U P C O M I N G   E V E N T S   2012

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INTRICATE SIMPLICITY
T I M E    R E L E A S E D    P E R F O R M A N C ES

Matt Sullivan & Ken Cro-Ken

Symphony Space,  New York, N.Y.
Music Marathon 4 - 11 pm
Saturday, February 4th, 2012

The Music of N0W
composers of now
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* Hosted by celebrated WQXR host Terrance McKnight. *

QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS

Approximately  8 pm

Matt Sullivan & Ken Cro-Ken

Approximately  10 pm

 

An exhilarating 8-hour marathon curated by Artistic Director Laura Kaminsky,

"a composer with an ear for the new and interesting"

(The New York Times)

(Schedule details below.)

E N C O R E   P E R F O R M A N C E

Review of Last year's MULTIPLE ONENESS performance at Symphony Space:

* THE NEW YORK TIMES - Music Review 

(Published: February 22, 2011)

"The most unusual work I encountered was “Multiple Oneness,” an intriguing performance-art piece by the oboist Matt Sullivan and the painter Ken Cro-Ken. While Mr. Sullivan played a melancholy lament over recorded sounds, Mr. Cro-Ken poured liquids onto a canvas projected onto a video screen. The colorful liquids flowed through the painting’s raised surfaces like yellow lava, swirling in strange tandem with the oboe’s melancholy tunes."

   

RECENT  T I M E   R E L E A S E D  PERFORMANCE

MULTIPLE ONENESS

Longboat Key Center for the Arts

RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN

Durante Gallery, Sarasota, Florida

PERFORMANCE: Friday, January 6th, 2012
SOLD OUT!

*EXHIBITION OF FOURTEEN PAINTNGS STILL GOING ON!

Jan. 5th - Feb 24th, 2012


Here is the LIVE painting in "mid-launch"
January 6th around 7:15pm

"Cro-Ken, readied with the projected live image of a preset textured and framed tabletop terrain on the wall and paint colors
in hand, commenced to pour the colors onto his canvas. The audience watched the paint flow, eddy round the contours,
blend together and repeat. In much the same way, the live and recorded oboe sequences looped,
layered and blended together in intriguing ways."
-TAMPA BAY TRIBUNE-

January 8, 2012

* please click on this link below to see

multiple oneness

live @ symphony space 02.21.11

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Longboat Key Center for the Arts

RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN

SARASOTA, FLA

Friday, January 6th, 2012  8 pm

 

http://mattsullivan.org

MULTIPLE ONENESS,

A TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCE

MATT SULLIVAN / KEN CRO-KEN

Longboat Key

Center for the Arts

SARASOTA, FLA

Friday, January 6th, 2012  8 pm

* World Premiere of  composer, Laura Kaminsky's "HORIZON LINES"

performed by Matt Sullivan on oboe with bassoon and piano.

* Open Forum with Matt Sullivan, Laura Kaminsky, Rebecca Allan & Ken Cro-Ken

* To coincide with the PBS SPECIAL including Clyde Butcher's black & white photos of the Everglades.

Composer, Laura Kaminsky

http://laurakaminsky.com

Environmental artists, Rebecca Allan and Ken Cro-Ken

January 5th - February 24th, 2012

To see Rebecca's incredible Eco. Art, click on link below:

http://www.rebeccaallan.com

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THE FUTURE BEING CREATED NOW-

GREEN TECHNOLOGY SCULPTURE PARK

LAND RECLAMATION 2010-2015

WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP, NJ is the winner of the ARTS & SUSTAINABILTY grant

and is currently reclaiming 107 acres along the Raritan River in Woodbridge.

Over the coming years, I will be joining an incredible staff that will reclaim an incredibly large area of the Raritan River

and create a park where both commerce and nature can exist together.  An outdoor sculpture garden will grow over time

as artists from around the globe will submit proposals for art that will embrace the environment and change.

   

THIS AMBITIOUS PROJECT IS CHAMPIONED BY WOODBRIDGE MAYOR, JOHN E. McCORMAC
will be a revolutionary Outdoor Sculpture Park who's art embraces the power of nature and represents 

a relationship that accepts change in how we perceive a relationship with nature and the art we create. 

RECLAMATION WORK HAS BEGUN BY GREATecology

* Ken Cro-Ken, Artistic Director for this unique sculpture garden and technology park

that welcomes nature as a partner in creating art with the powers that be...   nature;

for future generations to enjoy and celebrate changing not our world but ourselves.

Click on the link below for details:

http://KENCROKEN.COM/WOODBRIDGE_NJ_PARK.html

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SIX KC-K PAINTINGS ON CONTINUAL DISPLAY AT:

THE GREENABLE WOODBRIDGE MUSEUM

On continual display are many projects about the earth and recycling.

*  INCLUDING FIVE PAINTINGS BY KEN CRO-KEN ON EXTENDED LOAN

GREENABLE WOODBRIDGE MUSEUM HOURS:

Monday & Tuesday: CLOSED      Wednesday – Friday: 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Saturday: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.     Sunday: 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

 

GREENABLE WOODBRIDGE MUSEUM @ WOODBRIDGE MALL

WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP, NJ;  WINNER OF - "ARTS AND SUSTAINABILITY" Award

and is leading the way to restoring the earth to a healthy balance for our planet and for ourselves.

