved creating some morph and slitscan techniques that I'll incorporate into my live gigs.
Itching to broaden my skills and experience I joined a community theater presentation of "A Streetcar Named Desire" playing the role of a Police Officer. If you've seen the Simpson's version imagine me as Officer Wiggum. I also designed the logo seen here (at left) for a shirt given to the director(s) and stage manager.
A dream becomes a reality: in 1996 I started a search for a trike to transport my apartment building's recycling to the collection station. It never happened. This past fall I began my search again, but this time for a bike that I could safely ride on the ice in winter. One thing led to several other things and I'm just now putting the final touches on a solar-powered trike (working title: sTRIKE).
Soon this will appear on bartwoodstrup.com with much more detail and backstory, but for now check it out here.
This was a fun, impromptu projection for my colleague Greg Beyer, a percussionist in NIU's School of Music. Greg has been working with another colleague, Ola Giza (School of Art), to design hi-quality posters advertising music events at the school. Greg asked me to create a video projection for the Music Building foyer - so I animated one of Ola's posters to Xenakis' "Legend of Eer." Below the projection was a large X made from electro-luminescent wire - something I'm just beginning to experiment with.
I'm looking forward to continuing this sort of collaboration in the Fall.
One of the artists that I documented for my 18th and Paulina series was muralist and educator Francisco Mendoza. He is very ill and in need of financial support. On February 27th there will be an art auction to support him. Several of my photographs will be offered.
"Is Time Really Everything? Time-Based Artists"
by Yolanda Green Chicago Art Magazine on Jan 17, 2011 in Articles, Featured
"Definitions are sometimes a very tricky thing when it comes to art. For instance, what exactly defines “time-based” art? Is it just anything with a beginning and an ending? Does any movie or video qualify? Is there a separation between time-based art and performance art or theater? To further explore this genre, here are a few artists and projects that are considered time-based."
http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2011/01/is-time-really-everything-time-based-artists/
In 1995-96 I created a series of photographs entitled 18th and Paulina which documented the murals painted in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Last year I offered these images to the National Museum of Mexican Art (also in Pilsen) to be added to their collection. In January, they notified me that these images would be accessioned by the museum. This is a very unique and amazing museum, please visit!
http://www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/
The House Cafe in DeKalb hosted a wonderful evening of Indian food and music. Guitarist Fareed Haque played a set of Indian inspired music on his custom, hybrid guitar/sitar. Using images from my wife's saris, I composed a live-cinema projection for the event. For more info on Fareed visit fareed.com.