The history of tape music begins alongside the dawn of electroacoustic music and predates what we would recognize as the first electronic synthesizers. This class will lead students through a brief history of this groundbreaking musical artform, and allow students the opportunity to create their own tape loop. Students will be given a collection of prerecorded analog tape, cassette players, and splicing tools, and will be given time to cut, tape, and perform their tape loop. The basic mechanics and varieties of tape equipment will be presented so that students may continue to explore the materials later outside of the class.
David Chandler is a native Oregonian who has been making and organizing experimental dance music in Portland since the early 90’s as Solenoid and Mr Pharmacist. Chandler’s music is distributed internationally, and his expertise in sound and art have found him working in almost every facet of performance from film scoring and sound design to theater arts.
In 1995, Chandler released a hand-built series of 100 cassettes with spliced loops marked “open-source”. These tapes and their construction method became an underground secret-weapon among touring bands in the 90s, and were given the nickname, the “Chandler Loop”. The legacy of that tape among his many other accomplishments in the world of electronic music have made Chandler an authority on the art of the tape-loop.
Enrollment
The Tape Loop Workshop is a one day, 3 hour course. Cost for enrollment is $35, and includes components necessary to create a tape loop. No supplies are necessary for this course, however students may bring their own found sounds on cassette tape if they choose.
Sunday June 12th 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Please Visit www.s1portland.com/workshops to register
The history of tape music begins alongside the dawn of electroacoustic music and predates what we would recognize as the first electronic synthesizers. This class will lead students through a brief history of this groundbreaking musical artform, and allow students the opportunity to create their own tape loop. Students will be given a collection of prerecorded analog tape, cassette players, and splicing tools, and will be given time to cut, tape, and perform their tape loop. The basic mechanics and varieties of tape equipment will be presented so that students may continue to explore the materials later outside of the class.
David Chandler is a native Oregonian who has been making and organizing experimental dance music in Portland since the early 90’s as Solenoid and Mr Pharmacist. Chandler’s music is distributed internationally, and his expertise in sound and art have found him working in almost every facet of performance from film scoring and sound design to theater arts.
In 1995, Chandler released a hand-built series of 100 cassettes with spliced loops marked “open-source”. These tapes and their construction method became an underground secret-weapon among touring bands in the 90s, and were given the nickname, the “Chandler Loop”. The legacy of that tape among his many other accomplishments in the world of electronic music have made Chandler an authority on the art of the tape-loop.
Enrollment
The Tape Loop Workshop is a one day, 3 hour course. Cost for enrollment is $35, and includes components necessary to create a tape loop. No supplies are necessary for this course, however students may bring their own found sounds on cassette tape if they choose.
Sunday June 12th 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Please Visit www.s1portland.com/workshops to register
This is a call for all unicorns of all ages, in the City of Portland (and beyond) to gather together at our enchanted green patch: the greenest grass found next to the tennis court at Colonel Summers Park. As unicorns absorb our energy through the sun, we will be ready to spread our wings and soar through the streets of Portland by mid afternoon!
Not everyone will be able to see us, since we are magical beings, but we will be able to see each other! Unicorns barely touch the ground- some even say they merely skim it, so finding the trail of a unicorn is almost impossible... but, we will go on an adventure eastward: up and over the thorns of haw, to the top of the beautiful candy mountain, stopping for vegan soft serve, and back down.
Ride as bare as you dare- just roll around in sparkles or paint your body in rainbows if you want! The shimmery and more glittery, the better. Bike decorations highly encouraged. This is the first weekend of Pedalpalooza so let's get this party started!
Meet at 2 to sparkle up, fly out at 2:15.
Tell your all your sparkly friends! Glitter, sidewalk chalk, dance jams, candy, and hoof high tens provided!
Rainmaker Artist Residency is pleased to announce "Third Space" -- a two person exhibition featuring the work of Portlandbased artists and Rainmaker residents Bukola Koiki and Kathryn Yancey.
In "Third Space", Koiki and Yancey seek out and investigate hybrid spaces as locations of shifting physical and cultural realities. Through video, sculpture, and performance, the artists examine the often blurred and intangible locations, selves, and identities that constitute their lived, daily experiences.
