Category: projection design

Consort continuity

I was recently asked when I started designing slideshows/projections for the Newberry Consort. My current bio pinpoints 2012 as the date, and it’s close enough, but the semi-formal question got me thinking about the details. So I dug out my main trove of saved programs and tried to put together the timline. Ellen and David…
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the alternate timeline is now

What do you want to be when you grow up? As an “art kid,” I was obsessed with drawing, painting, creating, building. I even remember cutting out stories and headlines from the newspaper and pasting them up on my own paper. Layout, right out of the gate.

Pulling back the curtain

As part of a series of online events taking Newberry Consort audiences “behind the scenes,” I’ll be a featured speaker on March 15, 2021. Join us!

CD cover with a 14th-century illumination of two embracing lovers surrounded by flowers; one holds a falcon, suggesting they're resting from a day of hunting.

Visual consonance

Here’s Anonymous 4’s CD The Second Circle: Love Songs of Francesco Landini. As you’ll recall, Landini is the blind virtuoso and composer most associated with the Italian ars nova. Consider the image on the cover.