Another Busy Friday

University of Alaska Anchorage Art Department Chairman Mariano Gonzales' installation at the art gallery in Alaska Pacific University's Grant Hall opened Friday evening. The installation asks people to write their feelings about our continuing wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan on papers placed upon a long wall. By the time the opening was over at 6:30 p.m, his papers were almost 25% full.

As part of the opening, I performed a new version of Shards, for bugle and electronic sound.

Here is how the space looked from behind my music stand:
Here is National Guard veteran Macon Roberts, writing his long comment:
Here is the comment by APU President, Doug North (please note the facile misspelling of the word guerrilla by the president of a university):

After packing up my sound gear at APU, I drove out to the Palmer fairgrounds, for the Friends of Mat-Su fundraiser with Mr. Whitekeys. He had a lot of great new material.

Here's a shot during the Crazy Woman sequence:
Author Joe McGinniss and Mr. Whitekeys:
Here's AK Muckraker, Brian the Moose and Whitekeys, after the show:

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