Mining personal, physical and material based cultural memories, Koiki seeks to explore the immigrant experience of cultural displacement and dislocation by attempting to imbibe through repetition, the Yoruba female rite of passage of tying a gele (a head tie worn for special occasions) and documenting her own repeated attempts to claim a piece of her culture that she was unable to to learn at the feet of her mother, so to speak. Furthering this exploration of dislocation is the use of surrogate versions of the original textiles, made in Tyvek and canvas using experimental techniques in dyeing and image transfer.
Intuitively reacting to urban and domestic spaces, Yancey uses video to explore the formal elements of painting and sculpture. In an attempt to connect inner and outer, virtual and physical, organic and synthetic, Yancey presents digital, time-based media as sculptural form.
About the artists:
Bukola Koiki was born in Lagos, Nigeria and came to study art in the United States as a teen through a series of events involving a secondary school classmate and the American Visa Lottery Program. She received her MFA in Applied Craft + Design from Oregon College of Art and Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art in May 2015. Her work explores cultural hybridity and cultural dislocation through the lens of memory, language, rituals, and rites of passage, using a variety of mediums. She has exhibited her work in galleries in Portland OR, Morristown, NJ and Gatlinburg, Tennessee and her work has been featured in Surface Design Journal and online in Art21 Magazine and Art Practical. She lives and works in Portland,OR.www.bukolakoiki.com/
Kathryn Yancey generates video, sound and installation work through a multidisciplinary practice that explores the materiality of the poetic voice. She received an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice from Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, and a BFA from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.www.katieyancey.net/
Course Description
This 3-part workshop will focus on the basic understandings of operating and manipulating turntables, mixers, and a power amplifier (PA) in the context of creating a live DJ mix.
We will begin by introducing the basics behind these pieces of gear, both individually and their relationship to each other. Next, our focus will turn to practical listening as we work to comprehend rhythms and the ways our records work together to create a momentum of sound. These two basic tools of DJing – electronic hardware and human intuition – will be reconciled in the final session as we identify systems for sequencing records in a live setting.
We will discuss ways of training our bodies to react to our ears and translate those reactions to the turntable & mixer. Core concepts touched on include beat-matching, identifying tempos, and developing an identity as a dj based on each individual’s tastes and strengths.
Each week, in addition to the guided session, there will be a day of open equipment hours to practice the concepts that were taught in each class.
Bio
John Kammerle is a DJ and producer based in Portland, Oregon. John received a BA in Audio Engineering from the Evergreen State College in 2009. He currently works as a teacher at Ethos Music Center in North Portland with a focus on digital music composition and beat making for middle school students. John performs regularly in and around the Pacific Northwest under the moniker, Rap Class.
Enrollment
Introduction to DJing is a 3 part series with open deck nights included in cost of class. There will be 3 different sessions, June, July, and August. Students are not required to bring any material, but are encouraged to bring their own music on vinyl. You must be at least 16 years old to enroll. If you are a minor, please contact us for further instructions: s1portlandinfo@gmail.com
June Session
Monday June 6
Monday June 13
Monday June 20
Open Deck Nights: Wednesday June 8th, 15th, and 22nd
All Classes are from 6:30pm-8:30pm & Open Deck nights 6:30-8:00pm
July & August Sessions also available
Visit our website for more details www.s1portland.com/workshops
Join an evening of discourse, observations & explorations surrounding Takahiro Yamamoto's piece, Rules of Engagement. Rules of Engagement explores the combination of physical reality in the space and fictional reality in the mind. Taka asks: Can I allow my body and mind to be open to the effect of fictional narrative? What is the line between reaction and consequence?
The Critical Engagement Series brings together audiences & choreographers in hopes to reveal some of the mystery surrounding the languages around dance & the unique practices of individual choreographers. We start with the question: What does the choreographer need at this particular moment in their process & how might this also serve the wider community?
A 20 minute video of Taka's work, followed by a discussion with Taka about what we saw and experienced.
