posted Fri Sep 29, 2006
BING is a program of Littleglobe Inc., a New Mexico based non-profit.
Please visit us at http://www.Littleglobe.org
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posted Sat Apr 19, 2008
Nine ways to fly- an invitation
I do want to say this must be one of the richest places for artistic collaboration. The things people want to express at the end of their lives I have found to be unexpected, varied and powerful. The choir has struggled with the pieces and I think this is also a rich area for future focus- facilitating more interaction between those age groups.
One woman, Barbara (who will be dying very soon-cancer ) wrote a piece called " The Dark Sea" ( the chorus of which includes the repetition of " I am searching for life")- it has a made a full imprint upon my own being and fills me with gratitude for being able to do this work. How can such fullness of creativity be stored away in these isolated institutions? What harm we do to ourselves. Here is Barbara's artist statement:
"When I was first approached to do this project I thought “no way” I don’t have that type of talent. I really snickered within myself. As we got into the song I realized Hey I can do it and I am very happy and fully of joy that I am sharing some of that with other people. I pray that it is as good as what people are telling me. I can’t see it but they can. So. I just hope and pray it comes out good. Basically that is it. Bing bing bing."
-Molly
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posted Tue Sep 18, 2007
Chris Jonas and Molly Sturges perform at the 7th Annual High Mayhem Festival
Friday night - Rrake at midnight (!) - Chris Jonas leads Rrake:
Rrake (Santa Fe). One of the best-received sets from the 2006 High Mayhem Festival, Rrake is Chris Jonas’ latest Santa Fe ensemble project. The music is a consequence of mixing composition, conduction, and improvisation via the superimposition of unlike blocks of rhythm and melody. The latest incarnation of Rrake adds much to last year’s project: new instruments, shifting transposable rhythms, layers of metric modulation and telescoping repeating cells. The resulting music is as crunchy as last year's version of the project, but with a higher level of complexity and conflicting layers. Rrake is Chris Jonas (SFe) and Joshua Smith (Oakland, CA), saxophones; Mike Gamble (NYC), guitar; Jeremy Bleich (SFe), electric bass; Paul Brown (SFe), acoustic bass; Peter Breslin (AZ and SFe), drums; Milton Villarrubia (SFe), drums.
Saturday night - 9pm - Molly Sturges with the Late Severa Wires:
Re-Wired (Santa Fe) – The Late Severa Wires featuring J.A. “Dino” Dean and Molly Sturges, live sampling, vox, bass, drums, guitars, turntables, voice. Launched out of Santa Fe in 2001 with an approach of radical improvisation, The Late Severa Wires build collages of tomes around themes that, like virtual particles, vanish and reappear, each time as strange as they are familiar. For this year’s festival the Wires will be joined by J.A. “Dino” Deane on live sampling, as well as the majestically beautiful voice of Molly Stuges. A new expansion of possibilities, a new breath of fresh air and exploration. The Late Severa Wires is made up of Carlos Santistevan (bass), Yozo Suzuki (guitar), Mike Rowland (drums), and Shawn O’Neal (turntables).
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posted Tue May 08, 2007
World Premiere - Memorylines: Santa Fe
VOCES DE NUESTRAS JORNADAS
A Contemporary Opera
Friday May 11th - 7pm
Saturday May 12th - 7pm
Sunday May 13th - 2pm
The Lensic Performing Arts Center - 211 West San Francisco Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Tel: 505-988-7050
Fax: 505-988-4370
A Commission of The Santa Fe Opera and The Lensic Performing Arts Center
A LittleGlobe Production
Molly Sturges, Artistic Director and Co-Composer
Hi everyone!
We extend our heartfelt invitation to have you join us for the premiere of Memorylines: Voces de Nuestras Jornadas. After four months integrating community building, rigorous explorations in the contemporary creative arts and personal and collective story- this amazing ensemble which has come together across economic, cultural and generational lines in Santa Fe is ready to share our work. Please help us pass the word around!
-Molly Sturges, David Gallegos and the Littleglobe Team
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posted Wed Jan 03, 2007
MOLLY STURGES/CHRIS JONAS: "In Situ"
Friday, January 5th, 2007 - 7:30 pm
"In Situ" an Site-specific Composition commissioned by SITE Santa Fe Co-sponsored by EVO Gallery.
SITE Santa Fe
1606 Paseo de Peralta (at Guadalupe)
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
(located downtown)
505-989-1199
info@sitesantafe.org
http://www.sitesantafe.org
This commissioned performance will be a site-specific immersive composition created in response to the Sixth International Biennial exhibition, Still Points of the Turning World. The
piece will be composed of acoustic, electronic, and voice sounds, as well as found sounds from the exhibition and the auditory properties of the museum building itself.
