Jacob McMurray

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	<title>Jacob McMurray</title>
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		<title>Eleanor</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:59:24 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jacob McMurray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description>Given the promise of the Isobel Project, artist Sara Guizzo and I conceived of another excuse for collaboration, which ultimately became known as Eleanor Bee Guizzo McMurray. Despite debuting in Seattle a week later than anticipated, on April Fool’s Day of 2012, Eleanor has proven to be no joke, garnering high praise from critics throughout the Pacific Northwest. The outcome of this exhibition has been so good, in fact, that Eleanor (and thematic sibling Isobel as well) will remain on permanent display, evolving daily as designed.


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		<excerpt>Given the promise of the Isobel Project, artist Sara Guizzo and I conceived of another excuse for collaboration, which ultimately became known as Eleanor Bee Guizzo...</excerpt>

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		<title>Terminus Est</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:45:55 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jacob McMurray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description>I'm part of a super-secret, turbo-nerdy mix-tape club. Each cycle (which lasts 2 months), members have to make a musical mix for an assigned member. The mixes have to be on a physical format, have some form of cover art, and some form of liner notes. And you have to mail your mix to the person. 

Each cycle has a theme. This time it was Impending Doom: Songs for Those Facing the Apocalypse. I decided that I would create a 3-CD, 9 chapter opus that covers both personal and worldly apocalypses (wouldn't it be great if the plural were apocalypso?), along with the inevitable redemption of self/society.

For the packaging, I thought it would be interesting to have the mix be part of a set of artifacts from our time, discovered by a far-flung future archaeologist. All the bits, over the millenia, have been leached of their mundane meaning and have become arcane, puzzling objects. 

I found a metal film can that would work for the housing. Because I wanted it to have a rusty patina, I sandblasted the paint off of the can and then sprayed salt water on it and rubbed it all over with my hands, hoping that my hand oils would do something interesting to it. I cut foam to fit the can, and some foamcore to fit the CDs and other bits.

I thought that the liner notes, which were selected lyrics from each of the songs on the CDs, might be fun as a scroll, of sorts. I created a second scroll for symmetry with a bullshit, faux-1950s advertisement for a device called the "Admiral". Both of these scrolls I sealed with wax.

I've had a jar of ash from the Mount St. Helens eruption on May 18, 1980, so I thought it'd be cool to include some ash, as a literal apocalyptic symbol. I found a little vial, but it had a plastic cap, so I carved a cork stopper from a wine cork.

Now with all the bits together, I needed a cover. I continued the end-o'-the-world theme with a design that incorporated a mushroom cloud and some freaky hand-thing grasping to extinguish the sun. Or maybe it's absorbing the power of the sun. Who cares! It looks cool. I was going to project this image as a black positive via an opaque projector and paint the image, but it just seemed more fun and more industrial to make a stencil. I used the positive and negative of the image on the front and back of the film can.

The package was then basically complete, except for some official-looking, weird shipping label that I slapped on the side - I like the idea that the recipient has to break that seal to open the box, unleashing who knows what into this future world. 

For you music nerds, here's the playlist:


Disc 1: I Just Want to Start a Flame in Your Heart
The Breakup - 1.	Heavy Vegetable – Doesn’t Mean Shit (1993) - 2.	T. Rex – Broken Hearted Blues (1973) - 3.	The Beatles – She Said She Said (1966) - 4.	The Smiths – Ask (1986) - INTERLUDE - 5.	Jacob McMurray – Steerpike (2008) - The Breakdown - 6.	The Zombies – Care of Cell 44 (1968) - 7.	Faust – Jennifer (1973) - 8.	Bauhaus – Crowds (1980) - 9.	White Fence – Your Last Friend Alive (2011) - 10.	Bonnie “Prince” Billy – I See a Darkness (1999) - 11.	Sonic Youth – Superstar (1994) - INTERLUDE - 12.	Ástor Piazzolla – Tanguedia III (1986) - The Breaking - 13.	Donovan – Season of the Witch (1966) - 14.	Brian Eno – Blank Frank (1974) - 15.	Freddie King – Going Down (1971) - 16.	The Fall – Leave the Capitol (1981) - 17.	Wire – Three Girl Rhumba (1977) - 18.	The Ink Spots – I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire (1941)
 
