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La Notte di Battiti - Jace Clayton aka Dj/Rupture / Lamin Fofana / JJJJJerome Ellis

JULIUS EASTMAN MEMORIAL DINNER:2023, 60’, world premiere
Concept, arrangement, electronics:Jace Clayton
Piano:David Friend, Emily Manzo
SHAFTS OF SUNLIGHT:2023, 60’, world premiere
Concept:Lamin Fofana
LIVE:2023, 45’, world premiere
Concept:JJJJJerome Ellis
Hosted by:Pino Saulo
Light and set design:Theresa Baumgartner
In collaboration with:Rai Radio 3 - Battiti
Production:La Biennale di Venezia
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Conceived for twin pianos, live electronics, and voice, this exhilarating sonic exploration led by Jace Clayton, a.k.a. DJ/rupture, brings fresh insight to the artistic legacy of Julius Eastman, the mercurial gay African American composer who mixed canny minimalist innovation with head-on political provocation. The Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner is built around new arrangements of Evil Nigger (1979) and Gay Guerrilla (1980) by Eastman. 


Shafts of Sunlight is an open-ended improvisatory performance-installation with fragments and debris from extended studio sessions. It is a disruption of the linearity of historical time, what historian Robin Kelley refers to as blues time; it is simultaneously in the moment, the past, the future, and the timeless space of the imagination.


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