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.-
Steve Peters - Cancoes Profundas (excerpt)
Steve Peters produced “Cancoes Profundas” (Deep Songs), a soundscape composition for field recordings and improvising musicians, through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. This is an excerpt of part 2, “Community.” The full recording is available from Prefecture Records and here.
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Phyllis Fletcher - Sweet Phil from Sugar Hill
Radio producer Phyllis Fletcher created this audio documentary about her father for her 2003 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project.
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James Borchers - Resonantia
This piece was performed live on June 10, 2016 as part of James Borchers‘s New Media Gallery residency. The percussion parts were played using the hanging resonant metal objects in his installation Obiectum Resonare. Percussion: James Borchers, Dale Speicher, Daniel Webbon; cello: Peter Williams.
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Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble - Smart Mouth on a Fast Broad
The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble recorded three pieces by Michael Owcharuk as part of their 2014 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project. You can hear the whole set here.
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Irma Pineda and Wendy Call - The Guest
Wendy Call and Irma Pineda produced these trilingual recordings of Irma’s poems through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The poems, originally in Zapotec, were translated into Spanish by Irma and English by Wendy. Read and hear more in this piece by Wendy Call at Orion Magazine.
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Paul Kikuchi - AUTONOMIC
Jack Straw resident artist Paul Kikuchi‘s sound and video installation AUTONOMIC opens in the New Media Gallery on Friday, July 8th. This week we share a short excerpt of the music from the installation, which is drawn from a series of compositions that explore breath awareness, intention, and perception.
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery interview : James Borchers
Jack Straw New Media Gallery resident artist James Borchers talks with oral historian and documentary producer Steve Rowland about his installation Obiectum Resonare.
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Different Drummer - Take Five
Different Drummer – bassist Anna Doak, fiddle player Brandon Vance, and tap dancer Mark Mendonca – produced their new self-titled album through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Gretchen Yanover plays cello on this track, the group’s version of Paul Desmond’s “Take Five,” made famous by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Information on the group and the album is available here.
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery Interview: Andy Behrle
Jack Straw New Media Gallery resident artist Andy Behrle talks with Steve Rowland about his installation Luminous Soundscape.
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Eric Rynes - Crossing the Threshold
Jack Straw Resident Artist Eric Rynes‘s Mikka and Other Assorted Love Songs, a collection of diverse virtuosic works for solo violin and violin with electronics, was recently released on Albany Records. “Crossing the Threshold” was composed by Michael Alcorn.
