Jon Raskin, Carla Harryman, and
Gino Robair Jon Raskin and Carla Harryman perform Gardener of Stars, an Opera as improvised score and radical reimagining of Harryman’s 2001 novel, a work “more fantasmagoric poem than fictional narrative” tracking the paradise and wastelands of utopian desire.
The evening will also include
Gino Robair and Carla Harryman performing excerpts of Harryman’s Occupying Theodore W. Adorno’s “Music and New Music” commissioned by dOCUMENTA 13. “The music/I/Have been listening/To has been/Pretty Dark/Theez Daze”
Jon Raskin (mini synthesizers, concertina, homemade electronics … and speaking voice
Carla Harryman (speaking voice)
Gino Robair (prepared piano)
Cost: Free, donations accepted.
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Gino Robair and John Butcher, 2008