Music at Center for Civic Arts
James blowing into the one remaining metal pipe, and standing in front of a few wood pipes.
Wood Wind Project
A Pittsburgh musician and new media artist, James Gyre, is recording the sounds from the wood pipes that remain from a once vacant church organ. Gyre is tuning and arranging the sounds into a Musical Digital Interface (MIDI) instrument, sample sound kits and new compositions. The almost-lost sounds of these pipes will be compiled in accessible formats to be shared locally, regionally, nationally. Click below to listen to an original composition by James Gyre using 100 year old wood pipes. The image below is what the pipe organ look like in 1975.
Ames Harding
Dance of the Red Flower
Wilkinsburg musician Ames Harding,a member of Civic Arts emerging artists, recorded this album at The Center for Civic Arts, in the popular 1928 Children's Chapel, December 2021.
Outside Eliza
Curated music event presented in Center for Civic Arts' 1928 Children's Chapel.
Center for Civic Arts provides a venue for local bands to perform in affordable spaces, build their audiences, professional experience, their brands, take risks, and collaborate with other bands. Hallowed Grounds Concert featured Outside Eliza, Deep Casual, and Chaibaba. Dancing is also encouraged. Other new bands, such as the Ames Harding Band covets the historic ambience of the once sacred spaces as a back drop for studio recording sessions.
A Love Cry
Speak your peace!
A Hip Hop culture song & scrapbook during a pandemic and protest.
Facilitated by award-winning Hip Hop producer and teaching artist Akil Esoon.
What it is; We will use Zoom to create a 10 day, 45 minute session online, all ages, internationally.
Community members will voice how they feel and what we’ve been going through during these difficult and trying times set to classic Hip Hop music and cultural themes.
The pain
the rage
the organizing
the healing
the rising
Participants will learn how to take real feelings and emotions turn them into raw Hip Hop
music, dance and visual art.
Our overarching goal; We want to help amplify voice by providing a platform utilizing YouTube and other social media sites to inspire the masses and to offer a
legacy for the community in the form of solutions set to Hip Hop music and culture.
Love Cry, Speak Your Peace 2020
This project was supported by Pennsylvania Council for Arts Education, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and Center for Civic Arts
