Events and Workshops
Saturday 18 October | 2:00 pm to dusk | Fort Flagler State Park, Marrowstone Island
An afternoon of audiospatial exploration and discovery guided by an ensemble of sound and movement artists from Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula. If your taste runs to the experimental, improvisational, ambient, playful, electro-acoustic, quirky, contemplative, contemporary, and site-specific—then join us!
The day's experiences will be organized as a soundwalk: a leisurely tour through a sequence of overlapping sound installations and performances in the evocative and resonant spaces provided by the century-old artillery batteries and bunkers of Fort Flagler.
The soundwalk will begin at 2:00 pm. Participating artists and audience members will convene at the parking lot at the northern terminus of the main road entering the state park (please see attached map for details). Artists will then lead a processional along Downes Trail to the Bluff Trail along the northern end of Marrowstone Island linking the main battery and bunker installations. Soundwalk will follow this trail to a sequence of individual sites (at batteries Calwell, Downes, Revere, Wihelm, and Rawlins) where performances will be offered throughout the afternoon and early evening. Performers and audience members will move together from each site to the next.
The terrain of the walk is easy, over gently sloping and well-maintained trails, but the entire walk (round trip to parking) will cover about a mile.
Soundlab 3.0 is a free event, but a state parks Discovery Pass is required for parking at Fort Flagler. The Fort Flagler State Park website has other useful park information, including an area map, and a downloadable PDF map of the trails and bunkers at the fort is available here.
For any other questions you may have, please contact us at artlab.thuja@icloud.com
Participating Artists
David Stanford & Carl Lierman create electronic sounds to explore the latent qualities of acoustic space. They will use an array of three small FM synths and three amps in an experiment with spatial audio. David and Carl both play with Eye Music, the feedback-based electronic trio Gyre, and various other configurations devoted to experimental music and sonic exploration.
Strange Bedfellows (Adam Levitt & Silas Morrow) are found in the crawlspace between ancestral ritual and becoming the inner child who just wants to play with toys and friends—making use of saxophone, flute, violin, percussion, and various electronics.
Camille Hildebrandt will investigate the movement and sounds generated from a concentrated somatic response to the environment of the bunkers. Camille is a longtime movement practitioner, interdisciplinary artist, and teacher.
Eric Lanzillotta is founder of label and distributor Anomalous Records, record label Ri Be Xibalba, and magazine Bixobal. He is director of the ensemble Eye Music. As a live performer he has played solo and collaboratively in the United States, Canada and Japan. For this event he will be playing acoustic instruments and objects.
David Noble, primarily a visual artist and photographer, is currently obsessed with the sonic palette offered by an idiosyncratic analog drone synthesizer and its response to the cavernous bunkers of Fort Flagler.
Maumae is an interdisciplinary artist focused on the integration of performance and visual arts. She utilizes organic and recycled materials to create installations and sculptural costumes amongst which her butoh-inspired movement art is performed.
Kawtee Wolfe has been a visual artist all of her life. Her longtime collaboration with her daughter Maumae began with modeling for Maumae’s sculptures, and evolved into collaboration with Maumae in various aspects of her performance work. Kawtee is now focusing on her exploration of sound and movement art inspired by the deepening collaboration with her daughter.
Christopher Arnett has been making electro-acoustic, field-recording based, ambient or noise music since he was 14. He studied vocal music and sound yoga with mystic musician Parvathy Baul in India and over the past ten years he has been studying with a variety of butoh dancers to apply their methodologies to music composition and improvisation.
Stephanie Wood
