thisistheHCLblog
Latest Post
NbN Trio: AMBEDO
NbN Trio (Nora Barton, Billie Howard, Nomi Epstein) We’re having a wonderful time at High Concept Laboratories delving into what is new media for us. Our project AMBEDO is a multimedia pursuit involving our improvisations on prepared/inside the piano, violin, cello, a barrage of percussion instruments, and found sounds, in addition to video, projection and … Continue reading
Featured Posts
As of today, I’ve spent two beautiful mornings working downstairs at HCL on a sound installation to take place on August 25th—it’ll be a double show with spectacular photographer Matthew Gregory Hollis (more to come on that later). Given the nature of the piece, I thought it best to spend one morning a week in … Continue reading
Since late 2009 we have developed compositions using a modified boombox – a tape loop machine that records and plays back simultaneously. Sounds that enter it are released within seconds, sounding gentle feedback. Our first compositions using this boombox and a shruti box marked the beginnings of our collaboration as Coppice, and a phase of … Continue reading
R We Who R We – Ted Hearne and Philip White in collaboration by Jacob Mikanowski For one week in March, Ted Hearne and Philip White will be bringing their musical collaboration R We Who R We to High Concept Laboratories. The simplest way to describe what R We Who R We does and the … Continue reading
Casey Smallwood reflects on her latest project as an HCL-sponsored artist: As part of my research during my residency at HCL, I organized an exhibition featuring works by Danielle Paz, Danny Volk, Marilyn Volkman and myself. As a group of peers, we are in constant dialogue with each other and our works. These transactions of … Continue reading
Here I am, sitting with my soft, smelly blanket. I was trying to catnap before work, but am greatly fooled. I am unable to stop obsessing over this show, even for a measly thirty minutes of nap time. Perhaps this is how it always will be while in the process of making the best show … Continue reading
Production notes from filmmaker and HCL-sponsored artist Kate Raney’s blog: The Cleo Project is an experimental short that uses Agnes Varda’s film Cleo From 5 to 7 as a prompt to explore performance and gender. Multiple women will enact the same scene from the film while being given direction and adjustments on set as cameras … Continue reading
So, the semi-opera we created at HCL, Light Waves & Their Uses, is headed into it’s final weekend of shows at the Building Stage. It’s been a quick, great run, and we got some really kind responses from friends, colleagues, even the press. And, as we near the end of this little adventure, it seems … Continue reading
By the way...
- Here are two new poems from sponsored artist G. Vincent Gaulin posted in tandem with his performance Future Answers, 'I Am No Professions, I Am All Professions,' featured at HCL's Open House. (Untitled) Teachers Teachers give showings. Pointing at the big wide world! the banner reads. Thank you. you pulled me out of the valley All y’all good guides keep the mountains with your carved molds. I know detailing fresh replicas is your way of keeping notes, but I just want you to know I couldn’t have lived without you turning them over, offering them as furniture for our journeys together. My feelings about our visits come slower in the mail than the learning-to-look rate because I’ve been walking our old places on the way to the grocery and stuff. Now I wear those jagged scenic halos you gave me like flat gravel. shame. But Oh, God last night I remembered our mountains! You stood there looking like the difference between working and going somewhere. out loud you told how habits eat up hills and shit out quick paintings of flashy games. real cheap you said with your eyes. And then you were shouting. Distractions! they get in your mouth like grit & [my oh] it makes bad songs in your teeth! Untitled (Architects) dear architects, walking up to see your place is so important. we all know it would be more the main thing if we paid enough people to keep reminding us. also, someone on the radio said getting the best-necessities is always better with an adventure in front. I think that’ll be true forever. so give it. Don’t hear me wrong, I know you’re always jumping when the phone rings but what I’m saying is please don’t let that get in the way of letting the grass grow in front of the cottages. yours, E------