Drinks and light snacks provided.
http://flockpdx.squarespace.com/new-events/2016/5/27/critical-engagement-series-taka-yamamoto
$5-10 sliding scale
Please join the Love Your Body Action Team, Gender Justice Action Team, Women of Color Action Team, Feminists for Environmental Justice, and the Bi-Feminist Alliance in welcoming Cory Lira in a discussion of fat liberation.
The event will focus on the often-ignored experiences and discourse of size, fatness, and fatidentity. In looking at the myths and beliefs surrounding fat people and the feared obesity crisis we will also explore how the pathologizing of fatness has prevented fat discrimination from being included in social justice work. By centering the conversation on the intersectional & decolonial identity/body politics that this identity holds for many queer and trans people of color, we will explore the ways in which fatness plays out in our privilege/oppression. The goal of this workshop is to break down stereotypes on fatness, develop an intersectional & decolonial approach and understanding of fat identity, and to create visibility for fat oppression and fat liberation.
Cory Lira is a fat femme of color xicana speaker, educator, and writer based in Portland, OR. In addition to body & fat liberation work, she is an organizer for Critical Resistance Portland, and helps run and write for the blog Fat People of Color.
The Women's Resource Center is accessible by elevator via Montgomery Hall. Please e-mail lybat@pdx.edu for any questions or concerns.
A coarsely-mixed blend of music from near and far.
TIG BITTY
tigbitty.bandcamp.com/
Jai Milx
OF* (OAKLAND)
oftheband.bandcamp.com
TALL GRASS (OAKLAND)
tallgrassmeow.com
Bobby Wasabi
Learn about the interplay of pitch, intervals, harmony, tonality, and rhythm, in order to identify and manipulate these creative components in the music you are making or admire.
Mary Sutton is a pianist and composer based in Portland, Or. She has a lifelong curiosity and passion for music theory. She has made this predilection into a career teaching as an accompanist at the Portland Waldorf School, as well as teaching students in private lessons. She plays synthesizer in the duo Cat Mummies at the Louvre with Caley Feeney, and is in the process of recording a set of solo synth compositions.
This class is not required for Synth Library membership, but strongly recommended for anyone who has little or no experience in basic music theory. This course is open to female and non-binary individuals only, but additional courses for all will be scheduled in the future.
$5-10 sliding scale
Register here: http://s1portland.com/workshops/musictheory/
http://womensbeatleague.com/
*photo from Neybuu's Introduction to Synthesis workshop
The Portland State University Art and Social Practice event ASSEMBLY at Likewise.
Rozalyn Crews has chosen presenters Roya Amirsoleymani, Harrell Fletcher and Lisa Jarrett to take us to their regions of the Youtube universe.
Each month three presenters give 15 minute presentations using YouTube in any way they'd like, followed by a brief Q&A.
Getting To Know You(Tube) was founded in 2011 by artists Crystal Baxley and Stefan Ransom, and is made possible by the generous support of Portland's historic Hollywood Theatre.
Assembly is a co-authored social practice conference that includes presentations, discussions, interventions, and activities that address topics related to art and social practice. Participants shape the collective experience by contributing to dialogue, group projects, and publications.
THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2016
2:00 – 3:00 PM The Unknown, IPRC, Lauren, IPRC
4:00 – 5:30 PM The Mammalian SMYLE, PICA, Darren O’Donnell
5:30 – 6:30 PM DINNER
6:30 – 8:00 PM Community Discussion: The Ethics of Photography, Newspace, Steve Davis, Emily Fitzgerald, Jim Lommasson, and Beth Nakamura
8:30 – 9:30 PM The First Session, LIKEWISE, Derek Hamm
9:30 -10:30 PM Opening Conversation, LIKEWISE, Ariana Jacob
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2016
10:00-12:00 PM Student Research with Free Lunch, PSU Broadway Res Hall (6th Avenue entrance and go to the second floor), Roz Crews
1:00 – 2:00 PM Williams Ave Mapping Circle, Project Grow, Emma Colburn
3:00 – 5:00 PM Art & Sports Museum Opening, Rec Center, Anke Schüttler & Lauren Moran; Data Drafting with Adam Carlin, Rec Center
5:00 – 7:00 PM DINNER
7:00 – 8:00 PM Ink Visible, Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, Arianna Warner
9:00 – 11:00 PM Getting to Know YouTube: Influence’s Influences, curated by Roz Crews with presentations from Roya Amirsoleymani, Harrell Fletcher, and Lisa Jarrett, LIKEWISE
SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2016
10:00-11:00 AM Something To Teach You, Meeting at the North end of SW Salmon and SW Park, Adam Carlin
11:00-12:00 PM Common Language, Renee Sills & Kimberly Sutherland, The Portland Open Space Sequence
12:00 – 1:00 PM LUNCH
1:00 – 3:00 PM Some Time Between Us, Emily Fitzgerald, Hollywood Senior Center & Beaumont School
4:00 – 6:00 PM The Global Table: Tasting Party, Zenger Farm, Amanda Leigh Evans and Krysta Williams
6:00 – 7:00 PM DINNER (suggested – Portland Mercado)
7:00 – 9:00 PM Collaborative Learning for Physical Prowess (on the dance floor): How to Dance Like a Boss, Jens Hauge & Renee Sills, Performance Works NW
9:00 – 10:00 PM The People’s (dance) Party, Jens Hauge & Renee Sills, Performance Works NW
SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2016
10:00-11:00 AM Wearable Worlds, Anya Wild and Natalya Kolosowsky
11:00-12:00 PM Motherhood and Social Practice Picnic, Overlook Park, Yara El-Sherbini and Davina Drummond
12:00 – 1:00 PM LUNCH
1:00 – 3:00 PM Backyards, 4535 NE Garfield Ave, Kimberly Sutherland & Paul West
4:00 – 5:00 PM The Useful Art Object, Amanda Leigh Evans with Daniel DuFord, Namita Gupta Wiggers, Nicole Gugliotti, Lisa Jarrett, and Denise Mullen.
5:00 – 7:00 PM DINNER
7:00 – 8:00 PM Artist Talk by Yara El-Sherbini and Davina Drummond, Likewise
8:30 – 9:30 PM Closing Conversation, LIKEWISE, Ariana Jacob
ONGOING
Thoughts on the Assembly by Students from the Native American Youth and Family Center, Darren O’Donnell and NAYA’s Art and Social Change Class.
Are you coming from out of town? Please get in touch with harrell@pdx.edu.
Free and open to the public.
Join Lucy Lee Yim for SELFIE-HELPIE
4 Wednesdays (see below for dates and details)
Description:
Getting into, out of, over and under yourself (or at least flirting with the idea that this is a possibility).
In this class we are going to be with ourselves, lose ourselves, find ourselves, entertain ourselves, bore ourselves, encourage ourselves and scare ourselves all while somehow being with one another.
Worried you are self-centered? Dancing when no one is looking? Wanting to be seen but also wanting to be invisible? This is an interdisciplinary class centered around our bodies and our bodies in relation to each other, space and time. The swirl of emotions and excitement that comes with art making will simply be in the room with us as we proceed.
There will be in class activities and self studies outside of class that may potentially spark the beginnings, middles and ends of a creative project. We will share with each other our questions, needs, desires, fears and curiosities, ultimately entering into performance.
Wednesdays April 13+20, May 4+11
Time: 7-8:15
Cost: All 4 class for $40 or $12 Drop In
Artist Bio/Pic:
http://cargocollective.com/lucyyim/ABOUT
Free live hiring event in Portland.
Please note that no items from the Society's permanent collection will be sold. For questions regarding the sale, contact the library reference desk at libreference@ohs.org or leave a voicemail at 503.306.5240.
Hap Gallery presents the doer of great deeds and the speaker of great words, a group show curated by Iris Williamson. the doer of great deeds and the speaker of great words features digital media, 2-D, and 3-D work by Danielle Dean, Tessa Heck, Dawn Kim, Nicole Reber, Anja Salonen, Leslie Vigeant, and Marisa Williamson. The opening reception is held in conjunction with Portland's First Thursdays in the Pearl District, May 5, 2016, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Exhibiting hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. The exhibit will run through May 28, 2016.
