For the tenth installment in RVNG's FRWKYS series, an inanimate bulletin board becomes an instrument and the core of the collaboration. NYC composer and percussionist David Van Tieghem reassembles his own live performances as reimagined by a vanguard of ten musicians over two sides of audio collaging at its most expressive and experimental. In July of 2012, RVNG Intl. was invited to participate in Bulletin Boards, a group exhibition at Venus Over Manhattan curated by White Columns' gallery director Matthew Higgs. An extension of an ongoing project which resides in the entrance of White Columns' downtown New York gallery, Bulletin Boards featured 24 artists/entities, each given a new bulletin board as an inspirational starting point. In 1981, David Van Tieghem produced the experimental music video Ear To The Ground. The film features Van Tieghem playing downtown New York City, a world in which Van Tieghem established his rhythmic roots as a member of the Love Of Life Orchestra, a frequent collaborator with Laurie Anderson, and a player on Steve Reich's Music For 18 Musicians, Robert Ashley s Perfect Lives (Private Parts) / Perfect Lives and David Byrne and Brian Eno's My Life in the Bush With Ghosts among other seminal recordings including his own. In Ear To The Ground, all city surfaces become communications or bulletins under Van Tieghem's twiddling, thwacking and thumping thumbs. Partially inspired by this and by our blank but physically limited canvas space, Van Tieghem agreed to take part in a sequence of improvised performances and creative editing to become part of our FRKWYS series. We also invited ten younger musicians to post objects to the board. A cross section of present day New York artists were represented by way of Sam Hillmer as Diamond Terrifier (with the aid of Max Alper), Future Shuttle, Georgia, Roberto Carlos Lange as Helado Negro, Darren Ho, Eli Keszler, Hiro Kone and Megafortress, alongside the regionally sympathetic Blanche Blanche Blanche an.......
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