Saturdays in January
Kurt Ralske
January 7, 8PM
January 21, 8 PM & 10PM
Triadic Memories
with a live performance of Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories
Michael Century, Piano
January 14 & 28, 9PM
Darkness (Not Darkness)
with music by Toru Takemitsu and text by C.S. Lewis
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Triadic Memories
for solo
piano, presents the listener an opportunity to enter Morton Feldman's'musical
universe: a place of quiet, space, repetition, evolution, and expanded
time-sense.
Feldman described parallels between his own off-centered, memory-twisting
rhythms and the imperfectly repetitive motifs found in certain Turkish
rugs. Kurt Ralske's video is based on time-distortions of images of these
same Turkish carpets, highlighting these parallels and mirroring the piece's
musical structure. Feldman recast musical time with the stasis of painting
and textiles. Here, the static carpet images are rendered with Feldman's
ineffable quietude and glacial evolution.
"All we composers really have to work with is time and sound - and sometimes I'm not even sure about sound." -- Morton Feldman
Darkness (Not
Darkness) is a full-length experimental video created from
images of Iraq in the aftermath of the First Gulf War .
The images are time manipulated using the artist's custom software.
Desert, sky, water, fire and oil flow and blend organically, mixing like
liquids.
Events that actually happened sequentially appear to occur simultaneously.
Th e drift of images suggest omniscient views of a post-apocalyptic landscape.
Notes written by
the artist
Kurt Ralske
Using technology to research time and the atemporal.
Ku rt Ralske's video installations and performances are created exclusively with his own custom software. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.
Kurtprogrammed and co-designed a 9-channel video installation that is permanently in the lobby of the MoMA in NYC. In 2003, his work received First Prize at the Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin, as a member of the video ensemble 242.pilots. He is also the author/programmer of Auvi, a popular video software environment in use by artists in 22 countries.
Kurtresides in New York City. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts in the MFA Computer Art Department.
Biography copied from Kurt Ralke's homepage: http://retnull.com/
Michael Century, Pianist for Triadic Memories January 7 and 14
Long associated with The Banff Centre for the Arts, Century founded the Centre's Media Arts Division in 1988. In this position, he was the instigator of The Art and Virtual Environments project (1991-94). This project was the first large-scale and sustained investigation of virtual reality technologies as a new medium for artists; the completed installations have been been displayed in exhibitions and festivals worldwide, and the entire project documented in a book-length collection Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments (MIT Press, 1996).From 1993-1996, Century was a program manager at the Canadian Centre for Information Technology Innovation (CITI), a federal research laboratory located in Montreal, with responsibility for new media arts funding. From 1996-98, he served as policy advisor to the federal department of Canadian Heritage. Since September 1997, he has been the principal of Next Century Consultants, focusing on new media and cultural policy for various public and university sector clients. For the Rockefeller Foundation, he researched and wrote a report in 1999 entitled Pathways to Innovation in Digital Culture. He was panelist and co-author for the U.S. National Academy of Science 2003 report on information technologies and creative practices, Beyond Productivity. He was educated in humanities, piano performance, and musicology at the University of Toronto, and the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Iowa.
Biography
copied from Michael Century's homepage: http://www.arts.rpi.edu/people/century/
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