The Single Wing Turquoise Bird

Single Wing Turquoise Bird

In the late 60's and early 70's a band of visual artists painted images on large screens, accompanying many of the era's greatest bands, and also playing on their own to prerecorded sound or music - or even to ambient sound from microphones hung over a busy boulevard nearby, for audiences looking for something different ... welcome to the Single Wing Turquoise Bird ....

Coming along ...

a chronicle, moving pictures, shapes, sounds, and more ...

begun: 2 November 2002

for a good write-up of the group and its history see pOoTerLand at http://www.pooterland.com/index2/lightshow_menu/lightshows/single_wing/single_wing.html

another nice description can be found in the pioneering work on modern multimedia, Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood. A downloadable PDF version of the book is available at http://www.artscilab.org/expandedcinema.html and the SWTB writeup is in Part 6.

Announcements ...

NEW - November 2005

A note from Cindy Keefer of the Center for Visual Music www.centerforvisualmusic.org

"Film historian/Professor David James' new article "Expanded Cinema in Los Angeles: The Single Wing Turquoise Bird" has just been published in Millenium Film Journal nos. 43/44 - available online through amazon.com, follow the link:

http://mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ43/MFJ43TOC.html "

The article provides the most comprehensive history of the SWTB to date - a must-read!

Cindy Keefer, formerly of iotaCenter and now with the new group Visual Music, has produced a new show called Visual Music, which includes work from SWTB and from filmmakers who contributed to SWTB such as David LeBrun. Here are the details from the site at http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/ :

Visual Music" - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (opens February 13, 2005) and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC (opens June 2005). The exhibition features painting and photographs; installations; and films, videos, color organ and light projections by artists including Stephen Beck, Jordan Belson (Allures, Samadhi, plus a new film premiering at the Hirshhorn), Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, Larry Cuba, Charles Dockum (1952 Mobilcolor Performance), Oskar Fischinger (Study No. 7, Allegretto, Radio Dynamics, Lumigraph film, Ornament Sound), Viking Eggeling, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Hy Hirsh (Eneri), Len Lye (A Colour Box), Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Elias Romero, Hans Richter (Rhythm 21), Walter Ruttmann, Dan Sandin, Single Wing Turquoise Bird, Harry Smith (Film No. 3), James Whitney (Yantra, Lapis, Film Exercise No. 4), John Whitney (Permutations), John Whitney, Jr., Thomas Wilfred, and Joshua White. CVM provided numerous films and videotapes, plus research and assistance, for this exhibition.

March 24 - An Evening of Visual Music Films curated by CVM. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. 6:30 pm.

Please check the calendar on the MOCA site for additional screenings and events related to the exhibition: Art Talk by David James (March 31); performance of Stanton MacDonald-Wright's "Kineidoscope" color organ.

Do plan to go see this show! It is a must!

Here is also a link to Doug Harvey's LA Weekly review of the VM show :

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/14/features-harvey.php

PRIOR NEWS - from 2003:

Cindy Keefer of iotaCenter - dedicated to preserving and promoting the best of abstract cinema and related media - previously produced a stunning compilation called Kinetica 4, which included work from SWTB, and which began touring the world in 2003. Visit the following link to see if it will be at a venue near you! If you have a venue you can make inquiry about obtaining it.

The Los Angeles Premiere of Kinetica 4 was held as follows:
Part 1 January 17, 2003 (including SWTB footage) and Part 2 January 18, 2003 (including work of SWTB member David Lebrun)

Click image for details:

http://www.kinetica.org/K4/

a page from the program guide:

click image above to see it full size

NOTE: SWTB member Larry Janss's
Theatre on High Street has opened
in Moorpark, California!

click image to visit the theatre site!

Single Wing Turquoise Bird performing in Cumberland Mountain Film Company studio in 1970. The studio was located above the Fox Venice Theatre and housed SWTB from 1970 to its final performance in 1978.

click on image to enlarge

Note - additional ionformation about SWTB and the Fox Venice Theatre can be found on the Virtual Venice site - http://www.virtualvenice.info/

Contact Information:

Electronic mail & sites: General Information: mail@swtb.info; Larry: mail@swtb.info; Michael: aka@emsh.calarts.edu Site: http://emsh.calarts.edu/~aka/; Rol: rol@swtb.info Site: http://www.murrow.info/rol
Webmaster: webmaster@swtb.info

Coming along ...

Announcements ...

NEW - November 2005

A note from Cindy Keefer of the Center for Visual Music www.centerforvisualmusic.org

"Film historian/Professor David James' new article "Expanded Cinema in Los Angeles: The Single Wing Turquoise Bird" has just been published in Millenium Film Journal nos. 43/44 - available online through amazon.com, follow the link:

http://mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ43/MFJ43TOC.html "

PREVIOUS POSTS:

Cindy Keefer, formerly of iotaCenter and now with the new group Visual Music, has produced a new show called Visual Music, which includes work from SWTB and from filmmakers who contributed to SWTB such as David LeBrun. Here are the details from the site at http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/ :

Do plan to go see this show! It is a must!

PRIOR NEWS - from 2003:

The Los Angeles Premiere of Kinetica 4 was held as follows:
Part 1 January 17, 2003 (including SWTB footage) and Part 2 January 18, 2003 (including work of SWTB member David Lebrun)

NOTE: SWTB member Larry Janss's
Theatre on High Street has opened
in Moorpark, California!

Contact Information:

Send mail to webmaster@swtb.info with questions or comments about this web site.
Copyright © 2002 through 2005 Single Wing Turquoise Bird
Last modified: March 3, 2005

Coming along ...

Announcements ...

NEW - November 2005

A note from Cindy Keefer of the Center for Visual Music www.centerforvisualmusic.org

"Film historian/Professor David James' new article "Expanded Cinema in Los Angeles: The Single Wing Turquoise Bird" has just been published in Millenium Film Journal nos. 43/44 - available online through amazon.com, follow the link:

http://mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ43/MFJ43TOC.html "

PREVIOUS POSTS:

Cindy Keefer, formerly of iotaCenter and now with the new group Visual Music, has produced a new show called Visual Music, which includes work from SWTB and from filmmakers who contributed to SWTB such as David LeBrun. Here are the details from the site at http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/ :

Do plan to go see this show! It is a must!

PRIOR NEWS - from 2003:

The Los Angeles Premiere of Kinetica 4 was held as follows: Part 1 January 17, 2003 (including SWTB footage) and Part 2 January 18, 2003 (including work of SWTB member David Lebrun)

NOTE: SWTB member Larry Janss's Theatre on High Street has opened in Moorpark, California!

Contact Information:

Send mail to webmaster@swtb.info with questions or comments about this web site. Copyright © 2002 through 2005 Single Wing Turquoise Bird Last modified: March 3, 2005

The Los Angeles Premiere of Kinetica 4 was held as follows:
Part 1 January 17, 2003 (including SWTB footage) and Part 2 January 18, 2003 (including work of SWTB member David Lebrun)

NOTE: SWTB member Larry Janss's
Theatre on High Street has opened
in Moorpark, California!

Send mail to webmaster@swtb.info with questions or comments about this web site.
Copyright © 2002 through 2005 Single Wing Turquoise Bird
Last modified: March 3, 2005