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HIST performance @ Fitz books & waffles! /
Matthew Klane and I performed some tracks from HIST with poets Julie Neely and Robin Lee Jordan on 2/3/23. Such a good turnout and amazing waffles! Thanks for the love Fitz and company!
Robin Lee Jordan
Julia Neely
Photo Courtesy of Robin Lee Jordan
Photo Courtesy of Robin Lee Jordan
“Thicket on the Prarie” Video Courtesy of Robin Lee Jordan
Hist Performance @ Endicott college /
The Center For Belonging was an excellent performance space.
Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn
Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn
We performed John Cage’s Musicircus with students from a course on Zen Buddhism, co-taught by Rocco Gangle, Daniel Sklar, and Michael Kilburn.
Randall Livingstone took us down to the ocean, which was across the street!
Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn
Photos Courtesy of Michael Kilburn
Hist premiere @ Unnameable Books, Amherst 10/22/22 /
Thanks to Unnameable Books for hosting the HIST soundtrack premiere!
Photo courtesy of Catherine Bresner
Excerpt from “The Rescue of Hist” courtesy of Catherine Bresner
Excerpt from “The Rescue of Hist” courtesy of Catherine Bresner
Audio from Performance @ Buffalo Street Books! /
A great time reading with great readers. Thanks to our host Joe Hall and Buffalo Street Books! Thanks to Kina Viola and J. Michael Martinez.
Audio of my performance of a new work for text and electronics titled Techniques for the Oddity.
Canyons Tour Audio from PS1 Performance Available /
Just uploaded audio from the 4th set of the Canyons reading tour. Enjoy!
CANYONS by James Belflower and Matthew Klane from Flimb Press. 7x9, 106 pages w/ 26 full-page color plates, $25
Canyons Tour @ PS1 in Iowa City 10.9.16 /
Performance Space One
The Canyons tour ended its first phase in Iowa City at Performance Space one, hosted by John Éngelbrecht. It was a lovely night. The performance artist Jillian Weise screened pointedly political videos of her alter ego Tipsy Tullivan, and poet Raj Chakrapani read from a new work that blended poetry with voice-overs of prominent public figures. Matthew and I played a longer set than previous readings and we enjoyed plugging into PS1's sound system for two reasons. One, we didn't have to lug all our equipment in and out! Two, it was vastly superior! I'll post audio of this performance over the weekend so check back soon! We are in Providence toward the end of October, so if you're in the area we hope to see you. The rest of our tour schedule is available here.
Canyons Tour @ Absinthe and Zygote in Chicago, 10.8.16 /
Photo courtesy of Matthew Klane
Another amazing evening on the Canyons tour! After a few too many coffees Matthew and I landed in Chicago for our 3rd performance at the Experimental Sound Studio. Anne Shaw and Toby Altman hosted us at Absinthe and Zygote an innovative performance series that changes locations for each event, from dark rooms, to crowded elevators, to hair salons. In front of the welcoming pink baffle backdrop of the Experimental Sound Studio it was a night of multimedia projections, polyvocality, and hilarious characters. We opened our set with "Welcome to Colorado" and sonically constructed an environment in which the "pure products of America go crazy." Little did we know how well that would resonate with the other performers. Poet and playwright Kate Morris read next, projecting maplike watercolor images in the corner of the room. She was followed by Olivia Lilley, whose comparisons of dating life to The Lord of the Rings had everyone cracking up. Olivia Cronk's reading of Louise and Louise and Louise ended the evening, quickly switching through the voices of a slew of characters, inhabiting each deftly. We read in Iowa City on the 10th, and will pick up the tour again on October 22nd in Providence. Hope to see you there!
We just arrived home yesterday so audio of the tour will be posted soon!
Kate Morris
Olivia Lilley
Olivia Cronk