Live Visuals & Projection Design Using SpectralGL
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Project Links:
Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers
Wadada Leo Smith’s Organic
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson’s Quartetto Fantastico
Timur & the Dime Museum’s Collapse
Carole Kim’s EDGES
Collaboration with Motoko Honda
Interviews:
Reviews:
The work is completed by the projections of video artist Jesse Gilbert, the fifth member of the Golden Quartet for the last three years. His work is key to the entire project, and especially the experience of the public: what we see on the screen is “interpreted” live by Gilbert, which interacts with animation and generated waves captured by microphones. Gilbert, as the one making the screen images, is the indivisible complement of Solidarity, in which photographs of workers’ struggles all over the world are blurred and intermingled beneath his hands and acoustic fluctuations on stage.
Review of Wadada Leo Smith’s Solidarity (translated)
Yahvé M. de la Cavada
El País, November 14, 2014
A huge screen hung from the ceiling, on which video artist Jesse Gilbert activated a series of images that toggled from archival photos to live video of the musicians on stage. Portraits of Till, the composition’s namesake, seemed to be enveloped by bright luminous fibers…
Review of Wadada Leo Smith’s Ten Freedom Summers
Robert Bush
NBC 7 SoundDiego Blog, January 28, 2015