CROSS TALK CO-DIRECTOR :
The sounds of music are hosted – nurtured – by the spaces in which they are produced. The nature of such environmental influence extends from the size, the acoustic character, and also the novelty or majesty of the visual impression that they make. I have been particularly intrigued by the impact that particular spaces can have on musical experiences, and have take whatever opportunities were offered to explore such phenomena.
The project / web page Music & Space was initially curated and assembled by Karen Reynolds in 2005.
~ Roger Reynolds
THE ARCHITECT :
We have been hearing a great deal of words like “intermedia,” “intermedial” and “interdisciplinary” even in my field of city plannings. Architects, economists, sociologists, and psychologists have to work together. But sociologists, administrators, and architects have a tendency to stay within their proper field. This makes me think that “interdisciplinary” is an unsuitable word. For instance, I am an architect, and I have to go beyond the preserve of architecture. This going beyond is related to some expression like “meta-disciplinary.”
As long as an artist claims that he is a color specialist or a specialist in sound, he will not be able to make environmental art (in its two senses). This can only come about in a meta-medial cooperation among the
artists who can transcend their disciplinary limitations.
~ Kenzo Tange
Essay excerpt from the CROSS TALK INTERMEDIA Program
YOYOGI NATIONAL GYMNASIUM, TOKYO
Architect : Kenzo Tange
"PING"
(bi-lingual version, 2nd performance)
Music : Roger Reynolds
Text : Samuel Beckett
Film : Roger Reynolds
Projections : Karen Reynolds
Performers : Karen Reynolds, Roger Reynolds, Hiroshi Kumagai
Live visuals : Donald Albright, Joseph Love, A. Benítez, Robert Ashley, Salvatore Martirano
Live electronics : Joji Yuasa, Junosuke Okuyama
CROSS TALK INTERMEDIA Festival 1969
5, 6, 7 FEBRUARY 1969
Commissioned by Toru Takemitsu's "Orchestral Space" 1968 Festival
Photo Roger Reynolds
PARK AVENUE ARMORY IN NEW YORK
Board of Officers Room
Architect : Charles W. Clinton
"FLiGHT"
an intermedia exploration of humankind's aspiration to fly
PREMIERE PERFORMANCES (complete version) 30 and 31 OCTOBER 2016
Visual design : Ross Karre
Audio design : Paul Hembree
Recorded speakers : Eva Barnes, Lowell Gaspar, Carla Harting, Jack Mikesell
Direction : Robert Castro
Text : from Historical Sources assembled by the composer (pre-recorded and spatialized)
Reconfigurable projection modules, Real-time algorithmic sound processing, Multichannel sound distribution
Commissioned by the Jack Quartet with the National Gallery of Art
Photo left James Ewing
Photo above Ross Karre
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IN MEXICO CITY
Architects : Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Carlos A. Cazares Salcido (Professor at the University of Sonora)
in collaboration with Rafael Mijares Alcérreca
"PING"
piano : Roger Reynolds
flute : Karen Reynolds
percussion : Paul Chihara
20, 22, 23 MARCH 1973
"SONIDAS DE HOY" Programs, at the invitation of the United States Information Agency
Photo David Boscan Arrago
THE GREAT HALL, Library of Congress in WASHINGTON, D.C.
in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.
Original architects : Smithmeyer & Pelz
"JUSTICE"
Performers : Carmen Pelton, Donnah Welby, Steven Schick
Diffusion, spatialization : Josef Kucera, Peter Otto, Ralph Pitt
Musical assistant : Timothy Labor
WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCES 29, 30 NOVEMBER AND 1 DECEMBER 2001 (revised version)
Commissioned by the Julian E. Berla and Freda Hauptman Berla Fund of the Library of Congress for the celebration of the LOC's Bicentennial in 2000
Photo Jon Newsom
NORTON SIMON MUSEUM IN PASADENA
(BECAME PASADENA ART MUSEUM IN 1969)
Architect : Pasadena Art Museum, Ladd & Kelsey in 1969
"I / O" A Ritual for 23 Performers (1970)
(Staged) 9 Female Voices, 9 Male Mimes, 2 Fl, Cl,
2 Technician/Performers, live electronic processing, projections
PREMIERE PERFORMANCE 24 JANUARY 1971
ENCOUNTERS SERIES, curated by Leonard Stein for the Pasadena Art Museum
Commissioned by the Pasadena Art Museum and the California Institute of Technology
Photo Reynolds Archive
Roger Reynolds setting up
WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL IN LOS ANGELES
Architect : Frank Gehry
"ILLUSION"
Music : Roger Reynolds
Texts : Euripides's Iphigenia in Aulis, Aeschylus's Agamemnon, edited by the composer
Sound projection : Josef Kucera
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting musicians of the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Los Angeles-based Actors and Vocalists
[8-channel sound]
PREMIERE PERFORMANCE 9 MAY 2006
GREEN UMBRELLA Series
Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group
and The Koussevitzky Music Foundation and supported by The Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund
and the University of California San Diego
Photo above unknown
Photo left Roger Reynolds
OUTDOOR COURTYARD OF THE SALK INSTITUTE IN LA JOLLA
Architect : Louis I. Kahn
"SANCTUARY"
Music : Roger Reynolds
Performers : Steven Schick and red fish blue fish
