G Lucas Crane
Sound Artist
•Selected Performances
2014
Trance/Door/Trap/Door solo performance on trance and dreams Roulette Intermedium
This Was The End Sound design and performance remixed Uncle Vanya/proust mashup Chocolate Factory NYC
Composing the Tinnitus Suites collaboration with Daniel Fishkin in a room sized instrument Nothing Space NYC
Greg Fox and G Lucas Crane Duo collaboration with Marshal Allen, Antwerp, BE
GeekSlam tape collage performance exploring the Seinfeld themesong,ExtraPoolNijmegen, NL
2013
HeptaGamesa series of sound improvisation games Psych Farms Franklin NY
50 Years of CassettesAll day international tape music collaborationSilent Barn,NYC
Fete ofMistakesSound design and performance for theater piece about love and sweetsIncubator Arts Project NYC
Sunrise Series Performance piece during the length of the sunrise Silent Barn NYC
Live from the Control Room analogue sound and video feedback performance Museum of Art and Design NYC
2012
Target First Saturday Artist talk and performance Brooklyn Museum of American Art
The Lonely Pier Collage Performance and video feedback installation Meulensteen Gallery NYC
Haunted Blovat Live haunted collaboration with Ric Royer Sound composition/text The Stone NYC
Aki Onda and G Lucas Crane Duo Tape collage collaboration performance Dense Mesh NYC
Sam Hilmer and G Lucas Crane collaboration performance Zebulon NYC
Dictionary Trees, Microphone Flowers Sound recording installation with Nick Chatfield-Taylor Gotcheer Hall NYC
2011
NOVA CRIMES Live Video and sound composition exploring alternate realities and detective work Roulette NYC
G Lucas Crane and Silver ApplesLive collage composition “ten inch eye” and “neversink frogteeth” opening for Silver Apples psychedelic synth band WORM Rotterdam
The Red Tapes Video performance and storytelling Instantes Chavires, Paris, FR
The Vennter Sci-fiperformance and video in a room shaped like a torus on dangerous mysterious beings Queens College of Art Library
Aki Onda’s Diary Release composition of little movements for Printed Matter Printed Matter
Certain Distinctions tape collage to accompany collaborative live printing of a book exploring the nature of “the gradient” PS 1 ArtbookFair NYC certain distinctions
Finished live sound collage based on collected sounds of a Risograph machine in operation Chashama 42nd St NYC
Moral Kombat musical collaboration to objectively discern ‘moral content’ in music Clocktower Gallery NYC
Sequence of Waves ‘Non-Amoral Control Room’ sound installation St Cecilia’s Convent NYC
2010
Vanya Revisited Tape collage sound design of Checkov’s Uncle Vanya PS 122 New York
Woods with The Joshua Light Show sound/light collaboration with the all-analogue oil-and-mirrors light artist Joshua White Abrons Art Center NYC
Nonhorse ‘Don’t Fuck it Up’ European Tour 15 cities Europe and UK solo tape collage pieces
Nonhorse: BASEWARS tape collage based performance on 90’s videogame samples Showpaper/Babycastles Galley
Certain Distinctionsimprovised collaboration with 4 musicans and a dancer for the _Quarterly opening Silent Barn NYC
Necro Set derivations on evil, Prince songs, and the word “Vumm” with Ric Royer as part of the festival “Noise” Ontological-Hysteric Theater NYC
Four Tapes From the Active Apocalypse solo performance and DVD release upon completion of the Experimental Composer Residency Clocktower Gallery NYC
Realms of the Unstablesolo tape performance and with Woods Family Band Vacant Gallery Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
Nonhorse Breaks solo tape collage performance Culture Lab at Newcastle University Newcastle UK
Delay Chains interactive sound installation inside the Shindler ‘Buck’ House for the BrightWhite Underground show by Jeremy Lowe and Jonah Freeman Country Club Productions LA
Uncanny Valley Frankenstein androids, monsters, and post-op make-out sessions with Ric Royer Dixon Place NYC
2009
Trash Fire. . (with Jake Freeman) Two derelict hobos remember their favorite movies after the fall of man. Tape manipulated drone music with movement and thrown garbage. Transmodern Festival, Baltimore, MD
Haunted Nights solo tape collage PPOW gallery New York
Imaginary Plastic live soundtrack to films by Bradley Eros Issue Project Room, New York
Nonamoral Confusion/DroneSeveral sound performance pieces utilizing and about degraded samples, analogue tape, handmade broken equipment, source confusion and media fear. The Stone, New York
Castanets Improvisation and compositions for guitar and tape collage Central Park SummerStage New York
50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen A lonely tired child star endures the loss of his partner his shoes and his teeth. A theatrical assault of syrupy words and curdled sound. Ontological-Hysteric Theater New York
Woods at the Dan Graham Retrospective psychedelic rock songs and quick cutting foundsound Whitney Museum of American Art New York
ShadowWorld a quantum voodoo album and performance series, with accompanying album on Upstairs Records (various venues in NYC)
Tripod Robot Tour Solo tape compositions with CasperElectronics and Embarker Hampshire College
Woods North America Tour Six-week, 38 shows in a row tour of 21st century USA with Swedish psychedelic mainstays Dungen USA
2008
Dark Cabinet of the Strange Weird. Ric Royer and G. Lucas Crane take the art of the scary story to new dimensions and extremes as they combine Royer's surreal tales of the darkly humorous macabre with Crane's intensely terrifying soundscapes. This special vinyl release comes in a box designed by Baltimore artist Erin Womack and includes other scary secret inserts.
