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The artists previously worked together on "The Secretbaker Cycle" of multimedia productions www.secretbaker.com. In Secretbaker we used digital tools and toys to navigate through information environments; thousands of pages of FBI files. In "A Sam Clemens Remix" we grabbed on to three of Samuel Clemens' texts; "Life on the Mississippi", "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "A Tramp Abroad". In the concert we explored how the texts and associated archival imagery might be used to fashion new narrative and myth building platforms. Hemingway said Huckleberry Finn gave birth to the American novel.
We're not novelists and don't intend to write novels, but we
think Sam Clemens gave us the gear we need to plot a course just
like he did Huckleberry Finn and his raft-mate Jim. |