- Jan 19, 2017
- 1 min read
Jackson Mac Low Portrait
2017
Role: director, video projection, performer
Media: single channel HD video projection, open instrumentation performers
Duration: 3 hours
Jennifer Bewerse and Southland Ensemble present a durational portrait concert of Jackson Mac Low's chance poetry. Mac Low’s dedication to systems of composition – which included chance, indeterminacy, and simultaneous performance – allowed him to create works of extreme openness. His poems represent a moment in poetry where truths of authorship were called into question and the very boundaries of music and poetry were pulled taut
Composer: Jackson Mac Low
Performers: Southland Ensemble
Performances: Conrad Prebys Music Center, La Jolla, CA (2017), Automata Theater, Los Angeles, CA (2017)
"The first work, Tree Movie (1961), was simplicity itself... The room was otherwise immersed in complete darkness and this focused visual attention to the image, promoting a more acute listening experience." — Paul Muller, Sequenza21
