| JULIUS EASTMAN MEMORIAL DINNER: | 2023, 60’, world premiere |
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| 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 |
Music
La Notte di Battiti - Jace Clayton aka Dj/Rupture / Lamin Fofana / JJJJJerome Ellis
| Teatro alle Tese | Details |
Description
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.