January 12, 2011
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Welcome to the site of Gill Arno, also home of the mpld amplified slide projection.

The year is starting really well. My collaboration piece with Andrew Beccone (begetter and conservator of the Reanimation Library) was published a few days ago as part of the new TXT FST installment, on Triangulation. Curated by Kurt Gottschalk and Tamara Yadao, and made possible by Radio Ruido, the project also includes a collaboration piece by Richard Kamerman and Paul Haney, and three incredible live pieces by Alessandro Bosetti's trio Trophies.

For more streaming music, check out Winds Measure's new Soundcloud page, which has a mix that includes two mpld pieces along with a weighty selection of tracks culled from the label's stellar catalog.

Speaking of online music, I have just updated the Fotofono blog with the recordings from last September's event. The lineup included Andrew Lafkas, Bryan Eubanks, Cat Lamb, Jason Kahn, Radu Malfatti and Tucker Dulin. And on a sidenote, I am very excited as well about the upcoming event, next Sunday – with Andy Hayleck, Ben Owen, Carver Audain (trio), Doron Sadja, and Tyler Wilcox. To know the details and directions, please send me an email at gill@unframedrecordings.net.

Finally, I have some performances ahead – some very nice new collaborations, all including slide projections, and possibly some solo mpld too (in Texas):

January 30 - February 6
No Idea Festival
various times, various locations in Austin, Houston and San Antonio (TX)
(check the website linked above for program in progress, directions and ticket prices).

This year's Festival line up also includes Andrea Neumann, Bonnie Jones, Bhob Rainey, Greg Kelley, Jason Lescalleet, Chris Cogburn, Bryan Eubanks, Vic Rawlings, Maggie Bennett, Nick Hennies and Rick Reed: solo performances and many combination sets will unfold during a week of improvisatory profusion.



Thursday, February 8
The Tank
151 w. 46th St. (b/t 6th and 7th Ave), 8th Floor - 8pm

An evening of modular collaborations.
With Gill Arno, Patrick Franke, Richard Garet, Wolfgang Gil, Andrew Lafkas, David Moscovich, Daniel Neumann, Ben Owen, Ole Schmidt, and Chris Weinheimer. The group will explore collaborative strategies of composing and performing sound and visuals based on the idea of modular organisation. Pieces are developed in non-hierarchical and decentralized forms where collaborators interact as equals. The modular structure is reflected less on the technical level but primarily on the level of collaborative formulation of ideas and its execution.
For this evening multiple interconnected pieces for different constellations, overlaps and re-occurring themes will be presented (text from press release).

Saturday, February 24
DENSE MESH VII
1336 Dekalb ave in Brooklyn

With:
Gill Arno (mpld)/Ben Owen, Tristan Dahn, Matt Wellins/Sarah Halpern, Michael Haleta

Music starts promptly at 9:13pm. Dinner and cocktail hour at 8. Please bring a bottle to share.




Friday, March 30
Optipus Laboratory
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street, New York
8pm, $12

a lab is a lab is a lab, a structure for improvisation and collaboration assembled by Bradley Eros.
With Gill Arno, Jonas Asher, Lea Bertucci, MV Carbon, Eros, Victoria Keddie, and Lary Seven.