Tony Conrad & Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Violin Performance
Issue Project Room
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Tony Conrad and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge will meet for the first time and perform on two consecutive days in improvisatory concerts centered on their mutual love for violin. The shows will take place at ISSUE Project Room on January 10 at 9 p.m. and January 11 at 4 p.m. The event will be recorded for an album release and filmed by Marie Losier for her upcoming feature documentary on P-Orridge.
Violin has been one of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's primary instruments since the days of Throbbing Gristle. Preferring the electric variety, she has carried it through a myriad of projects including Psychic TV and Thee Majesty. P-Orridge's approach to music is as equally cerebral as it is emotional and physical. In the words ofThe New York Times critic Ben Ratliff, "Any record or performance involving Genesis P-Orridge has been about ideas as much as about music, and the ideas were generally about how to slip free from the normative impositions of life, the binary one-thing-or-the-otherness of art, manners, sex or anything else."
Losier discovered a striking resemblance between Conrad and P-Orridge while working on film portraits of the two artists. "I realize now how close Tony and Genesis are in technique and spirit, how much they share in their experimentation with sound, noise, voice, handmade musical instruments, and in their particular love for violin," says Losier. "The ISSUE Project Room concerts will be a meeting of two fabulous violins."
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from January 10, 2009 to January 11, 2009