strange imaginary animals

Zaka

Notes by Jennifer Higdon

za• ka (zô‘kô)

v. To do the following almost simultaneously and with great speed:
zap, sock, race, turn, drop, sprint. See also: eighth blackbird.

violence

Notes by Gordon Fitzell

In writing violence, I was interested in exploring the concept of aesthetic violence. My concern was not with artistic representations of violence, but with violence inherent to the very structure of the art object. What elements conspire to wage aesthetic war in a work of art? How do issues of syntax, perspective, temporality, ideology, morality, politics, and technology foster such a conflict? Is aesthetic violence chaotic or organized? Is it destructive or constructive? Is it repulsive or alluring? How is violence sublimated?

dimly

glowing

silence ➤ one

instant fluid image

Indigenous Instruments

Notes by Steven Mackey

Indigenous Instruments is vernacular music from a culture that doesn’t exist. Fast and goofy? Sure, but sometimes too grand to be believed. De-tuned instruments groan and wail, broken clocks tick irregularly, and funky riff s alternate with calm, fl oating tunes. And the moaning of some strange imaginary animal is sometimes heard . . .