The Friendship Gardens
Posted by Erik | Filed under Music
The Friendship Gardens is a composition in two parts, written for string quartet and bowed piano. The score is available to interested ensembles upon request. (2009) This piece is dedicated to Madeleine (1938-2009).
The Friendship Gardens I
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The Friendship Gardens II
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Tags: arts, audio, bowed piano, composition, friendship gardens, score, string quartet
Time, Through Windows
Posted by Erik | Filed under Music, Video
Time, Through Windows explores the perception of time, using the passage from spring to winter as a metaphor for the artist’s father’s cycle of life—from child to elder. Music and spoken dialog work in combination with video to create a six-piece narrative that invites the audience into an intimate durational experience. This work, presented as a circular grouping of six audio/video pairs, acts as a vehicle for the audience to contemplate that which might normally go overlooked.
Tags: arts, audio, chicago, columbia college chicago, cycle, death, durational, father, gallery, images, installation, lens, method, mfa, narrative, perspective, rhythm, score, simplicity, Spoken-word, time, Video, Visual, world
A Fact of Modern Life
Posted by Erik | Filed under Music
This piece was first written in 2004 as a cacophony of spoken text to accompany a four-floor stairwell “exertion” installation. The 2009 revision was made to ready the piece for live performance. As revised, A Fact of Modern Life calls for processed violin and voice. The score is available to interested parties upon request.
A Fact of Modern Life
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Tags: audio, installation, repetition, rhythm, score, simplicity, Spoken-word, voice