Disc 2: This is the Line of Division
The Party - 1.	Arthur Brown – Fire (1968) - 2.	Big Black – Kerosene (1986) - 3.	Gang of Four – I Found that Essence Rare (1979) - 4.	The Hives – Declare Guerre Nucleaire (2000) - 5.	Love – Seven &#38; Seven Is (1966) - INTERLUDE - 6.	Earth – Hung From the Moon (2008) - The Shit - 7.	Justice – Genesis (2007) - 8.	The Fall-Outs – Zombie (1994) - 9.	The Elastik Band – Spazz (1967) - 10.	Roy Brown – Butcher Pete, Part One (1949) - 11.	Steven Jesse Bernstein – Come Out Tonight (1988) - 12.	Nick Cave &#38; The Bad Seeds – The Mercy Seat (1988) - INTERLUDE - 13.	Suicide – Girl (1977) - The Glimmering - 14.	Jeremy Enigk – Carnival (1996) - 15.	The U-Men – Dig It a Hole (1987) - 16.	Blondie – Atomic (1979) - 17.	Max Frost &#38; the Troopers – Shape of Things to Come (1968)
 
Disc 3: Lux Sit and Dance
The Dawning - 1.	Brave New World – It’s Tomorrow (1967) - 2.	Red Cross – Annette’s Got the Hits (1980) - 3.	Danny Kaye &#38; The Andrews Sisters – Civilization (1947) - 4.	Miles Davis – Helen Butte/Mr. Freedom X (1972) - 5.	Nick Drake – Black Eyed Dog (1974) - INTERLUDE - 6.	Brian Eno – In Dark Trees (1977) - The Horizon - 7.	The Go! Team – Phantom Broadcast (2007) - 8.	Os Mutantes – El Justiciero (1971) - 9.	Ennio Morricone – Una Pistola Per Ringo (1965) - 10.	Syd Barrett – Octopus (1969) - 11.	Gilberto Gil – Coragem pra Suportar (1968) - INTERLUDE - 12.	James Blackshaw – White Goddess (2005) - The Redemption - 13.	Lali Puna – Don’t Think (2001) - 14.	Magnet – Gently Johnny (1973) - 15.	Donald Byrd – Cristo Redentor (1963) - 16.	Violent Green – Beautiful Child (1996) - 17.	Tenniscoats – Lutie Lutie (2008) - 18.	Karen O and the Kids – All is Love (2009)



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		<excerpt>I'm part of a super-secret, turbo-nerdy mix-tape club. Each cycle (which lasts 2 months), members have to make a musical mix for an assigned member. The mixes have...</excerpt>

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		<title>Indian Summer</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:38:21 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>A mix-tape / art project. I put together the mix on an airplane flight from Seattle to London - 9 hours of uninterrupted nerdery. At first I was heading toward doing something about the color red. And then I decided to call it Incandescent and focus on colors in the sunny side of the spectrum - yellow, orange, red, etc. I bought a bunch of glass vials and with the help of my daughter, started finding things around the house, yard and neighborhood that were yellow, orange, and red, trying to get as many different kinds of things as I could. It ended up being a lot of natural materials: various leaves, honey and dead bees from our beehive, berries, crushed lava rocks, turmeric, sunflower petals, chili powder and peppers, a lock of my daughter Izzy’s hair, dandelion petals, feathers from my chicken Rosie, pine needles, a burnt match, and tree sap. Things started to feel more like autumn, especially with all of the organic materials drying out and fading slightly in color, so I changed the mix name to Indian Summer. The liner notes are rolled up as a little scroll and inserted into one of the vials. The base I made from leftover elm lumber from EMP’s Nirvana exhibition. The elm came from a tree that fell on land owned by Gray’s River Grange in SW Washington, and Krist Novoselic from Nirvana is Grange Master there. I bought the wood from him for the exhibit and the monies went to the Grange. There were lots of leftover pieces with some good thickness. It’s pretty wood. I cut it, used a jointer to square it up, drilled the holes with Forstner bits, cut the CD slot with an oscillating multi-tool and after sanding, did a light walnut stain and a beeswax coat. Ultimately, I wanted to create something that sounded awesome and could be a cool, minimal-ish, but quasi-scientific/natural history feeling.

