On Wednesday I’ll be at the Greene Space in NYC with Angélica Negrón, singer, accordionist, electronic musician. Beautiful stuff! Whimsical, sad, hopeful, delicate. I spent some time rehearsing in her Brooklyn studio this weekend, cooking up some of her songs with little toy bells, glass, accordion, voice, electronics. She makes her own music boxes! Seriously. Right up my alley! I’ll be playing glass on 2 of her songs on Weds as part of a larger show with a great sampling of other musicians.
The Weds show is a lead-up to our group show for the Ecstatic Festival next week on Feb 7th, with Sxip Shirey, Angélica, Todd Reynolds and others. Feb 7th is going to be awesome because we’re all collaborating on each others’ stuff - a total play-date! I’ve been rehearsing with all of them. (Basically living on the BQE this month).
The Ecstatic Fest hosts many evenings of music, including one with Son Lux who I spent some of last summer touring with.
Ecstatic Fest preview at The Greene Space. Weds, Feb 1st at 7pm. Tickets HERE
Ecstatic Festival Show at the Kaufman Center. Tues, Feb 7th. Tickets HERE
The Brooklyn Navy Yard - I’ve long wanted to go. My ancestors Commodore John Rodgers and Commodore Matthew C. Perry both spent considerable amounts of time there. In charge of things, I suppose. The old row houses where the Admirals lived have been left to wrack and ruin, and are soon to be torn down to make way for a supermarket. So it goes. I’ve heard that one house is to be preserved - the one that Perry lived in during his time there. So that’s a silver lining. I often find myself wishing that America would restore and renew instead of destroying and replacing things. At least, restore and renew things that had been beautifully made.
Had to take a break from rehearsing to snap a pic of this obnoxiously beautiful foggy sunset from the tower of our house.
brianna-ashby:
Parasols (commission)
Watercolor on paper, 8x10
Brianna Ashby - Illustration. Design.
nathanjohnson:
A new time-lapse screen-grab peek behind the doors of The Made Shop!
themadeshop:
A short time-lapse screen recording of Nathan and I working in L.A. and Denver via screenshare on the early development ideas for the Stranahan’s logo and label redesign project last summer.
Watch it full-screen and pretend like you’re working!
More awesomeness from the Made Shop.
Jonny Rodgers - Documentary on my Wine Glass music.
From Shoot Shoot Studios.
Candid interviews, improv and some background on how I developed my Glass Music. This is the documentary from which my Swung On A Swing live video was excerpted. It was filmed at Harkness in Waterford, Connecticut by Shoot Shoot Studios on a cold, rainy autumn day. My hands nearly froze! The brave, hardy crew persisted despite the weather and captured some really fantastic moments!
Watch the Swung On A Swing Video as well, HERE
Teaser - here’s a still from the new documentary on my Wine Glass Music - coming later this week!
