Jacob Richman - multimedia composer - News/Events

Tenderloin Opera Co. AND Meridian Project performing and presenting Saturday Aug 22nd

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 21:25:00 +0000

Tenderloin Opera Company will perform some songs, and Meridian Project will give a presentation about our group at the Trinity Rep Co.'s Season Kickoff Party. This event highlights Rhode Island-based performance groups through a one day mini-fest of performances and discussions.

Saturday, August 22
1:20 pm • Aborn Street stage— Tenderloin Opera Company will perform
3:40 pm • Chace Theater—showing-and-telling about Meridian Project
Trinity Repertory Company
201 Washington Street
Providence, RI
FREE

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Video from Tenderloin Opera Company Performance

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:15:00 +0000

Here's an album of videos from
Tenderloin Opera Company's performance of

"Can of Worms (two-stent heart)"

April 25, 2015
The Black Box Theatre
at Mathewson St. United Methodist Church

The album contains videos of the full performance, songs from the performance, and each individual song, so you can pick and choose your greatest hits! Lyrics are also posted in the individual Vimeo video pages.

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Performance of Windeye @ Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, July 13 + 23

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 15:01:00 +0000

Andie Springer will be performing my piece Windeye at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival this month.

Performances will be in and around Fairbanks, Alaska
on July 13 and 23rd, 2015.

Full schedule and ticketing information is HERE

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Meridian Project and Tenderloin Opera Company Weekend!

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:45:00 +0000

Last weekend was a big one, with performances from my two favorite collaborative groups. Both we're very successful. Sorry I didn't post earlier. Documentation up soon...

Friday/Saturday, June 12/13, 2015 – 8 pm

Meridian Project presents
Sun and Moon
a new multimedia performance
combining astrophysics and the arts
with astronomer Scott MacNeill
Frosty Drew Nature Center and Observatory
Ninigret Park
61 Park Lane
Charlestown, RI
Admission: $5 suggested donation
— plus —
Friday and Saturday at 6 pm
Chime building workshop (kid-friendly)

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Sunday, June 14, 2015 – 2 pm

Tenderloin Opera Company
will perform songs from
Can of Worms (Two-Stent Heart)
as part of the Providence International Arts Festival
Mathewson Street Theater
134 Mathewson Street, 4th floor
Providence, RI
FREE

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Video Documentation from Forty-Eight to Sixteen

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Sat, 16 May 2015 19:19:00 +0000

Video Documentation from a live performance I took part in of Brian House's biometric piece Forty-Eight to Sixteen.
May 7, at MIT Bartos Theatre, Cambridge, MA
as part of the Ampersand Concert Series

https://vimeo.com/127508591

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Peformance with Brian House at MIT, May 7, 8pm

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Sun, 03 May 2015 20:00:00 +0000

I will be playing bass on Brian House's piece Forty-Eight to Sixteen at MIT, Thursday May 7. The piece is based on biometric data readings of Brian's bike commute through NYC, accompanied with the video of that commute. Neat stuff!

Thursday, May 7, doors 7:30pm, music 8pm
MIT Bartos Theatre (20 Ames Street, Building E15, Atrium level, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$3 w/MIT ID, $5 at the door (cash only at door)

For more info, please click HERE

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Review of Latest Tenderloin Opera Show

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Sun, 03 May 2015 19:52:00 +0000

Click HERE to read the Indy's review of last weekend's Tenderloin Opera Company* performance: "Can of Worms (Two-Stent Heart)." (page 5 in the issue, article "Buses into Landsharks") There are some beautiful drawings of the Tipsy Tree, RIPTA Landsharks, and other critters from the show.

The performance was a big success. Thanks to all who took part and came to the show. (documentation up soon)

Also check out the impressive interview with Junot Díaz.

*I am a proud member and co-music director of TOC.

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Write-Up on URI Website

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 19:43:00 +0000

Here's a write-up of me and my colleague, photographer Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, about the RISCA Fellowship Award by the University of Rhode Island website. Author Elizabeth Rau discusses my piece The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery and the Rhode Island murder story that inspired that piece.

http://www.uri.edu/news/releases/index.php?id=7356

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RISCA Fellowship Events Feb + March

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:33:00 +0000

Event schedule for RISCA Fellowship Exhibition:

All events are located at the
Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery
Salve Regina University
Corner of Lawrence and Leroy Avenues
Newport, RI

Opening Reception
Friday, Feb. 13th, 6-9pm
I and other RISCA fellows will be there, video documentation of my performances will be on display

Writers Night
Thursday, February 26th from 6:30-8:30 PM
Literature Fellowship Award Winners will read from their most recent works. This event will also feature a presentation and performance by RISCA's Folk Arts Fellow Rachel Rozenkrantz(!)

Fellowship Film Night
Tuesday, March 3rd from 6:30-8:30PM
Screenings of video shorts by Peter Glantz and Laura Colella’s acclaimed Breakfast with Curtis.