Track listing/Liner notes:

1. Boards of Canada – Dandelion (Geogaddi, Warp, 2002)  2. The Beakers – Red Towel (Red Towel 7” single, Mr. Brown, 1980)  3. David Bowie – In the Heat of the Morning (Live on BBC, 1968)  4. Caribou (Manitoba) – Cherrybomb (Up in Flames, Domino, 2003)  5. Loretta Lynn – Little Red Shoes  (Van Lear Rose, Interscope, 2004)  6. Squarepusher – My Red Hot Car (My Red Hot Car, 12” single, Warp, 2001)  7. King Crimson – Happy Family (Lizard, Island, 1970)  8. Flin Flon – Red Deer (A-OK, Teenbeat, 1998)  9. Guided by Voices – Hot Freaks (Bee Thousand, Scat, 1994)  10. Hella – The Devil Isn’t Red (Acoustics, 5 Rue Christine, 2006)  11. Looper – Burning Flies (Up A Tree, Sub Pop, 1999)  12. Momus – Old Friend, New Flame (The Little Red Songbook, Le Grand Magistery, 1998)  13. Santo &#38; Johnny – Summertime (Summertime / Caravan, 7” single, Sonet, 1960)  14. Brian Eno – Zawinul / Lava (Another Green World, Island, 1975)  15. Low – Sunflower (Things We Lost in the Fire, Kranky, 2001)  16. Neutral Milk Hotel – King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1 (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Merge, 1998)  17. Fennesz – Endless Summer (Endless Summer, Mego, 2001)  18. Syd Barrett – Golden Hair (Octopus / Golden Hair, 7” single, Harvest, 1969)  19. Wire – Heartbeat (Chairs Missing, Harvest, 1978)  20. Tape &#38; Minamo – Honey Buzzard (Birds of a Feather, Headz, 2007)  21. Broken Social Scene – Pitter Patter Goes My Heart (You Forgot It in People, Paper Bag, 2002)


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		<excerpt>A mix-tape / art project. I put together the mix on an airplane flight from Seattle to London - 9 hours of uninterrupted nerdery. At first I was heading toward...</excerpt>

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		<title>Hendrix Hits London</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:41:16 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jacob McMurray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description>Hear My Train A Comin': Hendrix Hits London is an exhibition that focuses on a formative nine-month period in the career of Jimi Hendrix: from landing in London on September 24, 1966 to playing at the Monterey International Pop Festival on June 18, 1967.

Curator: Jacob McMurray
Exhibition Design: Keith Griffith, Jacob McMurray
Interactive Design: Aleen Adams, The Curio Dept.
Graphic Design: Mikko Kim, Jacquelyn Edwards
Films: Nik Perleros, Kyle Jones
Fabrication: Addy Froehlich, Keith Griffith, Nick Rempel, Ralph Walter, Nils Carlson

Venue:
The Hospital Club, London, July 27 - August 31, 2012
EMP Museum, Seattle, November 17, 2012 - present

Synopsis:
Hear My Train A Comin': Hendrix Hits London

Born in 1942, James Marshall Hendrix grew up in Seattle and honed his craft as a guitar slinger in the South and New York City, but he became star in London. 

In 1966 Hendrix was playing in Greenwich Village and struggling to find an audience with his group Jimmy James and the Blue Flames when ex-Animals bassist Chas Chandler saw him perform. Chandler promised he could make Hendrix a star if he moved to England. Hendrix agreed, on one condition: that Chandler introduce him to British guitar gods Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. 

