ArtBabble: Music

Looking at Music 3.0: Cey Adams

MoMA The Museum of Modern Art — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:46:58 +0000

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Behind the Scenes at MoMA

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MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Looking at Music 3.0
The Museum of Modern Art, February 16-May 30, 2011

Images courtesy of Ernest Paniccioli, Robert J. Zagula and Martha Cooper. Additional images courtesy of the artist.

Andrew Bird and Ian Schneller's Sonic Arboretum

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:02:54 +0000

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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

A collection of horned speakers, made from compressed recycled newsprint and dryer lint, created by sculptor and instrument-maker Ian Schneller and composer/violinist Andrew Bird, are installed in the MCA's atrium to create a unique sound garden. Bird records the initial compositions on-site at the MCA and sends musical information to different groups of horns via multiple loops. He layers and changes the compositions throughout the remainder of the installation off-site via computer technology.

Performance 9: On Line/Allora & Calzadilla

MoMA The Museum of Modern Art — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:14:13 +0000

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Behind the Scenes at MoMA

On Line: Drawing in the 21st Century

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MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Performance 9: Allora & Calzadilla
December 8, 2010-January 10, 2011
In conjunction with the exhibition On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
The Museum of Modern Art, November 21, 2010–February 7, 2011

Video produced by Ben Coccio

Kalup Linzy & James Franco, That's Entertainment!

Art21 — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:34:43 +0000

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New York Close Up

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Art21

What’s the difference between art and entertainment? In this film, artist Kalup Linzy prepares for his debut performance as Kalup & Franco—a performance art music-based collaboration with the actor James Franco—at Rob Pruitt’s 2010 Art Awards at Webster Hall in the East Village. Kalup & Franco are the closing act for a Hollywood-style awards show where celebrity and contemporary art merge in ambiguous ways.

Tang Museum: Suzanne Bocanegra on Math and Art in Collaboration

Tang Museum at Skidmore College — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:51:44 +0000

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Tang Museum: "Opener 21: Suzanne Bocanegra - I Write the Songs"

Tang Museum: Opener Series

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Tang Museum at Skidmore College

In this video, Suzanne Bocanegra describes her collaboration with John McCleary, a mathematician and classically trained singer, on the piece Color Chart. The duo created a mathematical formula that transformed an old yarn box into a libretto for an aria that Bocanegra describes as a “static opera.”

Tommy Hartung's Underground Movies

Art21 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:05:11 +0000

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New York Close Up

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Art21

How little does an artist need in a moving image to tell a story? In this film, artist Tommy Hartung employs minimal means and materials to create animated movies, performing a series of experiments in his basement studio in Ridgewood, Queens. Hartung’s remodeled underground space functions as a workshop—or in the words of a friend, an “arena”—with colored lights, dioramas, and puppet-like characters.

Looking at Music 3.0: Lee Quinones

MoMA The Museum of Modern Art — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:51:18 +0000

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Behind the Scenes at MoMA

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MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Looking at Music 3.0
The Museum of Modern Art, February 16–May 30, 2011

Images courtesy of Lee Quinones.

Filmed by The People’s DP, Inc.

"The Old Violin," 1886, William Michael Harnett

National Gallery of Art, Washington — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:29:22 +0000

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Children's Video Tour-Time Travel

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National Gallery of Art, Washington

In this video from the Children’s Video Tour, art lovers of all ages can explore William Michael Harnett’s work, “The Old Violin,” one of the artist’s most famous paintings. The best-known and most influential still-life painter in America during the last quarter of the 19th century, Harnett was a master of the trompe-l’oeil style of painting—a French phrase that means “fool the eye.” He painted objects life-size, and used such precise detail, exact colors, and convincing texture, that appearance seems like reality. On view in the West Building, Main Floor, Gallery 69A.

"Mary, Queen of Heaven," c. 1485/1500, Master of the Saint Lucy Legend

National Gallery of Art, Washington — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:37:17 +0000

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Children's Video Tour-Time Travel

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National Gallery of Art, Washington

This video from the National Gallery of Art Children’s Video Tour introduces young art lovers to Mary in the painting “Mary, Queen of Heaven” by an anonymous artist known as the Master of the Saint Lucy Legend. This painting is alive with a flurry of activity, brilliant color, and angels with candy-colored robes and wings – what a crowd! At the top left corner, an angel blows an old fashioned horn, known as a shawm. More angels play other instruments, such as a harp, lute and an organ. Can you find the angels who are singing? On view in the West Building, Main Floor, Gallery 40.

Martha Colburn & the Musicians, LIVE!

Art21 — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:42:48 +0000

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New York Close Up

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Art21

How does an artist transform a solitary practice into a communal experience? In this film, artist Martha Colburn leads a group of musicians in a series of live performances to her animated films at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. The raucous energy of the musical accompaniment to Colburn’s work—itself intensely kinetic and colorful, often depicting historically-inspired scenes of aggression and violence—belies the time-consuming and meticulous process by which the artist creates her stop-motion films.