{"id":40,"date":"2010-11-13T21:39:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2011-01-04T19:07:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T19:07:47","slug":"the-faraway-nearby-premiere-and-recording-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/the-faraway-nearby-premiere-and-recording-session\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Faraway Nearby&#8221; premiere and recording session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>** UPDATE: <em>The Faraway Nearby <\/em>is now available for viewing online!! Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/thefaraway.org\" target=\"_blank\">thefaraway.org<\/a> **<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog_concert_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46 \" title=\"The live performance at Tuesday Night New Music\" src=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog_concert_01.jpg\" alt=\"The live performance at Tuesday Night New Music\" width=\"240\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The premiere at Tuesday Night New Music<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>The Faraway Nearby: Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe and the New Mexico Landscape<\/em> has just received a very successful premiere screening with musical performance at New England Conservatory on the <em>Tuesday Night New Music on a Wednesday<\/em> concert on November 10. The piece was performed by a group of NEC students: Lisa Husseini (flute), Christopher Mothersole (clarinet), Wesley Chu (piano), Samantha Bennett (violin), and Marza Wilks (cello).<\/p>\n<p>The ensemble performed \u00a0in front of a video projection, listening to a click track on headphones. I programmed the click to match the tempo of the mock-up MIDI track which the video was edited to, so the music in the performance was timed precisely to every cut in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Although we&#8217;d rehearsed the music extensively beforehand, this was actually the first time that I&#8217;d heard\/seen a performance of the music together with the video.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog_group1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47  \" title=\"The ensemble with Nell after the performance\" src=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog_group1.jpg\" alt=\"The ensemble with Nell after the performance\" width=\"224\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog_group1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog_group1-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nell with the ensemble<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was excited to discover that being to able to hear and see the musicians really lent a live energy to the video. This gave it the feeling of a true multimedia performance, not just a film screening. I hope to be able to organize repeat performances of this piece with live performers.<\/p>\n<p>Today we went into the studio to record the score that will appear on the online version of the video and future screenings at venues that aren&#8217;t able to accomodate a live ensemble. The group knows the piece very well by now, so there was little need for rehearsal or fine-tuning in the studio, and things went very smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s left to choose the best take, to mix and master the score, and to adjust the video as needed so that the music and imagery is perfectly in synch.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48\" style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog_studio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48 \" title=\"In the studio\" src=\"http:\/\/nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog_studio.jpg\" alt=\"In the studio\" width=\"355\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog_studio.jpg 355w, https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog_studio-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the coming months I will be approaching galleries and museums, film festivals, and music ensembles with the aim of securing further screenings and performances outside of NEC. If you know of a venue, festival or ensemble that might be interested in this piece (10 minutes duration), either as a video with recorded music or with a live ensemble, please contact me at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:nell@nellshawcohen.com\">nell@nellshawcohen.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>** UPDATE:\u00a0The Faraway Nearby\u00a0is now available for viewing online!! Please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thefaraway.org\" target=\"_blank\">thefaraway.org<\/a> **<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** UPDATE: The Faraway Nearby is now available for viewing online!! Please visit thefaraway.org ** The Faraway Nearby: Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe and the New Mexico Landscape has just received a very successful premiere screening with musical performance at New England Conservatory on the Tuesday Night New Music on a Wednesday concert on November 10. The piece &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/the-faraway-nearby-premiere-and-recording-session\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;The Faraway Nearby&#8221; premiere and recording session&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,4,24],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-faraway-nearby","tag-concerts-and-events","tag-georgia-okeeffe","tag-recordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nellshawcohen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}