Within a week of arriving in London, Hendrix and Chandler assembled bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell to create the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and the group quickly jumped into the Swinging London scene. Over the next nine months the trio toured endlessly, released three hit singles and a chart-topping debut album, and became darlings of the British music press.

Nine months after conquering the United Kingdom, Hendrix bade farewell to London with a show at the Saville Theatre, smashing his psychedelic-painted guitar in honor of his adopted home. Two weeks later, he re-introduced himself to America with an incendiary performance at the original Monterey International Pop Festival. Largely unknown in the US before the outdoor festival, Hendrix was soon an international star. 

For much of his time in the public eye, Hendrix called London home. Without the city, his musical gifts may never have reached a worldwide audience. Hendrix had the talent, the showmanship, and the ambition, while Chas Chandler had the clout and the connections. But Swinging London had the fashion, the music, and the unique culture that proved vital to Hendrix’s success.  

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		<excerpt>Hear My Train A Comin': Hendrix Hits London is an exhibition that focuses on a formative nine-month period in the career of Jimi Hendrix: from landing in London on...</excerpt>

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		<title>The Eight Essential Ingredients</title>
				
		<link>http://www.jacobmcmurray.com/The-Eight-Essential-Ingredients</link>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:31:14 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jacob McMurray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description>Curators: Jacob McMurray, Gabe Kean
Exhibition Design: Gabe Kean, Jacob McMurray, Steven Berardelli

Venue:
Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA

Synopsis:
Eight Essential Ingredients featured new collaborative literary artworks created by acclaimed poet Marvin Bell in partnership with artist Steven Berardelli and by celebrated poster designer Mike King in collaboration with writers Angela Jane Fountas, Bret Fetzer, Bob Redmond, Suzanne Stockman and Therese Littleton.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Steven Berardelli is a sculptor, designer and photographer. His artwork has been exhibited by the Seattle Art Museum and G. Gibson Gallery. His designs have been seen at On The Boards in performances by Foot in Mouth, the Crispin Spaeth Dance Group, Alice de Muizon, Paige Barnes and Vanessa DeWolf. He is currently involved in the design of public art projects and exhibitions.

Marvin Bell is the author of 16 books of poetry, including "Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See" (1977), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and "A Probable Volume of Dreams" (1969), which was a Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. Marvin Bell's work appears in hundreds of anthologies of poetry and essays. His former students include James Tate, Jorie Graham and John Irving. His honors include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and Senior Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. He is a longtime member of the faculty of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he is the Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters. In March 2000 he was selected to be Iowa's first poet laureate.

Mike King is a designer and poster artist who has worked in the music industry for the last two decades. He started his "career" by making posters for punk bands at local clubs in his hometown of Portland, Oregon in exchange for admission. Since then he has gone on to design posters, records and CD covers, t-shirts and print advertising. His work is featured in the book "Swag the Art of Modern Rock" as well as Experience Music Project's traveling show "Paper, Scissors, Rock!"

L. Suzanne Stockman tutors young scribes and writes big and small from a desk in Seattle. She has contributed to Cranky, Nylon, Monkeybicycle.net, Spin, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others. Her headphones are plugged in right now.

Therese Littleton is the program manager at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. She writes in her spare time and is an intern at the Seattle office of the notable publishing house Payseur &#38; Schmidt.

Bret Fetzer writes plays and fairy tales. His late night storytelling show, "Bedtime Stories," will run from January 20 to February 11 in the Hugo House cabaret. His new play, "Passport"-actually a collection of eight linked 10-minute plays-will be produced by Annex Theatre in the late spring of 2006.

Angela Jane Fountas writes, reads and runs WriteHabit.org in Seattle. Her work has recently appeared in Monkeybicycle, The Bitter Oleander, Pindeldyboz, and Syntax. She is the editor of "Waking Up American" (Seal Press, 2005).

