23 - Klimchak - CooksNotes
We dropped by the house and studio of brilliantly inventive composer Klimchak to talk about his upcoming show CooksNotes. Starting March 5th, CooksNotes is an innovative twist on an intimate chef dinner. The chef-composer’s self-designed musical instruments were made out of kitchen equipment. An original piece of music was written to be played on each of the home-built cooking implements. For CooksNotes, Klimchak will give a concert of that music WHILE cooking food on each of the instruments. By the end of the concert, he will have made a complete meal for the audience to eat and enjoy.
Klimchack gave us a tour of his amazing basement studio which was full of vintage electronics and handmade instruments. Afterwards we went up to the kitchen to preview some of the instruments and performances he's got in store for his show in the Rodriguez Room.
Thanks to Klimchak for his time and the tour! His previous recordings help fill out the music and provide all the tunes for this episode. You can find more of his work at klimchakmusic.com
C O O K S N O T E S / /
A Performance Art Cooking Show featuring
composer & chef
K L I M C H A K
Thursdays-Sundays, March 5th - March15th at 8:00pm
PRICE: $35, seating is limited to 25 people
PRE-PURCHASE TICKETS ONLY: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-goat-farm…ets-14737980697
Samples of the Instruments and Music Concepts from CooksNotes include:
•• A xylophone made out of glass bowls, which drain into a single large container. Ingredients for punch are poured into the bowls, which are played as they drain & mix up punch.
•• A large cutting board with different-sized compartments inside so it will make a variety of pitches when food is chopped on it. The sounds are fed into a looper pedal so different percussive & vocal sounds can be layered. The cutting board will be used to chop the ingredients for an appetizer spread.
•• A set of 12-24 electric blenders, each of which is tuned to a specific pitch. They will be filled with the ingredients for a chilled soup, which will be blended together as the different pitches of the blenders make a composition.
•• A 24-inch wok with an attached high temperature microphone is used to stir fry rice & vegetables. The sounds of the sizzling ingredients and the metallic sounds as spatulas toss them are fed into a computer for looping & sound manipulation, controlled by a set of experimental electronic gloves that Klimchak is beta-testing for Imogen Heap especially for this show.
•• A sound score for video projections of a series of fights and battles edited together from old martial arts movies. Salad is made onstage using the rhythms of the fighting. This live foley score uses the amplified sounds of vegetable tearing & cutting to imitate & accompany the punches & kicks of the on-screen action.
•• Crisp flatbread made over a flame tube that changes appearance as music is played into an attached speaker. Klimchak will control the flames with some home-built instruments and a theremin.
•• A composition for vegetable woodwinds. Root vegetables are carved into flutes/whistles to be played by the audience. Each of the audience instruments will have a single pitch. The audience is taught a simple hocket-based melody/rhythm line to play on their instruments. As they play, Klimchak plays a lead line on full-tuned vegetable clarinets, flutes and duduks. At the end a dip is provided so the audience can eat their instruments.
CooksNotes is a recipient of the Goat Farm Arts Center’s Arts Investment Package (AIP). The Goat Farm’s AIP vehicle funds, produces & presents experimental & innovative works that “pattern-break” & excite new thinking. The Goat Farm’s Review Board recognizes that consistent vanguard arts programming contributes to Atlanta’s global relevancy.
CooksNotes is supported in part by the Mayor‘s Office of Cultural Affairs.
The Cylinder
en-usMarch 04, 2015