KEN CRO-KEN
VIDEOS
MULTIPLE ONENESS, SULLIVAN / CRO-KEN symphonyspace NY, NY
MULTIPLE ONENESS - OBOIST, MATT SULLIVAN, EARTHWORK PAINTER, KEN CRO-KEN
*** Cro-Ken sets paints in motion to recreate the pushing/pulling forces that shape and mold all things.
As a result, one sees not only a realistic view of space but more importantly, how it moves.
Made in above and below freezing, high and low altitude, Ken learns about paint and nature simultaneously.
THE NEW YORK TIME - Music Review, By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
Published: February 22, 2011 MUSIC OF NOW, Symphony Space
"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."
PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkTpFFwhzOU
TO HEAR A HALF HOUR RADIO TALK WITH MATT & KEN ABOUT THEIR TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCES,
PLEASE GO TO THIS SITE: http://citywidewnyu.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/matt-sullivan-and-ken-cro-ken/
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(C.B.G.B.s, NY, NY Spring 2004)GaiaTECH I - TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCE COMPILATION, 1999- 2005, with electro/acoustic trio FirstAVEnue and MATT SULLIVAN,
this compilation from performances with ecosystem painter Ken Cro-Ken and special guest musical performances by MATT SULLIVAN, oboist;
TODD REYNOLDS, violin and FirstAVenune, electro/acoustic trio. PAINT, MUSIC and NATURE COLLIDE when Ken Cro-Ken's Speed Element
paints are set in motion and a reactive improvisation ensues! By mixing paints and catalysts together, Ken Cro-Ken sets his "Speed Element"
paints into motion and mimic the push-pull forces found in nature that shape and mold all things. As a result, I paint microscopic as well as
satellite views of the earth and places scattered throughout the universe. These are abstracts waiting to be called realistic when technology "catches up".
Although Cro-Ken goes to nature to make paintings in all temperatures and altitudes, he also realizes that nature is all around us and even in a studio, a hot, cold, wet or dry day will affect a paint experiment. This video is a compilation of performances at such places as the C.B.G.B.'s gallery back in Spring of 2004. Cro-Ken is working on GaiaTECH II for up coming performances; including an EARTH DAY 2010 performance with musician/composer Matt Sullivan. (You can see his oboe videos here on YOU TUBE at: www.youtube.com/mattsullivanmusic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqInvlYu5dw&feature=relmfu
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ST PATRICK'S WEEKEND SNOW PAINTING 2007, NY, NY.
A snow painting made over the St Patrick's weekend on my East Village, Manhattan Garden Studio.
ORIGINAL MUSIC by MATT SULLIVAN & FirstAVEnue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcpMMR3h4Ck&feature=relmfu
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Ken Cro-Ken Gallery Talk, Dec. 2010
This talk was given at The World Monuments Fund Gallery to explain some of the ideas that goes into creating my earthwork paintings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDBcf70qQSs&feature=relmfu
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"River Critters" KEN CRO-KEN
Music by Ken Cro-Ken and Gaving Keating.
