Carla Harryman & Jon Raskin
Cloud Cantata and “Scales for the Living”
Text-based and multi-instrumental performance
Gray Loft Gallery
Saturday, October 22, 7:30 PM
2889 Ford Street, 3rd Floor, Oakland
RSVP grayloftgallery@gmail.com
Poet Carla Harryman poet and musician Jon Raskin musician render Harryman’s Cloud Cantata and in-progress “Scales for the Living” in variations of speaking, singing, and musical interpretations. These dialogue poems respond to domestic companionship and televised bubble, dreamscapes and slant trouble, war, immigration catastrophe (de) realization, dangerous waters, historical circumspection, and whatever occurs in the liminal mind or neighborhood of pandemic time.
Bios
An innovator in poetry, prose, and interdisciplinary performance, Carla Harryman is the author of twenty-five books including Cloud Cantata (2022), A Voice to Perform: One Opera/Two Plays (2020); Sue in Berlin and Sue á Berlin translated by Sabine Huynh (2017); L’impromptu de Hannah, translated by Abigail Lang (2018), and Adorno’s Noise (2008). Open Box, a CD of music and spoken text performance created with composer and musician Jon Raskin was released on the Tzadik label in 2012: click here. In 2018 her contributions to literature and performance were the focus of Poets and Critics, a two-day symposium held at the Universités Paris Est Marnes-la-Vallée and L’Institut universitaire de France. Web site: www.carlaharryman.com.
Jon Raskin has been a member of Rova Saxophone Quartet for the last 42 years, exploring the relationship of improvisation and composition, developing and honing the language of ensemble music, and researching linguistic possibilities of the saxophone. He has performed and/or recorded with Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, Sam Rivers, Tim Berne, Phillip Johnston, Leo Smith, Frank Gratowski, Phillip Greenlief, and Henry Kaiser. Recordings of the Jon Raskin Quartet and other collaborations can be found on bandcamp: https://jonraskin.bandcamp.com.
Jon and Carla have been doing poetry and music collaborations for twenty years.
