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AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALESAn extraordinary and haunting musical adventure into the psyche of a composer trying to create an opera based on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Desperately fighting against a disease eating away at his mind, he is forced to rely on a tape recorder hung around his neck, each day pressing "Play" and hearing yesterday’s instructions to himself. Described by thee New York Timessas "an American loner-eccentric with touches of Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, and Tom Waits," Rinde Eckert displays his full creative force in this frenzied, funny, romantic and moving play. [more] |
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BECOMING UNUSUAL….THE EDUCATION OF AN ECLECTICA work-in-progress, solo concert of song, dramatic monologues, lecture and video from RINDE ECKERT’s anthology of theatrical loners. Since the early 1980s, Rinde Eckert has been writing, composing, performing and directing evocative and haunting performance pieces and plays that have pushed at the edges of recognized theatrical form. With a virtuosic command of gesture and language, he moves beyond the boundaries of what a 'play,' a 'dance piece,’ an 'opera' or a 'musical' might be. In the service of grappling with complex issues, his work is a series of variations on a smart, slightly cock-eyed Everyman who begins his journey with a pure sense of mission and descends into the maelstrom. [more]
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BIG FARMIt answers a call to each of these musicians to a place where the rules normative to the hard genres of music are set aside. Under fthe banner of ‘prog-rock’ it becomes possible for the group to express the eclecticism of its members, a place where serious counterpoint can meet burlesque, earnestness meet abandon; a place where we can kick it or take it to tea, reflect, attack, mourn, dance, pray, or mock with ease or determination, joy or fervor, using any and all means necessary. This world is a big farm – lots of different crops, changing weather, livestock, and a duck pond for good measure. [more] |
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PAST PROJECTSBody of work that spans from Rinde's early career. [more]
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