Sunday 14 November 2021, 2pm
Travis Just does new music from his NYC-based performance group Object Collection's upcoming piece "Look Out Shithead, Episode 3" based on Éric Rohmer's 1980's "Comédies et Proverbes" film cycle. For processed and altered piano, saxophone loops, spaced reverbs, and scrambled text.
Tim Parkinson does new music for Travis Just and himself with saxophone and piano and midi. Broken robot zombie lounge with clear views.
Travis Just is a composer. His music often uses text, objects, and gesture in addition to instruments, voice, and electronics. He has composed many evening-length pieces, primarily for Object Collection. These include films, operas, live-video, and a wide variety of performance and music. Pieces include Problem Radical(s) (2009), Innova (2011), Actua 1 (2011), NO HOTEL (2013), cheap&easy OCTOBER (2015), It’s All True (2016), You Are Under Our Space Control (2019) Look Out Shithead, Episodes 1-3 (2020-2022), as well as numerous hybrid performance pieces and individual musical works. Travis is active as an improviser. His music has been released on Slip/Warp, a wave press, khalija, and Infrequent Seams. Writings in Arcana, Tempo, and the Experimental Music Yearbook. Commissions by Bergen National Opera/Borealis Festival, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, MAP Fund, and NYSCA. Travis worked for Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater, assisted La Monte Young, and adapted Robert Ashley's music for the stage. He is co-director of Object Collection.
Tim Parkinson, for the last 25 years based in London writing music (described as “homeless”) such as recent albums piano trio 2020, an album, Here Comes a Monster, piano music 2015-16, (also TIME IS OVER w/Travis Just) and hybrid reclaimed opera Time With People performed somewhere in some form every year since 2014 (except pandemic-time), and other genrefluid things such as Pleasure Island and recent Oxford Triptych (for Audiograft and MAO), as well as for example five string quartets, one of which is in a large box, written for the Samuel Beckett Centre, all written for and performed by friends who understand like Mira Benjamin, Anton Lukoszevieze, the great Philip Thomas, Mark Knoop, Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker, Object Collection, and sometimes broadcast on BBC or Resonance FM or wfmu. Also occasionally performing on piano or keyboards or objects own music or others (like Foetus) from hcmf to Tate Modern to Roadburn to ATP. Also making a corner in London for music noone else programmes at Music We’d Like to Hear since 2005 and still going strong. More of all this on www.untitledwebsite.com
