Chromasphere
Come to the Chromasphere, an evening with Dwight Loop (electronic music composer), Michael Kott (electro cello medicine man), and Joe Abraham Dean (deep scan immersive visuals). Join us for a harmonic and photonic convergence. This performance will be an iteration of deep space, experimental electronic music, electronic cello, and full–dome projection. The dome experience will include the light art of Lynn Augstein (Cobalt Sun) as well as other images by Dean.
About Dwight Loop
Dwight has been composing and performing electronic music since 1979, as a solo performer and in various groups, including Dream Jungle, Tropozone, Tone Pharaoh, Universe 1221, Zeta Reticuli, ArtIsIndustry Orchestra, and Mitochondria.
Loop’s “Circuits” electronic music ensemble performances of the 1980s in New Mexico utilized multiple electronic arts and artists (Arnold Bodmer, Larry Otis, Bob Czosek, and Tom McVeety) performed at the Kimo Theater, University of New Mexico, and Santa Fe’s Armory for the Art.
Loop was founder and president of New Music New Mexico, Inc., a non-profit new music presenting organization from 1981-1986 and creator of the NEA-funded Concentration Music Series.” Loop also received grants from the NEA and New Mexico Arts Commission for many “new music” public radio series.
Dwight’s current music projects include Dream Jungle ((ambient, trance-spirit groove music), Friedricke as well as multi-media electronic music performances of Kuxan Suum and Hunab Ku which are based on Mayan cosmology.
Dwight is currently promoting new music and electronic music concerts in the Bay Area and New Mexico.
Third Ear music is the music label created by Dwight to publish all of his music and projects which include Dream Jungle, Friedricke and other solo projects. Dwight recently produced and engineered Borealis, a DVD light art project by Lynn Augstein and Cobalt Sun.
About Michael Kott
Transgalactic electro-cellist Michael Kott has been rocking the cello since the tender age of nine. Of his musical influences he says, “There are many . . . not all from music per se . . . the motion of a fish or a bird of prey . . . that call forth emotions and stories . . . the visual and the aural become one.”
Some of Michael’s most recent credits include the PBS special ‘Music From a Painted Cave’ (with Robert Mirabal and the Rare Tribal Mob). The companion audio CD Music From A Painted Cave was released April 3, 2001. He also appeared on Taos Tales (Robert Mirabal), the CD named Amazon.com’s “New Age Artist of 1999.” The album also received Native American Songwriter of the Year recognition at NAMMY (Native American Music Awards).
One of his favorite projects was with the tribal-trance ensemble Sons of Ganesh (with Phil Hollenbeck, Riksharaj, and others). Of his work on the cello Michael says, “I used to be a cellist . . . now I’m a chillist.” His latest CD series Cellogy is the culmination of an extended exploration of the sonic terrain opened up through the use of transducer pickups and sound processors on bowed instruments. (Listen to Trance Galactic from Cellogy Volume One.)
Michael sees the cello as a very powerful gateway/channel into the emotions and the heart: “Music has the power to transform . . . uniting perception with intuition and emotion . . . forging passion . . . and dissolving conceptual structures, such as time.” Michael has a song CD Pocaholinit.
He’s one of the founding members of the Primal Tribal Arts Council. Two of his song–Go Girl, Go and Hormones in the Headphones–were featured in performances by Victor Wooten on the grammy-nominated CD Yin-Yang. Besides the Rare Tribal Mob and PTAC (Primal Tribal Arts Council), Michael appears with artists such as trance-opera diva Sasha Lazard and chanteuse/torch singer Lisa Zane. He recently interfaced with DJ collective Moontribe, and has recorded with tribal/ambient artists Inlakesh. He says, “The language of the cello is found within the very shape of the instrument . . . with the interaction of the bow and the string . . . forming many worlds and different dimensions . . . it’s a cellistic universe.”
Michael and some of his other cellist friends have formed the “Cellistic Society” to encourage the imaginative use of cello in different musical forms. It is also a celebration of what is held within the traditional realms of the cello. Michael describes the tradition: “Although the tones of the cello are often described in more feminine terms, the intensity, force and sustain of altered tones also have a tradition. It reaches into the baroque and beyond, to a time when troubadours wandered from one feast to the next, from one dance to the next.”
“As far as I might stray from the more familiar realms of the cello, the classical/romantic qualities remain and, indeed, are often magnified.” Michael currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he is inspired by the visual arts and the powerful beauty of the high desert mountain wilderness. Professor of Cello at the College of Santa Fe, he is also an avid snowboarder and green chile enthusiast. He can usually be found soaking in the hot springs at Ojo Caliente or sipping/swilling a chai in a local cafe.
About Joe Abraham Dean
Joe Abraham Dean is the founder of Lumenscapes, a company that has produced award-winning video content for fulldome immersive spaces, and 3D visualizations since 2000. He’s been involved since 1998 in lighting and visual design for film, theater, dance, touring shows, art installation, as well as commercial and residential architecture. Joe likes having a hand on the throttle on what’s next and was previously associated with the ARTS Lab at UNM, which is a leading force in New Mexico for creating the innovation in the fulldome arena.
Location:
Santa Fe Complex
632 Agua Fria
Santa Fe NM
Admission: $10 at the door / $5 for students
Santa Fe Complex Media Contact:
Molly Seibel
molly.seibel@sfcomplex.org
(505) 216-6799
Artists’ Representative
(505) 570-9979
