Slippages

“A musical interpretation of Kansas City Art Institute faculty member Warren Rosser’s large-scale paintings…orchestrated for clarinet, bass clarinet and a pair of ‘zwooms,’ physically imposing instruments that resemble wide-mouthed hoses with woodwind mouthpieces attached at one end.” –Robert Eisele, The Kansas City Star. Features interviews with Warren Rosser and the woodwinds of Thomas Aber and Dwight Frizzell.

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Slippages began as a musical realization of Warrren Rosser’s room-sized paintings from his Repeat Offender series. Rosser’s colorful orbforms are lifted off the canvas to activate the time-slipping strategies of Frizzell and Aber–micro-tonal phasing between two clarinets, Doppler effects created by zwooms (long-hose instruments), and rotating phrases slipping in and out of sync. Ellipses rotate within themselves and in larger circling colligatives, both revealing and reveling in the animated forms of Rosser’s images as synesthetically suggested in performance. Warren Rosser is the William T. Kemper Distinguished Professor of Painting and Chair of Painting at the Kansas City Art Institute. His work is collected and exhibited internationally.

Performances

Live duet performance at Kansas City Jewish Museum, 2001

newEar multi-channel performance at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 2001

Forum for Contemporary Art (performance and catalog publication), St. Louis, Mo., 2002

South Dakota Art Museum performance, 2004

Out of the Box Festival in Carbondale, Il., 2009

International Clarinet Festival, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2014

From Ark to Microchip series radio broadcast version (with Warren Rosser), KKFI-FM, 2014

Video installation version. In Pursuit exhibition H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 2015

Wounded Galaxies Festival of Experimental Media, Bloomington, Indiana, Oct. 2015

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