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An update on the latest goings-on at Detroit's Planet E (29 Oct 99) Carl Craig to debut score for Canadian visual art installation Famed Detroit-based electronic music producer Carl Craig has been commissioned to compose an exclusive soundtrack to accompany Le Détroit, a new multimedia installation by internationally acclaimed Canadian visual artist Stan Douglas. The soundtrack, composed by Carl Craig, is a further continuation of the noted electronic producer's current musical explorations into futurism, experimentation, and soundtrack scoring. Given the concept and a script for the film installation by the artist, Craig wrote and designed a program of minimal incidental music based around the techniques of modular sound sculpting and architecture. Craig's version of the soundtrack was then sent to Harry Castle, a San Diego based electro-acoustic composer. Castle then programmed and formatted Craig's original composition as part of the installation, which will integrate a variety of multimedia gear and presentation machinery in which the music is linked. Entitled Le Détroit, Douglas' installation is based on his several years of research in the Detroit area. The color photographs in the exhibition document the ever-changing urban conditions of the city. They reveal the dynamics of urban decay on encroaching nature. This work denotes the artist's long-standing interest in the erasure of history and failed utopias. The film installation is inspired by the Metropolitan Detroit region’s characteristic identification with machines and industry. An adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel, The Haunting of Hill House, and Marie Hamlin’s 1883 chronicle, Legends of Le Détroit, the exhibition explores the impact of popular culture and technology on social imagination by reinterpreting the conventions of such popular media as horror movies and electronic music. Le Détroit opens at the Art Gallery of Windsor (Ontario, Canada) on November 6, 1999 and continues through February 6, 2000 before embarking on an international exhibition tour including several European cities. Based in Vancouver, Stan Douglas’ photographs and time-based media installations have been included in major international group exhibitions such as Documenta X, Skulptur Projects Munster, and Kwangui Biennale Korea. He has had solo exhibitions throughout the world, and currently has a touring retrospective organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery. He has been the recipient of many prestigious awards, and his work is the subject of numerous publications, including a recent Phaidon monograph and recently won the Gershon Iskowitz Prize. Listen to an interview with Carl Craig; text version of this interview also available Innerzone Orchestra to release reworked Stylistics' classic "People Make The World Go ’Round," the 1974 classic by The Stylistics written by Tom Bell and Creed will be released as a single by Innerzone Orchestra with additional remixes in January 2000 as the first Planet E releases of the ‘Next Millenium’. Taken from Innerzone Orchestra’s debut album Programmed, released jointly through Planet E and Astralwerks, this very special version of "People…" features the vocals of Paul Randolph, lead vocalist and bassist with local Detroit band Muddpuppy and Craig Taborn, Detroit-born keyboardist for jazz sensation James Carter. Also appearing as guest performers on the song is flautist Alan Barnes (of Donald Byrd’s Blackbyrds fame) and Detroit Symphony Orchestra violinist Susan Schreiber. Inspired by a memory of the song as a child, Carl heard the original 1974 album version, with it’s full, epic string arrangement on the radio while recording Programmed, but couldn’t find a copy of this version he fell in love with. Simply put, he decided to record his own version of the song for P rogrammed. Remixers for the single include Carl himself, Jay Dee from Slum Village, and Kenny Dixon, Jr. (featuring former Funkadelic keyboardist Amp Fiddler and Norma Jean Bell on soprano saxophone). Also on the release is "Timing" remixed by Planet E artist Common Factor. upcoming Planet E artist dates
Carl Craig (DJ set):
Paperclip People (live)
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