$10-$20
Suggested Donation for Performances
(nobody turned away)
(nobody turned away)
2024
M P
Landis' visual compositions series lay out a mosaic of
12 x 9 pieces. Each piece thought of as a note: the
whole composition left to the performers to interpret
how they may choose to.
Patrick
Corrigan, co-founded The Apohadion Theater in
Portland Me in 2009, and has performed in
experimental groups with Crank Sturgeon, RJ Miller,
Sam Seda, Aidia Rayne, David Yearwood and
others.
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| A drummer for whom the drums are an instrument of storytelling, Laura Cromwell has performed all over the world with boundary breaking musicians such as Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Jamie Saft, and the Shaggs. As a self-taught musician and child of downtown NYC, she brings a wildcard aesthetic to free improvisation: anything is possible, expect the unexpected! She is very excited to be performing at the Cannery with the work of MP Landis. |  |
| Bea Gates The Burning Key, New & Selected Poems (1973-2023) features new & uncollected poetry, letterpress editions, translations and selection from seven books. Gates has collaborated with printmakers, painters, weavers, and composers. Gates curates SIDELINES/ In Translation: Collaborations from the world at The Cannery where she serves on the Board. She has life-long roots in Maine, with significant time in NYC and San Francisco, and lives in Maine where she teaches in academic and community settings and works as a freelance editor. |  |
M P Landis
is an artist living and
working in Maine. He's lived and worked in
Provincetown, MA and Brooklyn, NY. In NYC along with
his studio practice, he was very active in the NYC
downtown music scene, photographing and painting
both on and off the stage, and collaborating with
musicians, writers, dancers and other visual
artists. In 2015, he and his family moved to
Portland.
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| Christopher Pirsos is a
musician & composer based in Blue Hill, Maine. He
grew up dancing to the clarinet music of Epirotic
Greece in his grandparents' living room, which started
his love of reed instruments, drones, &
improvisation. He's from northern New Jersey
originally, where he was lucky to receive a saxophone
as a hand me down from his older cousin. Since then,
he's enjoyed exploring sound by playing in barns,
underneath railroad passes, and on islands.
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| The Asthmatic (Sigrid Harmon) is a Maine based singer/sound collage artist. She regularly performs avant cut-up vocal pieces that are entirely improvisational. She hopes to combine sounds from the animal kingdom with human cadences/phonetics, in turn creating dissonant, sweltering soundscapes. |
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M P Landis'
visual compositions series lay out a mosaic of 12 x 9
pieces. Each piece thought of as a note: the whole
composition left to the performers to interpret how they
may choose to.
Since
his emergence on the west coast in the late
1970s, saxophonist/composer Phillip Greenlief
has achieved international acclaim for his
recordings and performances with musicians
and composers in the post-jazz continuum as
well as new music innovators and virtuosic
improvisers. He has performed with Wadada
Leo Smith, Meredith Monk, Rashaun Mitchell
& Silas Reiner, and They Might Be
Giants. Albums include two LANTSKAP LOGIC
TRIO releases (w/ Evelyn Davis and Fred
Frith), THAT OVERT DESIRE OF OBJECT with
Joelle Leandre, ALL AT ONCE with FPR (Frank
Gratkowski and Jon Raskin), and OH THAT
MONSTER with LA punk pioneers Thelonious
Monster.
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M P Landis is an artist
living and working in Maine. He's lived and
worked in Provincetown, MA and Brooklyn, NY.
In NYC along with his studio practice, he was
very active in the NYC downtown music scene,
phographing and painting both on and off the
stage, and collaborating with musicians,
writer, dancers and other visual artists. In
2015, he and his family moved to Portland.
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 Claudia
La Rocco�s books include The Best Most
Useless Dress: Selected Writings (Badlands
Unlimited) and the novel petit cadeau,
published in live, digital, and print editions
by The Chocolate Factory. She was a critic for
The New York Times, editorial director of Open
Space, and now edits The Back Room at Small
Press Traffic. Her poetry and prose are widely
anthologized and her lectures and performance
works have been presented by The Walker Art
Center, On the Boards, The Whitney Museum of
American Art, et al. Her collaborators include
visual artist Anne Walsh, choreographers
Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, and
musician/composer Phillip Greenlief, with whom
she is animals & giraffes, an experiment
in interdisciplinary improvisation.