The live installation “soundtrack” will include both static and roving components.
The audience will be invited to join musician-led sonic tours through the exhibition as part of the performance.
Music by Chris Jonas and Molly Sturges
Text by M. Sumner Carnahan and John Flax with additional materials by Molly Sturges and Pat McFarlin.
Performers:
John Flax, text
Molly Sturges, voice
Alex Neville, voice
Poppy Wilder, voice
Chris Jonas, soprano saxophone
Sam Rhodes, bassoon
Sitara Schauer, violin and viola
Katie Harlow, cello
Paul Brown, acoustic bass
Lindsay Haughton, vibraphone and percussion
Joseph Sabella, marimba and percussion
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posted Wed Dec 13, 2006
Molly and Chris in Houston (unplanned)
From Molly and Chris-
Welcome to our friends, family, neighbors and colleagues. We started a new Blog because of the overwhelming love and support we have been receiving since last week when Molly was diagnosed with tongue cancer and wanting to get information out to all of you who are concerned. . .
To find out more, visit http://mollysturges.blogspot.com
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posted Wed Nov 29, 2006
Molly and Chris performing solos as a part of the High Mayhem Solos Show
Friday, December 1st -8 p.m.
Molly Sturges (voice) and Chris Jonas (saxophones) performing solos as a part of the High Mayhem Solos Show, sharing the stage with the incredible improviser/percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani (Japan/NYC)
High Mayhem Studios
1703-B Lena Street, Santa Fe NM
http://www.highmayhem.org
Free entry with purchase of a High Mayhem CD, or suggested $5-10 donation
Tatsuya Nakatani (New York City)
Originally from Kobe and Osaka, Japan, internationally renowned
percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani has toured extensively throughout the
world, having performed in approximately 80 cities and 10 countries.
Utilizing drumset, gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, sticks
and bows, he creates collages of sound, which combine the sense of space
and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music with the extended
techniques of New Music, yet with great energy and intensity. Although his
music defies category or genre, it can be viewed as a cross-cultural
mixture of improvised music, experimental music, jazz, free jazz, and
rock. He is the recent recipient of The Bronx Arts Council Individual
Artist grant. Also he has been selected PennPAT Artist Roster
2007(Pennsylvania Performing Art on Tour). In addition to his work as a
percussionist, Nakatani heads H&H Production, an independent record label
and recording studio based in Easton, Pennsylvania.
For a more extensive bio, please visit
http://www.hhproduction.org/TATSUYA_BIO.html
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posted Wed Sep 27, 2006
Please come to see Rrake (Chris Jonas)
Saturday, October 7th, 7:30 pm
Part of the 6th Annual High Mayhem Festival, Santa Fe, NM
Location: Wise Fool - 2778 Agua Fria, Santa Fe, NM
-across from Club Alegria- All Ages!
ALL info is here: http://www.highmayhem.org
Asymmetrics/Melodies Ensemble
Saxes/Vibes, Chris Jonas
Violin, Sitara Schauer
Saxes, Josh Smith (of birth, amitosis – from San Francisco)
Guitar/Computer, CK Barlow
Acoustic Bass, Paul Brown
Electric Bass, Jeremy Bleich
Percussion, JA Deene
Drums, Milton Villarrubia
Drums, Peter Breslin
About Rrake
Rrake is Chris Jonas' latest Santa Fe ensemble project, mixing composition, conduction and improvisation via the superimposition of long complex melodic lines atop at least two layers of conflicting asymmetrical block rhythms. Drawing from a diverse set of musical sources and the rhythmic polyphony of non musical sources such as trash trucks, building sites, automobile factories and commercial aircraft, Rrake engages an aesthetic of combined visceral jarring trance rhythmic unison, complex ambience, and non-resolvable linear melodic structures.
Jonas has explored similar regions in his many conduction and composition projects
over the past ten years in NYC, New Mexico and as guest conductor for creative ensembles internationally.
MORE INFO:
http://www.HighMayhem.org
http://www.WorldOfBing.com
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posted Thu May 04, 2006
The 2nd Annual LIVE MUSIC Silent Film Festival
Thursday, May 25th - 7pm
First-ever FILM-MUSIC GATHERING, an event intended to highlight the potential opportunities that the expanding film industry may offer to local professional groups and composers.
