I asked Casey Farina to be in the “Structural Elements” new media show based on a recommendation. When we finally got to talk, the topic moved to a year-long project he was working on.

The project - Project Condor - was based on airborne objects with multidirectional speakers hanging below flying in improvised and preprogramed formations while the speakers would emit pre-composed and improvised music.

I was immediately fascinated and knew I liked Casey when he said: “I wanted to do it with small helicopters, but there are safety issues, so I’m using small blimps.”

I didn’t have to think before I said: “You figure out how to do it. I’ll find you a place to do it.”

Six months later (roughly) Casey had figured out how to do it and the Broadway Armory, a huge place as you could imagine from its name, astonishingly agreed to not only allow the performance for two nights, but let Casey test things out for a few weeks on site. God bless them.

My hope is that I can help support projects like Casey’s in the future. Art by people who are really walking along the edge of the map, while simultaneously engaged in substantive creation. For now, though, it’s interviews and reviews.

I mean, how many times will I get to promote an art event that gives one the feeling of wandering into another world, where you want to just pinch yourself because this shit just can’t be happening, can it?

So Project Condor was a flying acoustical blimps performance. Proof that good art makes for bland words. If you ever see an advertised performance by Casey Farina, go. Perhaps we’ll meet.