Infinity Asylum
Posted by ben on 11 Aug 2008 at 08:03 pm | Tagged as: image & sound, music, performance art, sound art
I’m honored to be able to offer a recording of Crevice’s Infinity Asylum performance on this blog. This is a truly beautiful recording by one of the few groups in Texas to successfully bridge the music and art worlds. Infinity Asylum was part of an installation / performance at the Friedrich Building, a 500,000 square foot space on the east side of San Antonio, originally built to produce air conditioners. Tucked away in little nooks and crannies of the building were a number of installations (artists included: Dwayne Bohuslav, Christopher Biasiolli, Nate Cassie, Rae Culbert, and Jack Robbins). As visitors explored the space, Crevice played this “peaceful, hypnotic, cyclical music” (to quote from the original press release), which fell in and out of earshot. Many of the vocals you hear in the recording are samples of people talking about the installations, thus folding audience reaction into the performance. It was recorded on July 11, 2003.
Performers on this recording: Jeff DeCuir (guitar, processors), Jessica Barnett DeCuir (harmonica, percussion), John Navarro (theremin, processors), Bryan Stanchak (synth, bass), Stephen Reyna (guitar/e-bow).
Thanks for providing this!
Thanks for posting this free download of the Crevice
Infinity Asylum performance, Ben! It’s worth mentioning that the show was a continuous, non-stop, 4-hour performance (on one of the hottest nights of the year).
Jeff orchestrated a bunch of tapes,effect boxes,and a recording of Crevice guitarist,James Sidlo (who missed the show due to being overseas). We rotated on keys, mixing my backwards vocals into the performance. The live guitars and theremin were really top-notch. Our western wear gear didn’t look too shabby either!
It’s so wonderful that more people will now be able to hear this all but lost audio experiment and the last known Crevice performance…and I’m sure there’s more to come in the future. I’ll try to find a photo to send you… Jess