Friday, May 26th - 8pm
EARLY MAGICAL CINEMAL SHORTS continues the festival. It features the talent of some of Santa Fe’s most innovative musical personalities accompanying newly restored shorts from the first ten years of early magical cinema.
Saturday, May 27th - 8pm
Tthe seminal film, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS will be screened, accompanied by BING and their original soundtrack, performed as part of Site Santa Fe’s 2004 Biennial.
Sunday, May 28th - 2pm
Rounding out the festival’s events is a matinee showing on of Buster Keaton’s classic comedy, STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. WITH BING. STEAMBOAT BILL JR. (1927) remains a favorite comedy in movie history, telling the story of college-educated dandy who travels to Mississippi to find his long-lost father, only to discover that Dad’s riverboat business is in shambles.
(Santa Fe, New Mexico) The Lensic and LittleGlobe Productions are proud to present the second annual LIVE MUSIC SILENT FILM FESTIVAL from May 25-May 28, 2006. The only festival of its kind in the United States, it will feature live performances by local bands including, BING, DJ Ultraviolet, JA Deene, and Round Mountain in four days of film-music events with curatorial support by Jason Silverman.
Kicking off the festival on Thursday, May 25 at 7PM is a first-ever FILM-MUSIC GATHERING, an event intended to highlight the potential opportunities that the expanding film industry may offer to local professional groups and composers. Film producers, music composers, and representatives of the state and local film industry will speak. A reception in The Lensic lobby will follow, allowing interested professionals to meet and sign up for a listing in the New Mexico Music Commission’s Musicians Directory. This event is presented with cooperation from the New Mexico Film Office, New Mexico Music Commission and the Santa Fe Economic Development Department. Admission is free.
EARLY MAGICAL CINEMAL SHORTS continues the festival on Friday, May 26 at 8PM. It features the talent of some of Santa Fe’s most innovative musical personalities accompanying newly restored shorts from the first ten years of early magical cinema. Films for the evening include pieces by early filmmakers Melies, Cohl, and Hal Roach. Curated by restoration expert, David Shepard, the program will include films that have not been seen since their initial release in the first ten years of 1900s, each of which explore different areas of early stop-action, animation and “trick” filmmaking. Musicians include Round Mountain (composers Robby and Char Rothschild) BING (composers Molly Sturges and Chris Jonas) DJ Ultraviolet and JA Deene. Tickets are $8-15.
On Saturday, May, 27 at 8PM, the seminal film, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS will be screened, accompanied by BING and their original soundtrack, performed as part of Site Santa Fe’s 2004 Biennial. Roger Ebert said of THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, “One of the final treasures of German silent Expressionism that refuses to declare its intention, but freely moves from pathos to pity, from melodrama to true excitement, from cheerful horror elements to the dark stirrings of desire.” The film follows the take of a nobleman’s son who has a monstrous “smile” carved upon his face by a political enemy. This will be the third annual showing of the film with the BING soundtrack.
Rounding out the festival’s events is a matinee showing on Sunday, May 28, at 2PM of Buster Keaton’s classic comedy, STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. WITH BING. STEAMBOAT BILL JR. (1927) remains a favorite comedy in movie history, telling the story of college-educated dandy who travels to Mississippi to find his long-lost father, only to discover that Dad’s riverboat business is in shambles. The KiMo Theater in Albuquerque, on the occasion of their 75th anniversary commissioned BING to do the soundtrack for the 80-year-old film. BING will be touring the piece to a number of New Mexico’s civic performance centers in the Fall of 2006.
Tickets for all festival events can be purchased at the Lensic Box Office, 211 West San Francisco Street, online at www.tickets.com or by calling 505-988-1234. Discounts are available for children, students & seniors and festival passes can be purchased for $24 for priority seating.
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posted Sat Mar 25, 2006
Lots of new things brewing!
- main thing upcoming is three nights at the Lensic May 26th-28th doing both silent films plus a new program of early 'Magical Cinema' Shorts (working with a film restoration expert and dvd producer from Hollywood on some great never released pieces - fun stuff)
- the shorts will be Bing, Round Mountain, JA Deene and DJ Ultravoilet in a kind of round robin and we're flying in presenters and producers for the 'showcase' that eve and weekend.
-We're also working on a City of SF Econ Dev Dept sponsored local film-music community gathering and info session on thurs May 25th, part of the weekend - which is called the 'Santa Fe Live Music Silent Film Festival' all happening at the Lensic.
-We then will tour the Buster Keaton piece with a few of the shorts in the fall to ABQ, Socorro and Silver CIty.
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