We should have a cheering section in Artist's Daily Almanac- yeah Loretta, you got something done. As for me, I spent the entire day running domestic errands and filing loose pages from 7 years of academics- Walter K. Lew took up 3 binders alone.
Things that are moving. Study 2013, which I think is getting renamed (I'll keep you posted) got a spot in a series called Pilot, which as the title suggests, lets you preview a segment of a piece to an audience with the possibility of being "picked up" for a full scale production. The real boon is that we get rehearsal space as we prepare for the initial showing (sometime in April 07, I think). That's a major perk, as our conversations have centered a lot around blocking and conceptualizing the space. I'm supposed to produce a rehearsal script/plot to start the dancers working this week- wish me luck.
As for other projects: nothing gong on the chapbook, except for a scribbled start on a poem for Art Blakey. No music to speak of. Good conversations with Chris Strofolino on the subject of music/poetry overlap, causing me to consider proposing a compendium of essays/poems on the subject to some publisher, instead of just my own current study. Maybe something hald from composers who hace worked with text and poets who also compose music (I can think of a more than a dozen in the Bay Area alone).
Oh, and I bought a drum stool which can double as a desk chair, as well as a piano bench, so no more excuses for not practicing instruments,
ciao,
p.s. Stephanie Young was nice enough to reply to the "bookshelf project". My e-mail server is bugging, so I can't reply properly at the moment, but if she's reading- thanks for playing along.
Things that are moving. Study 2013, which I think is getting renamed (I'll keep you posted) got a spot in a series called Pilot, which as the title suggests, lets you preview a segment of a piece to an audience with the possibility of being "picked up" for a full scale production. The real boon is that we get rehearsal space as we prepare for the initial showing (sometime in April 07, I think). That's a major perk, as our conversations have centered a lot around blocking and conceptualizing the space. I'm supposed to produce a rehearsal script/plot to start the dancers working this week- wish me luck.
As for other projects: nothing gong on the chapbook, except for a scribbled start on a poem for Art Blakey. No music to speak of. Good conversations with Chris Strofolino on the subject of music/poetry overlap, causing me to consider proposing a compendium of essays/poems on the subject to some publisher, instead of just my own current study. Maybe something hald from composers who hace worked with text and poets who also compose music (I can think of a more than a dozen in the Bay Area alone).
Oh, and I bought a drum stool which can double as a desk chair, as well as a piano bench, so no more excuses for not practicing instruments,
ciao,
p.s. Stephanie Young was nice enough to reply to the "bookshelf project". My e-mail server is bugging, so I can't reply properly at the moment, but if she's reading- thanks for playing along.
posted by Dillon Westbrook at 12:04 AM
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I have no binders, but instead loose leaf papers wrapped in file folders, wrapped again in about 5 rubberbands each. Usually a class gets one of these at the end of the semester. Walter's classes have always taken two of these, each. And this is just handouts--my notes always are written in books.
I don't know what this means. I don't know when I'll get back to undoing those rubberbands, but more on rubberbands in my own post...
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