Live Performance History
Feb 11th 2022 - unfamiliar spaces - Vernon Salon Series - Victoria Hauk - 7pm PST - Live Stream/In Person
March 1st 2020 - unfamiliar spaces - Victoria Hauk - San Francisco, CA - San Francisco Conservatory - Hot Air Music Festival - 12pm
February 10th 2020 - unfamiliar spaces - Brice Smith - Fayetteville, AR - University of Arkansas - 6pm
October 25th 2019 - unfamiliar spaces - Angela Reynolds - Terre Haute, IN - Music Now - Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival - 3pm
September 8th 2019 - unfamiliar spaces - Sound Ensemble - Seattle, WA - Season Kick-off Party - 2pm
Jan 20th 2019- Unfamiliar Spaces - James Brinkmann - East Lansing, MI - MSU Interactive Recital: Atmospheres - 2pm
Nov 15th 2018- Unfamiliar Spaces - James Brinkmann - East Lansing, MI - EMW @ The Community Music School - 8pm
Unfamiliar Spaces
Year: 2018 | Duration: 5’30” | Medium: Flute and Fixed Media | Difficulty: Professional
Description
unfamiliar spaces is an exploration of new techniques and sound worlds while maintaining my own musical language and artistic tendencies. Recently I have been interested in the question who is music for, who is the world for, and how are people supposed to act and be in spaces that are not their own. How am I as a queer man supposed to act in spaces inhabited primarily by the heterosexual world. This has been made more clear having moved from a neighborhood that was the center of LGBT life in Seattle where I would walk down the street and feel a sense of homogeneous community. My goal for this work was to find a way to take something that is comfortable (the flutists ability to play their instrument), and my own abilities (composing melodies with harmonies, rhythms ect.) and place it within a context of unfamiliarity. A context that LGBT folk are familiar with. We are rarely in a place that is ours, but that begs the question, what is ours? Gay men have gay bars, but they are often times exclusionary of women, people of color, and non cis-gendered individuals. My hope is to open up this dialogue and to ask the question to the performer and the listener, who is this space for, and does its mere existence exclude those individuals who are in the most need of familiarity.
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Commissioners
Brice Smith