Electric Earth Concerts presents a concert titled “The Color of There Seen from Here”, on Thursday, July 11, at Bass Hall at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture in Peterborough.
An ensemble of five stellar musicians will perform music by Gabriel Fauré, Mario Davidovsky, and the premiere The Color of There Seen from Here, a vibrant new multimedia art work created by visual artist Barbara Weissberger and composer Eric Moe. Commissioned specially for this performance by Electric Earth, it is the result of a close collaboration by these two Guggenheim Fellows that involves timed interactions between video and music.
“It was tricky to set up this kind of interplay between music and video, particularly since it’s a living and breathing concert piece with real-time video synchronization. Our basic solution was to film the video at the same time the music was being written so that I had a good idea of the visual material for each movement,” Moe said.
“Though The Color of There Seen from Here really comes from a twenty-year conversation we’ve been having about making and experiencing art as ways of being in the world, about knowing the world through sensation. We discussed Rebecca Solnit’s Field Guide to Getting Lost, specifically the blue of distance as the color of emotion, solitude and desire… the color of longing… ‘the color of there seen from here.’ And so our piece, which takes this phrase as a title, began,” Weissberger added.
The Color of There Seen from Here is scored for strings, flute, and piano. Its premiere is complemented by Fauré’s Piano Quartet, Op. 45, and Mario Davidovsky’s Quartetto for flute and strings. With Gabriela Diaz, violin, Robert Burkhart, cello, Molly Morkoski, piano, and artistic directors Laura Gilbert, flute, and Jonathan Bagg, viola.
Admission to this concert is $30 and may be purchased online at www.electricearthconcerts.org or at the door. Students may attend for free.
For further information, call 499-6216 or email joan.electricearth@gmail.com.