Grundik Kasyansky (direction, feedback synthesizer), Kurt Gottschalk (banjo, bouzouki), Juan Merchan (movement), Ninni Morgia (guitar), Shige Moriya (live video mixing), Gregory Reynolds (sax), Petre Radu Scafaru (reeds), Len Siegfried (guitar).
Outwood No. 1 is a multimedia happening for simultaneous live music, video mixing and movement coming together as multiple "solo" improvisations within a given time frame. The participants are free to act and react as they see fit while remaining aware of the fact that they are within a shared vicinity and working within a common timeframe. The participants are asked to remain aware of the fact that they are the center of a multidimensial "sculpture" which will grow from the beginning of the performance and will be destroyed immediately after it ends. The organic process of creation suggests staging the event outdoors. The Inwood Hill Park event video will include video projection onto tree leaves and the artists. Musicians will play along with ambient sounds and dancers will "transform" into trees and water. The company will include emerging and more established Inwood residents along with artists from other parts of the city, rediscovering together the beauty of Manhattan's secret paradise.