![]() ![]() ![]() His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2000) the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2003) the Creative Capital (2004) Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2006) and a mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (2014).īill Frisell’s career as a guitarist and composer has spanned more than 40 years and many celebrated recordings. Throughout his career, Morrison has collaborated with some of the most celebrated musicians and composers of our time: John Adams, William Basinski, Maya Beiser, Gavin Bryars, Bill Frisell, Philip Glass, Vijay Iyer, Kronos Quartet, David Lang, Steve Reich, and Julia Wolfe, among many others. His most recent movie is The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021). Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) was included on numerous lists of the best films of the decade (2010s). The Great Flood (2013) was recognized with the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award for historical scholarship. His found footage opus Decasia (2002) was the first film of the 21st century to be selected to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. 1965, Chicago) has premiered films at the New York, Rotterdam, Sundance, and Venice film festivals, and major performance venues around the globe, including the Carnegie Hall, (2004), the Brooklyn Academy of Music (20), and the Barbican, London (2014). This performance of The Great Flood is co-presented with Texas Performing Arts in conjunction with Bill Morrison: Cycles & Loops, on view at the Visual Arts Center January 21 – March 12, 2022.īill Morrison (b. Put the two together the result moves up another creative and emotional level." - The Guardian Guitarist Bill Frisell's live soundtrack of howling blues chords, Thelonious Monk hooks, country-swing and Old Man River quotes would make a fine concert without a film, too. " would be a memorable drama even played in total silence. Together, historic imagery dances with the sound of modern music. Morrison’s projected film is accompanied by live performance of Frisell on guitar, Tony Scherr on bass, Kenny Wollesen on drums, and Ron Miles on trumpet. Frisell’s score is informed by elements of American roots music, mixing rock and country, jazz and blues. These events are reflected in Morrison’s film The Great Flood, a cinematic elegy based on archival photographs and newsreels and focused on ordinary people and their ability to adapt under extraordinary circumstances. Musically, the Great Migration fueled the evolution of acoustic blues to electric blues bands that thrived in cities like Memphis, Detroit, and Chicago, becoming the wellspring for R&B and rock as well as developing jazz styles. Part of its legacy was the forced exodus of displaced sharecroppers who left plantation life and migrated to Northern cities, adapting to an industrial society with its own set of challenges. The deadline is March 7.The Great Flood is a collaboration between filmmaker and multimedia artist Bill Morrison and guitarist and composer Bill Frisell inspired by the 1927 catastrophe. Many consider the flooding of the Mississippi Delta in 1927, which left 27,000 square miles of land underwater, to be the greatest natural disaster in the history of the United States. You can also email, call or send written comment. You can find more info here, or peruse the presentation yourself here. The study is scheduled to conclude in 2024. In addition to the floodwall (the yellow line) there are deployable barriers (red), elevated promenades (orange, in Battery Park City) and levees (green). The study shows much of Tribeca being underwater without any mitigation for floods. The wall would be permanent, and during flood warnings, a temporary wall would fill in the gaps at the crosswalks. It also seems to me that it is not all that inventive. I’m hoping this is one of those things that never gets built they have been working on the plans since 2016. (This is not to be confused with the city’s Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency Project - the Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice wrote to ask that I note that the Army Corps study is a separate process.) The federal Army Corps of Engineers has released rather shocking plans for the city to deal with future floods, and their proposal for our area so far - it’s preliminary - calls for a concrete wall to snake down the Westside Highway. I haven’t dug into this one yet but I thought everyone should see this image (it’s of Christopher Street, but we can extrapolate) now so they can whine along with me. ![]()
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