fields magazine is excited to announce the release of its spring/summer 2017 issue. Antumbrae Intermedia Events + Installations curator Tara Bhattacharya Reed is featured in an extensive interview in the new issue, alongside interviews with local ceramics artist Tammie Rubin and celebrated Austin poets sam sax and ir’ene lara silva. Other local artists featured include Ryan Thayer Davis, Adrienne Dawes, Dalton Day, Maribel Falcón, Vanessa Marie Gonzalez, ena ganguly, Chitah Daniels Kennedy, Jose Padilla, Shannon Perri, Jesus I. Valles, and Courtney Allen, whose photography graces the issue’s cover.

To celebrate the release, fields is teaming with Antumbrae to present a night of readings and experimental music at First Street Studio. Authors Dalton Day, Shannon Perri, and ir’ene lara silva will read, and composer Arnold Dreyblatt will perform. Doors open at 6:30. Readings will take place between 7:15 and 8:00. An intermission will take place from 8:00-8:30, followed by the performance by Arnold Dreyblatt. Complimentary drinks will be available courtesy of Hops and Grain. Readings are free and all ages. Tickets to Arnold Dreyblatt’s performance are $10 and can be purchased at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arnold-dreyblatt-tickets-31820248219 or at the event.

About fields:

fields is a print publication designed to spotlight writers, musicians, poets, painters, illustrators, and creative types of all stripes, with an emphasis on the up-and-coming and the unsung. We are interested in the everyday people who create and write and make and express themselves in multitudinous ways. fields is about the idiosyncratic pursuits that occupy our time and enrich our lives. Our articles, interviews, and essays are an exploration and celebration of the means by which the human spirit manifests itself.

fields is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department and is a sponsored project of Big Medium.

About Antumbrae Intermedia Events + Installations:

Antumbrae Intermedia Events programs cutting-edge experimental music in Austin, TX. We collaborate with local arts organizations, galleries, and alternative spaces to showcase our events.

About the artists:

Dalton Day is the author of Actual Cloud (Saló Press), Exit Pursued (Plays Inverse), & Interglacials (fog machine), as well as several chapbooks. His poems have been featured in PANK, The Offing, Everyday Genius, & Shabby Dollhouse, among others. Currently, he is an MFA candidate in The New Writers Project at UT Austin. He has a dog named Dot, & quite frankly that’s his greatest accomplishment. 

Shannon Perri is an MFA candidate at Texas State University and holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Texas. Her stories have appeared in literary journals such as Buffalo Almanack, Fiddleblack, Joyland Magazine, and elsewhere. Her recent story “The Resurrection Act” was selected as a Joyland 2016 Publisher’s Pick. She lives in Austin with her husband and a menagerie of pets.

ire’ne lara silva is the author of two poetry collections, furia (Mouthfeel Press, 2010) and Blood Sugar Canto (Saddle Road Press, 2016), an e-chapbook, Enduring Azucares (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015), as well as a short story collection, flesh to bone (Aunt Lute Books, 2013), which won the Premio Aztlán. She and poet Dan Vera are also the co-editors of Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands (Aunt Lute Books, 2017), a collection of poetry and essays. ire’ne is the recipient of the final Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, the Fiction Finalist for AROHO’s 2013 Gift of Freedom Award, and the 2008 recipient of the Gloria Anzaldúa Milagro Award. ire’ne was recently named a 2016-2018 Texas Touring Roster Artist. Find her online at irenelarasilva.wordpress.com.

Arnold Dreyblatt is one of the second generation of New York’s minimalist composers. Now based in Berlin, he has developed a unique and original approach to composition and performance. He has invented a set of new and original instruments, performance techniques, and a system of tuning. Working closely with various ensembles and in theatrical and installation projects, he creates a music with exciting rhythms and rich textures, an exploration of the potential inherent in the natural overtone series. The musicians who have performed with Dreyblatt generally come from vastly varied musical backgrounds and interests–in common, however, is a sensitivity for an approach to music making, sonority, and hearing which Dreyblatt has been developing together with musicians over the last 25 years. In his former Orchestra, all the members contributed to this music with their own ideas and performance techniques, gradually forming an individual musical role within the ensemble dynamic. Just as this music essentially exists only in performance, the combined acoustic effect results from a sum which is greater than its parts. Arnold Dreyblatt’s compostions involve a rethinking of sound making tools; modified and newly created acoustic instruments are utilized for specific timbral effect and perform in an unusual tuning system. Traditional and non-traditional percussion instruments accentuate the rhythmic character of the music.