#space rites

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This has not gotten enough internet love, yet. This was an incredible performance. 

Nels Cline and Rob Cambre, Space Rites, New Orleans -- November, 2014.

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Final Space Rites: 6

Guggenheim Award Winning Composer Yotam Haber with members of the Louisiana Philharmonic and the Van Hahn Lion Dance Team (Photos above) in the Final Installment of the Space Rites Series

When: Saturday, January 24th at 7PM Where: CANO Creative Space. St Maurice Church, 605 St. Maurice Ave New Orleans, LA 70117 How Much: $10.00 at the door or purchase your tickets in advance here.

This is the last chance to catch Airlift's Space Rites Series where Taylor Lee Shepherd's interactive sound installation, Alterpiece, has been visually representing every sound that passes through the space. Thank you to everyone who made it to last Sunday's show - what an epic night of sound and visuals. We were dying of delight. Now get ready for this Saturday, because it is going to be out of this world. Airlift is so very excited to present the New Orleans debut of Guggenheim award-winning composer Yotam Haber. He has created a new piece for this performance and is calling it Final Space Rites 6. We are honored! Haber has been hailed by New Yorker critic Alex Ross as “deeply haunting,” by the Los Angeles Times as "2014 Faces To Watch." For this final installment of Space Rites, Haber will be conducting members of the brass section of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra including Evan Conroy, bass trombone, Matt Eckenhoff, horn, Louis Eckhardt, trumpet, Craig Heinzen, trumpet, Robert Nunez, tuba, Josh Paulus, horn, and Matt Wright on trombone.

They are joined, in true Airlift-style, by the Van Hahn Lion Dance Team hailing from New Orleans East. This traditional Vietnamese dance team features two-person performers in Lion costumes alongside drummers. They will be collaborating with Yotam and his players to try something totally new! We cannot wait to see what will come of this unusual collaboration and are so excited to be working for the first time with members of New Orleans incredibly rich Vietnamese community.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST...... Have a truly radical experience by going to see and hear Reverend Charles Dupelsiss, of Mount Nebo Bible Baptist Church, preach on Sunday at St. Maurice with his voice represented in Shepherd's Alterpiece installation of rewired old tv's. The Reverend calls it "Resurrection Technology".. his words. All are welcome! We have been proud to present this beautiful collaboration between visual art and music in the epic sanctuary of St. Maurice Church, a creative space by the Creative Alliance of New Orleans. 

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Photos from Airlift's Space Rites performance with Nels Cline (Wilco) and Rob Cambre at Taylor Lee Shepherd's oscilloscope installation. Photos by Melissa Stryker.

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WHAT: New Orleans Airlift presents a live concert by Tatsuya Nakatani with the Nakatani Gong Orchestra featuring a live interactive sound installation Alterpiece by Taylor Lee Shepherd WHEN: Saturday, November 22nd at 8PM WHERE: St Maurice Church, 605 St. Maurice Ave New Orleans, LA 70117 HOW MUCH: $10.00 at the door or purchase your tickets in advance here.

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New Orleans Airlift presents a live concert by Tatsuya Nakatani with the Nakatani Gong Orchestra featuring a live interactive sound installation Alterpiece by Taylor Lee Shepherd

WHEN: Saturday, November 22nd at 8PM WHERE: St Maurice Church, 605 St. Maurice Ave New Orleans, LA 70117 HOW MUCH: $10.00 at the door or purchase your tickets in advance here. New Orleans Airlift is excited to present a very special concert by avant-garde percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani with the Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO) who will perform with Taylor Lee Shepherd's sound installation Alterpiece. Alterpiece is made from over 50 televisions that are placed upon the church altar and reflect sound waves, responding to the musicians sound. This is the third in the Space Rites Performance Series, which will continue through January 2015. Airlift is proud to present his beautiful collaboration between visual art and music in the epic sanctuary of St. Maurice Church, a creative space by the Creative Alliance of New Orleans. NGO is a non-traditional music orchestra, directed by Tatsuya Nakatani, an acoustic sound artist and percussionist. Originally from Japan, he is now based in Easton, PA and New York City. For each show, he gives specialized training to locally selected gong players. Each player is able to quickly learn about the gong instruments, playing techniques and sign conducting from the conductor Tatsuya Nakatani. This is the only bowing-based Gong orchestra to exist in the world. The Gong sound is simply magic to anyone. NGO has performed all over the U.S. including the Kennedy Center and MOCA Cleveland. Audience members have said "I have never experienced this before", in addition they describe having pure cleansing feeling after the event. Nakatani's approach to music is visceral, non-linear and intuitively primitive, expressing an unusually strong spirit while avoiding any categorization. He creates sound via both traditional and extended percussion techniques, utilizing drums, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects and bells, as well as various sticks, kitchen tools and homemade bows, all of which manifest in an intense and organic music that represents a very personal sonic world. His approach is steeped in the sensibilities of free improvisation, experimental music, jazz, rock, and noise, and yet retains the sense of space and quiet beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music.  Erik Bookhardt, Arts Writer for the Gambit writes:  New Orleans Airlift always seems to rise to the occasion, and this year its Space Rites in the Lower 9th Ward explores previously uncharted territory. .Dubbed "resurrection technology" by Rev. Charles Duplessis, who incorporates (The oscilloscopes) into his Sunday morning services, their metaphysical aura was evident on the evening of Oct. 26, when the Murmurations choir joined the Lower 9th Ward Senior Center Gospel Choir for the first concert of the series Old-time religion met avant-garde innovation as the Murmurations' haunting polyphony interacted with the female gospel group's spirited singing  they substituted "9th Ward spirit" for "old time religion" in the song of the same name. The church, . is the perfect venue for such festive down-home otherworldliness.

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Nels Cline, Rob Cambre perform in Taylor Lee Shepherd's 'Space Rites' installation Saturday, Nov. 15

If you're planning to go to this performance in New Orleans on Saturday, act quickly and get your tickets via the link at the bottom of this article. There are only 16 left! It sounds like a fascinating event. I'd love to hear from anyone who goes.

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WHAT: New Orleans Airlift presents a live concert by Nels Cline of Wilco and Rob Cambre featuring a live interactive sound installation by Taylor Lee Shepherd WHEN: Saturday, November 15th at 7PM WHERE: St Maurice Church, 605 St. Maurice Ave New Orleans, LA 70117 How Much: $10 at the door, or buy tickets in advance HERE.

New Orleans Airlift is excited to present a very special concert by guitar virtuoso Nels Cline of Wilco and legendary New Orleans guitarist, Rob Cambre. Cline and Cambre will perform in Taylor Lee Shepherd’s sound installation Space Rites. This sound installation is made from over 50 televisions that are placed upon the altar and reflect sound waves produced by the musicians. This is the second in the Space Rites Performance Series, which will continue through January 2015. Airlift is proud to present his beautiful collaboration between visual art and music in the epic sanctuary of St. Maurice Church, a creative space lent to Airlift by the Creative Alliance of New Orleans.

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Project of the Day—Space Rites is an interactive installation in the deconsecrated St. Maurice Church in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. Artist Taylor Lee Shepherd uses footsteps, voices and music to create visuals with his homemade oscilloscopes.