Hotels can be mini art galleries. In my memory it's been done in Eugene and in Portland on Interstate Avenue. The Ace Hotel did a version connected to the Portland independent fashion and stylist world. Now the Society Hotel has revived it.
Content 2024 has artists Rain Ezra, Dandy Gal, Arbor House, Brady Lange, Madre Linen + Camille Shu, Carolina Dulanto, Chris Lael Larson, Danielle Delceppo, Elouise Elliott, Father Fannie, Francesca Lohmann, Gili Rappaport, Holly Stalder, Hyun Jung Jung, i. max. miller, Nishimoto Is The Mouth, Spacelab, Kate Towers, Kristen Diederich, Making Earth Cool, Martie Kilmer: Space Design, Mary Luczycki, Megan Sinclair, Melissa Monroe, Michelle Freedman, Nami Hall, Rachael Modrcin, Sam Kalafat, Savina Monet and Outsrc.
Tickets are going to be needed in advance. There are two sessions, Noon-4 and 6-11. All ages. Tickets https://www.merctickets.com/events/148440551/content-a-multi-discplinary-fully-immersive-art-take-over. Content https://www.wearecontentpdx.com/ at the Society Hotel 203 NW 3rd Noon-4 and 6-11 $25-30
Pythagoras was wrong. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2419442-pythagoras-was-wrong-about-the-maths-behind-pleasant-music/#:~:text=An%20ancient%20Greek%20belief%20about,appreciate%20harmony%2C%20researchers%20have%20found. People like Western music and Eastern music with different rhythms and scales.
That brings us to the gamelan. It is back in public in Portland.
A gamelan is an Indonesian percussion symphony with added instruments, no conductor, and the possibility of improvisation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEWCCSuHsuQ It has existed about two millennia. Lewis and Clark College, with it's excellent ethnomusicology program, has a gamelan.
Tonight is a gamelan concert and a documentary Goong: Sound Through Fire on forging and tuning a large bronze Gamelan gong.
At Agnes Flanagan Chapel, Lewis & Clark College, 615 SW Palatine Hill Road. 7:30PM Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gamelan-music-film-goong-sound-through-fire-tickets-826739960477?aff=oddtdtcreator $20, discounts for students
Tatsumi Hijikata was born 96 years ago in Northern Japan. At age 31 he created the first Butoh dance work a new form of modern dance. He died at age 57 leaving a family tree of performers though it is still a niche few see live.
Tonight Hiroko Tamano from San Francisco and Kaoru Okumura from Seattle perform a piece entitled Awakening of Insects on Hijikata's birthday.
Awakening of insects https://www.sfzc.org/calendar/events/city-center/kei-chitsu-awakening-insects-butoh-performance-cc-39 at the San Francisco Zen Center 308 Page Street $35 Sold Out
