anti-Warhol movement (in 16 cues)

Marina Rosenfel's newest multichannel audio work is the latest in a series of investigations of music as installation. Featuring a cello part performed by Okkyung Lee, anti-Warhol movement explores the ideas of suggestion, reference, nostalgia, abstraction and emotion in music. Like a soundtrack to an imaginary film--part nature documentary, part "L'année dernière à Marienbad" -- short musical "movements", some as brief as several seconds, are separated by "cue tones" reminiscent of the beeps on an old-fashioned filmstrip audio track.

Cephissus landscape (2002)

Rosenfeld's previous sound installations undermined the central notion of "surround-sound" technology by locating viewers, not at the center of an imaginary cosmology of total entertainment, but in an environment with no fixed center and numerous temporary sonic "sweet spots." These included delusional situation (for the 2002 Whitney Biennial) and Cephissus landscape, which was commissioned by Creative Time for "Sonic Garden" in the the World Financial Center's Winter Garden, as part of the reopening of that space in September 2002. The title Cephissus landscape makes reference to the acoustical properties of the glass-and-marble architecture of the Winter Garden atrium; the reopened site had fewer commercial oulets and more empty, reflective spaces, but retained its shiny high-corporate aesthetic, not to mention its function as both a nexus of post-9/11 "tourism" (due to its proximity to "ground zero") and a workplace for thousands of financial industry employees. Cephissus was the name of the water, and the spirit of the water, that Narcissus famously looked into and saw only himself...

Marina Rosenfeld

Composer and artist Marina Rosenfeld (b. New York, 1968) is based in Brooklyn, NY. Her sound compositions, live performances and music-photography-video installations have been presented at numerous festivals, museums, galleries and other venues here and abroad, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kitchen, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Curt Marcus Galllery, Greene Naftali Gallery, Ars Electronica, Donaueschingen, Steirische Herbst, Pro Musica Nova and the Berliner Festspiele.

Marina Rosenfeld is also the creator and director of the critically acclaimed sheer frost orchestra, the 17-woman electric-guitar and nail-polish-bottle orchestra she founded in 1994. She is also a frequent improvisor/collaborator, including with Toshio Kajiwara, DJ Olive, Alan Licht, Kim Gordon, Ikue Mori, Martin TŽtreault, Otomo Yoshihide, Tim Barnes, Christof Kurzmann, Dieb 13, Sonic Youth, Zeena Parkins, Raz Mesinai and Kaffe Mathews, among many others.

Marina's CDs include the sheer frost orchestra drop, hop, drone, scratch, slide &A for anything (Charhizma, 2001), theforestthegardenthesea: music from fragment opera (Charhizma, 1999); and a water's wake with Toshio Kajiwara and Tim Barnes (Quakebasket, 2003). Later in May she will appear at MUTEK festival, in Montreal, Canada, with Philip Jeck, Martin Ng and M. TŽtreault.

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