Colin Wambsgans: A Long Drive For Someone
1815 S Main St. Los Angeles, CA 90015
Friday, June 1 at 8:00 PM 11:00 PM
Ends Jun 1, 2018
Hosted by the wulf. A sound and video installation about memory, music, and masculinity using pre-made and found material, including samples and field recordings. A Long Drive For Someone functions as a radio piece, audio collage, and mixtape all together. A goodbye to a unique place, structured around one rock album and its listeners. Deep Springs College’s student body was male-only while I was there, and has been since its founding 101 years ago. That will end this July 2018 when the first female students arrive, 20 years after I left. The subjects of this piece, all of whom overlapped with me as a student, have shared important parts of their lives together, but their memories are unique, even contradictory. Using samples, field recordings, and interviews, A Long Drive For Someone is seventeen aural portraits, filtered through our individual and collective memories, presented as a track-by-track answer to the Modest Mouse record This Is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About. The premiere is an evening-long listening session, featuring video and a bit of live performance. It is around 2 hours 10 minutes long, and will be broken up into three ~45 minute-long parts, with 15 minute intermissions. Starts on-time!