WORK WITH VIOLETA LUNA
Since 2005 I have been collaborating with Mexican performance artist Violeta Luna. Her worked has been presented through out North and South America, Europe, and Japan. Her work focuses on immigrant/indigenous/womens rights, nature, and climate change. Her pieces are visceral, haunting, disturbing, beautiful, and spiritual. When I perform live music scores and sound design in her pieces there is a lot of improvised interaction between the two of us.
Virgins and Goddesses
Based on the Aztec goddess of birth, death and the underworld, Luna addresses Mexico's femicide and the 43 missing students in Ayotzinapa. Instrumentation in the music score: tibetan bowls, flutes, drums, shakers, bells, cymbalom, cellos, wind pipes, Waterphone, thunder sheet.
35TH FLOOR: ANOTHER STOR(E)Y ABOVE AND BEYOND HER FALL
35th Floor embarks on a journey that engages elements that support person and nature, and others that violate them. Inspired by the life and work of artist Ana Mendieta, 35th Floor asks questions that resonate at the intersection of corporality, gender and power, and thinks sustainability as inseparable from solidarity.
REQUIEM #3: Body Graves
Body Graves is a poetic action intent on rescuing memory and reclaiming the humanity of those buried in mass graves in Mexico. Starting from an inclusive, creative, and public space, it questions and reveals the impunity of an institutional machine devised to impede the right to access truth, justice, and mourning.
To view video click here https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/encuentro-2019-performances/item/2936-violeta-luna.html
An excerpt of A Body Parted: featuring performer Violeta Luna, video art by Mickey Tachibana, live music and sound design by David Molina, directed by Roberto Varea, presented at Counter Pulse, SF, CA, 2008
It deals with the story of a latino immigrant woman who comes to the U.S. to work in sweatshops.
An excerpt collage from Miaz Transgenico, a piece about the physical, enviromental, and economic & political dangers of genetically modified corn. 2009
This piece has been presented in the US, Mexico, Colombia, Slovenia, Spain.
Excerpt collage from Atlacualo- The Ceasing of Water, a collaboration Between Violeta Luna and Jose Navarette,
performed at Counter Pulse SF, CA 2010
best section featuring my music & sound start around 3 minutes
Requiem For A Lost Land
A piece about the “war on drugs”, Narcos (Drug cartels), Corruption in the Mexican Government and US Border Patrol, and all the innocent victims who die in it’s path of destruction.
Video: https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/hidvl/xsj3v0qz