Sound projection : Josef Kucera, Peter Otto, Jacob David Sudol
Musical assistant : Ian Saxton
[12-channel sound]
11 OCTOBER 2008
Presented by ArtPower! at University of CaliforniA San Diego, California,
Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), UCSD Music Department
Co-commissioned by red fish blue fish, National Endowment for the Arts,
National Gallery of Art,
The Contemporary Music Forum, and the Rand Hostetler Living Room Fund
Direction : Tadashi Suzuki
Music : Roger Reynolds
Text : Anton Chekhov
Theatre Company : Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT}
Sound projection : Roger Reynolds
silk banners : Paul Jenkins
[6-channel sound]
WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE 3 JANUARY 1992
Photo left Suzanne Donnelly Jenkins
Photo above Art Tower Mito ACM Theater
JOHN F. KENNEDY Memorial CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
Architect : Edward Durell Stone
"george WASHINGTON"
Narrators : Clark Young, Thomas Keegan, Philip Larson
Conductor : Christoph Eschenbach
National Symphony Orchestra
Videographer : Ross Karre
Computer cues : Jaime Oliver
Sound design : Josef Kucera
PREMIERE PERFORMANCES 3, 4, 5 OCTOBER 2013
Photo above Ron Blunt
Photo top left Still from video by Kyle Johnson
Photo bottom left Kennedy Center Concert Hall by Roger Reynolds
MT. PARNASSUS Cliff over the Gulf of Corinth, DELPHI, GREECE vocalist : Philip Larson
"The Palace (VOICESPACE IV)"
6 July 1992 COMPUTER MUSIC CONFERENCE / FESTIVAL 1992
Photo by Roger Reynolds
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IN NEW YORK
Architect : Frank Lloyd Wright
"Eclipse (VOICESPACE III)"
Music : Roger Reynolds
Texts : Stevens, Borges, García Márquez, Issa, Joyce, phrases montaged by the composer
Imagery : Ed Emshwiller
Sound projection : Roger Reynolds
[7-channel sound]
video version, WORLD PREMIERE 31 JANUARY 1980
FIRST INTERMEDIA FESTIVAL 1980
Architect : Gensler Global Design and Architecture Firm
"KNOWING / NOT KNOWING" STAGE I
Music : Roger Reynolds
Conductor : Steven Schick
Stage Director : Robert Castro
Sacra/Profana Conductor: Juan Carlos Acosta
Videographer : Kyle Johnson
Computer Processing & Sound Design : Jacob Sundstrom
Creative Producer : Leslie Ann Leytham
Actor : Jesse Perez
Percussion : Kosuke Matsuda & Aiyun Huang (video)
Trombone : Berk Schneider
A Speaker (video)
: Marco Barricelli
Sacra/Profana : Adam Davis, April Fisher, Becca Ung, Brad Fox, Chris Clarino, Ellie Mout, Jiachae McGee, Miguel Zazueta, Samantha Fox, Theodora Mautz, Thomas Lokesgard
Kaleidoscopic Chorus : Dominique Willette, Donna Koziol, Forrest Derr, Hector Luna, Maher Guizani, Mehmet Kaynar, Victor Cruz, Whittney Nic
WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE 17 MARCH 2024
Supported by Chancellor Pradeep Khosla, the UC San Diego Park & Market Facility, and the UC San Diego Department of Music
Photo by Stacie Birky Greene
ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON
Civil Engineers : Captain Francis Fowke and Major-General Henry Y. D. Scott of The Royal Engineers
"THE RED ACT ARIAS"
Music : Roger Reynolds
Text : Aeschylus and Euripides
Spatialization : Timothy Labor, Musical Assistant
Performance : Leonard Slatkin, Conductor, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers, Harriet Walker, Narration
[8-channel sound]
WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE 4 AUGUST 1997 THE PROMS FESTIVAL 1997
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Promenade Concerts
Photo Jackie Scott
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, D.C.
East Wing Atrium
Architect : I.M. PEI
"SANCTUARY"
Music : Roger Reynolds
Performance : Steven Schick and red fish blue fish, Percussionists
Sound projection : Josef Kucera, Peter Otto, Jacob David Sudol
Musical assistant : Ian Saxton
[12-channel sound]
18 November 2007
Co-commissioned by red fish blue fish, National Endowment for the Arts,
National Gallery of Art, The Contemporary Music Forum, and the Rand Hostetler Living Room Fund
Music : Roger Reynolds
Text : Elizabeth Bishop
Recorded readings, Choreography : Lucinda Childs
Performancnce : Lucinda Childs, Anne Manson, Conductor, László Hadady, Oboe soloist, Ensemble InterContemporain
[stereo sound]
WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCES 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 JANUARY 1998
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, D.C.
East Wing Atrium
Architect : I.M. PEI
"SEASONS : CYCLE 1"
Percussion : Ross Karre
Cello : Alexis Descharmes
Flute : Lisa Cella
Real-time computer processing and spatialization : Jaime Oliver
7 March 2010
Photo Karen Reynolds
"GRANSHIP" SHIZUOKA CONVENTION AND ARTS CENTER, JAPAN
Architect : Arata Isozaki
JUSTICE (early version)
Music : Roger Reynolds
Text : Aeschylus
Staging : Tadashi Suzuki
Performers : Lauren Flanagan, Ellen Lauren, Steven Schick
Spatialization : Peter Otto
Musical assistant : Timothy Labor
[8-channel sound]
FIRST PERFORMANCES 21, 22 MAY 1999
JUSTICE was commissioned by the Julian E. Berla and Freda Hauptman Berla Fund
of the Library of Congress with assistance from the 2nd Theatre Olympics
Photo Shizuoka Convention and Arts Center