Artists Talk and Closing Reception
Friday, March 6th from 6-8 PM
I and other Fellowship artists will talk about our work and creative process.

All events are free and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: 11 AM to 6 PM Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 AM to 5 PM Wednesdays and Fridays and Noon to 4 PM Saturdays and Sundays. The gallery is closed on Mondays.

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RISCA Fellowship Award in Music Composition

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:28:00 +0000

Thanks so much to the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts for awarding me the 2015 Fellowship in Music Composition! RISCA is a fantastic organization that does an incredible job supporting the arts in Rhode Island. Please check out the other fellowship winners here.

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noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:08:00 +0000

Meridian Project's
DARK MATTER multimedia album
is now available on bandcamp as an audio/visual download, EP audio download, or as a Limited Delux Edition USB with handcrafted packaging and album notes designed by Joshua Lantzy.
The perfect stocking stuffer!!!

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Meridian Project DARK MATTER Multimedia Album Release Party – Saturday, Dec. 6th, 8pm

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:08:00 +0000

!!!Meridian Project Dark Matter Multimedia Album Release Party!!!
audio/visual performances by Meridian Project
with special guests JPA Falzone & Musicians and TRUNK
Southside Cultural Center
393 Broad Street
Providence, RI
Tickets: $5 at the door
Album available on bandcamp 12/6/14

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Golden Bantams @ Fiddle & Folk Fest, Sat Sept. 13!

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:59:00 +0000

I'm playing bass with old time string and keys band Golden Bantams
Come see hear some great music for FREE!
@ the 4th Annual Local Brew Fiddle and Folk Festival
Sat. Sept. 13, 12:30pm (festival runs 11am-5pm )
rain date Sun. Sept. 14
Haines Memorial Park
10 Narragansett Avenue
Barrington, RI
FREE

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Tenderloin Opera Company @ Sweet Little Variety Show in Providence, Thurs. Sept. 11, 8pm

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:51:00 +0000

I will be performing with the Tenderloin Opera Company at the
Sweet Little Variety Show
Thursday, Sept. 11, 8pm
@ Eighty Eight Lounge
55 Union St.
Providence, RI
$6 at the door

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RISCA Arts Project Grant Award!

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:54:00 +0000

This week I was awarded a project grant award from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts to help fund further work of the Merdian Project.

We will use the funds to develop a new piece about the sun, as well as a glass marimba building workshop and performance open to the public. More details to come.

Thanks to RISCA for their continued support for the creative community of Rhode Island!

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Upcoming Performances/Events Spring 2014!

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:52:00 +0000

Upcoming Events:

!CityArts! Staff Show
a gallery showing of work by ¡CityArts! teaching artists
I'll be screening the videos Speak, Stone and Three Scenes from Fox Point

Thursday, March 6th 5:30-7pm
Providence CityArts for Youth, Inc.

891 Broad St, Providence, Rhode Island

FREE! Snacks will be served!

Meridian Project presents
Dark Matter

a multimedia performance and lecture series inspired by astrophysics and cosmology

Friday, April 25, 2014 – 2 pm and 7 pm
Saturday, April 26, 2014 – 2 pm and 7 pm
Roger Williams Park Planetarium
1000 Elmwood Avenue
Providence, RI
Planetarium admission: $3
Additional donations accepted to support the artists
Cash only; first come, first served

Tenderloin Opera Company presents
Paradise of Sighs (Survive the Day)
a music and theater piece inspired by the stories of homelessness in Rhode Island

Sunday, May 4, 2014 – 7:30 pm
Mathewson St. Theater
4th floor of 134 Mathewson Street
Providence, RI
FREE

as part of THIS IS FREE PROVIDENCE, an annual festival of performance promoting dialogue around art and our shared public space.
May 2: Wilbury Group's An Iliad
May 3: Strange Attractor and Out Loud Theater
Mathewson St. Theater
4th floor of 134 Mathewson Street
Providence, RI
FREE
Donations accepted for RI Coalition for the Homeless

Meridian Project presents
Comets & Meteor Showers
a multimedia performance and lecture inspired by astrophysics and cosmology to correspond with predicted meteor shower of fragments from comet LINEAR.

Saturday, May 24, 2014 8pm - late
Frosty Drew Nature Center and Observatory
61 Park Lane
Charlestown, RI
FREE (donations accepted for artists and Observatory)

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Meridian Project Funded!

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 06:04:00 +0000

Thanks to the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts for providing seed funding for The Meridian Project, a series of performances that will take place this spring at the Planetarium at Roger Williams Park mixing music, multimedia, and presentations of concepts in cosmology/astronomy/astrophysics.

