In March of 2024 Grafica Harmolodica was presented as a multimedia installation as part of the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival. The installation included six wall-mounted monitors, two wall projections and a series of 36"x4" (91.5cm x 162.5cm) stills on stretched canvas.
A live visual performance kicked off opening night of the festival: A VJ-style remix created on the fly to the audio of the original performance, I was essentially jamming visually with the musicians 20 years after they played that night in Harlem.
Based on 20 minutes of video shot on a single hand-held camera, the final result is less documentation than visual improvisation on a musical idea: Coleman's radically free approach to creativity that he called Harmolodics.
The large scale still images are each a single frame from the resulting video collage and are available in limited editions of three.
With a nod to Jung’s principle of synchronicity, I hope that even the most abstract of these compositions carry some of the essence of the moment in which they were taken—including the creative energy of the music being played.
“The moment encompasses everything to the minutest nonsensical detail, because all of the ingredients make up the observed moment. The situation is assumed to represent a legible or understandable picture.”
C.G. Jung, Introduction to the I-Ching
