[Local events] Tonight! Fri 4/21, Works on Paper: Robert Blatt, How to Read a Book

[David Abel]

[Apologies for resending last week's announcement — a mysterious system 
error . . . this is the correct information for this evening!]
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Works on Paper: <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>Experiments in 
Language and Sound <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>/

presents

/*HOW TO READ A BOOK
*//scores/performance by Robert Blatt//
realized by John Dombroski, Caspar Sonnet, James Yeary, and Robert Blatt
//**
/*Friday, April 21
7:30 pm*
(doors open 7:00)

*$10-20* suggested donation; no one turned away

*Passages Bookshop* <https://www.passagesbookshop.com>
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
503-388-7665

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*/How to Read a Book/**is a new evening-length performance by composer 
Robert Blatt.*

Consisting fundamentally of a collection of text scores exploring 
experimental approaches to reading, the performance draws entirely from 
the books found at Passages Bookshop as material to realize an 
assemblage of interwoven intermedia activities engaging language, sound, 
transcription, projection, and movement. Blatt is joined in this 
performance by local sound artist John Dombroski, experimental musician 
Caspar Sonnet, and poet James Yeary.

*Robert Blatt* (b. 1984, Anaheim, CA) is a composer, artist, performer, 
and writer. His practice is rooted in explorations of expanded 
situations that seek to reevaluate the paradigmatic and contextual 
components of sound and listening through environment, community, and 
language. His work has been presented at Art in Odd Places (NY), 
Co-Incidence Festival (MA), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (DE), Frontiers+ 
Festival (UK), Hundred Years Gallery (UK), KM28 (DE), Kunstraum 
Walcheturm (CH), Subtropics (FL), Villa Merkel (DE), and many other 
venues, including a variety of open/noninstitutional settings and 
situations. He was the recipient of a Sound/Music Fellowship from 
Akademie Schloss Solitude (DE), and has been supported with residences 
from Jack Straw New Media Gallery (WA), Initiative for Digital 
Exploration of Arts and Sciences (CA), and Vrije Academie GEMAK (NL). 
Recordings of his music include a forthcoming album on Andromache 
Records and releases by Audition Records, iii Editions, Zeromoon, and 
other labels. In addition to his book-length collection of text scores, 
/Beach Bums/, published by Much Too Much Noise, his work has appeared in 
a variety of print and online projects, such as by The Center for Deep 
Listening, Neural, Rotations / Poetic Research Bureau Editions, 
Schlosspost, Small Projects for Coming Communities, and others. His work 
is held in public and private collections, such as San Francisco Museum 
of Modern Art Library (CA), Letterform Archive (CA), and Colorado 
College (CO). He holds degrees from the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, 
and the University of Washington, Seattle. He currently lives in 
Portland, Oregon.

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*Works on Paper <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org> *supports 
activities that use concepts, characteristics, and histories of the 
book, and entanglements with text, as a frame for exploratory practice 
across the arts. The spring 2023 series, /Experiments in Language and 
Sound/, was curated by Robert Blatt and David Abel. For more 
information, please visit the Works on Paper site 
<https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>.

The Works on Paper series is funded in part by the Regional Arts & 
Culture Council.

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