Go Big or Go Home!

Congratulations to the new Los Angeles Air Guitar Champion, our very own Janice Gomez-Hoang:ROCKS, the aka Bride of Rock!! Thanks to Shinichi Ono for this fabulous photo, and thanks to all of the people who caught her when she trust fell from the balcony! Go Big or Go Home- as they say...

On to Nationals!
-Elonda

The grass is greener on the other side of this magaizine cover

We were reminiscing about the days of summer when foxtails cut your heel and figs fell into your mouth. Oh, those days! But alas, we forgot to share our lovely pic from the November/December issue of Artillery magazine (killer text on art, you know). We were fortunate to have both Tulsa Kinney and Anne Martens meander the yard and guestroom during the Big Ass show. We struck a few poses for the camera but thankfully Will Long's work and Al Kaelin's creation (the casa) made the cut. Check out the article on page 22 with an image of Jason Manley's work to boot! If you can't find the magazine, let us know-- maybe you can come over and read it.

Looking out the window, the grass is lush, the foxtails are dormant, and the fig tree is bare. Oh, and the picnic table is still at the bottom of the hill. Any volunteers to help drag it up? We have till May(be).

 

Thanks for the photo Anne Martens!

too legit to quit

Anyone up for a drive? Stop in for some curry... stay for some instrument making and music listening.

Summercamp's Project Project 3119 Chadwick Drive Los Angeles, CA 90032

Summercamp's Project Project presents JazzCircle, a music driven event in conjunction with Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair’s alternative space tour. The event will be featuring musicians Abe Lagrimas Jr. and Robert S. Hilton. Organized by Fatima Hoang, Elonda Billera & Janice Gomez. 

As a storyteller and musician, Robert S. Hilton utilizes natural and found material to create unique musical instruments.  He will be on hand to help you find your own musical  voice and sound by making a tiny flute out of a PVC pipe, balloon, and rubber band that you play by touching the balloon to change the pitch.

If you are interested in making larger instruments, we will provide some materials and tools, but please also bring an assortment of additional materials that can resonate (such as a coffee canister, cigar box, cookie tins, PVC pipe) and anything else you think can create sound.

In the living room, Abe Lagrimas Jr. (drums) has invited fellow jazz musicians, Yohei Nakamura (guitar) and Miko Espanol (bass), to perform original songs, improvisations, experiments and standards.  And maybe we can convince Abe to bring out his ukulele! 

Please join us, Sunday, January 31 from 2-6PM.  Vegetarian curry will be served around 3, jazz in the living room will start at 4, and instrument making is all you.

            

Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair

Performance with Robert S. Hilton  

               

Abe Lagrimas Jr. on the ukulele

           

project project(ion)

Images from Immersion Program: somewhere between the dust and the light

 9:20 Screening, blue ticket pin  

Projections on the living room ceiling

Still image from: American Stars and Mars (2009) by Spencer Douglass and Gustavo Herrera

Still image from: Hammering Nails (2009) by Kai Vierstra

Readings in Guestroom by Tarra Stevenson of Reading Radio

Metal Rouge performing in Goatspace

 

We were excited to add addition screenings, and that it was cold enough to start up our campfire!  Thanks everybody, looking forward to the next one...

Immersion Program: somewhere between the dust and the light

Opening reception Friday, November 13 from 7-10 PM with music performance by Métal Rouge

Immersion Program: somewhere between the dust and the light from Summercamp ProjectProject on Vimeo.

Summercamp's Project Project presents Immersion Program: somewhere between the dust and the light, a video exhibition featuring works projected on the ceiling by James Boulton, Spencer Douglass & Gustavo Herrera, Matt MacFarland, Kayo Nakamura, Telefantasy Studios, Kai Vierstra, with Tarra Stevenson from Reading Radio in Guestroom. Music by Métal Rouge. Organized by Fatima Hoang, Elonda Billera, and Janice Gomez.

The Lost Artworks, an ongoing project by Matt MacFarland, addresses the interdependence of opposing terms such as success and failure, life and death and tragedy and comedy.  The series investigates cliché comedic tropes as a reminder of our humanity and vulnerability. Undertaking mortality through humor MacFarland's work acknowledges that no matter what we do, everything is futile, insignificant and simultaneously significant because we will not be around for long.  Spencer Douglass and Gustavo Herrera's video, American stars and Mars, is an interpretation of the classic Neil Young album American Stars and Bars- specifically the photograph on the album cover. The video activates this still image in an exploration of excess and the 'morning after'. The morning after a night a week a month a year of heady indulgence and blind consumption.

Telefantasy Studios is dedicated to the creation of realms full of alternate realities populated with extravagantly and exactingly created beings. Creators, Jennifer Juniper Stratford and Christine Adolph, explore the theme of fantasy and memories of forgotten futures in their most recent series The Multinauts via an innovative mix of creature and miniature model making with 2D animation.  Episodic story lines follow three heroes through time and space as they battle The Norks, a mutant empire hell bent on creating chaos in a post nuke universe.   In contrast, Kayo Nakamura pairs subtle movements with sentimental songs  to create poetic moments out of unassuming situations.

James Boulton's staccato animations isolate and collage together real world images with patterns, sounds, and drawings.  Using a vibrant saturated palette, Boulton's video alternates between optically blending and clashing sounds.   Kai Vierstra's Hammering Nails also uses manipulation of audio.  As a loose continuation of  his father’s wave research with MIT/Lincoln Laboratory’s group 38 “Air Defense Systems”, Viestra experiments with slow and low frequencies that could induce a bodily reaction indicated by the lycanthropic phenomenon.

In addition to the multiple timed video screenings,  Tarra Stevenson of Reading Radio will address a different analog(ue) realm of the time based program by utilizing the natural ebb and flow of reading aloud.

Métal Rouge was formed in 2006 by Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott in Auckland, New Zealand with no aim but to open themselves to the spontaneous psych tonalism running through the underbelly of popular music like a vein of pure lightning.  Birthed from the rich history of New Zealand underground they began to mold a sound comprised equally of the forward motion of ecstatic jazz and the drugged stasis of NYC loft minimalism circa ’66.  Using electric guitar, vocals and amplified santur as their primary instruments, they forged a new vocabulary of unrefined free spiritual music. Relocating to Los Angeles, they toured the US, adding lap steel and pedal steel to their arsenal.   Drummer/Trombonist Caitlin M. Mitchell joined in 2009, bringing with her a night/day spectrum ranging from pure brass drone through to aggressive free rock. 

No one left yet (Images from Go Big or Go Home)

Amy Maloof of Falcon Eddy and if you haven't met him yet: Yax

Detail of Kristi Lippire's Hybrid: L.A. Zoo, Druid Street and Lombardy

Pipe line by Will Long

Bounce Back by Lorraine Cleary Dale

Farmington Jaw (radiocarbon date approximately 100 million years ago) unearthed by Joshua Callaghan

Hey, look what Fatima found at the bottom of the hill!

A clipping for dragons with Erin and Guestroom artist, Melissa Manfull.

References, (Oversize) by Jason Manley

photo by Jason Manley

Don’t Put Nothing in It, Unless You Feel It, A sub-exhibition at Summercamp's Project Project with contributions by Nicole Antebi, Amaranth Borsuk, Clay Chaplin, Aaron Drake, and Lewis Keller. Organized by Nicole Antebi.  Thanks for the photo, Nicole!

BLACK RAINBOW PIECE (VERSION 1) by Richard Haley. 

Big thanks to David and Cathy from Another Year in LA.  

Opening fun times...

In Goatspace: Falcon Eddy-- Their prices are insane!!!!