The blog has been neglected these past two weeks, as I have been busy attending the Frantasia Festival in Livermore Falls, the largest "out music" festival in the state of Maine. Joe and Martin (of BreadRose) and I headed south toward Livermore Falls on Wednesday of last week, but before the festival began we caught the tail end of Water in the Woods, the annual pre-festival hang out and creative jam time in the woods. Water in the Woods is held at the camp of Frantasia creator Fran Szostek.I was getting ready to perform as well, having decided at the last minute to develop a monologue set to music, to be performed with Martin during his set. We practiced, hung out, caught up with other performers and grilled some squash in the fire. On Thursday, we headed into downtown Livermore Falls to Fran's house, where practicing continued, interspersed with swimming, eating the amazing food prepared for us, and practicing novel ways to make poetry into sound.
The festival was held Thursday through Saturday, August 19 -21, from 7 to 12 pm each evening and often a little later-- over fifteen hours of experimental music, noise, soundplay, improvisation and performance art. As usual, it was inspiring, cathartic, exhausting and beautiful-- and precious, too, because for those of us who find special value in "outside the box" music and sound, Frantasia is a once-a-year chance to fully indulge in listening and creating among like minded people.
id m theftable, Walter Wright and Joe Bergio
Loup-Gerou (Werewolf)
BreadRose
Video was created from all three nights of performance, and hopefully will be available at some point so that we can share that with you too. In the meantime, you can stream some videos of past performances from Frantasia's website. And for tons more photos, check out Frantasia's Facebook stream for day-by-day galleries.
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