More info will be available soon, but please check out these links for the project summary and list of collaborators:

https://www.newmusicusa.org/?project_preview=7963&msg=preview

http://www.meridian-project.com/

And save these dates for the performances, (times TBA):

March 27 + 29, 2014 @ Cormack Planetarium at Roger Williams Park
April 24 + 26, 2014 @ Cormack Planetarium at Roger Williams Park
May 29 + 31, 2014 @ outdoor under the stars location to be announced

-j

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RIPE Podcast Review of Cowboy Mouth

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:34:00 +0000

I was part of a group review of the OUT LOUD Theater's production of Sam Shepard's Cowboy Mouth (directed by Kira Hawkridge) for the Rhode Island Performance Exchange.
The podcast can be heard HERE (RIPE Reviews Episode 8.5)

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noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:00:00 +0000

I am presenting a little interactive video installation whose working title is "It's Mark's World, We Just Live In It" at a performance of Mark Snyder's band Nature Boy Explorer at

9pm Friday, Dec. 13
Sudo Shoes

1771 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge,MA

(a few blocks south from Porter Square)

Facebook event

Come check it out!!!

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Article on Roving Performances Published at Howlround

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 20:04:00 +0000

An article I wrote on roving performances was published at the theater/performance journal and blog, Howlround.

http://www.howlround.com/towards-a-working-method-of-audience-movement

Thanks to Jamie Gahlon, Polly Carl, Srila Nayak, and the rest of the team at Howlround. Special thanks to Adara Meyers for help editing the article.

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Meridian Project - Spring 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 06:28:00 +0000

Working with an incredible group of my favorite people – Kirsten Volness, Josh Lantzy, Jamie Topper, Caroline Doherty, and Jeremy Chapman – on a multimedia performance series that will take place spring 2014 at the Cormack Planetarium at Roger Williams Park in Providence. Performances will mix music, live-processed imagery using the Planetarium's historic Zeiss Star Projector (!!!), and presentations on topics in astrophysics and cosmology, including Jeremy's ground breaking work in Dark Matter Detection.

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT:
https://www.newmusicusa.org/?project_preview=7963&msg=preview

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Dissertation, Defense, Graduation, ¡CityArts!

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 05:07:00 +0000

Been a long time since I posted. After last fall's successful performance of The (unfinished) Ballad... I completed the second component of my Ph.D. dissertation, my paper The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery: The Creation of a Multimedia Murder Ballad and The Development of a Working Method for Roving Performances. It included a detailed listing and analysis of all the components of the piece, from musical scores to physical computing to the history of the Mathewson Street Church in which it was performed. It continued with an analysis of other roving-audience performances such as one I previously collaborated on (Mercy Brown and the Devil's Footprint), and the most famous contemporary roving performance, Sleep No More. It concluded with the listing of a working method for roving performances based on my previous work, collaboration, and observation.

I successfully defended my dissertation on April 12.
•Thanks to my committee members Todd Winkler, Butch Rovan, Dana Gooley, and Erik Ehn!

I graduated with my Ph.D. on May 26, 2013.
•Thanks to all my friends and family for their support! Especially to my 96 year old grandpa Harry who made it all the way from California!!!

I was lucky to receive two job opportunities on the west coast, but decided to turn them down to focus on things here in Providence.

I was again very lucky to have gotten a job as a media consultant and video teacher at Providence ¡CityArts! for Youth, a fantastic, veteran non-profit organization that provides free art instruction to 8-14 year old, under-served students in Providence. My job has been to use a $15,000 grant budget from the Angell Foundation to build a new digital medial lab for ¡CityArts! I will then be teaching video class to middle-schoolers at the end of the month (eep!).

Thanks to all my friends, family, and creative brothers/sisters in arms for their support getting me to this point. I'm anxious and excited. Will share more soon...

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Review of Meyers's "Tryouts"

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:07:00 +0000

A good review from Edge Boston about Adara Meyers's play Tryouts, for which I did video design earlier this month.

Congrats to all on a fantastic performance!

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"Tryouts" March 8/9, Factory Theater, Boston

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:08:00 +0000

I'm doing video design for the play:

TRYOUTS
by Adara Meyers
directed by Cecilia Raker
audio design by Kirsten Volness

When a group of mothers and daughters attempt to prove their “individuality,” the murky waves of love and death crash against generational angst and pseudo-religious understanding in this satirical play about womanhood.

Fri/Sat, March 8/9, 2013, 7:30pm
The Factory Theater

791 Tremont Street

Boston, MA (entrance to theater is in the back of the old Chickering piano factory, through the parking lot)

Tickets: $15 at the door or online.

Part of the Women in Action Festival

http://www.sleepingweazel.com/events/

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Station Nation: A Reflection on the Station Night Club Fire. Weds, Feb 20, 9:30pm. First Baptist Church, Providence.

noreply@blogger.com (Jacob Richman) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:13:00 +0000

I will be performing on bass for Kirsten Volness's piece, Long Winter Listen

Directed by Sylvia Ann Soares

for an event hosted by the group Station Nation memorializing the 2003 Station Nightclub Fire in which 100 people were killed in Warwick, RI.

9:30pm-midnight
First Baptist Church
75 North Main St.
Providence, RI
FREE

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