Live Music + Video with new media artist Jeremy Hunt
Bubble is a meditation on restraint, the heavy expectation in silence, and the dramatic weight of physical gesture. For this performance, composer/new media wizard Jeremy Hunt filmed the duo as we performed, and projected a stylized, dramatically slowed-down composite image of our movements onto a screen overhead. This aspect of Jeremy's work explores the idea of the video camera as microphone, amplifying and calling attention to the physicality of sound and live performance.
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Bubble for marimba and contrabass, with live video (2007)
Live at Maybeck Studio, Berkeley CA
July 2007
Postmark Tokyo, collaboration with filmmaker Mark Wilson
In fall 2007 the duo began collaborating with San Francisco filmmaker Mark Wilson on a score for his experimental short documentary Postmark Tokyo. The film is stunning, evocative, playful, and expresses with great nuance and sensitivity the experience of a lone visitor taking in the intoxicating rhythms and visual textures of a foreign city. Check back soon for a film clip with live score.
Moths Drink the Tears, collaboration with poet Oni Buchanan
In 2008 the duo begins a long-term collaboration with Boston-based poet and mad scientist Oni Buchanan, scoring an interactive poetry-based video game. Check out Oni's animated online poetry project, The Mandrake Vehicles.
duo B. Commissioning Project
In 2006, the duo began "commissioning" compositions and improvisation vehicles from some of the Bay Area composers we most admire (we say "commission" because the "commissioning fee" has often been in the form of a burrito). So far duo B. has had the great pleasure to work with composers Heather Frasch, Darren Johnston, Aaron Bennett, Phillip Greenlief and Jeremy Hunt on a series of graphic pieces and multi-disciplinary works incorporating text, image and video.
Doublesided, a game piece for audience and improvisers
In September 2006, with support form Meet the Composer, duo B. premiered a new composition at the Meridian Gallery Composers-in-Performance series, inviting the audience to participate in the creation of new improvised music through an interactive game piece. Doublesided requires two audience conductors to interact with the musicians to structure a series of improvised pieces, using cue cards that contain information about texture, dynamics, form and tone.