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		<excerpt>Curators: Jacob McMurray, Gabe Kean Exhibition Design: Gabe Kean, Jacob McMurray, Steven Berardelli  Venue: Richard Hugo House, Seattle, WA  Synopsis: Eight...</excerpt>

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		<title>The Lure of Horror Film</title>
				
		<link>http://www.jacobmcmurray.com/The-Lure-of-Horror-Film</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:22:07 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jacob McMurray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description>Can't Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film is an exhibition that explores the world of horror film through the eyes of three iconic Hollywood horror directors.

Curator: Jacob McMurray
Exhibition Design: Wonder Mine
Interactive Design: Aleen Adams, Belle &#38; Wissell, Philip Worthington
Graphic Design: Benjamin Shown
Illustration: Invisible Creature
Films: David Wulzen, Nik Perleros
Art Direction: Jacob McMurray, Ken Burns, Benjamin Shown
Fabrication: Addy Froehlich, Keith Griffith, Turner Exhibits
Exhibition Score: Steve Fisk, Downtown Composer Collective

Venue:
Experience Music Project, October 2, 2011 - present

Synopsis:
Can’t Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film

For more than a century, horror films have thrilled and frightened audiences, providing heart-pounding terror and sleepless nights. 

But horror films offer more than just entertainment. They express the primal emotions of the human experience by tapping into the anxieties of contemporary culture and visualizing the unspeakable fears and forbidden desires that lie just beneath the polite face of society.

In this exhibition, three iconic horror directors – Roger Corman, John Landis, and Eli Roth – have curated a selection of their favorite horror films that illustrate the power of the genre, providing a foundation for exploring the spectrum of horror cinema, from its inception at the turn of the 20th century to the present.

Don’t be scared. It’s only make-believe. Isn’t it?

Artifacts: 30 iconic horror objects from the 1940s to the present
Featured Films: In depth explorations of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Bride of Frankenstein, Les Diaboliques, Psycho, The Wicker Man, Suspiria, The Exorcist, Ringu, Evil Dead II, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 
Horror Timeline: features 100 Horror films to see before you die
Director Displays: focus areas devoted to Roger Corman, Eli Roth, and John Landis
Exhibition Score: composed by Steve Fisk, based on the heartbeat and conceived as a waltz
Scream Booth: Scream on cue as you watch horror film footage in a soundproof booth. 
Horror Soundscapes: Explore the fundamental music elements and scoring techniques used in horror to enhance a cinematic sense of suspense, dread, and terror
Monster Wall: Examine the monster archetypes and learn why they continue to inhabit the collective conscious of popular culture
Shadow Monsters: Witness Philip Worthington's interactive installation morph your projected shadow into monstrous form

A sampling of press: Seattle Times, King5, KPLU, Culture Mob, Examiner.com, Seattle Gay Scene, Guts and Grog, The MacGuffin, Horror.com 

"I'm an English professor at Edmonds Community College, where I teach a class on Monsters of Film and Literature. I was so impressed with the Can't Look Away exhibit that I encouraged all of my students to visit the museum and spend a day taking notes. Your exhibit is the perfect balance of kitschy, interactive fun with serious academic consideration of the nature of fear, horror, and American culture. I bought a membership that day because I knew that I would be back many times over the next year. Thank you for such interesting and informative exhibits." -Evan J. Peterson

"The horror movie exhibit at the EMP is actually kind of inspiring." -Colin Meloy, The Decemberists, via Twitter

“To my mind, ‘Can't Look Away’ is one of the most sophisticated and thought-provoking exhibitions ever developed on the American cultural landscape.” -Mark Auslander, Associate Professor of Anthropology &#38; Museum Studies, and Director, Museum of Culture and Environment, Central Washington University


More information at the EMP Museum website.

