Who’s Afraid of Sol La Ti? (Invention 1) Ari Benjamin Meyers
October 28—November 13, 2016
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

Who’s Afraid of Sol La Ti? (Invention 1) Ari Benjamin Meyers

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Who's Afraid of Sol La Ti? (Invention 1), 2016 49 musical modules (digital print on paper), 15 meta scores (foil print, projected), 1 theme (blind embossing, paper), 52 manufactured stands for instruments (pine/spruce, white lacquered) Photo © