Bill Viola
Rainforest IV
** Six panel wallet with one CD. Binaural audio best heard with headphones ** Few artists within the canons of 20th Century avant-garde and experimental music can be regarded as important or influential as the pianist and composer David Tudor. His name rings out across the years. Yet, despite Tudor’s place in history, his legacy largely remains under the shadow of the artists that he worked with, most notably John Cage, while the majority of his own output as a composer - a handful of releases p…
The Talking Drum
** art edition in 100 copies, hand signed and numbered** For those familiar with contemporary art, Bill Viola’s name is synonymous with Video Art. From multi-channel installations to single-channel theatrical screenings, the moving image has been central to the construction of his work. Perhaps, though, this singular correlation of Viola distinctly with video might actually be a short- sighted evaluation of his oeuvre. Arriving in his artistic practice during the age of electronic media, w…
Works
An amazing and fundamental boxet with 3 DVD and a book featuring Hatsu-Yume, considered by many to be Viola's finest work, a spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death. The title refers to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant. I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like is an epic journey in five chapters, as well as a personal investigation into the inner states and connections to the animal consciousness we all possess. In a stream o…
From The Kitchen Archives No.4: Composers Inside Electronics
From The Kitchen Archives No. 4: Composers Inside Electronics continues a series of CD releases featuring recently discovered audio recordings of concert performances at The Kitchen dating from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. The electronic innovation of the time is illustrated here by tracks from David Tudor, John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, Martin Kalve and Bill Viola." All recordings from this CD are from 1977/78. The Kalve piece is from 1978 and is performed by John Driscoll, Martin Kalve, T…