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		<excerpt>Can't Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film is an exhibition that explores the world of horror film through the eyes of three iconic Hollywood horror directors. ...</excerpt>

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		<title>Nirvana</title>
				
		<link>http://www.jacobmcmurray.com/Nirvana</link>

		<comments>http://www.jacobmcmurray.com/following/jacobmcmurray.com/Nirvana</comments>

		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:39:20 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jacob McMurray</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[curated exhibition]]></category>

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		<description>Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses is an exhibition that details the history of the iconic Grunge band Nirvana within a larger context of the development of Punk from the mid-1970s onward.

Curator: Jacob McMurray
Exhibition Design: Wonder Mine
Interactive Design: Belle &#38; Wissell
Graphic Design: Belle &#38; Wissell
Films: David Wulzen
Art Direction: Jacob McMurray, Ken Burns
Fabrication: Addy Froehlich, Nick Rempel
Exhibition Score: Steve Fisk, Downtown Composer Collective

Venue:
Experience Music Project, April 16, 2011 - present

Synopsis:
Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses

In late 1991, Nirvana exploded on the national music scene, transforming Seattle and the Pacific Northwest from a faraway backwater to the epicenter of popular music culture. Nirvana's infectious single, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” saturated the airwaves and MTV, sparking a worldwide grunge revolution, extinguishing the rule of hair metal and giving birth to alternative rock.

This is the public and personal story of Nirvana, from their early roots in Aberdeen, Washington, to the dizzying scope of the world stage. This is also the story of the underground music scene, of which Nirvana was a part, as it developed within the Pacific Northwest and throughout the United States from the birth of punk rock in the mid-1970s. For over a decade, underground bands made inroads into the mainstream, but Nirvana was the final step in this process. With a single song, the barrier between underground and mainstream culture shattered. Nirvana was a band for only six years, but they changed music forever, delivering the message of their punk roots wrapped in a pop package, and taking punk to the masses. 

Artifacts: over 200 artifacts related to Nirvana and its story. 
Mural photographs: Life-scale mural photographs by Charles Peterson, Alice Wheeler, and Tracy Marander. 
Exhibition Score: The gallery features a custom-composed score by Steve Fisk, a prolific musician and producer who recorded many of the grunge-era superstars, including Nirvana, Soundgarden and Screaming Trees. 
Oral Histories: Exhibition videos and interactive elements feature clips from over 100 filmed oral history interviews. 
Interactives: Six touch-sensitive interactives weave together hundreds of digital assets from EMP’s permanent archives, providing several hours of hours of additional content. A “Nirvana confessional” provides an area for visitors to record their own thoughts about Nirvana. 
Listening Stations: Five listening stations allow visitors to hear Nirvana’s catalog and other underground and punk records that were being produced during that time.
Audio Guide: The exhibition features an optional iPod-delivered audio guide, where Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic reflects on events and artifacts throughout the exhibition.

More information at the EMP Museum website.


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</description>
		
		<excerpt>Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses is an exhibition that details the history of the iconic Grunge band Nirvana within a larger context of the development of Punk...</excerpt>

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		<title>Taking Punk to the Masses</title>
				
		<link>http://www.jacobmcmurray.com/Taking-Punk-to-the-Masses</link>

		<comments>http://www.jacobmcmurray.com/following/jacobmcmurray.com/Taking-Punk-to-the-Masses</comments>

		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:21:59 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jacob McMurray</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[author]]></category>

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		<description>Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind is a book that I wrote which visually documents the explosion of Grunge, the Seattle Sound, within the context of the underground punk subculture that was developing throughout the U.S. in the late 1970s and 1980s. This musical journey is represented entirely through the collection of Experience Music Project, Seattle’s museum of music and popular culture, pulling from a permanent archive of over 800 filmed oral history interviews and 140,000 artifacts – instruments, costumes, posters, records and other ephemera – dedicated to the pursuit of rock ’n’ roll.

