10.23.2009 Kata FM, otherwise known as the Drive-In Dance piece.
I've been hanging out at the Ragdale Foundation for about a week and a half now, which has been amazing. (More on that, later, surely.)
Tomorrow, though, I'll be having my first rehearsal for a collaboration that's been in the works for almost a year now. The piece with the cars all parked in a circle in a field and the dance happening in the middle. And maybe it's at sunset so that as it gets dark, people have to turn on their headlights to see the dancers. Or maybe it's in some really industrial area and the lights are just a compliment to the sodium vapor lamps (Hideout? What about that weird city lot across the street from you? And, why don't you ever call me anymore?)
Liz Joynt Sandberg is the choreographer, with her Think/Dance Collective.
Anyway, I went through the music tonight to fix some of the parts that I thought weren't working. Then I listened to the whole thing, and while it's not done yet, per se, I'm pretty happy with it as something to listen to. So, here it is. Current version. Hot off the presses. Et cetera.
It's a big ol' 20-minute chunk of music, and I had some good co-writing in working on it with Schmüdde, whose name I can spell in HTML without really thinking that hard about it, and whose new film "Refuge" is really really almost done. (not this one.) And with Chaga, who's not on the internet. Also this includes some violin playing by film composer and lab tech extraordinaire Nate Sandberg (not this one), who's also Liz's baby daddy.
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Posted by charlie williams at October 23, 2009 10:21 PM
