Marcia Bassett

New Bandcamp Releases 2020

While COVID-19 has impacted live shows and gatherings there has been time to work on recordings. Earlier in the year, I released a digital-only recording on Bandcamp YOU ARE HERE is a collection of field recordings captured on iPhone and a Zoom recorder in India Dec 2019 and early Jan 2020 – Varanasi, Jaipur, and Rishikesh. Mixing and additional tracks were recorded at home in Brooklyn NY, April 2020.

During quarantine, I found a mix down of old 4-track recordings “rough mix for the LP” and released Two Butterflies as a digital-only release via Bandcamp.

Two Butterflies available for download on Bandcamp

Jennifer Lucy Allan reviewed Two Butterflies in her July Rum Music Column for The Quietus – “So Many Stars” hits all my buttons – rough multi-tonal drones that might come from strings or Shruti box (or something else) all lit up with the stridulations of night-time insects. It’s the sort of track I’m always looking for but never have quite the right key words to find.

I also added to my Bandcamp page, a Buchla Music Easel track Morning Reflections that I composed for a short super-8 film that I made last year, and the cassette Endless Parabolas a collaboration with Bob Bellerue is available for download too! Stay tuned for vinyl and CD recordings coming up!

MARCIA BASSETT WITH BARRY WEISBLAT at IPR

Feb 14th Valentine’s Day I’ll be performing at Issue Project Room. Friday, February 14th, ISSUE presents artist and musician Marcia Bassett’s Out-SIDe PATtern RE-configuration, a new sound and light performance featuring Bassett’s video projections sourced from digitized super 8mm film, liquid light experiments, and video feedback with color gel slide projections by Barry Weisblat. Kyle Eyre Clyd, the longtime moniker of Alabama-based, interdisciplinary artist Kyle Kessler, also presents new work. In late 2019, Bassett released Kyle Eyre Clyd’s Eggshell on her Yew Recordings imprint.

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

Interference

INTERFERENCE site / international light art project in the Medina of Tunis
INTERFERENCE Work
Ursula Scherrer & Marcia Bassett present a durational performance:
INTERWOVEN

SURVIVAL OF LAMENTS -GARCIA/MOTA/BASSETT

Muziek, Janskerk, Utrecht
25 Aug 2018
SURVIVAL OF LAMENTS
“Dark sounds sigh most beautifully when darkness surrounds us”
GARCIA/MOTA/BASSETT