Leon Gruenbaum, Peter Ivers
Visiting Artist
Harvard University, Fall
'03 / Spring '04
The events are over!
See pics below (click to enlarge):
Flyer for Leon's solo show at Lowell House |
Events mentioned in the Harvard Gazette |
Flyer for anti-fashion
show |
Allison Tanenhaus,
Leon Gruenbaum, Deena Anderson
perform "Boombox Symphony": music by students,
compiled by Ryan Blum |
Leon shows off 'Leonumbella'
and portable Samchillian,
with "Wah-wah" pitch-shifting pedal
(idea by Lonnie Heller) |
Site of the anti-fashion
show event:
tent outside the science center |
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Audience member model
attacked by
Alex Pasternack and Tim Wong, throwing confetti
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Half-time show:
dance piece by Patrick Bradley,
performed by Jetta Martin
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Another audience member
modeling
Allison Tanenhaus's fashions
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Patrick Bradley, Lucy
Lindsey, Tim Wong,
Tom Lee, Alex Pasternack |
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Full text of
instructions to band and narrator at show (Microsoft Word file)
Descriptions of events
- May 6, 6-8 PM, Lowell
House JCR: Leon Gruenbaum lecture/demo of samchillian, and performance of original
music
Lowell House Junior Common Room
Admission free (tickets or RSVPs are not required)
This lecture-performance will focus on the Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee-a
keyboard MIDI controller invented and patented by Leon Gruenbaum that is based
on changes of pitch, rather than fixed pitches. Gruenbaum is the Office for
the Arts' Peter Ivers Visiting Artist for 2003-04. Information: 617.495.8676;
Even more info
- May 8, Mass Ave., 11 AM:
Arts First Opening Parade: Students in outrageous costumes with boomboxes
- May 8, 3:30 PM: Arts First
tent outside Science Center: "Interactive Anti-Fashion Show"
Audience
members strut their stuff in innovative fashions, triggering live musico-theatrical
"games" performed by students from the 2003-4 Peter Ivers Learning
From Performers residency. Come as you are, don a new outfit (provided by the
performers), and see what happens. Or just watch from a safe distance. Fun and
strange for the whole family
Past Events:
- 2 appearance on WHRB's
record hospital, 3/17/04 and 4/22/04 with Allison
- Demonstration of Samchillian
keyboard in Music 167 class, 3/04
Official
mention from Harvard's Office for the Arts
Harvard Crimson
Article
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Original post - looking
for participants
Looking for:
musicians (songwriters and
others), artists, video artists, anyone w/an unusual skill, dancers, aroma artists,
costume designers, improvisers, sound designers, robot makers, actors, comedians,
eccentrics, silly people, serious people
seeking open-minded people with sense of humor and the absurd
we will be working through monthly meetings and continuously via the internet
towards a multi-media performance to take place in Spring '04. looking for people
both to create and perform this material
For students:
Harvard
Words of Wisdom
See the rest of the site
for more information about Leon's other projects:
http://samchillian.com
