Calder Plays Theremin Side A

from Calder Plays Theremin by Dorit Chrysler

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Written for Theremin Orchestra in 5 Movements, Chrysler’s work is based on a commissioned sound piece by The Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with the exhibition Alexander Calder : Modern from the Start. Chrysler identified two of Alexander Calder’s sculptures, Snow Flurry, I (1948) and Man-Eater with Pennants (1945), to interact and “play” multiple Theremins on site.

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Listen To/Watch Side A:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=drlOU3b-RJg

Side A (8:51) of the album features Dorit’s moMA sound commission “Calder Plays Theremin” in four movements correlating to her video installation:

Movement 1: “Embrace”
Movement 2: “Fractals”
Movement 3: “Brute”
Movement 4: “Mesmerism”

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"Calder, the iconic American sculptor and mobilist once said, “The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe. . . . the idea of detached bodies floating in space.” Leon Theremin, the pioneering inventor of the only musical instrument played without physical contact, offered music through the “free movement of the hands in space.”
For Berlin-based composer, sound artist, and thereminist, Dorit Chrysler, those ideas cried out to be united in a posthumous collaboration by these two men. The theoretical synergy between Calder’s ever-changing mobiles, turning and shifting endlessly through the air, and Theremin’s antennas, ready to receive and translate into music the stimulus of any nearby moving object in the air, was irresistible. Chrysler conceived of a kind of music of the spheres—Calder’s heavenly bodies orbiting within the electromagnetic fields of Theremin’s space control instruments, setting in motion a sort of Rube Goldberg machine that composes music as it goes."

Excerpt of Liner Notes by Albert Glinsky (composer, Author of Leon Theremin, Bob Moog)

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from Calder Plays Theremin, track released February 2, 2023
Recorded at the Museum of Modern Art, NY 2021

CoverArt: Jake Marsiglia
SNOW FLURRY I. 1948
Alexander Calder, American, 1898–1976
Sheet steel, steel wire, and paint
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist, 1966
@2021 Calder Foundation New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location Sound Recording: Daniel Neumann
Sound Recording Assistant: James Kogan
Post Sound Production/Mastering: David Debris
Design: Paul Sizer

Made Possible With the Support Of:
MoMA, The Calder Foundation, Moog Music, The Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture Civil Service and Sport, CityOfGraz,City of Graz Referat Frauen & Gleichstellung, Land Steiermark.

Special Thanks to:
Cara Manes, Michael Tyburski, Rachael Guma, JoeMcGinty, Lary 7.

NYThereminSociety 002/FridmanGallery Edition
©2022. All rights reserved.
www.nythereminsociety.org

Calder Plays Theremin Film Credits:
Film Direction: Michael Tyburski
Production Manager: Rachael Guma
Location Sound Recording: Daniel Neumann
Sonic Operator: Joe McGinty
Cinematographer: Eric Teti
Additional Camera: Ben Scofield
Sound Recording Assistant: James Kogan
Still Photography: Jake Marsiglia, Lary Seven
Binaural Mix: David Debris

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