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Yotam Haber
Location: New Orleans, LA
Practice: Internationally-acclaimed artist, one of the world's top young composers; he is a 2005 Guggenheim fellow and a 2007 Rome Prize winner in Music Composition. Yotam is also an Assistant Professor of Composition at University of New Orleans
Airlift Project: Space Rites
Website: http://www.yotamhaber.com/
Van Hahn Lion Dance Team
Location: New Orleans East
Practice: The Van Hahn Lion Dance is a traditional Vietnamese dance team that performs lion dances. A lion is a two-person costume, usually made out of colorful papier-mâché,that performs acrobatic flips to drums. Van Hahn collaborated with Yotam Haber and musicians from the LPO at Space Rites.
Airlift Project: Space Rites
Bitchin Bajas
Location: Chicago
Practice: Experimental trio exploring droning soundscapes
Airlift Project: Space Rites
Website: http://bitchinbajas.tumblr.com/
Bill Daniel
Location: Texas for now.... a rambler
Practice: experimental documentary film artist, photographer, film editor, and cinematographer. He is also an installation artist, curator and former zine publisher.
Airlift Project: Space Rites // The Music Box Calanthean Canyon
Website: http://www.billdaniel.net/
Paul Thibodeaux
Location: New Orleans
Practice: Percussionist and founder of Thibodeaux School of Music.
Airlift Project: The Music Box: Chateau Poulet
Website: https://www.facebook.com/ThibodeauxSchoolOfMusic?ref=stream
Brad Walker
Location: New Orleans
Practice:Saxophonist, improvisor, and composer.
Airlift Project: The Music Box: Chateau Poulet
Website: http://bradwalker.me/
Todd Chandler
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Practice: Filmmaker and musician. Live performance, installation, and site specific events are natural extensions of his films.
Airlift Project: The Music Box:Chateau Poulet
Mirah
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Practice: Singer and songwriter creating incorruptible independent pop music since the late 1990’s
Airlift Project: The Music Box: Chateau Poulet
Website: http://www.mirahmusic.com
The Music Box: Chateau Poulet
Location: New Orleans
Date: September 2014
Description
Chateau Poulet is collaboration between New Orleans artist Andrew Schrock and Berlin-based artist Klaas Hubner. This musical house has been designed to become one of Airlift’s transportable musical houses that will join the Roving Village.
Both Andrew and Klaas had worked with fans previously and Airlift decided it was a perfect match to bring their ideas together. They had never met, but it did not take long for us all to see that this was love! Their personalities, their ideas, and their talent created this fantastical house that uses tubes attached to handmade fan blades to create a unique and deeply harmonic sound. Pulling on ropes allows the player to change the speed of the fans and their tones. Fan blades slicing through the exterior of the house give this instrument of musical architecture a visual thrill that matches its sonic wonder.
Halfway through the build local musicians Aurora Nealand, Brad Benichek and Paul Thibodeaux performed a concert with the house that was unbelievably epic. After the house was completed Marshall LaCount (Dark Dark Dark), Mirah, and Todd Chandler performed a lullaby-like dreamscape that perfectly complemented the house’s “sounds of heaven,” as described by local youth from Make Music Nola who attended workshops with the artists.
Airlift cannot wait for Chateau Poulet to join the other transportable houses we built this year in 2015 for the Roving Village Residency and our permanent village down the road.
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Tora Lopez
Location: New York
Practice: Performance artist and sculptor with background in fashion and tailoring.
Airlift project: Public Practice
