SONG CYCLE
Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel Artistic Director
A kinetic sign with ever-evolving poetry. Song Cycle describes a world of music and re-proposed Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall as a transit hub, pointing to the ways that music transports us as listeners. Part imagined, part remembered, and part observed, the text is continually inscribed and reinscribed by a 256-character split-flap sign reminiscent of the arrival and departure boards found at airports and train stations in the 20th century.
The code driven and randomized text speculates on the special relationship between architecture and music by proposing new scenarios for music beyond the concert hall. Through this neverending text, Song Cycle asks audiences to delight in music as it passes us by. To bring the kind of attention found in the concert hall back into the world, where music is everywhere if you are present enough to hear it.
GRATITUDE to Julia Ward and Meghan Martinu for their faith and support of this work.
FABRICATION by Oat Foundry
DOCUMENTATION by Ian Byers Gamber
TEXT & DESIGN by Kallmyer
DIMENSIONS 96” W x 60” H
INQUIRE
THIS INTEREST IN MUSIC & LANGUAGE WAS DEVELOPED OVER MANY YEARS IN THE STUDIO.
ALL POSSIBLE MUSIC, CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
THE WORK PLANTS A MUSIC IN YOUR MIND - EXPLORING A MUSIC OF DAY DREAMING. A MUSIC OF THE INTERIOR LANDSCAPE.
ALL POSSIBLE MUSIC (2017), EDITION OF 5
FRAENKEL GALLERY
A reading at Disney Hall with Sarah Davachi, Korede Oladimeji, Alexandra Rose Franco, Matt Kivel, Clinton Patterson, and superteam
these texts have been activated in performances for intimate audiences: with mystic drones, the sound of the rain pressed into vinyl, unstable drum machines, and lush harmonies accompanied by fresh flowers.
Disney Hall, 2022. Image by Ian Byers Gamber