cLAVE mOLINO: Music for the Knee Space
Strange Music CD 011 - released September 2003

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The theme of this year's Watermill Center Summer Benefit was "Molino Cubano" meaning Cuban Mill. For a second year (scroll down to nEWS from August 2002), Robert Wilson asked me to create some original music for the benefit to be used in juxtaposition with a creation of one of the Center's artists-in-residence, under his direction. This year he wanted percussion-instruments-only for an installation in the Knee Space, itself a missing central building that will eventually connect the two wings of the Center, through which all the guests would enter the benefit. The visual part of the installation was created by the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera and was called "Dated Flesh". It consisted of live nudes covered in dripping milk standing on shelves built high into the walls of the space. I created a piece of music (played by the excellent John Ferrari) that I called "cLAVE mOLINO", a half hour multi-tracked meditation on abstracted Cuban clave rhythms that were subjected to the textural processes of my musical architecture. The piece looped for five times in the installation and had the best sound possible thanks to the two refrigerator-sized sub-woofers in the basement. Two widely spaced hi/mid speakers in the installation itself beautifully brought out the piece's polyphonic dynamics and spatial elements. The installation was proclaimed a "standout piece" of the evening by John Rockwell in the New York Times.

The creation and recording of "cLAVE mOLINO" was made possible through the generous support of Robert Wilson and the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation. Thanks to everyone involved.

PG-NYC
AUG-03

1. Clave A - 150 BPM
2. Clave B - 60 BPM
3. Clave C - 120 BPM
4. Clave D - 90 BPM
5. Clave E - 180 BPM
6. Clave A - 150 BPM - Variation
7. Clave C - 120 BPM - Variation
8. Clave E - 180 BPM - Variation
9. Clave D - 90 BPM - Variation
10.-18. Program Repeats
19. Clave A - 150 BPM - Reprise/Coda

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