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. <br>Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions:<br>Timothy Ivison<br><a href="mailto:mocapdc@moca.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mocapdc@moca.org</a><br><div><div><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"> <br></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">SATURDAY, JAN 20, </span></font><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"> 6–8pm</span></font></div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div><strong><b><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Dark Over Light
Earth</span></font></b></strong><b><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold;"> <br> </span></font></b><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;">A new soundwork</span></font><font color="#0000fe" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 254);"> </span></font><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial;">by Steve Roden inspired by the paintings on view in <i><span style="font-style: italic;">MOCA's Mark Rothkos</span></i>. Created with the assistance of violinist Jacob Danzinger.</span></font></div> </div> </div> <div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Reception, booksigning, and a conversation between the artist and architect Michael Maltzan</span></font></div> </div> <div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div> </div> <div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana;">ART CATALOGUES at MOCA Pacific Design Center</span></font></div> </div> <div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;">8687 Melrose Avenue</span></font></div> </div> <div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;">West Hollywood, California 90069</span></font></div> </div> <div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;">(310) 289-5223</span></font></div> </div> <div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"><a href="mailto:artcatalogues@moca.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">artcatalogues@moca.org</a> </span></font></div> </div> <blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt;
margin-bottom: 5pt;"> <div> <div> <div><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span></font></div> </div> <div> <div> <div><em><i><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">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.</span></font></i></em></div> </div> <div> <div><em><i><font color="blue"
face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">i used the colors in all the paintings to generate a score for my own parts, and also had jacob</span></font></i></em><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;"> (Danzinger)<em><i> <font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 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...</span></font></i></em></span></font></div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div>