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Leslie
Ross
-bassoonist,
composer & sound artist, sound
installation artist & performer-
took a plunge in the 80's into the dance and
music improv scene of downtown NYC and has
immersed herself in experimental music ever
since. Leslie has presented solo acoustic and
electro-acoustic programs, exhibited sound
installations, worked with choreographers and
played and toured with numerous musicians
throughout the US, Canada and Europe at: Dance
Space Project, PS 122, Jack Tilton Gallery,
Lincoln Center Summer Stage, DIA, Roulette
Intermedium, Experimental Intermedia, Issue
Project Room, The Western Front, Skoll, Het
Apolohuis, De Ijsbreker, LOGOS Foundation,
Rote Fabrik among other places.
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M P
Landis' visual compositions series lay out a mosaic of
12 x 9 pieces. Each piece thought of as a note: the
whole composition left to the performers to interpret
how they may choose to.
Kat plays the trombone,
sings, screams, and sometimes uses garbage as a
musical instrument. (Melrose MA)
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M P Landis is an artist living
and working in Maine. He's lived and worked in
Provincetown, MA and Brooklyn, NY. In NYC along with
his studio practice, he was very active in the NYC
downtown music scene, phographing and painting both on
and off the stage, and collaborating with musicians,
writer, dancers and other visual artists. In 2015, he
and his family moved to Portland.
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| "I'm a "downeast" Maine
artist/educator who co-leads recording &
performance
groups and projects along
with some ordinary musical entities and solo
pursuits... I'v enjoyed wondrous experiences
with N. B. Aldrich & friends, Les Trois Etoiles,
Joel Chadabe, The Field Guides, SPU & Milo, Jaap
Blonk, & others, sometimes
at Xfest, Frantasia and
Bread & Puppet Theatre."
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Al
Margolis was a leader in the 1980s American
cassette underground through his cassette label
Sound of Pig Music and was co-founder of experimental music label Pogus Productions, which he continues to run. Active under the name If, Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition. |
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Central Maine-based
sound artist and musician Steve
Norton has been performing and recording for
over 35 years. His performance focus is on
improvisation, which is filtered through a
strongly compositional sensibility.
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Harley
Healy and Emma Jane are arriving at The Cannery
after a year and a half of collaboration. On their
way here, they recorded impromptu performances (en
route and at Denver union station, Washington DC
union station, and Lake Michigan). Here, they are
responding to themselves, in a performance which
culminates on this evening. Their collaboration
takes many forms including but not limited to dance,
site specific building/unbuilding, writing,
instrument construction, and shadow play. .
M P
Landis' visual compositions series lay out a mosaic of
12 x 9 pieces. Each piece thought of as a note: the
whole composition left to the performers to interpret
how they may choose to.
Guitar player,
improviser, field recordist, E.Jason
Gibbs' compositions are built from field
recordings, and explore the relationship between the
built and natural worlds and how humans impose
themselves on environments. His work for guitar is
improvised (drawing on minimalism, noise, free jazz
and fingerstyle).
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M P Landis is an artist living
and working in Maine. He's lived and worked in
Provincetown, MA and Brooklyn, NY. In NYC along with
his studio practice, he was very active in the NYC
downtown music scene, phographing and painting both on
and off the stage, and collaborating with musicians,
writer, dancers and other visual artists. In 2015, he
and his family moved to Portland.
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 David Watson is an experimental musician. He plays guitar and bagpipes, working inside and outside of traditions. |
 Harley
Healy and Emma Jane O�Mara in residency at the
Cannery are keen to participate in this evening of
Compositions Five and Six. They will
perform using made instruments, recorded sound, and
found objects.
Stay Tuned for more information about their performance on Wednesday July 31! |
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2-day training fee is $195. MB2M offers discounts or full scholarships to anyone who needs one.
The 1st
of a performance series throughout the season.
!Stay Tuned!
!Stay Tuned!
M P
Landis' visual compositions series lay out a mosaic of
12 x 9 pieces. Each piece thought of as a note: the
whole composition left to the performers to interpret
how they may choose to.
This first performance is a prelude and eve of M P's opening (June 30) and show at Cynthia Winings Gallery in Blue Hill.
This first performance is a prelude and eve of M P's opening (June 30) and show at Cynthia Winings Gallery in Blue Hill.
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Composer, soprano, and
improvisor Anna Dembska has been creating and
performing concert music, music theater, and
site-specific events and installations for over forty
years.
These days her work is
strongly influenced and inspired by the continuum of
nature and taoist philosophy through the practice of
tai chi, especially push-hands and its principals of
responsiveness and patience, connecting, following,
and adhering.
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M P
Landis is an artist living and working in Maine. In 1989 Landis moved to Provincetown, MA to concentrate on making visual art, his intention since early childhood. Soon after he moved to Brooklyn, NY where along with his studio practice, was very active in the NYC downtown music scene, phographing and painting both on and off the stage, and collaborating with musicians, writer, dancers and other visual artists. In 2015, he and his family moved to Portland. Since 1990 he has been in over 40 solo exhibitions and numerous 2-person and group exhibitions and is included in many publice and private collections. |
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id m theft able is a composer,
improviser and performer that works within and without
the realms of noise, avant-improvisation, sound
poetry, performance art, et c. et c. et c. using
voice, found objects, electronics, and whatever else
is available.
