Instrumentation: 2 pianos+keyboards, 2 percussion
First Performance: the DiMenna center for Classical Music, New YorK, NY, August 24, 2023. Yarn/Wire.
Commissioned by the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust for Yarn/Wire at TIME:SPANS 2023. Dedicated to the musicians of Yarn/Wire: Laura, Julia, Sae, and Russell
Duration: 15 minutes
“Painting is an art which aims at giving an abiding impression of artistic reality with only two dimensions. The painter must, therefore, do consciously what we all do unconsciously – construct his third dimension. And he can accomplish his task only as we accomplish ours, by giving tactile values to retinal impressions.”
Bernard Berenson, The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance
“As a painter, paint is the power of extending whatever you see or feel, of intensifying it, of reshaping it. So I wanted the bodies to be turning into tactile sensations of flickers. And…you get lost in the frame – to move the body in and out of its own frame, to move the eye in and out of the body so it could see everything it wanted to, but would also be in a state of dissolution, optically, resembling some aspect of the erotic sensation in the body which is not a literal translation. It is a painterly, tactile translation edited as a music of frames.”
Carolee Schneemann, on Fuses