Not exact matches
Richards» presentation for Cymru yn Fenis Wales in Venice 2017 — his first major commission at an international biennale — will consist of a new, site - responsive sound installation and a suite of additional
works containing overlapping archival samples and
musical extracts repeated or reworked into different forms.
The bold
works contain lyrics from Broadway
musicals Summer Stock and Hair that Kass has rendered in Abstract Expressionist and Pop styles — as a subversive and reverential nod to both artistic movements.
The
works on display are: 432Hz (2009 - 2014), a wooden shell that
contains honeycombs; Vorkuta (2003), a refrigeration chamber where the temperature of -30 °C contrasts with a chair maintained at a constant +37 °C by an internal thermostat; Mindfall (2004 - 2007), a container which
contains a chair and tables, on which 21 electric motors turn on intermittently, one after the other, creating a sort of
musical composition; Untitled (2003), a small iron room crossed by blasts of hot and cold air channelled into the space by powerful fans; and Sub (2014), a new
work specially created for the exhibition at HangarBicocca, an assembly of aluminium and glass display units which the artist originally designed to exhibit her Inner Disorder (1999 - 2001) series of drawings.
His Venice project is a new, site - responsive sound installation combined with a suite of additional
works containing overlapping archival samples and
musical extracts that are repeated or reworked into different forms.
You fundamentally want to ignore the law of copyright as applied to
musical compositions and that simply isn't possible legally, although obviously, if the old «Real Book»
contains only songs that are out of copyright (usually pre-1923, but more complicated in the case of songs that were historically governed by state law than for other copyrighted
works that were historically governed by federal law), you wouldn't have a problem and many Jazz compositions are in the public domain because they are sufficiently old.