Paper Music
A song and film cycle for voices, piano, LP players, film and art objects – premiere 2014
Paper Music is a witty, poignant, a gently subversive song-and-film cycle; it unites films, animations based on William Kentridge’s charcoal and ink drawings, with the live music by Philip Miller. Live musical performances by vocalists Ann Masina and Joanna Dudley, pianist Vincenzo Pasquariello.. A fascinating exploration of the relationships between sound and image. Vaudeville, opera and film come together in this absurdist-poetic 'cine-concert' by William Kentridge and composer Philip Miller. Paper Music is a veritable sensory universe, melancholy and visionary at once.
Paper Music was premiered at the Museo del Bargello in Firenze and presented in Carnegie Hall NYC, Louis Vuitton Foundation Paris, Philharmonie de Paris, Luxembourg Grand Theatre, ArtBasel, Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Gropius Bau Berlin, Berliner Festspiel, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam Holland Festival, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Municipal Theater. Bogota and Teatro Santander Bucaramanga, Colombia.
Credits
Composer: Philip Miller
Films: William Kentridge
Vocalist: Ann Masina
Vocalist: Joanna Dudley
Pianist: Vincenzo Pasquariello
Costumes: Greta Goiris
Produced by: Firenze Suona Contemporanea.
Photos: Christopher Hewitt