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Ikons

Mauricio Martinez

Published: 2011

A cross-collaborative endeavor between visual artist Eric Metcalfe and musician George E. Lewis. Eric Metcalfe’s art practice epitomizes the Canadian avant-garde. His work has merged and crossed disciplines since the late 1960s: painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, printmaking, performance, video and film. A pioneer in interactive music, the computer-based installations of ICASP researcher George Lewis provoke confrontations between agency and indeterminacy. The shapes and forms of Ikons evoke the wildlife and spirituality of the Pacific Northwest, mediated by a computer program that uses the detected presence of visitors’ bodies to drive a continuous recombination of sounds derived from a Lewis work for chamber ensemble composed for the installation.

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Improvisation is, simply put, being and living this very moment. No one can hide in music, and improvising in music is to be truly in this very moment and being completely yourself, with all your qualities and faults. It is probably the most honest state for a human being to be in.

– John McLaughlin in an interview with Daniel Fischlin.