JACOB RICHMAN – MULTIMEDIA ARTIST
APPLICATION FOR FULL-TIME INSTRUCTOR — NEW MEDIA
ART AND DESIGN PROGRAM
PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
SAMPLE CREATIVE WORK DOCUMENTATION
APPLICATION FOR FULL-TIME INSTRUCTOR — NEW MEDIA
ART AND DESIGN PROGRAM
PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
SAMPLE CREATIVE WORK DOCUMENTATION
(all images, sounds, and music by Jacob Richman unless otherwise noted,
video and other further documentation available at linked project pages)
video and other further documentation available at linked project pages)
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1. The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery (2012)
large-scale multimedia performance and installation piece, 13 performers, video projection, audio/video/data processing (Arduino and Max/MSP/Jitter protocols) cloth, motors, electronics The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery is an evening-length, multimedia performance piece based on a Rhode Island murder story from 1990. It is a performance setting of fragmented details of this tragic event for four dancers, nine musicians, and multiple interactive multimedia installations staged in various rooms of a five-story church in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It is a “roving performance” in which the audience and performers freely move between installation spaces and performance scenes scattered throughout the building.
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Moons of Jupiter is a collaboration between artists Kevin Gilmore and Jacob Richman and astronomer Scott MacNeill. It combines acoustic and electronic music, live processed video and telescope imagery, and scientific presentation to explore the unique qualities and astounding environments of the worlds that orbit Jupiter. My role was composing music, performing on the bass, and creating the video used in the performance.
Performance out under the stars at Frosty Drew Observatory, Charlestown, RI, Sept. 10 & 11, 2021 Windeye is a setting of a short story by author Brian Evenson for video and solo violinist/vocalist. Through her performance, we are presented with the fading and distorted childhood memory of a sister who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The piece was commissioned by NYC-based violinist and vocalist Andie Tanning and released on her 2018 audio-visual album Dandelion.
4. Tenderloin Opera Company (on-going collaboration)
TOC is a homeless advocacy music and theater group in Providence, RI. I have served as co-facilitator, co-composer, and bass player, among many other roles, for over 10 years. Watch more videos of our performances, or visit our facebook page for more group info.
5. Meridian Project (on-going collaboration)
multimedia performance and science collaboration, music composition/performance, video projections Meridian Project is an ongoing collaboration between musicians, visual artists, and scientists whose goal is to present topics of cosmology, astronomy, and astrophysics in unique audio-visual performances that blend the scientific concepts with new music and imagery in a way that is informative, engaging, and fun. Our performances take place in locations that reflect this mix of science, art, and wonder. These include planetariums, observatories, and outdoors under the stars. My role in the collaboration is as co-composer, musician, and producer of various video content and experimental projections based on the performance venue.
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6. SWARM! (2017)
an evening-length, roving performance piece for musicians, dancers, and audience-responsive electronics SWARM! is based on themes of insect breeding swarms (mayflies), environmental degradation, and rebirth. The piece sprouted from the idea of a mysterious insect species that develops in the trash we humans discard everyday. They grow and molt and incorporate components of our waste into their bodies. They move and dance, and when the time is right, come together in an apocalyptic swarm.
The first performance took place throughout the Linde Family Wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on May 11, 2017. |
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7. Three Yiddish Lullabies (2006)
multimedia performance piece for musicians and live-processed video (Max/MSP/Jitter Protocol) Three Yiddish Lullabies is a mixed-media setting of fragmented texts in Yiddish. In three separate music and moving image settings, we are presented with a mysterious young mother. She reaches out to us through the materials, sounds, and images that surround her, yet she is always obscured or constrained. Through the broken and jumbled songs that she sings to us, we try to piece together the history of this ghostly young woman. The audience sees the piece from the point of view of the child. However, this point of view is disorganized and dream-like: obscured views of the singer are mixed with the simple imagery (birds, stars) about which she is singing. The texts are mixed as well, expressing feelings of love, loss, and imminent tragedy that the mother is experiencing, yet which the child cannot understand, and he merely focuses on the soothing tone of her voice. Images, words and sounds are continuously mixed and clouded, and my aim is to express how even a powerful memory, personal or collective, fades and distorts over time.
This piece utilizes the Jitter/Max/MSP programming language to live-process the video images. Long hanging strips of chiffon used as malleable projection surfaces, old junk shop televisions scattered in the audience, as well as other various materials are also used in this performance. This performance features soprano Suzanne Klock |
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A non-fiction video about Canto a Tenores folksinging as well as the people, animals and landscape in and around the town of Bitti, Sardinia. Featuring the Tenores di Bitti “Mialinu Pira.”
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9. Man Without A Shadow (2008)
piece for shadow puppets, kura saz (turkish lute), narrator, and live-processed video (Max/MSP/Jitter Protocol) Man Without A Shadow is an old folk tale set as a multimedia puppet show in which a man sells his shadow to the devil. The story is based on the novella The Remarkable Story of Peter Schelmihl by Adelbert von Chamisso.
Puppets by Emmy Bean Story/Script by Jacob Richman and Emmy Bean Music by Stephen Higa Video Processing by Jacob Richman |
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Winter Suite comprises three pieces for dancer, sound, and images in which the character of a young woman explores many different landscapes (both real, imaginary and/or subconscious) looking for answers in the cold, vibrant backdrop of winter. She is aided by strange people, creatures, and little things she finds along the way, including some Norse rune stones and a bright red, poofy hair clip. The Max/MSP/Jitter programming language is used to control live image processing during the performance.
January 19, 2008 performance Duderstadt Center Video Studio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Featuring Shauna Steele (choreography, dancer) |