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THE RISE & FALL OF ISABELLA RICO (1999-2002)
THE RISE & FALL OF ISABELLA RICO is a full length musical, with book and lyrics by Larry Beinhart. The show was in development from March 1999 through May 2002 with the Director's Company, Michael Parva Artsitic/Producing Director. The show follows three characters through paths of power, wealth and spirituality, all tied into a little pill which makes you feel like you're in love, and which will make someone a lot of money. Rolnick and Beinhart are currently searching for a new production opportunity for the project. Hear a piano vocal arrangement of Maya Azucena singing Woman With A Gun from the musical.
FISH LOVE THAT (1996-2002), was a band which explored the landscape between composition and improvisation. During much of its time together, FLT played monthly concerts at the Knitting Factory and HERE Art Center in New York City. While the personnel of the band was somewhat fluid, core members included Todd Reynolds, violin, Andrew Sterman, woodwinds, Ron Horton, trumpet, Neil Rolnick, sampler, Steve Rust, bass, Dean Sharp, drums and John J.A. Jannone, video. Here are links to Allan Kozinn's New York Times review of their January 1998 concert at HERE, and Greg Sandow's reivew of their 2002 CD. Hear Rolnick's Calypso and Hush from the CD. Videos of FLT are on Neil's Youtube page.
RICO SONGS AND INTERLUDES (1997-1998)
An hour long excerpt of the work, RICO SONGS AND INTERLUDES was written for David Alan Miller's Dogs of Desire, associated with the Albany (NY) Symphony Orchestra. The RICO SONGS AND INTERLUDES was premiered as part of the Dogs of Desire's 1997-98 season and as part of the iEAR Studio's Electronic Arts Performance Series at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, NY. Click here to read Steve Barnes' rave review of this performance from the Albany Times Union.
MP3 Downloads - RICO SONGS & INTERLUDES
Chemistry of
Love
Interlude 1
Drug Free America
THE TECHNOPHOBE & THE MADMAN (2001)
The THE TECHNOPHOBE & THE MADMAN was designed
to explore the possibilities of a network-based musical theater production.
This was a NYSCA-sponsored collaboration between Rensselaer's iEAR
Studios, NYU's Music Technology Program and Harvestworks Digital Arts
Center, to explore the performance possibilities with Internet2. Collaborating
artists included Nick Didkovsky, Tyrone Henderson, Quimetta Perl,
Don Ritter, Neil Rolnick, Robert Rowe, Valeria Vasilevski, with Diana
Slattery of Rensselaer's Academy of Electronic Media. Initial public
performances was simultaneously presented at NYU and RPI on February
20, 2001.
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2 PLACES @ ONCE (1995)
2 PLACES @ ONCE grew out of a collaborative effort with Joel Chadabe
in 1995. It developed into an ongoing project which exploits the unique
possibilities of teleconferenced musical and video performance. The
first performance of this stage of the project was performed at The
Kitchen in New York City and the Electronic Cafe International in
Santa Monica on March 8, 1998. Participants included members of FISH
LOVE THAT in New York City (Todd Reynolds, violin; Andrew Sterman,
woodwinds; AJ Jannone, cyberbass & video) and in LA, percussionist
Amy Knoles and violinist Robin Lorentz.
HOME GAME (1995)
Home Game -a full evening of interactive multiimages
performance, produced in June 1995 in upstate New York and New York
City. Click here for a
detailed description.
ADRIAN MOORE INTERVIEW (1994)
Adrian Moore from England's Sonic Arts Network interviewed
Neil Rolnick. (full-text
article)
MELTING POT (1985)
Melting Pot - a video John Sturgeon and Neil collaborated on in 1985.
Video available on John Sturgeon's video
index