In the doer of great deeds and the speaker of great words, seven artists examine how a person’s private life influences their public perception. The exhibition recognizes that the complexity of self is often disregarded due to the limited range of representation and respectability, specifically for—but not limited to—those who identify as female, femme, non-binary, and/or people of color. In a way, succinct, performative elements—like a debate, gesture, or tweet—are more effective at negotiating public power, backgrounding complicated personal stories. These personal stories often become reduced to a sound bite on which to place a judgment, devoid of context.
Artists in the doer of great deeds and the speaker of great words take different approaches in navigating the perceptions of the self. Painters Tessa Heck and Anja Salonen identify the humor and awkwardness that occur while in mundane social situations. In Danielle Dean’s video/sculpture, her performers use slogans from Ebony, Essence, and Vogue, alongside political speeches, to discuss covert plans. Artist and writer Nicole Reber poeticizes the speech of the pseudo-celebrity. Both Dawn Kim’s postcards of used wedding dresses, and the magazine covers on Leslie Vigeant’s cake, remind the viewer of social ideals at odds with every-day life. In her talk-show video, Marisa Williamson plays Sally Hemings (Thomas Jefferson’s slave and mistress), leading discussions with 20th century icons about representation and an individual’s loss of context in the public life.
Hap has also released an accompanying publication, titled the doer of great deeds and the speaker of great words, as this month's Hap Edition. The book includes written works by Carmen Denison, Alley Pezanoski-Browne, and Nicole Reber.
failure
labor
work
$$$
home
homesick
alienation
intimacy
trying
long day
ooh
I don't know
ok
I'm so tired
I gotta get going
I hate you
I'm cracking myself up
what a relief
Fern Wiley is an artist residing in Portland, Oregon. She received her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Oregon in 2006, and has a background in dance. Her work is interdiplicinary in nature — incorporating sculpture, movement, and drawing — examining experiences of class, gender, body, home, intimacy, time, and space.
fernwiley.com
Thank you Seeing Eye Giant and Molly Preston for your help with the film.
Join Lucy Lee Yim for SELFIE-HELPIE
4 Wednesdays (see below for dates and details)
Description:
Getting into, out of, over and under yourself (or at least flirting with the idea that this is a possibility).
In this class we are going to be with ourselves, lose ourselves, find ourselves, entertain ourselves, bore ourselves, encourage ourselves and scare ourselves all while somehow being with one another.
Worried you are self-centered? Dancing when no one is looking? Wanting to be seen but also wanting to be invisible? This is an interdisciplinary class centered around our bodies and our bodies in relation to each other, space and time. The swirl of emotions and excitement that comes with art making will simply be in the room with us as we proceed.
There will be in class activities and self studies outside of class that may potentially spark the beginnings, middles and ends of a creative project. We will share with each other our questions, needs, desires, fears and curiosities, ultimately entering into performance.
Wednesdays April 13+20, May 4+11
Time: 7-8:15
Cost: All 4 class for $40 or $12 Drop In
Artist Bio/Pic:
http://cargocollective.com/lucyyim/ABOUT
Join c3 and Boom Arts for a panel discussion on TeatroSOLO (LONEtheater), Urban Intervention: Performance as Disruptor.
Hear from April Sweeney, TeatroSOLO (LONETheater) guest actress and Associate Professor of English, Colgate University, as well as Mexico City and Portland-based artist Patricia Vazquez Gomez. Moderated by Ruth Wikler-Luker, Boom Arts Curator + Producer.
Four speakers talk about their lives during and after the Second World War.
2016 NW Handmade Musical Instrument Exhibit
April 30th – May 1st, 2016
Please mark your calendars for the next Northwest Handmade Musical Instrument Exhibit. It will again be held on the lovely campus of Marylhurst University, near Portland, Oregon.
The exhibition features musical instrument makers and performers of the Pacific Northwest.
The exhibition will be held in the Marylhurst Commons, with Concerts-Demonstrations held in the newly remodeled Wiegand Hall.
Admission is $3. Children under 12, free.