Print detail event | COTFG and Drew Silverman Present: 五輪塔 (Gorintō)

Gorintō (五輪塔) is an intimate evening-length multi-sensory piece for 5 sound artists, exploring universality and set in the inverted round. The audience will gather in a circle centered in the space and are encouraged to lie down on a collection of pillows and rugs (as well as bring their own favorite comfort items) to experience a series of projections on a surface hung from the ceiling. The musicians will be positioned surrounding the audience, as will a truly surround sound speaker set up for maximal auditory experience.

Gorintō is part soundscape, part classicist composition, part sound bath and part ASMR dream.

—Sound Artists—

Adam Bedell – percussion/textures
Jessica Eley – cello/percussion/textures
Claude McCan – synth/keys/percussion/textures
Fumihito Sugawara – guitar/percussion/textures
Drew Silverman – composer/keys/percussion/textures/et al.

—-Technical Design Team—
Chris Medders – Audio Engineer

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Event Details:

Before each performance of Gorintō, there will be a guest artists performing in the gallery portion of GFT, as well as featured visual artist Amanda Jones also displaying in the gallery.

— April 25th —
7pm: Bohemian Cristal Instrument (Los Angeles, CA)
8pm: GORINTŌ (五輪塔)
Aftershow: Bohemian Cristal Instrument
http://www.bohemiancristalinstrument.com/

— April 26th —
7pm: Derrick Fore (Austin, TX) https://bit.ly/Mynae9
8pm: GORINTŌ (五輪塔)

— April 27th —
7pm: Xinexport (Dallas, TX) https://bit.ly/2VXwIU4
8pm: GORINTŌ (五輪塔)
Aftershow: Xinexport (Dallas, TX) https://bit.ly/2VXwIU4

IMPORTANT:
To keep this show as intimate as possible, there will only be room for ~35 audience members per performance, so purchase tickets ASAP!

PLEASE READ:

Although the majority of Gorintō is atmospheric and meditative, there are moments of visual and auditory intensity. If you have any photo or auditory sensitivity, please be advised.

TICKET LINK: https://groundfloortheatre.buyplaytix.com/reserve/gorint.html

The nature of this show encourages lying on a padded, slightly raised floor, please inform us in the notes section of your ticket purchase if you need any accommodations to make you comfortable in this environment.

Dates & Times

Dates: 2019/04/25 - 2019/04/27

Additional time info:

Further Reading:

A Gorintō is a Japanese 5-tier pagoda that is commonly found in cemeteries. The five-tiers symbolize a breakdown of perceived and unperceived universal forces; earth, fire, air, water, and the void.

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Literally Gorintō is a distilled breakdown of all that is, with elemental specificity; figuratively for me it has become a symbol for universality. In the spirit of people who have an intense desire to see the deep links between seemingly disparate things, Joseph Campbell, Edward O. Wilson, the great thinkers of Zen Buddhism, amongst so many others share a suspicion that everything is the same at its core. The Gorintō imagines all of the universe contained within only 5 categories of things, the 10 commandments outline our behaviors. We like lists and we like platitudes. Gorintō the piece imagines that since we’re all made of the same core things, they exist in all that we are and all that we do, no matter how separate they seem or feel. Consequently so can “sound”, “noise” and “music” co-exist side by side and intertwined.