Mon February 15

Update

I hope you all are well. For those of you that missed my Cornish College show, new videos have been posted of Proliferation  – an animation illustrating the rapid proliferation of the US Prison system set to music. The complete video will be posted and released next month.

If you would like a copy of the DVD, please email me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Also posted is Four Score  – an interactive installation that is a play on Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and four graphic music scores.

Also, a video that documented some of my 50 cello concerts for the site-specific program is now on YouTube. You can view Strange Fruit here.

I’m working on the Trails Project, a project about the trail system in King County. This is a public art commission from 4Culture to create art inspired by the trail system. During this project I’ll be walking large portions of the trail, while creating new art work inspired by the trails. Later there will be performances and other aspects that will be open to the public. I’ll keep you informed.

I’ll be playing for a Haiti Benefit next week. If you can’t make it out, donations are accepted. Make out checks to Partners in Health. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) if you have any questions.

I’m playing several shows over the next few months including The Stone in NYC, Earth Day in Kent, WA, and a May Day Music Marathon at Town Hall in Seattle entitled May Day! May Day! Dates and times are listed on my calendar.

I hope to have my solo cello CD complete soon before the upcoming shows.

Be well. Many Thanks.

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Paul Rucker

As an interdisciplinary artist, I combine mediums. I find inventive ways to integrate live performance, sound, original compositions, and visual art. The music I create on cello involves extended technique, prepared cello and electronics. My compositional style ranges from improvised to strictly notated. My visual artwork incorporates infrared beams, lasers, touch pads, glass instruments, sound, video, photography, animation, and large-format printing.

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September 3–5, 2011

Sustenance: Visual Poster Design and Audio

Visual Arts Poster Design & Exclusive audio release
Bumbershoot 2011
Seattle, WA

September 7th, 5–8pm

Scratch Sound

Scratch Sound
Game Theory
Visual Art Show
Cornish College
September 7th–October 19th, 2011

Saturday, Oct 8

Fall Free for All

Screening of PROLIFERATION, 6pm at Pantages Theater
Solo Cello Performance, 7:30pm at Rialto Theatre
Fall Free for All Arts Festival
Tacoma, WA

Friday, October 14, 7–8 pm

Performance of Scratch Sound

Paul Rucker and guests
Cornish Gallery

October 21st & 22nd

Head Royce School

Artist in residence
headroyce.org
Oakland, CA

October 21st - 23rd

Performance on Alcatraz

with We Players
San Francisco, CA

September 23–October 31

Authorship: An experimental series of events

The Project Room

April-December 2011

Human Rights Legacy

Public Art Project
Tacoma, WA