Based on video of an informal concert in Ornette Coleman's recording studio, Grafica Harmolodica combines abstract photography and live multimedia performance with avant-garde jazz improvisation.
The result is less the documentation of a performance than a visual improvisation on a musical idea: the radically free approach to making music that Coleman called Harmolodics.
Featuring video on loop and a series of limited edition 91 x163cm (36" x 64") prints on canvas, each still image a single frame of the final reworked video.
A very special and heartfelt thanks to the musicians: Denardo Coleman on drums; Tony Falanga on bass; and the late great Ornette Coleman on tenor saxophone.
Filmed at Harmolodic Studio, NYC in 2003. Visual remix at A Joyful Process Studio, Ann Arbor, 2023-24.
A very special and heartfelt thanks to the musicians: Denardo Coleman on drums; Tony Falanga on bass; and the late great Ornette Coleman on tenor saxophone.
Filmed at Harmolodic Studio, NYC in 2003. Visual remix at A Joyful Process Studio, Ann Arbor, 2023-24.
Installation and live visual performance presented as part of the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, March 2024.
