[microsound] Morton Feldman: Triadic Memories

[Kurt Ralske <kranning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Morton Feldman: Triadic Memories

Michael Century, piano
Kurt Ralske, video

Friday January 28 / 8pm
Chapel and Cultural Center at Rensselaer
Troy, NY

Triadic Memories was composed in 1979, one of Morton Feldman's long,
ruminative late works.  Quiet throughout and eccentrically repetitive, this
piece invites the listener to experience a now-unusual kind of long
duration.  For this performance, a newly created video will be projected,
inspired by Feldman's interest in the carpets of the Middle East.   The
composer was struck by parallels between his own off-centered,
memory-twisting rhythms and what he called the "disproportionate symmetry"
of  certain Turkish rugs' skewed repetition of motif.  Created by Kurt
Ralske, this video is not a literally synchronized accompaniment, but a
parallel and complementary track that scans, scrolls, cross-fades and morphs
between mostly detailed carpet images.  In this conjuncture of music and
image, we propose another kind of disproportionate symmetry.  Whereas
Feldman recast musical time with aspects of the stasis and scale of painting
and textiles, here the static carpet image is rendered with aspects of
Feldman's ineffable quietude and slow tempos.

 Michael Century is a musician and professor in the Department of the Arts
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. http://www.arts.rpi.edu/people/century/

Kurt Ralske is a NYC-based video artist, composer, and programmer. Co-winner
in 2003 of Transmediale first prize for media art, he recently created the
video installation permanently on view in the the lobby of the re-opened
Museum of Modern Art. 

More info and directions
http://www.rpi.edu/web/C+CC/ccc/ccc.html




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