CCRMA@HOME - September 4, 2020

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Kenneth Reams, an artist, writer, and activist currently held in solitary confinement in Arkansas. Alkimiya Transfer’s set features a new poem by Reams, entitled Distributive Justice.
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Black Classical Music Educators
Black Girls CODE
The Safety Net Fund
Code Tenderloin
Coalition for the Homeless
Feeding America
PROGRAM
Christopher Jette: Push Onward (2020) | live performance by Nathan Krueger and Christopher Jette
Constantin Basica: happening (2020) | recorded by line upon line percussion and Constantin Basica
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano and Michiko Theurer: Wings (2020) | live performance
Vaim: Hold Me Body Crush Me Land (2020)
Alkimiya Transfer: Code 6: Responding from a Long Distance (2020) | live performance
PROGRAM NOTES
Christopher Jette: Push Onward
Texts from Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen
on the 1893-1896 Artic expedition of the Fram to cross the north pole
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nansen'...
1 Silent Oh
"Silent, oh, so silent!" - p. 578
2 Snow Shoe
"How marvellous are
these snow-shoe runs through this silent nature ! The
ice-fields stretch all around, bathed in the silver moonlight;
here and there dark cold shadows project from the
hummocks, whose sides faintly reflect the twilight." - p. 37
3 Hear Vibrations
"You can hear the vibrations of
your own nerves. I seem as if I were gliding over and
over these plains into infinite space. Is this not an
image of what is to come? Eternity and peace are here.
Nirvana must be cold and bright as such an eternal
starnight." - p. 578
4 Sun
"The sun no longer
The sun no longer sinks beneath
the icy horizon; it is continual day. I gaze into far
distance. over the barren plain of snow, a boundless,
silent, and lifeless mass of ice in imperceptible motion.
No sound can be heard save the faint murmur of the air
through the rigging, or perhaps far away the low rumble
of packing ice." - p. 439
5 Oh Silent
"Silent, oh, so silent!" - p. 578
Constantin Basica: happening
Please consider donating to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano and Michiko Theurer: Wings (for violin, effects, and other noises)
"Is this music about the soaring perspectives that wings could give us?. About the discovery of new worlds that open up when we can fly? Is it about the tricky business of finding strong enough thermals that would help us soar into earth orbit? ...... Or is this about just winging it?"
This text was written a couple of days before a concert that was canceled at the onset of the COVID19 pandemic. We were going to "wing it". A lot has happened since then. Transcontinental rehearsals. Improvisational maps that have ranged from temperature charts for cicada rhythms to flights through cities of cards that topple, melt, freeze and are reborn, to multiplicities of mirrors and their infinite reflections as they move around the sound trajectories. Many directions, many sounds, many spaces.
We are still winging it, each and every time... Come fly with us.
Vaim: Hold Me Body Crush Me Land
WANTING TO BE CRUSHED AND HELD AT THE SAME TIME
I FIND SOLACE IN DESOLATION AND
SEARCH FOR SAFETY IN WASTELANDS
SINGING TO MY BRUISED BODY AND
THE DAMAGED PLACES I CALL HOME
I FEEL TRAUMA BECOME RAGE BECOME HEALING BECOME TRAUMA
BY EXCAVATING MY MOTHER'S TONGUE AND
MAKING AN OFFERING
I AM ASKING THE LAND FOR PROTECTION
PULVERIZATION
AND SUSTENANCE
PARADOXICALLY
NON-CONSENSUAL ABJECTION HAS LEAD ME TO FREEDOM
AND FREEDOM HURTS
Alkimiya Transfer: Code 6: Responding from a Long Distance
Alkimiya Transfer’s most recent audiovisual composition, Code 6: Responding from a Long Distance, engages with issues of justice and the American prison system through the voices of contemporary and historical Black civil rights activists. The perspectives of Angela Davis, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Junior frame the inequalities outlined in the poem, Distributive Justice, by Kenneth Reams, who has been living in solitary confinement on death row for 27 years for a crime he did not commit. Recent field recordings calling for the dismantling of systemic racism ignited by the murder of George Floyd, and sustained by the violent response of police and federal government, highlight the critical need for the redistribution of resources and State power accumulated within the American Criminal Justice System.
About the artists:
ccrma.stanford.edu/events/ccr...
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[@IsabelleIze]

hello this is Isabelle Reams , did not know you had done this video or posted that video about my husband, very happy you took the time to do this, :)