Lori Goldston’s restless curiosity and the adaptive sounds of her cello blur the lines of genre, time and geography. …read bio
“Goldston’s music constituted a kind of physical enactment of listening. She began in silence — absorbing the moment and the film — and then her sound emerged, shifting and responding to what she took in.” – Artforum
RIP Seattle Music Figure Robert Jenkins
I was shocked and very sorry to learn that the day before yesterday my dear friend Robert Jenkins had been found dead his Boston apartment. My understanding is that he died peacefully of natural causes. Prior to moving to Boston several years ago he'd been a powerful presence in Seattle for decades, a wonderful friend and a busy, wildly inspiring musician. He left a huge, beautiful mark on this town. He was fierce and feral and sweet, easily among the most committed performers I've ever seen or performed with, and a beautifully moral and political being. He grew up in Olympia in the '50s and '60s and told me once about the shocking, wonderful experience of hearing the Sonics live as kid. An unmistakable piece of their raw energy stayed with him for the rest of life.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Lineout, The Stranger music blog
Charismatic Megafauna:
a new work for film and live music by Lori Goldston and Vanessa Renwick
Charismatic Megafauna premiered in Seattle in October, 2011; radical documentary film maker Vanessa Renwick wove together footage from her own teenage life hitchhiking with a wolf dog, and video documentation shot by biologists reintroducing wolves into the western USA in the late 90’s. Cellist/composer Lori Goldston, along with guitarist Dylan Carlson, vocalist Jesska Kenney and percussionist Greg Campbell performed a live score.
The work is an opportunity to meditate on humans’ place in the concrete landscape: waiting for the bus, bustling to work while the wolf dog scavenges in the gutter, and humans performing the act known perversely as “wildlife management” on wolves.
“Dogs, with their running legs, sharp noses and developed memory for sounds, are the natural frontier experts of these interstices. Their eyes, whose message often confuses us for its urgent and mute, are attuned both to the human order and to other visible orders.”
– John Berger, The Shape of the Pocket
Soundtracks for films by Britta Johnson
With Earth in Glasgow, Scotland. April, 2011.
Earth is an instrumental rock band, begun by guitarist Dylan Carlson in 1989. Its songs are long, slow, heavy, minimal, droney and glacially cinematic. Goldston has been a member since 2009, touring Europe and the U.S. and along with Carlson, drummer Adrienne Davies and bassist Karl Blau, recording two albums for release on Southern Lord, Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light, Parts I and II.
Review and audio clip on NPR music.
Part I was released in 2011, and Part II will be released in 2012. A 2012 European tour is in the works.
Share This Place animations by Britta Johnson
Mirah and Spectratone International performing Share This Place in Portland.
Films by Linas Philips, soundtracks by Lori Goldston and Tara Jane O’Neil:
Solo performance at Dock Rock, Lake Union, Seattle, 2009
Live scores for early silent films:
Murnau's Sunrise
Co-founder with partner Kyle Hanson of The Black Cat Orchestra, Lori is a frequent collaborator in dance, film and music from other disciplines. She has played with Nirvana, David Byrne, Cat Power, Earth, Mirah, John Doe, the Wedding Present, Laura Veirs, Secret Chiefs 3, Parenthetical Girls, TU, Larry Barrett, Malcom Goldstein, the Dead Science, Portland Cello Project, Matana Roberts, Olivia Block, Kimya Dawson, Angelo Spencer et les Hauts Sommets, Your Heart Breaks, Ô Paon, Ellen Fullman, Tara Jane O'Neil, Cynthia Hopkins, Natacha Atlas and many others. … discography