Marcia Bassett

Marcia Bassett @ EMS

Last October I was a resident/guest composer at legendary EMS Elektronmusik Studion in Stockholm Sweden. It was such treat to work with the Buchla 200 there! I’m absolutely thrilled to be contributing a track from my recording sessions at EMS to Buchla Now a forthcoming LP on Ultra Violet Light. Buchla Now was curated by Todd Barton with contributions from Marcia Bassett, Suzanne Ciani, Dan Deacon, Jonathan Fitoussi, Steve Horelick, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and Hans Tammen. Look for the release this June 2020!

The Eternal Now

Nov 7th-10th The Eternal Now went on the road presenting live improvisations for Buchla Music Easel and stroboscopic projections. Our show at Rhizome DC was reviewed in the Washington Post! ‘With analog Music Easels, Eternal Now paints a serendipitous aural landscape’ by Matthew Guerrieri

time_untime Roulette

I will be performing with Ursula Scherrer at ROULETTE on WED SEP 18th. The audience is invited to enter the installation/performance in which boundaries become fluid, duration becomes a moment and single moments become duration. Lights sink into the darkness, darkness appears through the light. The installation/performance is with no beginning or end. A year ago, Ursula and I collaborated for the first time with a durational performance Inter_woven in Tunis. The TIME_UNTIME performance expands on ideas that were formed in Tunis making use of elements such as video, photographs, painted panels as projection surfaces as well as written and spoken texts in a different context as well as recordings captured during our stay in the Tunis Medina.

OptoSonic Echoes

OptoSonic Echoes is an 8-channel continuous sound installation positioned at the exterior of the Museum’s north entrance, containing the voices and sounds of participants in the September 27 performance, OptoSonic Tea @ the Parrish, an evening-length group improvisation featuring some of the world’s most innovative video and sound artists.

An Evening of Synthesis and Light.

KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN performs his “Playthroughs” framework live.MARCIA BASSETT & TED GORDON play Buchla Music Easels with filmmaker and light artist JEFFREY PERKINS projecting “pure light” a variation of his analog color strobe projections which he premiered in 1968 to accompany Terry Riley’s LP “In C”.
CECILIA LOPEZ & SANDY EWEN play improvised music together.
CAMILLA PADGITT-COLES DJs & provides additional projections.

New Zealand Tour Altmusic presents Zaïmph

Wed 14 Nov – Auckland – Audio Foundation with Rachel Shearer and Rosy Parlane
Fri 16 Nov – Palmerston North – Snails – with DSLB and Distance
Sat 17 Nov – Wellington – the Pyramid Club – with Thomas Arbor and Ludus
Fri 23 Nov – Christchurch – Dark Room – with Teen Haters and Scythes
Sat 24 Nov – Dunedin – Blue Oyster Art Project Space – with Ye and Gate
Wed 28 Nov – Auckland – The Wine Cellar – with Psychick Witch and Astrolabe