black earth dervish
is a graphic score consisting of 36 inking animations for 6 sound artists, 6 dancers, and 6 projectors. peeking at each other's scores are encouraged.
numbers correspond to slide order in the improvised black being on transparency series.
initially conceived for the hyde park art center's projection facade, the piece proposal was overlooked/lost in a pile of mail by the art center for Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954–1968 and later acknowledged and accepted by the hyde park art center, too late and without funds.
the initial proposal listed the Microcosmic Sound Orchestra: Nicole Mitchell, David Boykin, Ben Boye, Alex Wing, Joel Wanek, and JayVe Montgomery as musicians for the piece.