Weeks before the official start of the fall quarter, Lively Arts’ 2009-2010 artists-in-residence Dave Douglas and Bill Morrison are visiting campus as part of the new summer Arts Intensive program. Douglas and Morrison will teach a series of afternoon workshops to Arts Intensive students September 9-10, working in archival film and music composition and improvisation. They will also introduce the campus to their past work and current collaboration (a Lively Arts commission to be premiered in April 2010) in a special afternoon presentation at CCRMA on Tuesday September 8, from 2-5pm. The entire Stanford community is invited to the talk and reception following.
Learn more about Dave Douglas and the state of jazz on the ground at his fantastic musician-centric blog, a feature of his online record label Greenleaf Music
Bill Morrison is part of the Ridge Theater Company in New York, where he has collaborated with composers, musicians, directors, and theater artists and on multi-sensory performances like this concert premiere of his work “Decasia” – this video footage gives a great sense of how Bill’s projections transform the live music experience.
Bill and Dave first visited campus in March of last year to begin conversations with campus partners for their residency activities this year. As one of the midwives of this ambitious collaboration that will bring together arts organizations, academic departments, and student groups across campus, I can barely believe we are now in the thick of it all.
The best thing about working with artists as they are developing a new work is there are surprises, brilliant disasters, epiphanies, at every turn – the working title of the Morrison-Douglas commission has been revised from “Frankenstein: The First Hundred Years” to “Spark of Being” as of this post – so here will be lots to report along the way! Visit the campus area of this site for more updates this fall about Bill and Dave’s collaboration and October residency, with members of Douglas’ band Keystone visiting campus for special performances and public programs.
—Posted by Lisa Mezzacappa, Campus Programs Manager