River Critters were made at Bushkill River, January 2006.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9slZ_ADu5yo&feature=relmfu
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MULTIPLE ONENESS I,
MUSIC BY MATT SULLIVAN, COMPOSER, OBOIST
MATT SULLIVAN: www.MATTSULLIVAN.ORG
MATT SULLIVAN has performed extensively on four continents and is recognized internationally as a virtuoso performer and master teacher, as well as an important advocate for the modern oboe. The New York Times has praised his "gorgeously lyrical playing" and the New Yorker has called his inventive programming the "cutting edge". As composer, his innovative works created for oboe, English horn and digital horn, along with his solo and chamber music performances and compact discs, have been featured locally on WNYC. WQXR and WBAI, and nationally on National Public Radio and Voice of America. Matt Sullivan began his professional career at the age of 17 with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and served at principal oboist with the Miami Philharmonic at the at of 21. Soon after coming to NYC in 1978, he joined Musicians Accord, the Richardson Chamber Players (Princeton University), Queens Symphony Orchestra, First Avenue, and Quintet of the Americas. Sullivans solo performances include concerts ranging from Cindy Lauper at Carnegie Hall to films including Millers Crossing. Concert venues include Carnegie Hall, The Library of Congress, the Palladium, Roulette, The Kitchen, CBGBs and numerous other uptown and downtown locations. He has served on the faculties of Long Island University C. W. Post, the Manhattan School of Music Prep Division and Rutgers University. Currently, he is Director Double Reed Studies at New York Universitys Steinhardt School and he teaches at Princeton University where he has served as a Visiting Associate Professor. Matt Sullivan is a Performing Artist for Boosey & Hawkes Musical Instruments and plays exclusively on Buffet Oboes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DafVvzVhBS8
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"MULTIPLE ONENESS, LIVE @ Studio 620"
Music by, Matt Sullivan, oboist
MULTIPLE ONENESS - A TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCE
MATT SULLIVAN & KEN CRO-KEN
Studio@620, Downtown St. Petersburg, Fla. March 19, 2010
Curator/Director- Bob Devin Jones
MATT SULLIVAN has performed extensively on four continents and is recognized internationally as a virtuoso performer and master teacher, as well as an important advocate for the modern oboe. The New York Times has praised his "gorgeously lyrical playing" and the New Yorker has called his inventive programming the "cutting edge". As composer, his innovative works created for oboe, English horn and digital horn, along with his solo and chamber music performances and compact discs, have been featured locally on WNYC. WQXR and WBAI, and nationally on National Public Radio and Voice of America. Currently, Matt is Director Double Reed Studies at New York University's Steinhardt School and he teaches at Princeton University where he has served as a Visiting Associate Professor. Matt Sullivan is a Performing Artist for Boosey & Hawkes Musical Instruments and plays exclusively on Buffet Oboes.
www.oboematt.com
ABOUT KEN CRO-KEN, earthwork painter:
When one thinks of earthwork art, the first thing that comes to mind would be: soil, rocks, branches or other tangible earth materials but the greater part of my attention is with the invisible / unseen forces that shape and mold all things. My paintings are made in above and below freezing, high and low altitude and I must become more sensitive to things outside myself. I take my rightful place and follow nature's lead; and learn to strike a balance between my inner and outer self. Things are revealed to me through paint experiments that cannot be discovered by any other means. This is a real and unique relationship. And, though realism and abstraction have a place with this art but greater focus is placed on creating a direct relationship with the actual and the strength this triad offers. In other words, this is a physical investigation of this planet using paint as my translator and mediator with our world. The result is that I learn about paint and our planet simultaneously.
www.KenCroKen.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMLTH1WWFvQ
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ITERATION OF EMERSON with live music by Matt Sullivan, oboe
was recorded live while the video premiered at Monuments Gallery;
of Earthwork/Ecosystem paintings by Ken Cro-Ken;
at 15 East 27th Street in Manhattan on August 11th, 2010.
THIS IS VIDEO PART OF THE SERIES:
"MULTIPLE ONENESS / MACRO-MICRO"
www.KenCroKen.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWEsOd_oOUY
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MULTIPLE ONENESS - "Leaves" CRO-KEN / SULLIVAN
MULTIPLE ONENESS is a continuing series of videos by Ken Cro-Ken
Follow an "independent leaf" while listening to the electro/acoustics sounds of Matt Sullivan
highlighting the Up Coming album of the same name by oboist/composer Matt Sullivan.
To see more artworks by Ken Cro-Ken,
pls go to www.KenCroKen.com
For more music by matt Sullivan go to:
www.youtube.com/matsullivanmusic
and www.myspace.com/mattsullivanoboist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvAE_uRRW2g
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MULTIPLE ONENESS BRIDGE, Ken Cro-Ken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ8ocWjMXYw&feature=related
