Music for Joan Jonas, by Jason Moran

Music for Joan Jonas

by Jason Moran

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1.	The Shape, The Scent, The Feel: Opening 02:19	buy track
2.	The Shape, The Scent, The Feel: Moths 04:31	buy track
3.	The Shape, The Scent, The Feel: Arizona Landscape 02:42	buy track
4.	The Shape, The Scent, The Feel: Snake Dance 04:37	buy track
5.	The Shape, The Scent, The Feel: Melancholia 05:08	buy track
6.	The Shape, The Scent, The Feel: Mirror Improv 06:11	buy track
7.	The Shape, The Scent, The Feel: Tree Nymph 02:35	buy track
8.	The Shape, The Scent, The Feel: Feedback Dance 02:59	buy track
9.	The Shape, The Scent, The Feel: He puts on his coat and leaves 04:26	buy track
10.	Reanimation: Snowflakes 03:25	buy track
11.	Reanimation: Paper Improv 02:05	buy track
12.	Reanimation: Tunnels 02:58	buy track
13.	Reanimation: Birds 01:55	buy track
14.	Reanimation: Mountain Alarms 04:03	buy track
15.	Reanimation: Pool Marbles 02:08	buy track
16.	Reanimation: Improv 04:18	buy track
17.	Reanimation: Fish 03:09	buy track
18.	They Come To Us Without a Word: Opening 05:50	buy track
19.	They Come To Us Without a Word: Grass 02:38	buy track
20.	They Come To Us Without a Word: Beach Dance 02:33	buy track
21.	They Come To Us Without a Word: Rattle 04:03	buy track
22.	They Come To Us Without a Word: Tunnel 04:11	buy track
23.	They Come To Us Without a Word: Ribbon 02:36	buy track
24.	They Come To Us Without a Word: Improv 08:56	buy track
25.	They Come To Us Without a Word: Oar Dance 02:55	buy track
26.	BROKEN SYMMETRY 04:14	buy track

about

For 14 years, composer/pianist Jason Moran has created music for performance artist Joan Jonas. In MUSIC FOR JOAN JONAS, Moran and Jonas come together to record excerpts of three of their major collaborations.

THE SHAPE, THE SCENT, THE FEEL OF THINGS

A performance by Joan Jonas, which responds to German art historian Aby Warburg’s essay about his visit to the American Southwest.
Text is excerpted from "Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America" by Aby Warburg. Originally created for Dia:Beacon

REANIMATION

A performance by Joan Jonas was inspired by the novel Under the Glacier (1968) by Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness and was originally created for dOCUMENTA (13).

THEY COME TO US WITHOUT A WORD

Jonas says "“Although the idea of my work involves the question of how the world is so rapidly and radically changing, I do not address the subject directly or didactically, rather, the ideas are implied poetically through sound, light, and the juxtaposition of images of children, animals, and landscape.” Originally created for the U.S. Pavilion in the 56th Venice Biennial.

THE SHAPE, THE SCENT, THE FEEL OF THINGS uses texts from Aby Warburg's "Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America".

REANIMATION uses texts from Halldór Laxness' "Kristnihald undir Jökli" aka "Under the Glacier"

THEY COME TO US WITHOUT A WORD uses fragments of ghost stories sourced from the oral tradition of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

credits

released March 13, 2018

Joan Jonas - narrator, percussion
Jose Luis Blondet - narrator (The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things)
Jason Moran - piano, synth
Ánde Somby - voice (Reanimation: Tunnels)

Recorded in December 2017 at Systems Two Recording Studio

Sascha Von Oertzen - Chief Sound Engineer
Gintas Norvily - Sound Engineer
Max Ross - Asst. Engineer
Scott Benzel - Los Angeles Sound Engineer
David Dempewolf - Sound Assistant

Moira Ricci - Cover Photo
Hayden Miller - Cover Design

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Jason Moran New York, New York

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Apr 21

Bimhuis

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Apr 26

Harlem Stage Gatehouse

New York (NYC), NY
Jul 1

Le Gesù

Montreal, QC

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