Travis Just
Travis Just founded the Brooklyn-based performance group Object Collection in 2004 with writer/director Kara Feely (www.objectcollection.us). Travis is a composer whose music often uses text, objects, improvisation, and gesture in addition to instruments, voice, and electronics. His work with Object Collection can take the shape of large-scale performance projects, experimental operas, and duo performances. Albums have been released on Slip Imprint, awavepress, Infrequent Seams, and khalija. Travis worked for Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater, assisted La Monte Young, and adapted Robert Ashley's music for the stage.
Richard’s rehearsals were by turns exhilarating, boring, inventive, repetitive, occasionally rapturous, endlessly creative. This was precisely the kind of radical art that Kara and I hoped to be a part of. Art that was voracious in its interests, unapologetically intellectual, and often profoundly stupid (but stupid-smart, like the Ramones of course).
