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Highly recommended: Seeing The Visitors at ICA Boston. It's a dozen-ish musicians playing in separate rooms of a big house where they can't see each other and c
by mauvehaus 5y ago
Highly recommended: Seeing The Visitors at ICA Boston. It's a dozen-ish musicians playing in separate rooms of a big house where they can't see each other and can only hear each other over headphones. It's presented as nine channels of video, each with their own audio.
The effect is pretty wild and magical. The music, I suspect, is intentionally written to not require precise timing, and part of the charm of the piece is the musicians feeling each other out as they play. It definitely plays with your expectations of what constitutes music and how you hear timing in music.
The ICA owns the piece (a copy of the piece?), but it isn't currently on display :-(
https://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/ragnar-kjartansson-visitors-1 https://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/ragnar-kjartansson-vis...
- bazeblackwood 5y agoI saw it at the Broad in LA, and it was mind-blowing.