Featuring video on loop and a series of 36" x 64" (91 x 163cm) prints on canvas.
In March 2024 a live visual performance of Grafica Harmolodica opened the 63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival. A multimedia installation was presented for the duration of the festival.
Grafica Harmolodica is less the documentary of a jazz performance than a visual improvisation on a musical idea: the radical approach to creativity avant-garde music pioneer Ornette Coleman called Harmolodics.
Revisiting the video years after shooting in Coleman's recording studio, I remixed it live using professional VJ software, blending up to eight layers of additional media including DaDa and surrealist film clips, handmade lighting effects, and my own photographic and video work. Working with the original video and audio tracks in real-time, I improvised along with the music—essentially jamming visually with the musicians twenty years after their performance.
Single frames from the resulting video piece are printed on canvas as large scale photographs. Invoking Jung’s principle of synchronicity, even the most abstract of these compositions carry the essence of the moment in which they were taken—including the energy of the music made by the musicians.
