SOUND INSTALLATION PREVIEW The Joyous Lake; Elsen Standlee, Flute; Raja Samyana, Drums; Angus MacLise, Drums; Ziska, Voice; Hetty MacLise, Organ
Sound installation overview
Boo-Hooray presented a new sound installation of never before heard music by Angus MacLise and collaborators. The sound installation will be open everyday to the public, from 11AM to 6PM, at the new Boo-Hooray Gallery space.
Angus MacLise, a composer/improviser and inventive hand drummer, produced multimedia tape works and concerts of his own music that often included dance, poetry, and experimental films. He composed original scores for films by Ira Cohen, Jack Smith, Ron Rice, Sheldon Rochlin, and Don Snyder. A founding member of the Velvet Underground, he also performed with La Monte Young’s The Theatre of Eternal Music and Daniel Moore’s Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company.
The sound installation played the entire Angus MacLise tape archive including film scores, improvised jams, tape collage works, and drumming with various groups of musicians across a variety of genres. Each day the installation featured a set of curated programs of MacLise’s music.
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ABOUT DREAMWEAPON EXHIBITION SERIES:
“Angus MacLise was the Velvet Underground’s first drummer. He withdrew when he found out that at a paying job he had to start and stop playing when told to. No one told Angus to stop playing. So the job of a working musician was impossible for Angus, and he taught us all a lesson about purity of spirit.
Angus was a dream percussionist. A dream person.”
– Lou Reed
DREAMWEAPON
The Art and Life of Angus MacLise 1938 – 1979
May 10 – May 29, 2011
| Art Exhibition
Open EVERYDAY 11AM-6PM Boo-Hooray Gallery Chelsea 521 W 23rd Street |
Sound Installation
Open EVERYDAY 11AM-6PM Boo-Hooray Gallery Chinatown 265 Canal St, 6th Floor |
Opening party: Tue, May 10, 2011, 6pm at Boo-Hooray Chelsea
Film Screening at Anthology Film Archives: Thurs, May 12, 2011 at 8pm
Walks and Talks at Chelsea Location: Sat 5/14 at 3pm, Sat 5/21 at 3pm
DREAMWEAPON is curated by Johan Kugelberg and Will Cameron.
For more information contact Michael Daley / michael@boo-hooray.com