Hey You!

полезный

evil romantic

This track is from the album Enough Said and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/baimei

Cool Million

With every new recording, the extraordinary Beata Pater defies predictability. What can always be expected though are rich musicality, fascinating settings, a wonderful repertoire and Beata’s unique and compelling vocal style.

For this album Beata has surrounded herself with an 18-piece ensemble – a wind and brass double quartet, a double string quartet, piano and bass – for a delightful set of nine brilliant interpretations of a pair of iconic jazz works, three time-honored American Songbook classics, a modern standard by Bill Cantos and three originals by Beata’s longtime friend and colleague Chip White.

Tet  is Beata’s ninth album,  and aptly titled not only because it is the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet and the symbol for 9, but also as Beata explains: “It is symbolic of creativity, a vessel which holds something within, a womb for creation. Goodness is hidden within it.”

The winds – trumpet/flugelhorn; trombone; French horn; bass clarinet/alto flute – and strings – a standard string quartet of two violins, viola and cello – each play two distinct parts written for the album by Aaron Lington (winds) and Alex Danson (strings). The core arrangements are by Beata and the album’s pianist Hiromu Aoki.

The outstanding repertoire includes Freddie Hubbard’s Little Sunflower and Chick Corea’s Crystal Silence (with lyrics by Al Jarreau and Neville Potter respectively); timeless gems Invitation, Old Devil Moon and Lazy Afternoon; Bill Cantos’ I Feel You and the three Chip White items that close the album, The Countess, Strays and Ode to Max.

With the marvelous interplay between Beata and her piano/double bass tandem of Hiromu Aoki and Dan Feiszli, and the sumptuous arrangements embellishing her radiantly captivating voice, Tet is another stunning example of the superb artistry and consummate creativity that is Beata Pater.

06 Invitation

02 Lazy Afternoon

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/12/17/sarah-kay-astronaut-whitman/

Recorded at "The Universe in Verse: The Astronomy of Walt Whitman," hosted by Maria Popova and Pioneer Works on Governors Island, October 26, 2019. Portraiture by Rowan Renee / Brooklyn Tintype.

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Sarah Kay reads from "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman

Vocals by Jennifer Guo, raw files, un mixed.
A project for Miroslaw Rogala: DEL+ALT+CTRL - Media Opera
in 8 Movements.
Andy Dylewski Media Design Recording Studio, Chicago.

8SongsSessionJan13 - 20

Music by Paul Lawler
Lyrics, Vocals and Minimoog solos By Jozef Skzrek

Taken from an ongoing album project. ETA to be confirmed.

'We Believe' (preview) Lawler/Skrzek

Credits:
Jennifer Guo Baimei, vocals. Boguslaw Raatz, original Ebow Improvisations. Andy Dylewski, sound design. Miroslaw Rogala, direction, texts. 
Additional credits: George Lellis, texts.

Miroslaw Rogala
DEL+ALT+CTRL
An Interactive Media Opera in Eight Movements
and Video Projection Installation
DEL+ALT+CTRL is an interactive media opera in eight movements and installation
using four-channel panoramic digital imagery to confront how we experience our bodies and our
environment. We experience the exterior of our bodies intensely through gesture; we experience
the interior of our bodies intensely through our contact with food.
The concept of opera to the 21st century: the aria in the 21st century is not just the song,
but a multisensory, interactive experience.
The initial inspiration for this undertaking was a news photograph in The New York Times
taken in Ramallah, Palestine, in which the starkness of the landscape complemented the
disquieting aggression of human-drawn boundaries and re-definition of homeland.
DEL+ALT+CTRL is an interactive media opera designed to create an immersive,
multi-sensory experience that will juxtapose images with sounds, live interactions with projected
media, sung music and spoken words with recorded nature and industrial sounds, printed texts,
movement with stillness, brightness with dark and power and control juxtaposed with
randomness.
The work is structured around Eight Movements:
1. Prelude
2. Song Creates Gesture
3. Gesture Creates Heritage
4. Heritage Creates Harvest
5. Harvest Creates Cities
6. Cities Create Boundaries
7. Boundaries Create Deletion of Memory
8. Coda

Heavens And Hell

3 Rings Days And Nights

Mirosław Rogala (born 1954, in Poland) is a Polish-born American video artist and interactive artist.

He is known for performances and installations that challenge the audience/user's perceptual control and that lead into a dialogue about the nature of art and existence. Dr. Miroslaw Rogala works in a broad range of media of an experimental and transformative nature. Primarily his work has been interactive installations consisting of multi-layered, multi-channeled video displays that invite the viewer to transform the space themselves. Through several transformative systems that entail grids of sound, space, movement, light, and image, he creates a new conception of environment. He considers the closing gap between nature and urban life through the advent of new technologies, and finds a harmony in which the two interact and evolve into a cohesive new system that reflects our changing world.

His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) at Karlsruhe, Germany, the Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, and the Goodman Theatre, Chicago. He has collaborated frequently with the (art)n Laboratory in Chicago.

Rogala has taught at several art universities, including the Pratt Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Columbia College, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a PhD in CAiiA-STAR Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales, Newport in 2000 (now known as the Planetary Collegium). He is currently a Professor and Director at Knowledge Systems Institute in Skokie, Illinois.

Heavens And Hell

Miroslaw Rogala

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