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Comment on Tom Jaremba 1938-2008 by Robert Daulton

Robert Daulton — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:32:52 +0000

Hi Eric. I found this blogpost by performing a random search on Tom’s name, as I do every so often when his memory moves me to, which it often does. I guess I’m one of many individuals who walks down the street in a very different manner as a result of coming into the gravitational pull of Jaremba’s large personality and encyclopedic knowlege set. The Orphee performance was one of the delights of my time in Chicago, and I’m glad to reead that you also remember it fondly. I was fortunate to have spent a day with him shortly before he died, and we laughed and relived some of the old days. I had not seen or spoken to him in him in the seventeen years before that, but our connection was always amazing and his sense of humor was always exhillarating. Tom was a great friend, an insightful teacher, confidant and choreographer, and a hell of a man.

Comment on Georgia Tech Guthman Musical Instrument Competition by Julia

Julia — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:46:20 +0000

AWESOME!! congrats:)

Comment on Tom Jaremba 1938-2008 by Eric

Eric — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:48:13 +0000

Dear Marla, I’m sorry you missed your chance to thank Tom. That’s sad to hear. I missed my chance, too. I last talked to Tom before he retired several years before he passed away. I can say that I’m happy to be connected with a community of artists who were there when he died. They spoke at his memorial in December, 2008 at SAIC.

Comment on Tom Jaremba 1938-2008 by marla faith

marla faith — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:11:39 +0000

I still do the 20 minute yoga practice that Tom taught to students in the mornings at SAIC. That was 30 years ago. I wondered if he knew what long lasting effect he had on people, that what he gave them is still an integral part of their lives. I didn’t know he died a year ago. I was looking up his name to try to thank him.

Comment on Radio Without Boundaries 2008 by The World Listening Project » The “Acoustic Mirror of the World” in the Synesthetic Plan of Chicago

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:43:39 +0000

[…] his piece. Here is Ricardo’s photo of me standing inside it, taken at last year’s Deep Wireless/Radio without Boundaries conference in […]

Comment on Radio Without Boundaries 2008 by Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology : Synesthetic Plan of Chicago, June 1—September 30, 2009

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:34:43 +0000

[…] his piece. Ricardo’s photo shows a listener standing in the sound shoes, taken at the 2008 Deep Wireless/Radio without Boundaries conference in […]

Comment on Article Published on eContact! 10.3 by Hanuman Zhang

Hanuman Zhang — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:34:26 +0000

Partly inspired by your Springboard, Dave Knott’s Stringboards, Ken Butler’s Hybrid Strings, and my interest in Asian long-board zithers , I am in the process of making an electro-acoustic stringed/coil-springed bass/sub-bass instrument out of 2 skateboard decks, a double bass finger board, cello tailpiece and cello bridge, various found objects and common hardware parts like eyebolts and screws, etc.

Since part of this instrument will have a brass turtle as one of the bridges, I am calling this a “Hermaion” - after the idea of Hermes creating the first lyre out of a turtle and “hermaion” connotates “gift-of-Hermes,”"a lucky find,” “a happy accident,” etc..

Comment on Spin by Brian Springer by diana jeon

diana jeon — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:58:38 +0000

I also show this in a hybrid theory.studio class at the univeristy of hawaii. nice to find someone else using it in a similar manner.

Comment on Tom Jaremba 1938-2008 by Eric

Eric — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:49:45 +0000

Dear Ellen,

Thank you so much for your comment, for coming to Tom’s memorial last week, and for being my teacher. I too was deeply by Tom’s intense physicality and deep psychic connection to that real yet intangible energy within us.

I was really happy to see you again after all these years. Your solo dance—dedicated to and performed in the manner of Tom’s own dancing—had a powerful effect on me. I’m sure it did on everyone else that evening, particularly for those of us who had performed and studied with Tom. Your performance with Meredith Monk was equally inspiring.

When I was Tom’s student, it was your example and your work that amplified what I learned from him. You helped me to discover performance: what was then a radically different art form and a radically different state of being from what I was as a painter, musician, and fledging media artist. I took your movement workshop in Tom’s Lodge Hall studio back in the summer of 1981. I can remember doing RAF calistenics and a lot of other physically demanding exercises in that June or July heat. Werner was there, and so were Andy Soma and Susan Wexler…hard to remember who else. I wish I could remember the title of the performance you did around that time. You used a large TV set as an icon and as elevated base to dance to a song from the Human League’s first album. What was the title of your piece and the title of that song?

Like you, Tom’s influence formed what I am as a person, not only as an artist. Using my body as a medium of expression was an exciting, difficult, and oftentimes scary challenge. I’m happy to say the risks paid off. Working through fear, not copping out…all that, along with the heightened sensitivity to what and how my physical self was, and is, enriched me as an artist and person. Thanks to Tom and again, thanks to you.

Comment on Tom Jaremba 1938-2008 by Ellen Fisher

Ellen Fisher — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:38:31 +0000

Tom was my teacher, mentor and friend. I owe so much to his teachings, in fact I can honestly say, he helped form the person I am today. He was supportive of my performance work right up to the end of his wonderfully inspiration life. He encouraged me to dance, to use my body as an expressive tool. This led me to more in-depth explorations of dance styles and forms that eventually lead me to studying Asian dance forms, specifically Sri Lankan Kandyan dance. He was my dramturge, asking for his advice over the 35 odd years I have know and worked with him.I miss him greatly and will be forever grateful for his honesty and overview of culture.