This Moment in Time
NOON, Monday, June 21 Location: Council Crest Park, 1120 SW Council Crest Dr, Portland, Oregon
From the highest point in Portland, performing, recording, visual artist and multi-instrumentalist Stephen Cohen will lead a community gong event where he will play a gong and people will join him to play his homemade gongs, along with any gongs that they can bring. This is part of a worldwide Make Music Day event. Come in person, or watch on Facebook Live.
NOON, Monday, June 21 Location: Council Crest Park, 1120 SW Council Crest Dr, Portland, Oregon
From the highest point in Portland, performing, recording, visual artist and multi-instrumentalist Stephen Cohen will lead a community gong event where he will play a gong and people will join him to play his homemade gongs, along with any gongs that they can bring. This is part of a worldwide Make Music Day event. Come in person, or watch on Facebook Live.
above: clips of the sounding of gongs in Portland, Oregon. |
The world has endured a tragic year. Millions have died from COVID-19, and social, cultural, and economic life has been curtailed everywhere. With vaccinations accelerating, life in many places is on the road back to normal. But before life can feel truly normal, we must memorialize the devastation of the past year. Our response is an initiative called This Moment In Time. Working with musicians and cultural partners around the world, gongs will appear in public spaces on June 21, the summer solstice. At noon local time, a musician will play a gong for one uninterrupted hour, marking the incalculable loss of the past year. Along with being free and open to a live audience, many of these performances will be live streamed and in many locations the public will be invited to come up to a gong and play it themselves, hearing the unfathomable mystery of the sound. Around the world, gongs traditionally mark a moment in time. For everyone joining or witnessing this event on June 21, 2021, This Moment In Time will mark the losses of the pandemic, but also the beginning of a new era in sight.
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My book of short stories, poems, lyrics and visual art will be published by Wake-Robin Press and be available to the public this summer.
We are living in an unprecedented time in this pandemic when performers are putting their tours on hold and performing at home.
Case in point: see an at home performance and interview by 3 Hand Stephen for KBVR TV.
Case in point: see an at home performance and interview by 3 Hand Stephen for KBVR TV.
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Stephen presented his virtual Spite House (one of his favorite venues) set on Tuesday evening, November 10th, but not to worry if you missed the premiere, you can stream it anytime: |
