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this project is underwritten by the american composers forum with funds provided by the jerome foundation .
kathy is a fiscal year 2010 recipient of an artist support grant from the arrowhead regional arts council (www.aracouncil.org) which is made possible through an appropriation from the mcknight foundation. the funds from this grant were used to purchase the equipment used to record, mix, and master this work
kathy is a recipient of a 2011 artist fellowship for work blending sound and film. this activity is funded by the arrowhead regional arts council with money from the minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the minnesota state legislature with money from the vote of the people of minnesota on november 4, 2008, and an appropriation from the minnesota state legislature.
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1 - The narrative arc for this work centers around a transgendered young person's experience in the urban / river landscape around the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis. It is about a brush with death. I wanted to express the disintegration/ disorientation felt by a tender-hearted, raptured icarus and the fragility of flight. The live performance is a wanderer's story ... "between2deserts".
or 2 - The "river icarus" project explores myth and memory, the ways we construct our personal story, the relationship to our physical surroundings and the myths / ghosts that exist in that landscape. The live fusion of film & cello explores the ephemeral, elusive underworld of personal experience.
or 3 - river icarus is memoir / myth / the wanderer / traversals a journey by boat, on foot, in dreams, by train a bridge - timeless abandon - water / sky river icarus is about inhabiting a body, broken wings, a landscape, a story, a quest, boots, a gender, a bird, a sound, 4 strings, a wooden boat, a wool coat with collar turned up against the wind, the buffeting, relentless force
or 4 - there is a bird . . .
» program notes from the premier performance (pdf)
In creating this soundscape I used both chance and mindful intention, an expansive textural palette (using strings, bow, wood and echo) and the tonal "infinite between" of a fretless instrument. I employed an "alone/together" type polyphony intertwining sound beings that also stand alone. Each track is described below.
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