Laura Ortman: Dust Dives Alive

MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2020
8:00 PM

Isolated Field Recording Series
ISSUE Project Room

Free (donations requested)
https://issueprojectroom.org/event/isolated-field-recording-series-laura-ortman-dust-dives-alive

Laura Ortman's musical career grew out of her former visual arts career (although she had been trained as a musician since childhood).  And her music sounds like it:  it's clearly part of an esthetic gestalt, not a thing in itself.  It's not musique concrète, but it's concrete music:  the sounds she uses have a solidity, an almost corporeal existence.  So she's almost perfectly situated to do a piece based on Quarantine-derived found sounds.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Algonquin (named after the hotel, not the indigenous people — so no, this is not some kind of tasteless reference to Laura Ortman's proud Native American background):  pour 2 oz. Rye and 1 oz. each of dry Vermouth and pineapple juice into an ice-filled cocktail shaker.  Shake.  Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe.