2009: Ghost in the House

featuring Richard Waters, with David Michalak, Karen Stackpole, Kyle Bruckmann, Tom Nunn

Richard Waters is a multi-media artist from Gulfport, MS, best known as the inventor of the Waterphone. Waterphones have been exhibited in museums and galleries and utilized by music/performance groups and symphonies such as the New York Philharmonic and others worldwide. The Renwick Gallery (The Smithsonian Institute), The Oakland Museum, The Walter Anderson Museum of Art, L.A.I.C.A., the San Francisco Folk Art Museum and the Exploratorium are a few of the art spaces to exhibit them. Waterphones are featured in the soundtracks to Star Trek, Poltergeist, The Wide World of Animals - Calling Orcas, Alien Nation, The Young Guns, Bugsy, Powder, No Place to Hide, Truman, Mystery Men, The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and many other films and TV series. Richard has worked, performed or recorded with a wide variety of musicians and is well represented on albums, tapes and CDs of his music as well as other ensembles. He will be featuring his Waterphones with the members of film maker David Mihalak's quartet Ghost In the House.

The music of Ghost In The House is a soundtrack for the subconscious. Conceived by filmmaker & musician David Michalak, Ghost in the House explores the ethereal and elemental soundscapes where music suggests an image. It could be a murder mystery, a visitation in a dream or a cataclysmic storm. The scores are images and scenarios to be interpreted by the band creating a unique visual music form. Their performances are a ritualistic experience pounded out on ancient (Karen Stackpole’s gongs) and homemade instruments (Tom Nunn’s sculptural inventions) creating other worldly scenarios with texture and guidance from Kyle Bruckmann’s ominous horns and Michalak’s haunting lap steel. The addition of Richard Waters on waterphone and saw will serve to further explore this ritual.

Artist (photo by Photographer)