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Sarah McMillan
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Practice: Costume & Environment Design, Folly Maker.
Airlift Project: New Water Music
Arielle Avenia
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Practice: Collaborator extraoridnaire on ephemeral and underground events, expert seamstress applying talents to costumes, home goods, upholstery and repurposing of debris.
Airlift project: New Water Music
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Lauren "Shivers" Barron
Location: Metairie, LA
Studio Art mixed media, graphic design
Collaborator on Resonant Memory, New Water Music, and graphics
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Kat Carrotflower
Location: New Orleans
Practice: Artist, Photographer, Stitch Witch
Website: instagram katcarrotflower
Jiayi Hong
Location: New Orleans
Practice: Architecture and Installation
Airlift Project: New Water Music
Beldon Batpiste
Location: New Orleans
Practice: Flag Boy, Yellow Pocahantas Mardi Gras Indians Tribe
Airlift Project: New Water Music
Chief Jeremy Stevanson
Location: New Orleans
Practice: Big Chief of the Monogram Hunters Mardi Gras Indian Tribe
Airlift Project: New Water Music
Black Magic Drumline
Black Magic Drumline
Location: New Orleans
Practice: Drumline combining dance, chants, hypnotic drumming and style for days.
Airlift Project: Music Box Village performances, New Water Music
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Location: New Orleans
Practice: Oldest full-time musician-governed and collaboratively-operated, full-scale symphonic orchestra in the United States
Airlift project: New Water Music
Music Box Outpost: North Adams
Location: North Adams, MA at MASS MoCA and The Beyond Place
Date: MASS MoCA opening May 26th/ Beyond Place Opening June 25, 2017
Project Description:
New Orleans Airlift brings its Music Box project to North Adams, Massachusetts at the invitation of TOURISTS and MASS MoCA. Delaney Martin and Taylor Shepherd, two of the Music Box’s co-founders, and project alumni Klaas Hübner (Berlin) and Andrew Schrock (New Orleans) are building new musical architecture with help from locals artists and volunteers. The new works take inspiration from North Adam’s industrial mill history and its nickname of “Steeple Town” due to its many churches whose steeples dot the landscape.
The Corrugarou, a crank driven re-making of Huebner and Schrocks’s well loved Chateau Poulet, uses rotating fans with different size tubes to make hauntingly beautiful droning tones. It debuts at MASS MoCA during the Memorial Day Weekend opening of the museum’s new wing. The Corrugarou is also part of Earmarks II, MASS MoCA’s celebration of sound as medium and subject matter. Corruarou will spend some months at the museum before joining Martin and Shepherd’s Chime Chapel as a permanent installation in The Beyond Place.
The Beyond Place is a little island along the Hoosic river that is a gateway to the Appalachian trail. It is part of TOURISTS, a creative landscape that includes Blackington Mill and a mid-century roadside motel. In addition to being discovered by hikers and wanders, this Music Box Outpost in The Beyond Place will host an opening and then bi-annual concerts as part of the Wilco’s Solid Sound Fest held at MASS MoCA. John Stirratt, bassist from Wilco, is one of the minds behind TOURISTS