He has given over a
thousand performances across 4 continents, in 40
countries in settings ranging from the scummiest of
squats to the fanciest of festivals.
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Karin
Spitfire is an activist artist who uses whatever medium
necessary to get her message across, ranging from
performance to poetry, from artist books to sculpture. |
invite
your children, grandchildren, elders, neighbors
and friends!
also
an invitation to share some sprouting seeds,
beginnings of a project,
doesn't
have to be a craft project!
...a sweater, a poem, a tune, a seed, a thought, a proposal for action...
...a sweater, a poem, a tune, a seed, a thought, a proposal for action...
Come by ~when you can~
for the day / for the potluck / to say hi / early & later / whenever
Bring a project that you are working on, or find inspiration here.
(limited supplies for basket weaving, spinning, sewing and knitting will be on hand)
for the day / for the potluck / to say hi / early & later / whenever
Bring a project that you are working on, or find inspiration here.
(limited supplies for basket weaving, spinning, sewing and knitting will be on hand)
2023
closing
event
Live
readings and conversation with two
writers ZOOM'ing in from Maine State
Prison.
(Zoom attendance
option available, please inquire for
link)
Moderated
by poet, Bea Gates
Collin K, 2018
Poetry
has always been part of Lalee's
life. Introduced to poetry and
to traditional oral story
telling as a child in his native
country (Somalia), and seeing
poetry as an identity and a form
of deeper communication with the
universe and who/what it
contains, Lalee only lately
started exploring writing poems
in English.
Leo
has had a painful and complex
relationship with writing over
the course of his life. In
recent time he has been able to
use poetry as a cathartic means
of capturing and processing
moments of pain and reflection,
giving him an avenue of artistic
voice, unique from his
public-facing, political, or
scholarly works.
Last
chance to visit (quick
peek)!
FROM WITHIN exhibit
Friday
4-6 & Sunday 1-3
Through
December 3
an
Inclusive Community
Conversation
JOIN US
for a dynamic,
invigorating
discussion
about the
state of
justice,
inside and
outside the
system, inside
and outside
our own
selves, and
the powerful
promise of the
arts to effect
change.
Facilitated
by Larraine
Brown and
Norman Kehling
of AIMe
AIMe
- Artivism in
Maine employs
the arts and
culture as
powerful tools
to effect
social,
economic and
environmental
justice
throughout
Waldo County
and Maine.
HIIT (Helping
Incarcerated
Individuals
Transition) is
a
significant project
sponsored by
AIMe and
founded by
Norman
Kehling. Mr
Kehling was
sentenced to
forty four
years and
served
thirty years
at Maine State
Prison, seven
of those in
solitary
confinement.
Both education
and the arts
are important
in Mr
Kehling's life
as a free man.
Most important
is his
commitment to
work for the
rights of
those who are
still
incarcerated.
Ongoing
FROM WITHIN
exhibit Hours:
Friday
4-6 &
Sunday 1-3
Through
December 3
50
Years of hope
as resistance
From
San Francisco
Poet Laureate
Tongo
Eisen-Martin:
“Like witnessing a holy physics, … Gates makes all phenomena music. You will exit this collection transformed.”
“Like witnessing a holy physics, … Gates makes all phenomena music. You will exit this collection transformed.”
In
1975, Bea
Gates
returned to
Maine. Having
designed and
printed native
tongue
(hopalong
press, 1973),
she bound the
edition at
Gray
Parrot’s
Hancock
bindery. In
1976, she
moved hopalong
press from the
Berkshires to
the Larson’s
old canning
factory in
South
Penobscot
where she
founded
Granite Press
(1975-1989) as
poet, Book
Artist &
feminist
publisher.
There could be
a book about
moving
equipment and
building print
shops, but Bea
has written
more poetry
than prose,
now surfacing
in her new
collection—The
Burning Key,
New &
Selected Poems
(1973-2023)
from Thera
Books
featuring new
&
uncollected
poetry,
letterpress
limited
editions,
selections
from books
including
Lambda Poetry
Finalist In
the Open and
award-winning
translations.
Maine
Arts
Commission
Poetry Awardee
and MacDowell
fellow, Gates
taught writing
&
literature for
over twenty
years in the
Goddard MFA.
She has taught
in
undergraduates
and graduate
programs,
including
CCNY, Colby
College, NYU,
and continues
to teach
workshops and
one-to-one for
mixed
generations,
young adults,
and lgbtq folk
in rural &
urban
communities.
