a live rendition of Gregory Rogove‘s multi-media album PIANA.

Special Guests: Devendra Banhart, Lucky Dragons, Carly Margolis
(w/ Mark Noseworthy & Nicole Simone)

This event acts as a preview or a live rendition of Gregory Rogove’s multi-media album PIANA, set to be released on January 31st, 2012 on Knitting Factory Records. Rogove is a drummer and singer in a number of musical groups, including Devendra Banhart & the Grogs, Megapuss, and Priestbird. PIANA is an album of instrumental, solo piano pieces composed by Gregory Rogove and performed by John Medeski (Medeski Martin & Wood). It also includes a DVD of musical and visual reinterpretations, or “remixes,” of the piano pieces. (Please see below for a list of contributing artists.) For the event, Rogove will play a few of the original pieces on piano and have three of the musical remix artists perform their reinterpretations of the pieces. (Please see special guest list.) Meanwhile, all of the visual pieces (drawings, photographs, designs, collages, sculptures and videos) will be hung or projected in the space. He will also project a stop-motion animation video for one of piano tunes that he animated and directed with Diana Garcia.