Mudra/Shot
By Mariko Endo & Dary John Mizelle
“Shot” is a collaborative work between Dance, Music and Film. Mariko Endo’s original solo performance to Dary John Mizelle’s new music composition conveys the message of Stop Gun Violence. Endo’s dance choreography tries to speak on One finite life through vulnerability and hope. Filmed by Fred Hatt. In 2020 April, “Shot” premiered at an online Gala concert, Spread Spectrum Festival which was broadcasted in Moscow, NewYork, Tokyo, Stuttgart and Melbourne. Supported by New York Composer Circle.
Mudra/Shot
I made the short electronic piece Mudra in the summer of 2020 to be performed with the dance film Shot by Mariko Endo and Fred Hatt. The sounds were composed from sampling trombone sounds as well as additive synthesis and frequency modulation algorithms. The main musical process I used was canon and the final musical gesture of five sounds is a temporal microcosm of the macroform of the whole piece.
Dary John Mizelle
About the artists
Dary John Mizelle
Dary John Mizelle has been pursuing an infinite vision of music since the 1960’s. He earned a B. A. an M. A. and a PhD in California universities with the mentors: Larry Austin, Richard Swift, Jerome Rosen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, David Tudor, Roger Reynolds, Robert Erickson, Pauline Oliveros and Kenneth Gaburo. He has composed more than 600 compositions, and 40 jazz tunes. He is currently working on the SPANDA project, 320 hours of music. He makes his home in Westchester County, NY and studies yoga and meditation.
https://daryjohn.wixsite.com/daryjohnmizelle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ml6ge5Rvw&t=18s
Mariko Endo
Mariko Endo concurrently studied Butoh under Akira Kasai, one of the co-founders of the Butoh movement. From 2000 to 2004, she toured throughout Japan and the U.S. with Dairakudakan, Japan's national Butoh company, under the direction of the legendary Akaji Maro. More recently, Ms. Endo has collaborated with international artists to produce multimedia performance art. At the garden of the American Museum of Natural History, Mariko performed to Dary John Mizelle's music, "Metal Song". At the New York Butoh Institute Festival at Theater for the New City, Mariko performed to Joel Thome’s music, “Adoration of The Divine Mother”, a canto from SAVITRI TRAVELER OF THE WORLDS (Pulitzer Prize Nomination). At the American Dance Guild Festival at Ailey Citigroup Theater, Ms. Endo performed "Heavy Water" by Gloria McLean, a recognized founder of the American modern dance tradition. Both of them traveled to Japan, performed “Heavy Water” in Tokyo Daigo Fukuryū Maru Memorial Peace Park.
Fred Hatt
Fred Hatt is a visual artist, writer, photographer, filmmaker, and projectionist based in New York City for over 30 years. He often collaborates with dancers or performers, making dance for camera, shadow play, painting as performance, and other combinations of visual media and live performance. Fred Hatt’s work is about moving and perceiving, the process of practice and the seeking of magic.