Cassette Crusts On Tape Trips - A Cassette Night.Live tape collage piece focused on the sound of tapes themselves. At the AB in Brussles, Belgium.
Alles in Enem Bus Tour. Improvised tape and guitar soundscapes as part of the group ‘Time Life’ across Germany.
Way Out (with Heidi Diehl) Improvisation and songs for guitar and tapes and broken radio performed at Kinky Kong, Athens, Greece
Oh What War Live tape soundtrack as part of Juggernaught theater company’s dark WWI era production about group of crazed war deserters lost in no mans land a mash-up of mud, noise, history and song that zeroes in on the great war machine that holds us captive. Here Arts Center New York, NY.
High Zero Experimental music festival with local and international music freaks and geniuses (with Cris Corsano) Theater Project Baltimore MD
Trauma Horse screaming, jokes and broken techno music fragments with Ric Royer Ontological Hysteric theater New York
Pink Light Music compositions about the UFO abduction experience. Abrams Art Center, Market Hotel, Death By Audio New York
2007
Shimmering Winter Folds Tour solo tour of collage music and hypereffected trumpet blasts UK and Europe
Xol Mic Musical exploration of a true life missing child story Silent Barn New York
Ghost Stories. Ghost stories by Ric Royer with Ghost music by G Lucas Crane. Performed at various venues (including Catch Series, NYC; Galapagos Art , NYC; The Bank, Baltimore) from 2005-2007.
2006
Hystery of Heat. Presented by the Performance Thanatology Research Society at the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre. Premier April 27, restaged August 16-19. Subsequently restaged at DC Arts Center in Washington and Baltimore Theatre Project in 2007.
City Sample.(With Ric Royer at the Conflux Festival) We recorded some sounds of Brooklyn while running six-blocks through the city, ending up at the gallery. We immediately use these sounds in an improvised music performance once we arrive.
KR-AAA-K Festival (with Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice) Drone/folk set as part of the festival with shows in Amsterdam and Trier. Hasslet, Belgium
2005
Communicable Horror...and Terror!A multimedia Performance Thanatology collage of horror films and real life horror. Featuring Ric Royer, G Lucas Crane, Jackie Milad and Bonnie Jones (with guest surprises by Dan Breen and Lauren Bender). Performed at 14 Karat Cabaret in Baltimore and The Ontological-Hysteric's Downstairs Series in New York.
Performance Thanatology: Sick, Dying, Dead. Improvised noise and poetics with Ric Royer and G. Lucas Crane. On bill with Dan Breen and Catherine Pancake (Roctopus), CD release show for Performance Thanatology's They Lured Us into the Basement. Soundlab, Buffalo NY
•Curatorial Work
2013 – 50 Years of Cassettes Tape Musician Fesitval
2011 – Moral Kombat Series Ongoing Performance series exploring morality in musical performance. A machine measuring moral content is applied to two collaborating musicians.
2010 – Healthcare Festival 20 artist experimental music festival exploring the lack of heath insurance, and the meaning of “paying it forward”
2009 - Drone For Debt Festival 15 local/international artist experimental music performance festival exploring the notion of “debt”.
•Professional Affiliations
2005-Co-director/curator, Silent Barn, NYC
2001-Sound Artist-in-residence, Performance Thanatology Collective, Baltimore MD
2002-Tape-manipulation artist, Woodsist Records
2008- Noise artist, Restless ProductionsTheater Company
2011- Creative Electronic Synthesizer Design, Casperelectronics, Troy NY
•Residencies/Fellowships
2014 – New York State Council of the Arts
2013- Jerome Fellowship, Roulette Intermedium NYC
2011 – Moddrlab Artist in Resident, WORM Rotterdam
2011 – LMCC Swing Space Grant
2010 – Experimental Composer Residency, Clocktower Gallery, NYC
2010 – Innovative Electronics and Performance Residency, CasperLand Studios, Troy, NY
2009 - ‘Living Drone’ Performance Residency, Load Of Fun Theater, Baltimore