* If you are not on my e-mail / e-vite list for exhibitions, TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCES,

lectures, and other events, please go the the "CONTACT US" tab and give us your e-mail address

and we will let you know about other events including more earthwork paintings at the Greenable Woodbridge Museum.

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>>> THIS WINTER 2012 <<<

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A catalogue of Ken Cro-Ken art and writings,

"THE CONDUCT OF PAINT"

celebrating the 150th anniversary of Ralph Waldo Emerson's -

THE CONDUCT OF LIFE

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For example:

*  "How something appears depends on how long one takes to observe."

*  "When we decide to choose our own ways, as oppoesed to nature,

nature will not be slow in undeceiving us."

*  "What doesn't have the power to create life has the power to redistribute in space and time."

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HALF HOUR RADIO TALK SHOW

WITH MATT SULLIVAN & KEN CRO-KEN

 ON

CITYWIDE 89.1 WNYU, FEBRUARY 2011

CLICK ON THIS LINK TO HEAR THE HALF HOUR RADIO SHOW:

http://citywidewnyu.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/matt-sullivan-and-ken-cro-ken/

Echosystem: Protecting Our Water

@ Cooper Union's Great Hall 3/19/11

New music collective Ensemble Pi is pleased to return to The Cooper Union's Great Hall,

for its sixth annual Peace Project concert, Echosystem.

Highlights include Christopher Kaufman's Hudson Valley (2010), capturing the world of the Hudson River Valley

through music and film footage, including the dangers of natural gas drilling.

  

Including a video with the artwork of  environmental painter Ken Cro-Ken and fellow painter, Alice Cotton.

    

Hudson Valley, by Chris Kaufman, originally commissioned by Quintet of the Americas, will be performed in an arrangement for flute, violin, horn, clarinet, cello and piano. The work combines live performance, sound design, speech, and a film composed from both natural images and the art of Ken Cro-Ken and Alice Cotton. The composer gathered hundreds of natural sounds from the Hudson River Valley environment (ocean, whale, dolphin, wolf, coyote) to create backgrounds and musical textures against and with which these sounds are performed. The penultimate movement, which depicts the dangers of natural gas drilling, features metallic percussion and original instruments made of metal sounds as well as actual ambient pile-driver sounds.

Echosystem: Protecting Our Water is presented as part of the Ensemble Pi's Peace Project, which was launched

by the collective in 2005 with the goal of opening a dialogue between ideas and music on some of the world's current and critical issues.

Performers will include Kristin Norderval, voice and laptop; Airi Yoshioka, violin; Idith Meshulam, piano;

Clair Bryant, cello; Karl Kramer, French horn; Barry Crawford, flute; and Nick Gallas, clarinet.

THREE GROUP EXHIBITIONS DECEMBER 2010:

(IN ORDER OF OPENING DATES)

(Greater Details below)

* WORLD MONUMENTS FUND GALLERY

Sunday, December 12th, 3-6 pm

LIVE CONTEMPORARY WOODWIND PERFORMANCE

NYU MUSIC PERFORMANCE AND MUSIC PROFESSIONALS

MUSIC CURATION BY:

Matt Sullivan, Director of Double Reed Studies at NYU, Steinhardt

WORLD MONUMENTS FUND GALLERY

15 EAST 27th ST., N.Y., N.Y.

(JUST WEST OF MADISON AVENUE)

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TO SEE UP COMING EVENTS FOR:

QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS

CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW

http://oboematt.com/Quintet_of_the_Americas.html

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CHELSEA MUSEUM- GROUP SHOW

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AUGUST 2010,  NEW YORK

Curated by Elga Wimmer; Organized by Frère Independent

* OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, JULY 22nd 5 to 8 pm

556 West 22nd Street @ West Side Hwy, New York, N.Y.

Salon continues Fri. & Sat. 11 am - 6 pm

Artists will be present on these days.

Then the curator will select from art work each invited artist brings to the Salon.

Followed by the Summer Group Exhibition: July 27 - September 2, 2010

- RECENT SCHEDULE BELOW -

FALL 2010 SCHEDULE - T.B.A.

RECENTLY LECTURE / PERFORMANCE SERIES:

MANNAHATTA PROJECT

(MANNAHATTA- ISLAND OF MANY HILLS)
A NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY

( 1610 - 2010 )

MUSIC, ART AND VIDEO COMMISSIONED BY

QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS

( Additional locations to be announced in all 5 boroughs of NYC )

    

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS

please go to their website at:

www.quintet.org

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE MANNAHATTA PROJECT ................................ HUDSON RIVER QUINTET will tell a story - beginning at the mouth of the river and then moving to the shore and then up the river through forested areas. There is a 'transition to darkness', 'Industrial Storm' and '...and the Earth is our Spiritual House'. The work ends with a sense of unresolved hopefulness. ...................................................................... ... .This picture is the result of extracting Natural Gas from the environment - this is happening now. Related Links: THE QUINTET HOME SITE THE MANNAHATTA PROJECT The Players: Sato Moughalian - Flute Matt Sullivan - Oboe Nick Gallas - Clarinet Barbara Oldham - Horn Maureen Strenge - Bassoon The Organizations: a growing list: The Catskill Mountainkeeper - Directed by Ramsey Adams The Wildlife Conservation Society - Stephen Sautner, Asst. Dir. of Conservation Communications LIVE EARTH