Date: Friday, February 7, 2014. 4:00 PM.
Location: Studio at Bing Concert Hall
Paul Kaiser, visual artist (New York), and Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, composer (Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Stanford University) explore new sources of Japanese inspiration that drove their creation of Linked Verse, the intermedia performance that they and their collaborators recently premiered at Bing Concert Hall. The music, composed for western cello and the Japanese sho (mouth organ) fuses the two instruments while reshuffling their traditional timbral and harmonic functions. The imagery, projected as 3D video, forged a new form of visual montage akin to the methods of renga, an old Japanese tradition of collaborative linked verse that follows a discontinuous line of association radically different from western lyrical and narrative lines. The artists will relate the stories of their sometimes odd encounters with Japan and its culture, with mystery and incomprehension often playing a key role. They'll also show in telling and concrete detail the methods of their creative responses.
Location: Studio at Bing Concert Hall
Paul Kaiser, visual artist (New York), and Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, composer (Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Stanford University) explore new sources of Japanese inspiration that drove their creation of Linked Verse, the intermedia performance that they and their collaborators recently premiered at Bing Concert Hall. The music, composed for western cello and the Japanese sho (mouth organ) fuses the two instruments while reshuffling their traditional timbral and harmonic functions. The imagery, projected as 3D video, forged a new form of visual montage akin to the methods of renga, an old Japanese tradition of collaborative linked verse that follows a discontinuous line of association radically different from western lyrical and narrative lines. The artists will relate the stories of their sometimes odd encounters with Japan and its culture, with mystery and incomprehension often playing a key role. They'll also show in telling and concrete detail the methods of their creative responses.