ELLIPSE ARTS CENTER
Thursday, May 15, 2008
  KNITTING JAM with LAURE DROGOULS'S APPARATUS FOR ORCHESTRAL KNITTING
In conjunction with THE THREAD AS THE LINE exhibit:

A night of amplified knitting with Baltimore-based artist and Sondheim Prize winner, Laure Drogoul!

Laure Drogoul sets up for an evening of "productive" music. Ellipse gallery visitors, hard-core knitters and new-comers alike, had an amazing time contributing to Drougoul's newest project.

Thank you to everyone who came!

Educational Programmer, Lisa Marie Thalhammer (left) and Laure Drogoul (right) are knitting while Thread as the Line artist Sabrina Gschwandtner (center) films in Super8 film (!!!)


Supplies for ORCHESTRAL KNITTING include a soundboard, yarn and knitting needles.

A knitting orchestra in progress. Drogoul organizes the participants in a traditional knitting circle, providing them with needles equipped with tiny microphones. Working from the same pattern or “score”, the knitters create recordings of scarves or mittens as manifestations of each performance

Read more about the story behind Drogoul's crafty music in the City Paper online!


Knitters hanging out by Sabrina Gschwandtner's installation, KnitKnit Sundown Salon. The video highlights her limited edition magazine and newly published book, "KnitKnit: Profiles and Projects form Knitting's New Wave".

Click here to read more about Amplified Knitting in the Craft e-zine!
View a YouTube video of her first musical knitting recording at the fabulous Baltimore store, Atomic Pop!

 




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