She initiated
SIDELINES:
Poems in
Translation in
more than one
language at
the Cannery in
2018. Her mail
still comes to
Penobscot. One
of two
remaining
Readings, out
of eight in
Maine! this
year.
a
three-part
exhibit
featuring art
by
incarcerated
individuals
Opening
Reception
3pm
we will be
joined on ZOOM
by artist John
Lanpher
Exhibit
Hours: Friday
4-6 &
Sunday 1-3
Through
December 3
Check
back for
related
upcoming
events
(e.g.
A community
Conversation
in Nov 19
w/special
guests)
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John
Lanpher III of
Southwest
Harbor picked
up a painting
and drawing at
the age of 36. The collection on display includes 10 works created on the outside and 10 works created on the inside of the Hancock County Jail. A selection of paintings by artists, incarcerated residents and formerly incarcerated residents, on loan from HIIT (Helping Incarcerated Individuals Transition) Also on display, from a Freedom and Captivity event is a selection of mbira's built at the Cannery workshop What does liberation look like? in October of 2021 |
an
electroacoustic
field of sound
and motion
Al
Margolis:
clarinet,
violin,
objects,
contact mics
Tom
Law:
Max/MSP,
treble viol
CillaVee:
movement,
voice
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Al
Margolis (aka
If, Bwana) is
some sort of
evil genius
working with
sources
radically
altered up to
an utterly
unrecognizable
state,
anarchic
manifestations
moving in
compact
determination.
He was active
in the 1980s
American
cassette
underground
through his
label Sound of
Pig Music, and
co-founded the
experimental
music label
Pogus
Productions,
which he
continues to
run.
https://ifbwana.bandcamp.com Tom Law improvises music with custom Max/MSP software and a viola da gamba Whenever possible, he also processes and live-samples the sounds of his collaborators. He is a native of South Carolina, where he opened the figmental Conundrum Music Hall in 2011, and closed it in 2015. He now resides in Saugerties, NY. bigsphinx.com CillaVee (Claire Elizabeth Barratt) is an interdisciplinary artist from the UK. She is the director of Cilla Vee Life Arts and The Center for Connection + Collaboration based in Asheville NC. She has an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute for Creative Research with Plymouth University, where she developed Living Art - a pedagogy for performance art. cillavee.com |
Featuring
Aldrich,
Norton &
Ross
Saturday,
July 8
A
CRANBERRY
ISLES
SOUNDSCAPE
Saturday,
June 10 -
Saturday, July
8
opening reception, featuring
E.
Jason Gibbs,
in concert
Saturday, June
10
concert
E.
Jason Gibbs
doors
open at 6 pm,
music at 7 pm
Continued
installation
hours:
Thursdays -
Sundays, from
12:00 to 6:00
PM
an
immersive
soundscape
installation
by the Island Soundscape Project
by the Island Soundscape Project
ollaborative
sense-making.
hours:
Thursdays -
Sundays, from
12:00 to 6:00
PM
opening reception, featuring
doors
open at 6 PM /
music at 7 PM
A
Cranberry
Isles
Soundscape
is a
four-channel
soundscape
installation
made from
audio
materials
gathered on
the five
islands
comprising the
Cranberry
Isles, a Maine
township which
lies just
south of the
much larger
(and well
known) Mount
Desert Island.
The project
was undertaken
with the
support and
encouragement
of the Great
Cranberry
Island
Historical
Society, where
it is part of
their
permanent
museum
collection. It
was also made
possible in
part by a
University of
Maine Arts
Initiative
grant.
A Cranberry Isles Soundscape was researched, recorded and composed between May, 2022 and April, 2023 by the Island Soundscape Project. The Island Soundscape Project is N.B.Aldrich, Adriana Cavalcanti and Steve Norton, who wish to acknowledge invaluable contributions from research assistants Merrilee Schoen and Sabrina Sudol.
A Cranberry Isles Soundscape was researched, recorded and composed between May, 2022 and April, 2023 by the Island Soundscape Project. The Island Soundscape Project is N.B.Aldrich, Adriana Cavalcanti and Steve Norton, who wish to acknowledge invaluable contributions from research assistants Merrilee Schoen and Sabrina Sudol.
concert
June
10, 7 PM
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| Guitar
player,
improviser,
field
recordist,
E.Jason Gibbs'
compositions
are built from
field
recordings,
and explore
the
relationship
between the
built and
natural worlds
and how humans
impose
themselves on
environments.
His work for
guitar is
improvised
(drawing on
minimalism,
noise, free
jazz and
fingerstyle).
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