52nd City

For April Fool's Day: #1

We are going to be telling you about a fabulous, if not fantabulous, event sponsored and organized (and benefitting) 52nd City, oh, tomorrow, or so. But we also want to note that a pretty interesting event is taking place at White Flag Projects the same evening. Once we roll out the absolutely special details on the other event, you'll see that both can be hit the next evening.

But enough prefacing. Here're details on the WFP event:

Grandpa's Ghost with James Fotopoulos
Christabel followed by The Prairie Drone Refractions
April, 1 2007 at White Flag Projects
4568 Manchester, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
Cost : FREE
A unique audio/visual immersion featuring the premier St. Louis screening of Fotopoulos' film Christabel (based on the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and previously seen only has part of his exhibit at the 2004 Whitney Biennial), followed by the first St. Louis performance in 3½ years from Grandpa's Ghost (whose line-up for this event features Bill Emerson, Jack Petracek, and Eric Hall; plus live telephone contributions from Ben Hanna calling in from NYC) joined by new video works from Fotopoulos created especially for this event. In The Prairie Drone Refractions, a performance/installation concept designed by Hall, the group will perform four 15 minute movements. Each will be recorded then played back during the following movements through a different pair of speakers. By the final movement, eight circularly-arranged speakers will broadcast all four layers simultaneously. Ultimately, this will construct an over-dubbed, multi-channel, surround-sound work exploring texture, harmonics, poly-rhythm, and the acoustic character of the space itself.

Christabel is now available on DVD as released by Phosphorus Recordings.

Checkout www.phosphorusrecordings.com for other releases by James Fotopolous, Grandpa's Ghost, Tobi Parks, & others.

www.whiteflagprojects.org
www.grandpasghost.com / www.jamesfotopoulos.com
www.phosphorusrecordings.com