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Imagined Strife

We are in the process of developing the Frum hardware and it has been just over a year. Various improvements have been made, and the sound quality has been improved.

Sales are scheduled to begin in 2023.

Hardware Frum v0.3 Demo 01

Audio recording of Steve Paxton guiding “The Small Dance,” 2020, Courtesy of Emma Bigé. Part of the AMAM 2022 exhibition "Collective Gestures: The Impact of Experimental Performance at Oberlin in the 1970s" organized by Ann Cooper Albright, professor of dance and chair of the department at Oberlin College, and Hannah Wirta Kinney, AMAM assistant curator of academic programs, with assistance from Rebecca Janovic ’18, Kate Fishman ’21, and Emmacate Sauer ’23.

STEVE PAXTON AND THE BEGINNINGS OF CONTACT IMPROVISATION:
While at Oberlin in January 1972, Steve Paxton taught a predawn class in which he introduced the small dance, a standing meditation focused on subtle movements the body makes to remain upright. (You can try this dance using the guide in this audio recording.) In the afternoons, Paxton experimented with 12 men on states of stillness and disorientation, thus beginning a physical inquiry into states of falling, standing, and catching that would lead to Contact Improvisation. The piece he created was called “Magnesium” and is shown in the video collage at the beginning of this exhibition. 

After the January term at Oberlin, Paxton taught at Bennington College, bringing the weight-bearing work and falling techniques to a mixed-gender group of dancers. According to Nita Little, then a student at Bennington, there was a lot of exchange between the schools, with dancers from both groups driving back and forth to work with one another. 

That summer of 1972, Paxton brought a group of these students together in New York City. They worked in the storefront of the John Weber gallery, opening their process of experimentation to anyone who wanted to watch as they played with launching and catching, falling to the ground and spiraling back up. In this case, the posters, photos, and early attempts to verbally define the form point to its elusive nature, one that is continually redefined with each new dancer.

Audio recording of Steve Paxton guiding “The Small Dance”

I forgot to share this track for awhile. I was trying to make cute pop track with some FM synths. Jan 2012

Karate Connection

A Delta blues song about a sad A.I., entirely generated by Suno from a text prompt. (Suno.AI)

Soul Of The Machine

Prompt: A jazz ballad about spring time in Bennington VT
Image and sound created entirely by Suno.Ai
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Suno.AI creation "Spring In Bennington"

[Frum demo] Utabi - holu

[Frum demo] Utabi - Hibebut

Mr Yamato, please give me back my salamander.

Reproduced Garden

What do you dream when you see the earthrising?

Earthrise

Free download with every physical copy of Sculpture 5'' Zoetrope locked groove picture disc - Projected Music
plasticinfinite.bandcamp.com/album/projected-music

Also available digitally here
psychetropes.bandcamp.com/album/projected-reworks

Maria Chavez - Berceuse5 (Sculpture - Projected Reworks)

Kyoko Kitamura is a vocal improviser, bandleader and composer, currently teaching at Bennington College. A long-time collaborator of legendary composer Anthony Braxton, Kitamura appears on many of his releases and is the creator of the acclaimed 2023 documentary Introduction to Syntactical Ghost Trance Music which DownBeat Magazine calls “an invaluable resource for Braxton-philes.” Active in interdisciplinary performances, Kitamura provided vocals for, and appeared in, artist Matthew Barney’s 2023 five-channel installation Secondary.

Suno.AI creation "Spring In Bennington"

Kyoko Kitamura

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