mnartists.org: David Means

The Prague Spirals Trio

David Means — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:49:43 GMT

Collaborative realization and performance installation by Walking Through Songs

An Experimental Improvisation Ensemble

[b]Carei Thomas[/b] (keyboards, poemmetry and phononomalies)

[b]Stephen Goldstein[/b] (laptops, electronics and controllers)

[b]David Means[/b] (amplified graphic scores, wind controller, electric guitar, touch pads and visual projections) [i][/i]

image: Steve Goldstein

image: David Means

Good Soldier Svejk (2012)

David Means — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:19:15 GMT

Collaborative performance installation with Jon Spayde (narration, texts and dramaturgy) from "The Prague Sprirals Project". Strange Attractors 24 festival, St. Paul.

image: The Good Soldier Svejk

image: Good Soldier Svejk

The Prague Spirals (2012)

David Means — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:32:43 GMT

Six mylar scores, 3' x 6', suspended from amplified springs and processed live with touch pads and digitalinstruments - for Echofluxx 12 Festival, New Trafacka Arena, Prague (CZ)

image: The Prague Spirals

image: The Prague Spirals

image: Prague Spirals

image: Libuse (Prague Spirals)

The Palm Dubai

David Means — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:43:54 GMT

Kinetic and amplified score models and preliminary recordings for collaborative calligraphy and music project with Abdul Gindeel for the Sharjah Biennial Art Festival in Dubai, 2013.

audio: Sound design for "The Palm Dubai"

image: The Burj Khalif

Sound Houses (2011)

David Means — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:38:50 GMT

Graphic scores and set designs for artist residency in Alaska

image: Sound Houses (2011)

inVisible Cities (2011-)

David Means — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:45:23 GMT

inVisible Cities reimagines aspects of Italo Calvino's novel of storytelling and similarities discovered during travel and explorations. Premiered April, 2011 at Strange Attractors 23 Festival, Metropolitan State Univesity, with David Means, Jon Spayde and Abdul Gindeel. Future realizations are set for installation and live-electronic narration in Iowa, California, and the Strange Attractors festivals, St. Paul.

image: from "inVisible Cities"

image: inVisible Cities

image: inVisible Cities

Clovis (2011)

David Means — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:01:37 GMT

Site-specific graphic score for soloist or trio; Paris, 2011.

Leaving Lanai (2010)

David Means — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:45:00 GMT

Leaving Lanai is the first segment in The Haleakala Crater Project, which combine archival and ambiient sounds and images with texts of Mark Twain, Jack London, and Isabella Bird, among others. The first segment of the project, "Leaving Lanai". was premiered January, 2010 at Patrick's Cabaret, Minneapolis

Strobe Dance (2010)

David Means — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:13:57 GMT

Strobe Dance was an impromptu demonstration to students in my Intermedia Arts class. The I-phone video is by Russell Kirby.

video: Strobe Dance (2010)

Haleakala Crater Project (2009)

David Means — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:24:28 GMT

The Haleakala Crater Project will combine archival and ambiient sounds and images with texts of Mark Twain, Jack London, and Isabella Bird, among others. The first segment of the project, "Leaving Lanai". was premiered January, 2010 at Patrick's Cabaret, Minneapolis

audio: Ear Bells

Music for Open Spaces

David Means — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:18:25 GMT

Thirty years of score materials and laptop computer deconstruction of 1979 performance installation - presented as site-specific work in the Minneapolis parks and lakes, Mourge, Switzerland, Kassel, Germany, and the Minnesota Valley Wildlife Refuge.

Silent Spring (2008)

David Means — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:11:52 GMT

Inspired by Rachael Carson's writing, Silent Spring is a multi-site-specific intermedia performance installation. On-site and studio productions, performances and internet traffic will combine imagery, sounds and stories from the gardens and rivers of Paris,to the Carolina Landscapes, to the rivers of Holland and back. Sements include "The Chattering Class", "Carolina Orchard", "A Bridge Too Far", and "Cedar Bridges Land/Forms". The entire work is scheduled to premier in 2012.

Wall Installation #1 (1978)

David Means — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:32:27 GMT

Wall Installation #1 was commissioned by trombonist Jim Staley, a fellow grad student at Illinois and co-founder of Roulette Intermedium in New York City. It was premiered at Jack Becker's converted carriage factory/loft in Champaign, Illinois, as part of "Music, Stuctures and Space", my graduate composition recital of two- and three-dimensional graphic scores.

Essays From France (in progress, 2004-)

David Means — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:31:49 GMT

Inspired by the writings of Joseph Roth ([i]Reports from a Parisian Paradise: Essays From France 1925-1939[/i]), I am combining live narration, projected images, remixed ambient sound and live electronic music iinto a series of performance installations, tableau and recordings in collaboraion with Francoise Bonnefoy, Mary Garvie, Jon Spade and others. Presentations at Strange Attractors Festivals, St. Paul; video and sound recordings in Paris, 2004, 2005 and 2007. Extended photo-scores from 2011 include "Clovis", "Du Monde Arabe",and "Les Envalides".

audio: Excerpt from "Essays From France"

Walking Through Songs (2003)

David Means — Tue, 24 May 2005 14:26:32 GMT

Collaborative project with Carei Thomas, Steve Goldstein and Steven Linsner. Presented at Strange Attractors XI Festival, November 7, 2003.