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dir="auto"><b>MIKE RICHARD:<br>
<i> Adventures in Speculative Pragmatism</i><br>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs
xtlvy1s">Works on Paper presents the premiere of
Portland-based composer <b>Mike Richard</b>’s <i><b>Adventures
in Speculative Pragmatism</b></i>, a two-hour
work of experimental music based on the
philosopher Brian Massumi's <i>Extreme Realism:
In Sixteen Series</i>. 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.<br>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs
xtlvy1s">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.”</div>
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xtlvy1s">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.<br>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs
xtlvy1s">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.</div>
<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs
xtlvy1s">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.<br>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs
xtlvy1s">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.<br>
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<div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs
xtlvy1s">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 <i>Demian</i>, and Nietzsche's
prologue to <i>Thus Spoke Zarathustra</i>.
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 <i>Demian</i>
called <i>Demian 2: a
poetry-of-theory-fiction-of-2-Demians</i>,
which after completion is intended as a
music and book mixed set from Demian Label
& Distro!<br>
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