notes and credits
2012
Liminal Presents Gertrude Stein: Capital Capitals (composed Virgil Thomson), Stephen
Alexander (piano), singers: Andre Flynn, Thomas Prislac, Leo Daedalus, and Ammon
Morris
Liminal Presents Gertrude Stein: One Dancing (composed JSB), singers: Margie
Boulé, Helen Funston, Carla Grant, Kirsten Kyllingstad, Danielle Larson,
Jenny Newbry Waters
2008
Undine: Faith Helma - vocals, melody composer; John Berendzen - track
composer, sound designer; includes samples from The
Crystals, Cat Power, NIN, Einsteutzende Neubaten, Jim Jones and the People's
Temple Choir, Bob Dylan; others
2007
Eclipse: David Abel - voice, text concept and arrangement; John Berendzen -
tuning, 10-channel spatializing; Roland Barthes, source text
Mary Oslund + Co Dance: SKY: Ammon Morris - tenor; Tim DuRoche - drums; JSB -
Korg POLY-800 synth, baritone; lyrics from textbook, Correlative
Neuroanatomy; melody on Potential by Ammon Morris/jsb; all drum
parts by Tim DuRoche
2006
Win Win: lyric by Roy Lichtenstien; Ms. Leo Chapeau, contralto; JSB,
weak baritone
Far Away: lyric by Caryl Churchill; Madeleine Sanford, lead vocal; Jen Olsen -
drone vocal
2005
The Parametric Orchestra
The
Resurrectory, Liminal, live @ Portland Art Center
David Abel-voice; Frank Marroquin-cello; Travis McAlister, Layne Lebahn-electronic sax;
Berendzen-composition, keyboard, sound design; Lyrics arranged by Alex
Reagan, jsb, and Bryan Markovitz
SALT: co-composed/performed by Frank Marroquin-cello, Jonathan
Sielaff-bass klar, Travis McAllister-euphonium; David Abel, JSB-voice, Korg
POLY-800
NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT ENOUGH OXYGEN:
UNTITLED
dance: Gregg Bielmeier - voice, choreographer; Nick Hope - trumpet; jsb - violin;
O GOD, I HATE MY LIFE: covers of songs by Drench;
Those guys singing and playing on I Hate My Life were these random Australian
kids that Jerry M. dragged over to my basement to make that demo. I
didn't do much except line up the tracks. Weird.
marimba
sextet - for Rev. Chozen Bays
2004 Richard
Foreman Minifest, @ Performance Works NorthWest
Chopin Varieties (Bryan Markovitz & Amanda Boekelheide-voices; text
Richard Foreman)
2003
minimal at liminal
In C (Terry Riley) mallets-Topher Towe, Matthew
Nydek, Derek Trost; voice-Michael Stirling; winds-Michael Walsh, Jonathan
Sielaff, David Noel Moscovich, John Hagelbarger, John Gross; guitar-Moses
Gunesch; accordion-Gabriel Liston; Juno synth, direction-John
Berendzen
John Cage piano - Amanda Boekelheide; shortwave
radio on 4'33" - Bryan Markovitz
you know what by you know whom Frank Marroquin, piano
Faust(faust) @ Liminal
Frank Marroquin, John Berendzen - piano, harmonium,
vibraphone, organ; Ammon Morris, Bryan Markovitz - tenors; Linda
Miles - alto; 'Earthy' and 'Airy' tracks
group-improvised; text by Alex Reagan
sound design for 3
Plays 5 Lives @ Liminal
integrated with set design by Trent Moore/Bryan Markovitz; voices -
Madeleine Sanford, Jeff Marchant, Patrick Wohlmut, Amanda Boekelheide;
text by Alex Reagan
2002
7 Deadly Sins (Brecht/Weill)
Lyndee Mah, soprano; Ammon Morris,
Trent Moore, Branko Glad, Michael Cook - male chorus; Stephen Alexander,
piano & musical co-director; winners, Portland Critics' Circle Award
2002
2001
sound design for Objects for the Emancipated Consumer, Liminal
Alex Reagan, text; Matt Kenneth, dj; voices by Amanda Boekelheide,
Jeff Marchant, Trent Moore, Jennifer Olson, John Berendzen; winner, best
Original Work - Portland Critics' Circle Award 2001
1999
The Evening with The Photograph Liminal
Andria Alefhi, flute; jsb, organ; text from TS Eliot's Four Quartets
Jowl Movements i-ix @ Liminal: Michael Walsh, contrabass; Moses
Gunesch, violin; John Berendzen, piano
The Chromatic Persuaders: Andria Alefhi - sax, flute; Kim Bayer -
drums;
John Berendzen - Korg POLY-800; Cyndy Chan - bass and clarinet