From a press release:
Mulhearn/Faires duo performs live recording concert, Oct. 19
WHO: Meghan Mulhearn / Elisa Faires
WHAT: Live Recording Concert
WHEN: Sunday, October 19th – 7pm
WHERE: The Mission For Temporal Art – 68 N Main St, Marshall NC
HOW MUCH: $10 suggested donationTwo musicians from diverse backgrounds, Meghan Mulhearn and Elisa Faires, toured the United States all spring and summer of 2014, performing separately and collaborating on live sets. As they traveled, the idea for a collaborative album began to take shape. In mid-October, Mulhearn and Faires will be recording this album at The Mission for Temporal Art in Marshall, NC.
Inspiration for the album is rooted in the natural world, the mercurial nature of travel and the transcendent experience of true collaboration. Intentionally integrated into their travels and alongside the performances was time spent in on beaches, in caves, on the sides of mountains, on windswept dunes, under cliffs, enveloped in fog on desolate coasts, staring across unbroken prairies and in the presence of prehistoric ferns. Faires and Mulhearn made field recordings along the way, including commissioning a hydrophone for underwater recordings, and generated ideas in the midst of extensive travel.
This collaboration is also based, even at a logistical level, around the idea that art, and especially music, is never about the artist alone, but is about the interaction between the artist and the receiver. By funding the residency with patron participants through a highly-interactive crowdfunding campaign, they were able to play in odd places and take time for reflection and creation while in the midst of traveling, experiences which would be unsustainable in a typical touring model. Mulhearn and Faires allowed the listener to become a participant, inviting patrons to contribute sounds to the album. One of the goals of this experience, and of the eventual album, was to explore this feedback loop between artist, listener, patron, and creator.
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