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From Ark to Microchip
The provocative "From Ark to Microchip" mixes commentary, dramatic re-enactment, original music, historic voices, audio art and sound effects in a pan-historical, pan-cultural milieu. Programs in the program series have received several awards.
Collective grooves from visual artists at the Kansas City Art Institute—Emma Daffin, Matt Johnson, Lila Ferber, Cory Ferriera, Dwight Frizzell, Sebastian Thomas, Ian Turpin and Joey Watson. Areas represented: Painting, Filmmaking, Sculpture, Interactive Arts, Illustration, Fiber, Ceramics, Artspace and Social Practice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsGR5yJCizw
Visual Music
“Colors are the music of the eyes; they combine like notes; there are seven colors as there are seven notes, there are shades as there are semitones…There is an impression that results from a particular juxtaposition of colors, lights and shades: what one might call the music of painting.”–Eugène Delacroix
“Twilight Idyll” with the Sound Art Collab as featured in the Visual Music Program
Sebastian Thomas (Painting) – sitar, electric guitar
Frances Maley (Illustration) – violin, technical assistant
Ernesto Flores (Filmmaking) – electric bass
Dwight Frizzell (Animation, Digital Media, Filmmaking, Photography) –
Instructor, WX5 midi-controller, time-stretching
Recorded live at the Kansas City Art Institute, East Building Room 212 on 3/31/15 with a Shure VP-88 microphone (stereo).
KCAI’s Sound Art Collab is a student-led cooperative that plays one hour weekly each semester. The sessions are open to students across-campus, and open to sound as we weave it. Professional musicians/sound artists sometimes join in. We perform at school events and special concerts in addition to our recordings.
To create “Twilight Idyll,” the ensemble recorded a 5-minute segment to be time-stretched (around 36 minutes). The instruments were sitar, violin, bass and WX5. Sebastian Thomas switched to electric guitar as we played with our previous recording. The time-stretch was modulated during the performance, with the musicians and speakers balanced around the microphone in our classroom/production facility (bass in the center, L/R playback speakers in the back, violin to the front left, and electric guitar at the right side). The recording is a 20-minute edit of the 36-minute performance. Thanks to Tom Lopez for introducing me to the VP-88 microphone.
The title emphasizes the time of the day of the recording—sunset. Long and low windows on the north side allowed the golden light to flow into our space, defining the mood of our improvisation. I selected a video I shot/composited to recreate the light that bathed our rehearsal space. –Dwight Frizzell, Professor of Converging Media
