[Local events] Fri 5/12: Works on Paper: Mike Richard

[David Abel]

/Works on Paper: <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>Experiments in 
Language and Sound <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>/

/presents/

*MIKE RICHARD:
/    Adventures in Speculative Pragmatism/

Friday**, May 12*

*7:30 pm (doors open at 7:00)
No late entry
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///*$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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Works on Paper presents the premiere of Portland-based composer *Mike 
Richard*’s /*Adventures in Speculative Pragmatism*/, a two-hour work of 
experimental music based on the philosopher Brian Massumi's /Extreme 
Realism: In Sixteen Series/. The work is performed by the composer on 
keyboard and Chinese Chao gong while speaking-singing Massumi’s text, 
and includes Robert Blatt and Mark So on electric organ and 
synthesizers. The score for the work is presented as a projection of 
Massumi’s text, and the entire performance occurs alongside prerecorded 
drones derived from electronic and natural sources.

Richard considers the work a proposal for “new ways of reading and 
listening, inclusive of Felix Guattari's concept of the ‘three 
ecologies’ which combine the mental, social, and environmental ecologies 
with further concepts found in Massumi’s speculatively pragmatic 
oriented philosophies mixing a feedbacking-feedforwarding, 
thinking-feeling intuitive process as, through, and beyond notions of 
event and experience.”

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As a composer/performer Mike Richard's scores are currently presented 
not as files or traditional paper scores, but as philosophical prose 
texts on screen, proposing to construct different experimental kinds of 
cinematic reading experiences for live music events and 
mental/social/environmental ecologies.

Born in Southern California in 1967, and then living in Los Angeles 
area, Bay Area, Wash DC, and now Portland, Oregon, Mike has performed on 
piano, keyboard, synth, gong, and is a vocal artist.
Mike studied composition at CalArts in 1986-87 with Rand Steiger and 
then from 2001-2005 with Michael Pisaro. His past live concerts at 
CalArts are currently featured on his bandcamp page, with chamber 
ensemble settings of spoken-sung texts by Deleuze and Spinoza.

Mike's focus is on the areas of speculative pragmatism, speculative 
empiricism, process philosophies, critical/mixed semiotics, and 
schizoanalytic, diagrammatic thought: Brian Massumi and Felix Guattari 
as the primary set of focus, and then following further with Deleuze, 
Whitehead, CS Peirce, Bergson, Simondon, William James, etc.

As a songwriter, Mike also sometimes publishes himself as the conceptual 
persona Demian Rufus, with his Demian Label & Distro!, and in his past 
dark-theory-synth band project, struggle at the snuggle factory. With 
collaborative projects as Demian Rufus, he produced song-cycle settings 
of two characters, Max Demian and Frau Eva, from Herman Hesse's novel 
/Demian/, and Nietzsche's prologue to /Thus Spoke Zarathustra/. The last 
performance Mike did as a struggle at the snuggle factory collaboration 
was at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, 2005. His current 
project as Demian Rufus is a musical setting of a text he completed 
writing in 2019, which is a strange, dark, homoerotik follow-up sequel 
to Hesse's /Demian/ called /Demian 2: a 
poetry-of-theory-fiction-of-2-Demians/, which after completion is 
intended as a music and book mixed set from Demian Label & Distro!

https://mikerichard.bandcamp.com 
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https://demianlabeldistro.bandcamp.com 
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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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