Bill Frisell and Jim Woodring: Mysterio Sympatico
DATE: Feb 8, 2004
TIME: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Jim Woodring artist talk at 2:30 p.m.)
LOCATION: Plestcheeff Auditorium
Seattle Art Museum (downtown branch)
100 University St., Seattle, WA 98122
Tickets: $5 CAC members, $7 SAM members, $10 nonmembers.
Box Office: (206) 654-3121.
Mysterio Sympatico is a multi-media suite created collaboratively by guitarist Bill Frisell and cartoonist/visual artist Jim Woodring. The one-hour original composition thematically sequences hundreds of projected moody tone drawings by Woodring with live musical performance by Frisell. Prior to the performance, Woodring will present a thirty-minute artist talk at 2:30 p.m.
About the artists:
Bill Frisell is an internationally acclaimed guitarist whose work spans a range of styles including avant-garde and traditional jazz, folk, country, and world music. He has worked as an accompanist with an astonishing list of musicians from the jazz, classical, and pop music idioms, and his own compositions have been featured on recordings stretching back into the late 1970's. His 2003 release The Intercontinentals was nominated for a Grammy award in the Best Contemporary World Music Album category. A complete biography can be found at:
www.songtone.com/artists/frisell_link.htm
Jim Woodring is a graphic artist whose meticulous, often hallucinatory artwork is well-known to readers of alternative-press comics. His 2003 collection,
The Frank Book (Fantagraphics Press, Seattle), was named one of the 25 best books of the year by
The Village Voice and has sold out its first printing. Examples of his work can be seen at
www.jimwoodring.com and
www.fantagraphics.com/artist/woodring/woodring.html.
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