[NewMusicEvents] Friday: Christian Marclay's Shuffle @21 grand

[damon]

Friday, Sep 7 2007 9:00 PM

21 Grand
416 25th St @Broadway
Near 19th Street BART
Oakland
Click for Venue page on bayimproviser

For September's Art Murmur an ensemble of top Bay Area improvisors  
organized by Damon Smith including Aurora Josephson, William Winant,  
Jon Raskin, Ava Mendoza, Kanko NIshi, Weasel Walter, Jacob Lindsay,  
Phillip Greenlief, Kristian Aspelin and others + Sarah Lockhart live  
video will perform Christian Marclay's "Shuffle" in various groupings.

About Shuffle:

Book Synopsis
Christian Marclay uses a range of media—video, sculpture,  
installation, and performance—to address the ways that music and  
sound impact our experience of the world. While he frequently uses  
photograms and found images in his work, what is not widely known is  
the extent to which photography has become a tool of choice. In  
Shuffle, he has extensively photographed the appearance of musical  
notation in the world: on shop awnings, chocolate tins, T-shirts,  
underwear, and other unexpected places. The work reveals Marclay, a  
prominent figure in contemporary art, to be an obsessive photographic  
note-taker with a witty flair for uncovering clue like music hidden  
in the landscape and adorning our world. All around us, it seems, are  
musical notes just waiting to be discovered and played. Each of these  
images is presented on an individual card, and the entire deck is  
enclosed in a distinctive package. Part Fluxus box, part John Cage- 
ian "chance operation" or Eames House of Cards, the deck offers a  
compelling, serendipity-driven visual experience, but is also  
intended to be used as a spontaneous musical score. Shuffle includes  
an explanation and instructions by Marclay.
http://www.aperture.org/store/books-preview-bio.aspx?ID=554

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