An immersive video work of minimalist seascapes by Dutch artist Johannes Bosgra will accompany the piece Dark Waves by John Luther Adams. The piece will be performed at the concert Inflection Point by The Ray/Kallay Duo (pianists/keyboardists Vicki Ray and Aron Kallay) on Tuesday 7 November at the LA Philharmonic's California Festival.
Bosgra travelled around the world to the most desolate places to capture the essence of colors, forms and shapes of oceans and seas into minimalist seascapes. The seascapes are tuned exactly to the rhythm and character of Dark Waves, to immerse the viewer in sound and image.
The seascapes Bosgra created exist in the liminal space between abstraction and representation. Likewise, Dark Waves is one of John Luther Adams more abstract pieces, it’s like a total feeling of waves. It sculpts layer upon layer into expansive waves of sound. The waves crest together in a tsunami of sound that engulf you. The seascapes flow slowly into one another in the video projection, just like in John Luther Adams’ Dark Waves the groups of notes flow into one another, both in the piano’s and in the electronic music.
The Ray/Kallay Duo present the concert Inflection Point, exploring the rich tapestry of composers who have called California home. Some are minimalists and others maximalists, some write in microtones and others for electronics and toy piano.You'll hear works by Michael Byron, John Luther Adams, Joao Pedro Oliveira, Rand Steiger, Nina Shekhar, Sean Friar, Veronika Krausas, and Karen Tanaka.
Pianists Vicki Ray and Aron Kallay have given hundreds of world premieres in Los Angeles and across the country. Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times calledthem, “exquisite... every sound sounded considered, alive, worthy of ourwonder,” when they premiered John Cage’s The 10,000 Things in 2012. Theirrepertoire ranges from icons of the genre to newly composed works craftedspecifically for their unusual and special resources.
Johannes Bosgra (1979, NL) uses contemporary classical music as an inspiration and collaborates with composers and musicians such as Philip Glass to create Gesamtkunstwerke. He has exhibited and performed his works internationally, notably at Three Shadows Photography Art Center Beijing, New World Symphony Hall in Miami, Rotterdam Photo, Head on Photo Festival Sydney, Singapore International Photo Festival, Shanghai Center of Photography, Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar (NL), ACCI Gallery in Berkeley, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ in Amsterdam.
