Future Travel – Extended

This event follows the new expanded reissue of the composer’s 1981 classic record, Future Travel, a journey in sonic imagery. The future traveler, whose point of view we imagine, is a spirit being, representing the first awareness of a new form of consciousness to which humans have evolved after becoming aware of the unlikelihood of surviving the unstoppable momentum of the evolutionary course they had set earlier. Future Travel is also the first major composition created with a radical keyboard instrument, called Touché, which resulted from a 1979-1980 design collaboration with Donald Buchla. This performance will use a software-based successor, an instrument called Touché II.

 Out of Truth (Don’t Motto) interlaces renowned filmmaker Lewis Klahr’s uniquely idiosyncratic filmic style, employing found images to explore the intersection of memory and history, with live music.

 Is Existence Is is an evolving, ongoing, project that can take many forms. Its sound worlds, text materials, harmonic architectures, voice parts, and projected image environments intertwine spontaneously, arising from reflections on facts and philosophies of existence: concurrent complexity dynamics linking inside with outside; the places, locations, and times of individual and other; and the resplendent emergence of pure spirit.

Acknowledgement: This event was initiated by an invitation from Dusan Bogdanovic and developed with the Serbian Cultural Institution Guarnerius.