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The Catmull-Rom Players

In the Catmull-Rom players, John Roach invited a group of participants to donate words or sounds to be used in conjunction with three games designed by Joe McKay. The games are Line Drawing, Gears and Gears Evolved. Use the index below to learn more about each of the contributed works.

Line Drawing

WORDS

Title:
The forces acting on our lives

About:
Juan José is an Artist working in painting and film

Duration:
1:07

Title:
Starting Line 1

About:
Nancy is a novelist unloved by capitalism.

Duration:
1:00

Title:
Some Instructions for Line Drawing

About:
Seph is an arts writer.

Duration:
1:38

Title:
Line Drawing

About:
Matt is a poet.

Duration:
00:18

Title:
Starting Line 2

About:
Nancy is a novelist unloved by capitalism.

Duration:
2:40

Title:
Line Drawing

About:
John is a curious evolutionary biologist

Duration:
2:27

Title:
The Good Object

About:
Julie is a literary critic and guitar player

Duration:
1:17

SOUNDS

Title:
Line Drawing

About:
Ranjit is an improvisor in structures and sound

Duration:
3:13

Title:
Saint Julien

About:
Jason is an artist and musician making presence

Duration:
00:49

Title:
Kutch Ball 1

About:
Aaron is a musician of all sorts.

Duration:
4:23

Title:
Mind Orbit

About:
Jenn is a sound sculptor/composer exploring the psycho-spatial

Duration:
4:57

Title:
Line Drawing

About:
Thessia is a visual and sound artist into the physics of sound and the sound of physics

Duration:
1:41

Title:
Holzhobel und Späne

Bio:
From contemporary jazz roots to layered acoustic–synthetic worlds, Wolf and Sujae’s dialogue keeps evolving.

Duration:
1:04

Title:
Aeolian Instrument 1

Bio:
Anthony is a Science Wizard, Aesthete, Inventor

Duration:
1:10

Title:
The Good Object 1

About:
Julie is a literary critic and guitar player

Duration:
00:45

Title:
The Good Object 2

About:
Julie is a literary critic and guitar player

Duration:
00:51

Gears

WORDS

Title:
Like Capitalism Performative and Not

About:
Koray is an Economic sociologist and an organization designer.

Duration:
3:17

Title:
Line Drawing

About:
Matt is a poet.

Duration:
00:28

Title:
Departments

About:
Otto is a designer.

Duration:
1:18

Title:
Yer, Yon, Yol

*note: This text is a segment from a Turkish poet/philosopher Oruc Aruoba’s book (1992) on walking. The particular poem is titled “yer, yon, Yol” translates as place, direction and path. Evren reads it in Turkish

About:
Evren is an urbanist and listener experimenting across mediums

Duration:
4:12

Title:
Escape and Heresy

*Note: This is an excerpt from a chapter of my dissertation.

About:
P.J. exists at the Academic/Administrative Borderlands

Duration:
3:32

Title:
Mycorrhiza

* Note: This is an excerpt from the 2012 text “Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species – for Donna Haraway” by the author Anna Tsing and read by John Roach

About:
Anna is a professor in the department of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.

Duration:
1:39

SOUNDS

Title:
DNA Ping Pong Dance

About:
Serena Stucke is a sound stalker.

Duration:
3:14

Title:
Gears

About:
Ranjit is an improvisor in structures and sound

Duration:
2:16

Title:
Kutch Ball 2

About:
Aaron is a musician of all sorts.

Duration:
3:32

Title:
Gears

About:
Thessia is a visual and sound artist into the physics of sound and the sound of physics

Duration:
2:37

Title:
Froggy’s Dream

Bio:
From contemporary jazz roots to layered acoustic–synthetic worlds, Wolf and Sujae’s dialogue keeps evolving.

Duration:
2:25

Title:
Ghost in the Machine

About:
Six is a multi-medium designer and artist

Duration:
3:04

Title:
Gears

About:
Concetta is a violinist, music composer, sound explorer.

Duration:
2:06

Title:
Displace Esclavage

About:
La Famille Joseph are: Lydia none , Charlène Diolle, Laëtitia Mariette, Kurwin Castel, Samuel Joseph, and Mathieu Joseph

Duration:
8:06

Gears Evolved

WORDS

Title:
Gears Evolved

About:
John is a curious Evolutionary Biologist

Duration:
00:27

Title:
On Joe MacKay’s game pieces

About:
Kaethe Wenzel is

Duration:
2:18

Title:
Line Drawing

About:
Matt is a poet.

Duration:
00:16

Title:
Gears Evolved – for John

About:
Caroline Bouissou am an interdisciplinary art player

Duration:
1:01

Title:
Dry Rot Empire

* Note: This is an excerpt from the 2012 text “Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species – for Donna Haraway” by the author Anna Tsing and read by John Roach

About:
Anna is a professor in the department of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.

Duration:
1:25

Title:
V. Time as seen from the machine

*Note: This is an excerpt from the 1899 text “How to Construct a Time Machine” by the author Alfred Jarry read by John Roach.

About:
Alfred Jarry was the papa of the Theater of the Absurd

Duration:
1:28

SOUNDS

Title:
Kutch Ball 3

About:
Aaron is a musician of all sorts.

Duration:
4:18

Title:
Gears Evolved

About:
Thessia is a visual and sound artist into the physics of sound and the sound of physics.

Duration:
1:00

Title:
Rumination

Bio:
From contemporary jazz roots to layered acoustic–synthetic worlds, Wolf and Sujae’s dialogue keeps evolving.

Duration:
3:23

Title:
Getting It Moving

About:
Mike is a transdisciplinary artist and composer

Duration:
2:12

Title:
Aeolian Instrument 2

Bio:
Anthony is a Science Wizard, Aesthete, Inventor

Duration:
1:31

Title:
Vibrasion

About:
La Frère Joseph are: Lydia none , Charlène Diolle, Laëtitia Mariette, Kurwin Castel, Samuel Joseph, Mathieu Joseph and Alex Joseph

Duration:
3:14

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