Roar! Last year during the first Unsound Festival I went to a sweet talk at the Wyoming Room where Morton Subotnik talked about the invention of the buchla and his goals for the medium of electronic music. He even autographed my copy of Silver Apples of the Moon! Well now the Unsound Festival is back and so is Mort! This year he was giving a live performance of Silver Apples of the Moon over at the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center! I just couldn't miss this opportunity to see one of my favorite pieces of music performed live!
Here I am inside the David Rubenstein Atrium. It's a pretty neat space! There were all the these cool plants growing on the walls and there were these wild skylights full of different colored lights. I guess they were really trying to set the mood for the performance! Roar!
Here is Morton Subotnik working a vintage bucla! Wow just look how fast his hands are moving! I never realized how complicated Silver Apples of the Moon is! I can only imagine how hard Golden Apples of the Moon must be to play! Roar!
Here video artist Lillevan, can be seen providing live accompaniment on his Macbook! It was pretty sweet to see him live mix all this cool experimental video while Mort worked the bucla!
Here is a short video I took of the performance so you can hear the music and see what the visuals were like. Subotnik's new version of Silver Apples of the moon was really cool. Not only were there new versions of parts 1 and 2 but also two whole new parts that were similar in style to some of his more recent work. It was really cool to see the progression of the piece! I just wish I could have taken someone from the moon with me to share it with them! Roar!
Roar! This past weekend there was an event called the SUPERMOON! A supermoon is when there is a full moon while the moon is at its perigee, or point closest to Earth. It's proper name is perigee-syzygy but SUPERMOON just sounds so much cooler! Roar!
Here I am up on my roof taking a look at the supermoon! Wow! What a moon! It's making me remember the trip I took there back in the fall...
Oh my Ms. Rabbit! What are you doing here! She told me that since the Moon is so close this is one of the few times she can take a trip down to Earth! Talk about a pleasant surprise! Roar!
Ms. Rabbit had never been to NYC before. When she saw the view from my roof she immediately wanted to go out and see all the sights! I guess it's time to be... TOUR GUIDE- REX! Roar!
We headed over to Times Square so Ms. Rabbit could see what all the bright lights were about. I don't come here to often but I guess it's fun to do touristy things once in awhile! Here we are in front of the big Coke Zero sign. It sure is making me thirsty! Roar!
Ms. Rabbit and I were thinking about getting a bite to eat so I asked her if she wanted to get some lite Martian fare over at Mars 2112. She told me she likes Martian food but for some reason its always so much heavier here on Earth. That and everyone she'd ever met from Mars was a real jerk who was clearly in need of a mom! We decided to pass on the Martian food and headed over to the Carnegie Deli instead!
Later in the night we passed by the big Toy R' Us! Ms. Rabbit said she wanted to go inside and check it out. I was reluctant and told that for some reason the idea of stepping inside there just makes me uncomfortable... She didn't ask questions and we continued on our way. Roar!
After that we headed back to my apartment in Bushwick. Ms. Rabbit thanked me for showing here around the Times Square and told me she had a lovely time! Unfortunately she needed to head back to the Moon while it was still at its perigee. I told her she should come visit as often as she can and that I would try to find a way to come visit her on the Moon sometime soon. And at the very least, I'd call. Roar!
Roar! Yesterday was the Mid-Autumn Festival on the Chinese calendar so I met up with my friend Bao Bao to have some Lunar Adventures!
First, Bao Bao and I got a couple of Arnold Palmer iced teas and headed on over to the New York Hall of Science to play some Rocket Park mini golf!
Here I am at one of the first holes at Rocket Park Mini Golf! The whole course is really cool! It teaches kids all about the physics of space travel and challenges them to complete a mission to send their ball to outer space and safely return home! It's practically out of this world! Roar!
Roar! Here are some photos of Bao Bao and I playing a few of the different holes at Rocket Park Mini Golf! We learned all about escape velocity, satellite repair, space junk, and reentery! I wonder if I'll ever have to put any of this knowledge to use some day!?
Rocket Park gets its name because this is where the New York Hall of Science has some of the rockets from the Mercury Space Program on display! These rockets all look really cool, maybe I'll climb up top for a better look!
Roar! The inside of this capsule is really cool! Get a look at all these nifty controls! I wonder what all these different buttons do? Woah! Turns out I was going to have to learn what they all did pretty quickly because right at that moment Bao Bao got a hole-in-one on the last hole and my rocket launched itself into space! RRRRRooooooaaaarrrrr!!!!! Here I go again!!!
Woah! I set my controls for the heart of the moon and after a brief flight I crashed down in the lunar city of Yue York! Everything here is so different! How am I going to get back to Earth this time?!
Roar! Yue York City is a huge,scary place! I have no idea where I am or how to get home! I wish there was somebody who could show me around!
Luckily, I met this really nice Rabbit on the moon! She was super friendly and said she had never met a T-Rex before! She told me she'd be happy to show me around YYC!
Here we are downtown where Ms Rabbit was showing me some of the sights in YYC! Here we are in front of one of the old theaters! Unfortunately it's been forced to shut down recently. I guess things aren't going so well for the lunar economy since the decline of American tourism starting in the 1970's. Roar!
I told Ms Rabbit I was pretty hungry so she took me over to the Silver Mall for some sweet lunar noodles!
Here I am with a delicious bowl of Lunar Noodles! They were so yummy! I guess YYC has a lot more to offer than I initially thought! Ms Rabbit even said she was really surprised how much I was able to eat and that she was sorry she hadn't ordered enough food. Wow, Ms. Rabbit sure is polite!
Roar! After eating all those delicious noodles I really needed something sweet so I got some amazing black sesame ice cream! Wow! YYC is great!
I threw up this sticker in dowtown YYC then Ms Rabbit and I went over to the bay to watch the Autumn Earth rise!
Ms Rabbit and I settled in on a bench with a traditional Earth cake that we picked up downtown. She said she was really honored to be able to share an Earth cake with a big, strong T-Rex like me and hoped I liked it! Wow Ms Rabbit sure is nice!
Roar! The earth cake sure was awesome! It was lunar melon flavored and really tasty! It was definitely nice to be able to share it with a new friend!
Here Ms Rabbit and I are watching the Autumn Moon rise over the calm bay. She said this was here favorite Lunar holiday and she was glad to spend it with someone like me! Ms Rabbit is such a friendly person, I'm really lucky to have met someone like her on my chance visit to YYC!
Roar! Here is the Autumn Earth reflected in the calm bay!
After a nice evening in Yue York City it was time for me to head back to NYC. I asked Ms Rabbit if there was any way to send me back home. She was sad to see me go but told me that they had an ancient Lunar space craft that might work! Turns out it was a chair with fireworks attached to the legs and an umbrella on top! Despite its flimsy appearance Ms Rabbit assured me it would work...
Sure enough after blast off and a short ride back to NYC I splashed down in Flushing Bay! Bao Bao was really surprised when I told him about my time in Yue York City but happy that I made it back safe and sound! Roar!
Roar! I'm just your average T-Rex trying to make it in the big city. I love riding my bike and looking for adventure. Check out all the ridiculous stuff I've been up to in the city. A T-Rex has to stay busy somehow!
