[extropy-chat] ARTS: Music To Your Eyes

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Music to Your Eyes 

"Before the advent of recording technology, listening to music was a very 
visual experience, as musicians and their audiences tended to occupy the 
same time and space. Christian Marclay's work often reintroduces us to the 
visual pleasures of music, in the form of images, sculpture, and video 
installations. Tonight at New York's Eyebeam, the artist presents Screen 
Play, a 'moving image musical score in which Marclay has combined found
film 
footage with computer animation to create a visual projection to be 
interpreted by live musicians.' Members of three ensembles will respond 
sonically to Marclay's visual cues. Presented in conjunction with the 
Performa 05 Performance Art Biennial, the piece may be a mouthful to 
describe, but promises to deliver playful layer upon layer of 
performativity. Publicized stills from the piece hint at a meditation on
the 
relationship between composing and programming while, in some ways, Marclay 
is really engaged in a de-composition and breaking-down of visual texts. 
Ironically, much of the computer animation comprising the 'video score' in 
Screen Play looks like the graphic imagery in old computer games. With 
pictures worth a thousand notes, this high 'score' will surely take your 
eyes and ears to the bonus round." - Marisa Olson 

http://eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=unique&id=83 

Create!
Natasha


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