'Craig's Stroke' - collaboration 2013

Excerpt of a collaboration from a couple of years ago (2013). 'Craig's Stroke' book of drawings and paintings by Lance Austin Olsen used as a score that John Luna responded to with his voice in anecdotes and poems, with my contribution to the collaboration of keyboard (organ and piano improvisation). The outcome of this work over several months is still pending.

"craig's stroke" recording session clip

score: lance olsen. realisation: debora alanna piano: john luna vocal. Work in progress.

Posted by Lance Austin Olsen on Saturday, April 6, 2013

Syngja

Here are some of my videos of Syngja, solo recordings of talented Tyr Jami, known as the cellist, composer and singer of The Winks performing the in Vancouver BC on December 2010 are accompanied by stunning visuals created in situ by Jasa Baka.

Tyr Jami and Jasa Baka are artists that live and work in Montreal PQ.

Tyr is returning to the West Coast in August to play in Vancouver, Salt Spring Island, Pender Island and Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia:

August 4th: North Pender Island

August 5th: Victoria, BC @ the Red Door with Freak Heat Waves
http://freakheatwaves.band​camp.com/

August 10th: Saltspring Island: noon hour Music and Munch concert series

August 11th: Vancouver @ The Red Gate

August 12th: Vancouver @ Thors Palace with Aaron Read, Andy Dixon, Garland and Yarn
https://www.facebook.com/e​vent.php?eid=2533676946782​39

Syngja will play in Vancouver and Victoria
http://www.myspace.com/syn​gja

Pender and Saltspring Islands I will play with Graeme Wilkinson (piano)

Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Sinfonia in F
Sylvia Rickard: Song for the Earth
Dmitri Shostakovich:Sonata in D minor Op. 40
Icelandic Folksongs
George Gershwin

Paper Doll

This duo creates - with multiple notions; a multiplex of messages, transmitted simultaneously; multitudinous elements, including, jostling and melodious sound; coincident fabric; startling paint; superposed make-up... using enamored actors; winking models; fascinated and compliant audiences; noisy machines... This design of congruence - all aspects of theatre jumbled and sculpted into performance... Numerous continuities; countless values - worthiness, strength, utility, importance - frivolity as an estimable trait; innumerable calculations; uncountable diversions, untold degrees of intensity; several speculations about life, learning and paths of delight; mixed media, where mixing results in various projected plays of enormous proportions; divers proclamations that result in multifarious perceptions, which extol toleration and glory; manifold operations that combine expertise of their natural ability to invent and present. Truly, Paperdoll is a myriad of presentations, made generously, offered without expectation, a tribute to largess - simply, variations of complexities that reward us with the Paperdoll oeuvre.

Using the premise that their real and imagined experience is a resource, forming an inspired and fertile world where their impression can transform, they seek to develop an opinion that seriously but playfully dances through stability into invention, where envisaging becomes reality. The result is fabrication, imbued with archetypal concepts, which are chaotic, and as messy as reality; charged emotionally, somewhat humbling as the confidence from the colour and pageantry erupt with a maelstrom of activity - the centre of conception is spared to allow the participant, viewer, creator space to contemplate in awe.