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Sculptor Glenn Gibson recently asked me to create a one minute loop of atmospheric music for his site. One of Glenn’s pieces graces my own wall, and now I’ve written music for it has shown itself as an emissary from Elsewhere which will never live hidden again.
Using the Monome 40h as melodic controller via Balron, my own tonal mapping MIDI app, I composed while watching images of Glenn’s fantastical creatures float across the screen to better capture them in sound. Throughout the process I had increasing flashes of this place they hail from, this realm of mechanism and magick, flowing wires and imagination as life force.
Saturday evening I slipped out of deep hack mode long enough to attend the opening night reception for Glenn’s wire sculpture show at GIVEN in the Castro. I found myself immersed in their world once again.
Friends and art aficionados turned out in force… all were enthralled, captivated, captured. Add dark chocolate deliciousness to the mix and an otherworldly time was had by everyone.
It seemed perfectly natural to find GIVEN occupies a space once Harvey Milk‘s camera shop. Glenn has opened the closet door for his creations: hunters, goddesses, acrobats, queens, lovers, world trees and devils. They’re all coming out to claim our land as their own. I believe Harvey would absolutely approve.
I’ve posted a Flickr set of the evening for your own journey.