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Celebrating Andrew Cyrille's Lifetime of Achievement
Celebrating Visual Artist Alain Kirili's Lifetime of Achievement
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Program 1 - 6:30pm
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5:30pmVisionary Youth Orchestra
Directed by Jessica Jones, Jeff Lederer, and William Parker Students from the Institute for Collaborative Education and Brooklyn Friends School Compositions to be performed: Happy Ornette Day (William Parker) Moon (William Parker) Wood Flute Song (William Parker) Peoples Song (William Parker) Language Music + Composition No. 255 (Anthony Braxton) |
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Program 1 - 7:15pm
Big FireDirected by Stefan Roloff
1984 In 1984 I was invited by the New York Institute of Technology to create one of the first artist-made digital videos on their Images II prototype. Much to their surprise I didn't trust computers and wanted to work from an analogue source. I brought a transparency of an oil-and tempera-painting I had done of a motorcycle-rider. They scanned it and I zoomed into the eye of the rider. The ability to create clones seemed to me what was special about computers. It was a system and as such it seemed sort of counter-creative. So, I decided to use that very system to destroy itself. For the music, I felt Andrew Cyrille would be the perfect choice. He had countered the drum's rhythm-oriented quality by playing his amazing, at times purely atmospheric soundscapes. That was an appropriate analogy to what I had just tried with the BIG FIRE: Counter the cliché of your instrument to take it to another level. I didn't want Andrew to just accompany or illustrate my image. Therefore I didn't show it to him, I just described it. Afterwards, blindly if you will, Andrew played a music that fit with the images like a glove and vice-versa. This describes not only the creation of the BIG FIRE, but the nature of Andrew's and my collaboration over the decades. |
Kinetic ColorsDirected by Stefan Roloff
1984 The concept for "Kinetic Colors" was created one evening when the dancer Christina Jones was hanging out at my studio. I asked her how she felt about dancing colors. She loved the idea. We produced four shows at Limbo Gallery and one at La Mama, each in a particular color – pink, green, blue and yellow. In each show Christina and the musicians – Andrew Cyrille (green) Gunter Hampel and Jeanne Lee (blue), Joseph Jarman (yellow) and Henry Threadgill (pink) interpreted these colors while they and their costumes were the same shades, visually incorporating them into the animated colorscape that the stage had become. Followed by q&a with Stefan Roloff |
One Long PaintingArt by Jeff Schlanger, and live performance by Oliver Lake, alto saxophone
2019 The musicWitness® Project has been engaged with documenting live performances by an extended community of musicians, dancers and poets since 1975. Drawing/painting interactive sounds in the dark is primarily a listening/looking process, a marking dance with rhythms of sonic colors. Each individually annotated picture is also fundamentally conceived in continuous connection with all of the others: ONE LONG PAINTING. This series embodies extended two-handed visual applause for the combined resonance of wholehearted offerings from all these poet/musicians experienced in vibrant moments of live musical conversation. The tactile extension of the original live art represented in this sequence is 45 meters (150 feet) long. |
Program 2 - 9pm
Milford Graves Full MantisJake Meginsky and Neil Young
2018 A portrait of renowned percussionist Milford Graves, exploring his kaleidoscopic creativity and relentless curiosity. Graves has performed internationally since 1964, both as a soloist and in ensembles with such legends as Albert Ayler, Giuseppi Logan and Sonny Sharrock. He is widely considered to be a founding pioneer of avant-garde jazz, and he remains one of the most influential living figures in the evolution of the form. The film draws the viewer through the artist’s lush garden and ornate home, into the martial arts dojo in his backyard and the laboratory in his basement -all of this just blocks from where he grew up in the housing projects for South Jamaica, Queens. Graves tells stories of discovery, struggle and survival, ruminates on the essence of 'swing,' activates electronic stethoscopes in his basement lab to process the sound of his heart, and travels to Japan where he performs at a school for children with autism, igniting the student body into an ecstatic display of spontaneous collective energy. Oscillating from present to past and weaving intimate glimpses of the artist’s complex cosmology with blistering performances from around the globe, MILFORD GRAVES FULL MANTIS is cinema full of fluidity, polyrhythm and intensity, embodying the essence of Graves’ music itself. |
About the Vision Festival
Founded in 1996, the Vision Festival is New York City's longest continuously running jazz festival. Now in its 24th year, this festival of music, dance, poetry, and visual art is heralded as “one of New York’s most essential art events” (New York Times). Performances feature legendary and emerging stars representing the free jazz, experimental, and avant-garde communities and include Lifetime Achievement honorees like Andrew Cyrille, Dave Burrell, Peter Brötzmann, and Milford Graves. Promoting free jazz as a multidisciplinary aesthetic, the festival also features leading figures in dance, poetry, visual art, and thought.
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