Photographer: Erica Stavis How does one capture music in a photo? The beat can’t be displayed in black and white; the melody not developed in a print. Ultimately it’s about the movement in the music with the motion of the band and the audience becoming an integral part of the experience. Last summer, [...]
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YouTube du Jour: Quintron
May 16, 2011 – 10:13 am
Quintron recorded his excellent new Sucre du Sauvage while part of an art show at New Orleans Museum of Art. One of the highlights is “Face Down in the Gutter,” and here’s its video, which involves bartender Quintron getting a roomful of puppets knee-walking drunk.
Quintron, Sucre du Sauvage (Goner Records)
May 1, 2011 – 12:58 am
Quintron and Miss Pussycat put their creative lives on display at NOMA earlier this year in the show, “Parallel Universe.” She displayed her puppets, photos and videotapes, while Quintron set up his gear amid portraits from the museum’s collection and recorded an album. Sucre du Sauvage is that album, and the conceptual structure serves him [...]
Quintron’s Exile in City Park
May 1, 2011 – 12:05 am
The history of recorded music is littered with albums whose recording sites are central to their sound and lore: from the Rolling Stones making Exile on Main Street in the basement of Keith Richards’ villa in southern France to Radiohead recording OK Computer at St. Catherine’s Court. Closer to home is Quintron’s 12th album, Sucre [...]
Quintron Debuts New Album at NOMA Tonight
April 28, 2010 – 8:59 am
[UPDATED] In January, Quintron and Miss Pussycat opened “Parallel Universe,” their two-person show at the New Orleans Museum of Art. As part of the show, Quintron installed himself and his equipment with the plan of recording an album in the museum. For the last week, he has lived in a tent in the Bestoff Sculpture [...]
Video du Jour: Quintron at NOMA
February 12, 2010 – 11:17 am
Quintron and Miss Pussycat have settled into “Parallel Universe,” their retrospective show on the second floor of New Orleans Museum of Art. Here Quintron and Curator of Contemporary Art Miranda Lash discuss the portraits in Quintron’s studio.
YouTube du Jour: Quintron’s Drum Buddy Arcade
February 3, 2010 – 1:00 am
In our current Mardi Gras issue, Abby Lunetta wrote about the newest exhibition at the New Orleans Art Museum, Parallel Universe: Quintron and Miss Pussycat Live at City Park. The show opened this past Friday, and runs until May 2. The exhibit includes several of Quintron’s “Drum Buddy” synthesizer/drum machines, one of which can be [...]
Slideshow: Quintron and Miss Pussycat Exhibit Opening at NOMA
February 2, 2010 – 7:11 pm
Quintron and Miss Pussycat’s new exhibit, Parallel Universe: Quintron and Miss Pussycat Live at City Park, opened at the New Orleans Art Museum with a party this past Friday, January 29. The king and queen of the hour, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, were there for the reception, along with what must have been over 75% [...]
Framed: Quintron and Miss Pussycat
February 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
Quintron and Miss Pussycat have been keeping New Orleans weird for years now with their respective art—Quintron as electro-musician/inventor and Panacea Theriac, a.k.a. Miss Pussycat, as puppeteer. The husband/wife duo help each other with their creations—the background music to her puppet shows and videos is composed by Quintron, while Miss Pussycat adds colorful flair to [...]
Additional Photos from OffBeat’s February 2010 Issue
February 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
Catch the shots that didn’t make it into our February 2010 issue. Includes photos taken for the stories “Framed”, about Quintron and Miss Pussycat’s show at NOMA; “A Good Fit”, the Helen Gillet cover story; and this month’s The Gravy, “In the Kitchen with Debbie Davis”. All photos taken by Elsa Hahne.
