L i t t l e W i n g P r e s e n t s
Conduction Workshop
with Dino J.A. Deane
Saturday & Sunday, Aug. 14 & 15, 2010
12-4pm $30 @ Little Wing Music Space
“Conduction” is a vocabulary of signs and gestures transmitted by a conductor to an orchestra providing instantaneous possibilitiesfor altering or initiating harmony, melody, rhythm, articulation, phrasing or form. Attributed largely to the work of Butch Morris,Morris himself cites an early substitution for musical notation called “chironomy,” dating from 1500 BC.Dino has been working with Butch since 1985.
In this two-day workshop
participants will get a chance to experience a radically new way of approaching music making and composition
fostering entirely new ideas about the creation and execution of music
this work is often described as intensely challenging and intensely fun at the same time
come with your instrument, an open mind and a desire to create music in the moment
This will be an acoustic ensemble; if your instrument requires amplification,
a low-watt (5-15 watt tube/60 watt solid state) amplifier is recommended
Attendance over both days mandatory - Open to ANY instrument -
Limited to 20 participants with a maximum of two drummers
To pre-register or inquire further please call 505-699-5470 or email: info@candymanlittlewing.com
Dino J.A. Deane has been working internationally for over forty years and has worked with Ike & Tina Turner, Brian Eno, John Zorn, Jon Hassell, Sam Shepard, Joseph Chaikin, Julie Hebert, Christoph Marthaler and Theater Grottesco, winning critical acclaim in the United States and Europe. He has composed and recorded music for over fifty dance works in collaboration with choreographer Colleen Mulvihill, performing in the U.S., Europe and China. He’s appeared as a musician throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, China and Japan, pioneering both "live-electronics & live-sampling". In 1996, Deane moved to New Mexico where he works with a number of ensembles including the infamous Bubbadinos and the acclaimed Out of Context conduction ensemble, which he founded in 1997. Out of Context has performed a real-time score to the classic 1932 silent film “Peter Pan”, a concert at the Georgia O’Keeffe museum “playing” the photographs of Edward Weston, a concert “playing” the book – 1” = 25 Miles, by Sumner Carnahan, a theatrical score for Theater Grottesco’s Wenomadmen and has released 4 critically acclaimed CD’s and contributed new signs and gestures to the Conduction Lexicon.
Little Wing Music Space
at The Candyman
851 St. Michael’s Drive, Santa Fe, NM