The Mural and the Mint

Hey all.  It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything, and here’s why.  Michael has been super busy with design/composition work, including: touring the show TAKES hey made with his wife’s company, NCDC to New York.  Download one of its poppier moments here: Delay Dance

He has also been busy a Live Arts Brewery Fellow, where he has been researching the roles of original choreography and composition, as well as exploring vocal improvisation as composition.  In short, he is researching and developing a new performance work for TM&TM, so stay tuned for that.  You can follow his research here: LAB

Also, Michael has been awarded a 2012 Independence Foundation Arts Fellowship.  This fellowship will be used to develop the biggest project yet for TM&TM.  It will be a site specific sound walk/album, or, a collection of songs to listen to while you traverse specific areas in Philadelphia.  Michael will use the scenic, sonic and historic elements of each place he selects, and create an aural representation of them.  The music will then be delivered to you through an original smartphone application that will use GSP to determine what you hear when, depending on your location within each walk.  Check back right here for updates on this project.

So, yes, we’ve been quiet, but we’ve been busy.  The fruits of our labor will be yours to share in soon.

Also, we made a film of our performance, As The Eyes of the Seahorse, at the Maas Building last year, and we are about set to release it.  It will be available online, and we will most likely hold a public screening of it as well.

As for members of TM&TM, Eliza Jones has been hard at work with her project Buried Beds.  They just released alive E.P. and film, called Small Stories, that is really beautiful and exceptionally made.  Also look out for her guest appearance with Strand of Oaks for an upcoming Shaking Through from Weathervane Music.

Corey Duncan is currently touring his project Oh! Pears through Europe, and having an insanely great time finding God and pizza, we are sure.

Jebney Lewis has moved on from TM&TM and is currently playing with El Malito, who are, hands down, the funnest band in the universe.

And Joshua Ramey is playing around as The Extravagant Bastard.  Dig his piano tunes around town when you can.

More updates soon!

Below is a brand new, half hour long track by TM&TM.  It was composed of sounds put together for a live installation at Emerald Street Urban Farm last month.  As you listen, image that all the tracks are divided up into 8 different speakers poking out of massive shocks of fennel and cabbage as the sun slowly sets over you.  The sounds bounce off the neighboring buildings as you approach and kiss you good night on your walk home, as they fade into the distance created by your footsteps.  Or just be where you are, be it flying over the Atlantic, at the birthing center, driving North to escape the heat, pining for home, excited to leave it, headed in one direction or another.

Roots and Dreamscapes (210)

This Friday, June 3rd, Michael from TM&TM will be performing a live sound installation in conjunction with several other artists at the Emerald Street Urban Farm in Kensington (Corner of Emerald and Dauphin in East Kensington, 1 Block east of the York/ Dauphin Stop on the El Train; 5 blocks West of Frankford Ave.).

ESUF is a gem of a place, it’s mission being to turn vacant lots into sustainable farms and gardens with a strong mission of community outreach and education. Please come check out this lovely oasis, have a drink, see some art, and listen to some mellow sounds. There are also several galleries holding openings that night in the area, and we will have handy maps on hand to guide you from place to place.

More info HERE

Happy Summer!

Nichole Canuso Dance Company is having their 3rd annual benefit on May 13th. Please come out and support our beautiful collaborators. It always proves to be a good time, and greatly helps NCDC continue to make work. Michael fro TM&TM will be playing music throughout the night.

Info here: NCDC Benefit

Thank you so much to everyone who came out to As The Eyes of the Seahorse this past weekend, and helped us sell out all four of our performances. We had an amazing time, and fell so overwhelmed by the terrific feedback we received from you all.

We also wanted to take a moment and recommend the Blindspot Festival which opens this weekend. It is a dance and music festival, showing dance works in the newly renovated Christ Church Neighborhood House in conjunction with organ concerts in Christ Church proper in the heart of Old City. Take a look at the line up here

We think you will agree that this thing looks impressive. Michael from TM&TM wrote all the music for the SubCircle piece, Only Sleeping, which features the song What Will Become Of Me? from the Seahorse record (with him singing lead instead of Eliza). This piece is an incredible fusion of dance and video (which features Geoff Sobelle of Pig Iron and Rainpan 43), and the music is some of Michael’s best writing to date.

Moving Parts is Meg Foley’s company. Meg has been a performer in every single TM&TM show that has featured dance, and is one of this city’s most exciting choreographers. We think you will find her work to be singular, rich, and inspiring.

Also check out Andrew Thiboldeaux (of Pattern is Movement), The Dufala Brothers, Troy Herion, really the whole ting just looks so damn good.

We are so pumped for our shows this weekend at the gorgeous MAAS Building. Tickets are getting tight, so here is that link again to assure you get in:
Seahorse Tickets
The weather is supposed to be amazing. Can’t wait to see you.
tm&tm

The venue for our big Philly vinyl release extravaganza has been changed!  It will now be at The MAAS Building, 1325 N. Randolph St, Between 5th and 6th, about two blocks North of Girard.  Let’s get intimate.

You can buy cheaper tickets in advance here:

As The Eyes of the Seahorse Tickets

Here is the trailer for our shows on February 18th at 7:30 and 19th at 7:30 and 9:30 at The Performance Garage, 15th and Brandwine, Philadelphia.

We just posted some video from our performances at HERE Arts Center in New York earlier this month. Check them out on the video page.

Really, we can’t say enough good things about our time in NY.  The houses at our shows were so responsive, that we started to feel bulletproof up there.  We got some nice press too, which you can check out here:

examiner.com

and here:

Theatre is Easy

Stay tuned for our Philadelphia premiere February 18th and 19th at the Performance Garage at 15th and Brandywine, when we celebrate the release of our album on vinyl.