Artist of the Week
The Jack Straw Artist of the Week Podcast highlights work created through the Artist Residency Programs at Jack Straw Cultural Center.-
Peter Colclasure: My Lai II. Hugh Thompson, Jr.
Peter Colclasure‘s My Lai, a new work for piano and string quartet based on the My Lai Massacre, was produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, and performed by Peter and Skyros Quartet. “Hugh Thompson, Jr.” is the piece’s second movement. The recording is available for purchase at https://petercolclasure.bandcamp.com/album/my-lai
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Roger Nelson - Vexations
In May of 2010, Jack Straw presented a performance by a rotating cast of 30 pianists, playing through Erik Satie’s infamous “Vexations” theme 840 times, as suggested by the composer’s vexatiously enigmatic note on the original manuscript. The performance started at 4:00pm on Saturday, May 15th, and ended the following day at 11:20am, after the piece had been played exactly 840 times. To our knowledge, this was the first time this had been done in Seattle.
Pianist and composer Roger Nelson performed the eighth hour, from 11pm to midnight.
Read more about this project on our website: https://www.jackstraw.org/program/art-heritage-partnerships/vexations-live-at-jack-straw/
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Whitney Lynn and Till the Teeth New Media Gallery Podcast
Jack Straw artists Whitney Lynn and Jonathan Rodriguez of Till the Teeth talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation TIME KILLS.
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Last of the RedHot Mamas - P-Pop Blues
“P-Pop Blues” is the first single from Last of the RedHot Mamas’ forthcoming album Magick Black Woman, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
Last of the RedHot Mamas is a blues band built around the jazz-inspired, country-sauced songs of Amber Flame. Singing about queer Black life, Flame brings raunchy wordplay, constant hustle, and heartbreaking love of the blues to contemporary issues of self-care, racial injustice, apocalypse survival, ethical non-monogamy, and post-church spirituality. Last of the RedHot Mamas features Roma Raye Everly on bass, guitar, ukulele and cabasa, Gabby Rivera on cajón, and Kristen Millares Young on vocals and tambourine. The band will release their first ensemble album, Magick Black Woman, this fall.
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Leanna Keith Live at Jack Straw
Leanna Keith performed this piece at Jack Straw’s 2022 Fall Artist Showcase as part of a freely improvised set featuring the flute family and a looper pedal.
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Sasha Petrenko New Media Gallery Interview
Jack Straw artist Sasha Petrenko talks with Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation FOREST TIME WATER.
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EarthtoneSkytone - Two Sides, One Reflection
“Two Sides, One Reflection” is the first single from EarthtoneSkytone‘s forthcoming album, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, and due to be released in late summer 2023.
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Ching-In Chen and Cassie Mira New Media Gallery Interview
Jack Straw artists Ching-In Chen and Cassie Mira talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Breathing in a Time of Disaster.
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D.A. Navoti - Residential School Requiem
“Residential School Requiem” is an audio excerpt from Jack Straw resident artist D.A. Navoti‘s multimedia work O’otham Rhapsode. The work will premiere on June 16th at Jack Straw as part of the event Indigenous Americana: In Words, Song, and Multimedia, and will be exhibited at Jack Straw from June 16 to July 14, 2023.
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Ran Park - A Silkworm's Thread
This recording of an early version of Ran Park‘s “A Silkworm’s Thread” is from her December 2019 Artist Showcase performance at Jack Straw. You can hear the final version of the piece on her new EP, Primer, available on Bandcamp.
