Support Experimentation
It’s great to see artists coming together to encourage creativity and expression outside the traditional commercial scenes. I had the pleasure of experiencing such an effort in New York last Sunday night, when I went to see Billy Martin at a space called The Stone. Located in the East Village, The Stone describes itself as a not-for-profit performance space dedicated to the EXPERIMENTAL and AVANT-GARDE.
Each month a different musician is responsible for curating the programs with 100% of the nightly revenue going directly to the artists. The space is intimate and has the feeling of being in a small musician’s studio with only the audience and the performer present–no bar or other distractions.
Billy had all of his percussive toys laid about the room and spent an hour and a half utilizing video and his imagination to build an immersive soundscape of rhythms that completely mesmerized the audience. This included providing a live soundtrack to a Japanese anime based on the work of Jim Woodring called Frank.
I hope that more artists can come together to create these types of spaces and experiences to inspire audiences and performers alike and I encourage everyone to support them. Do you know of one in your area?
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