Featuring over 100 key artifacts from EMP’s collection, Taking Punk to the Masses illustrates the evolution of punk rock from underground subculture to mainstream embrace. These artifacts are put into context by the stories of those that lived it: Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh, Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart, Beat Happening’s Calvin Johnson, X’s Exene Cervenka, Sub Pop founders Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman, Black Flag’s Henry Rollins, Screaming Trees’ Mark Lanegan, Blondie’s Chris Stein, Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis, Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil, and nearly 100 others.

Tracing a lineage from “Louie Louie” to the rise of Grunge with Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Mudhoney, Taking Punk to the Masses is the first visual history of one of America’s most vibrant music scenes, as told by its participants and seen through the surviving artifacts.

Over the past 15 years, Experience Music Project has amassed over 800 filmed oral history interviews with musicians, producers, club owners, fans, and others associated with every genre of music. These interviews, along with the museum’s massive artifact collection, form the basis for every exhibition. The exhibition Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses includes footage from over 100 interviews. A selection of those interviews are included in a DVD, exclusive to the Taking Punk to the Masses book.

248-page full-color 7.5" x 9" softcover with DVD
ISBN: 978-1-60699-433-7

Design: Jacob Covey
Publisher: Fantagraphics

Reviews:

Paradoxically for a volume dedicated to such a proudly ragged and rough-hewn aesthetic, Taking Punk to the Masses is a beautifully constructed gem. Even more peculiarly for a history lesson wedged between hard covers, it'll make you hear the music that has so spectacularly inflamed your speakers and headphones for three decades. (Jason Diamond - NPR.org)

This is a good thing right here. (Lil Wayne)

This book rules. It is very, very fun to read if you care about this stuff.... If you… have an interest in punk or the Seattle indie rock scene then you'll love this thing to death. (Nick Gazin - VICE Magazine)

…[T]he artifacts included in the exhibit wonderfully illustrate everything that was exciting, vibrant, and anti-establishment about the scene that eventually went mainstream. The item descriptions are explanatory but concise, and the artist commentary is insightful and revelatory. (Frank Valish - Under the Radar) 

More reviews: KEXP, 

Buy it!


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		<excerpt>Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind is a book that I wrote which visually documents the explosion of Grunge, the Seattle Sound, within the context...</excerpt>

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		<title>The Third Bear</title>
				
		<link>http://www.jacobmcmurray.com/The-Third-Bear</link>

		<comments>http://www.jacobmcmurray.com/following/jacobmcmurray.com/The-Third-Bear</comments>

		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:58:12 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jacob McMurray</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[book design]]></category>

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		<description>Jeff VanderMeer asked me to design the cover and interior for his newest fiction collection, The Third Bear, published by Tachyon in July of 2010. 

I tried to combine the beauty and menace that are both equally found in Jeff's work. The interior design was very restrained and carried over a few of the cover elements for continuity.

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		<excerpt>Jeff VanderMeer asked me to design the cover and interior for his newest fiction collection, The Third Bear, published by Tachyon in July of 2010.   I tried to...</excerpt>

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		<title>The Lifecycle of Software Objects</title>
				
		<link>http://www.jacobmcmurray.com/The-Lifecycle-of-Software-Objects</link>

		<comments>http://www.jacobmcmurray.com/following/jacobmcmurray.com/The-Lifecycle-of-Software-Objects</comments>

		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Jacob McMurray</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[book design]]></category>

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		<description>I was able to work with Ted Chiang again (after doing the collage illustrations for The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate) on his longest work yet, The Lifecycle of Software Objects, published by Subterranean Press in July of 2010. Under Ted's art direction, I did all of the interior design, cover layout for a limited and trade edition, and all of the map-like collage illustrations. New Zealand artist Christian Pierce did the cover illustration and 10 fantastic interior illustrations. A fun and challenging project.

The trade edition has a traditional 4-color dust jacket, while the limited has no dust jacket and is stamped in 2 colors on the front, spine, and back. The interior of both books is printed in black and red inks. 

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		<excerpt>I was able to work with Ted Chiang again (after doing the collage illustrations for The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate) on his longest work yet, The Lifecycle of...</excerpt>

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