043 The Albers Variations / performance with Enrique Ramirez / 2019  

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Premiering as part of the conference "My Bauhaus: Transmedial Encounters" held at Yale School of Architecture on occasion of the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, "The Albers Variations" is an exploration of how historical materials can be used to produce music. Through a series of formal manipulations dubbed speculative forensic analysis, a set of Josef Albers paintings are converted into light, data, and sound environments. Concurrently, the bass guitar provides accompaniment comprised of four different chord inversions in the keys of A and G. The historic Hastings Hall, designed by architect Paul Rudolph, becomes a multi-layered and multi-sensory projection space, as theorized by Albers’ contemporary Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.