FULL-BODY MUSIC MAKER


ARTIST STATEMENT:


The Full-body music maker is an interactive tool to fill the gap between dancing and song making. It subtly encourages group participation in order to foster the collaboration of different styles and beats of music as if to create a song as unique as the people who make it. A simple square and circle arrangement acts as a visual aid to guide you, through the medium of light from a projector. With this medium the body is unimpeded from moving in anyway it's owner commands and can go to different octaves and pitches as will. The best part of the Full-body music maker is the active participation the audience has with the work. Although I have made and arranged the sound without the audience the art does not exist.

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Press Release:

Memphis College of Art and the Cinema 7 present ENTER=ACTIVE, an evening of bottomless play for both artists and non-artists. Come experience these visually stunning works on May 5th anytime between 8 and 10 pm. Featuring work by Kaitlyn Chandler, Stephen Harris, Jorge Soto and Amanda Willoughby; this will be an unmissable, unreproducible event. All of the games, music, lights and labyrinths are free and open to the public, come join us for 2 hours of your life that will be unlike any other.

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The Night Test:

Rehema Barber: Artist Lecture

This was a pretty interesting lecture, and I'm glad I went. Rehema Barber (I may have spelled her name wrong) is faculty at MCA teaching art history. This lecture was about a grant/program she was given to go and experience Japanese contemporary art. It was on the whole a little bit long but also not rigid and stoic like  many lectures are.


She first went over a piece by Kenji Yanobe, called "Sun Child" This one really caught my eye out of a lot of the art she showed:

This is a reactionary piece against the earthquake that really devastated parts of Japan recently, which she talked about saying: "The earthquake changed the way artists framed their work" Which was interesting to me- art reacting to the climate and enviroment that it is produced in. What if we did this and made art that sucked up CO2 fumes?


Another thing that caught my eye was a permanent work at the 21st century museum in Kanazawa:

The architecture of the muesum itself is a work of art- it's basically all windows except for the inner room and is open and free to the public except for the galleries inside. It's really enforcing a sense of community and allowing anyone to enter from all sides. But this work really interested me:

 Leandro Erlich

It's really surreal and interactive to me- basically a pane of glass slices the top of the pool and between the pane is water that is circulated. This level of simplicity and yet interactivity and surrealism is really genius. 

Another standout piece is this jazz musician who wanted to meld art and music- so he played a piano that was on fire;

Yosuke Yamashita

He's done this before but the video he did before of it was in very bad quality. He succeeded in playing the piano as long as possible until the strings melted and no sound could be played- even at the expense his own health.

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