[Microsound-announce] dark over light earth

[Timothy Ivison]

Please join us for this very special event.  Art Catalogues and MOCA at the Pacific Design Center have given us the opportunity to present a new sound installation by Steve Roden.  The text below is an extract of Steve's original proposal.  
Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions:
Timothy Ivison
mocapdc at moca.org
 

SATURDAY, JAN  20,  6–8pm
  
        Dark Over Light Earth 
 A  new soundwork  by Steve Roden inspired by the paintings on view in MOCA's Mark Rothkos. Created  with the assistance of violinist Jacob Danzinger.
  
  
    Reception, booksigning, and a conversation between the artist and architect Michael Maltzan
  
     
  
    ART CATALOGUES at MOCA Pacific Design Center
  
    8687 Melrose Avenue
  
    West Hollywood, California 90069
  
    (310) 289-5223
  
    artcatalogues at moca.org 
  
         
  
      i would like to present a new sound work related to moca's recent exhibition of paintings by mark rothko. the audio piece will not only attempt to form a kind of reflection of rothko's paintings; but will use the color schemes in all eight of the paintings to generate a score for the composition. fragments of morton feldman's rothko chappel composition will also participate. it will be an 8 channel work that will activate the space in an attempt to relate the activity of looking to the activity of listening. the soundwork is not intended as a soundtrack for the paintings; but a new work generated from them.
  
    i used the colors in all the paintings to generate a score for my own parts, and also had jacob (Danzinger)  listen to feldman's rothko chapel piece on headphones and try to play violin along with it without listening to the work first or practicing. everything will then be cut up and pasted together so that the conceptual parts are the skeleton that the final form is built on... kind of like taking an early sol lewitt cube piece and wrapping twine around it until the original form is almost invisible...
  
  
  
    
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