Lucky Dragons at College of Creative Studies (UCSB)
Elia Vargas
Update: Watch the January 2010 Lucky Dragons session with One Night Music
Lucky Dragons is Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara. Luke likes toys. A step aside from his shows (he played at Biko Garage on November 12, 2008), he visited UCSB to give a workshop in the class "Image and Sound" in the College of Creative Studies on April 16th, 2009. Lucky Dragons makes participatory electronic shaman beats. Dancy sometimes? - yes, very much so. A small group of people gathered around an odd assortment of rocks, dried bean pods, drift wood, wires, circuit distributors, a PA and a projector and silently Luke began shaking things, adjusting knobs and distributing objects to members of the circle. Soon the projector was flickering odd images of textured goop and flowers while rocks were reverberating soundscape modulated by the distance from the circuit systems. A truly sonic space of cooperative random participation of touching, stoning, and shaking had evolved.
Following the performance/collaboration there was a Q & A, and discussion, consisting of Inuit Throat singing YouTube videos and 90s participatory artists. Luke described the construction of his music making system, both physical and digital elements. He uses Max MSP to define the environment and tune the sound input from the external concoction of stuffs and music objects. Lucky Dragons is not an empty spectacle either. The long time evolution of the project is rooted in a desire to create interactive, social, and cooperative art that is nothing short of fun. It is about aesthetics, as the way in which things should or ought to be, versus politics, as the way in which things are. It is cultural collaboration, it is ritual, it is sonic and breaks down artist-audience barriers of participation and performance, and did I mention that it is fun?
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