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Visual Music is an evening-length multimedia production featuring music of Reich, Zorn, Penderecki, Herrmann, Nancarrow, Grey, and others. Visual Music (scenic and projection design by Alexander V. Nichols, lighting design by Larry Neff, and sound design by Mark Grey) incorporates video projections created by several artists including Catherine Owens, Mickey T ,and Willie Williams. The piece, which was developed as a special project for Kronos' 30th anniversary, received its premiere at UCLA's Royce Theatre in February 2003, and has since been performed in many cities including San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, and Amsterdam.
About Visual Music, David Harrington states: "What we're trying to do with Visual Music is to give each piece a setting, a visual environment to live and breathe in. We envision a continuous, unfolding experience that is bizarre and unexpected, where the building blocks transform themselves in unforeseen ways. We move into a totally different place, a different room in each piece. I'm not sure if this is a play, a film, a recording, a TV show, or a concert. Visual Music represents multiple viewpoints about musical relationships and visual perception. Magnification, video interpretation, and the use of differing angles and points of view will hopefully allow our audience to ask the same questions we ask—what is an instrument, what is a note, what is a quartet, where does music start and stop?" |
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