Join us for a special evening with Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism (Broadway Books, 2002).
"The Project Room presents a rare performance of Tenny's Postal Pieces (1965-71). Written during a brief tenure in the earliest days at CalArts, Postal Pieces is a remarkable series of eleven works printed on postcards.
In a dark enclosed space using eight audio speakers, controlled by software clocks that are projected, are ever changing electronic sounds, measuring different timelines, meeting for an instant then drifting away. And a single automatic piano-preparation-unit is playing almost silently above a silent piano.
Tim Barnes and Mattin are both major components of the global improv scene. Not only do they constantly collaborate with musicians from all over, but they are also both activists of sorts, with their record labels making sure that the music of the peers is available to whomever seeks it out.
