This limited-edition box set features a signed, painted copy of Ibarra + Fujimura Live Painting in New York. The film, by Plywood Pictures, documents a collaborative performance between Makoto Fujimura and Susie Ibarra. Also contained in the box is a torn fragment of a painting from a recent performance by Fujimura and Ibarra, building a deep connection between art, artist, and viewer.
Makoto Fujimura and percussionist/composer Susie Ibarra have collaborated together several times in the last four years, most notably onstage at Carnegie Hall with the American Composers Orchestra in 2007. Additional venues include The Kitchen (for Ibarra's modern opera, Shangri-La) and Le Poisson Rouge.
Composer, improviser and percussionist Susie Ibarra is a Yamaha, Vic Firth and Paiste Artist and a 2008 Recipient of the Asian Cultural Council Rockefeller Fellowship. Ibarra performs solo, in her trio & quartet, and with collaborative groups Electric Kulintang and Mephista, and her music can be heard on over forty recordings. Recent works include War Horses (music by Electric Kulintang with poetry of Yusef Komunyaka, commission for the Isamu Noguchi Museum, 2007), Summer Fantasy and Folklore (music for Susie Ibarra Quartet, commissioned for MoMA Summergarden and Jazz at Lincoln Center, 2008), Madre Selva (soundtrack commission for video art of Juan Sanchez, dedicated to Ana Mendieta, Lehigh Art Center, PA, 2009) and Pintados Dream/ The Painted’s Dream (concerto for drums and orchestra with visual art by Makoto Fujimura, commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and premiered at Zankel Carnegie Hall, NY, 2007).