Buzz Duo | Walter Wright – Non-Event At Home: Program 22
BUZZ DUO and WALTER WRIGHT
Non-Event At Home: Program 22
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 7:30 and 8pm
BUZZ DUO (Jessica Roseman & Jorrit Dijkstra)
"Improvisational Duets for Dance and Saxophone"
a/v premiere | YouTube
YouTube Link
WALTER WRIGHT
Three Videos
a/v premiere | YouTube
YouTube Link
Video 1: Walk In The Woods
Three short film loops recorded in the Lowell Dracut Tyngsboro State Forest.
Video 2: Walk In The Woods with Al Margolis
Images recorded in Goosepond Mountain State Park behind Al's house.
Video 3: Corona Collab with Ophra Wolf
Online file exchange in the time of the virus !!!
Al Margolis - clarinets, viola, contact mics and objects [2]
Ophra Wolf - movement, video [3]
Walter Wright - electronics and drums [1,3], Board Weevil, contact mics and objects [2], video [1,2]
Buzz duo (Jessica Roseman and Jorrit Dijkstra)
Walter Wright
About the artists
BUZZ is dancer/choreographer Jessica Roseman and saxophonist and composer Jorrit Dijkstra, who have been collaborating improvisationally in Boston since 2017. Roseman and Dijkstra dialogue with sound, rhythm, touch, weight, expression, and space to compose abstract stories together. Their ongoing improvisational exchange Buzz draws as heavily upon both free improvisation practices in music and in dance, as it does on relationship dynamics and awareness.
The duo practices being fully present with each other, and while at play discover new manifestations of that presence. In their trusting partnership, each artist’s creative inquiry pushes the other to together expand their limits of performance. Buzz inherently explores the politics of our identities in space together. What does it mean for a Dutch man and an African American woman to share the stage? How do we communicate as equals?
Buzz has been adapted for large proscenium stages, outdoor site specific areas, and for small spaces, and has been performed at Wesleyan University (Middletown CT), Constellation (Chicago, IL), the Lily Pad (Cambridge, MA), the Somerville Theatre (Somerville , MA), at the Driff Records festival (Cambridge MA), and as part of the Tiny Dances series at the the Dance Complex (Cambridge, MA).
Please support Buzz, if you can:
Paypal: jeroseman@me.com
Venmo: Jessica-Roseman-8
WALTER WRIGHT is an interdisciplinary artist, his practice includes computer programming, electro-acoustic music, and video performance. His focus is on "improvisation as a way of being present in the world.” He plays in numerous groups including Egregoros, ELKA BONG, and ensemble inédit?!.
In the early 1970s, Walter was one of the first video animators. He showed his work at the first computer art conference at the Kitchen (NYC, 1973). In 1973-76, as artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center, he pioneered video performance touring public access centers, colleges, and galleries with the Paik/Abe video synthesizer.
He is a co-founder of 119 Gallery in Lowell, which started as a digital art gallery on the World Wide Web and became a vital center for improvisation for New England-based and visiting musicians as well as the original home of the community-based XFest festival.
Please support Walter, if you can:
Bandcamp: Corona Collab. Virtual Gigs or Elka Bong
