Portland -Day Two
So. We don’t have ongoing internet access and have been on the go pretty constantly so it might take a few days for us to get pictures and audio files on the site. In the meantime, we will try to keep an ongoing account of who we talk to and what we talk to them about.
Sound files are finally here (01/29)
For our second day of programming Jon began with another session of talking to folks on the street. This time with a little more success than previously. We find in this excerpt that the people in this neighborhood really like to freestyle (MP3).
We also played some of the results of a collaboration we participated in in Hamburg this summer involving a man wearing a ghost costume. A perfect bit of music to complement the theme of the Ghosttown show. The name of the group tote oma (german for “Dead grandma”). Jon explains the origins of the name. (MP3)
In another nod to our past we announced some of our upcoming events over a bed of the brilliant interpretations of Satie provided by Novi Sad pianist Branka Parlic.(MP3)
When Jon got back in the store front we played a previously recorded piece by Edie Tsong. earlier in the day Edie came in and performed a piece about the birth of her daughter with her husband and daughter present. The piece included accordian, drums, and laptop voices.(( MP3)
After Edie’s piece we had a number of interviedws, including Khris and Katey of the MOST, who talked about the formation of the artist group, the MOST, and it’s relationship to Mostlandia. They even contacted fellow MOST member Rudy in Paperville, Ohio (a portal in to Mostlandia), who delivered a weather report from his hot air balloon. Imagine that weather report emanating from an unsuspecting motorists car radio. We did… and it was awesome. (MP3)
Shortly after the MOST finished their weather report, McCloud Zicmuse arrived for a little accapella music and conversation, including an accapella performance of an instrumental composition.(MP3) Keeping with our unintentional theme of interviewing bearded people we followed up our conversation with McCloud by speaking with former Bay Area artist and current Portland resident Chris Johansen. Chris spoke about his piece in the Istanbul biennielle and warned us about drinking corporate soda… among other things. (MP3)
Chris was followed by a musical performance from Stunt Goat, who ran around the garage behind our studio chanting at one another and occasionally playing their instruments.(MP3)
We ended the evening with an interview with Brant, who is working on a documentary about the skate park under the Burnside Bridge here in Portland. (MP3)
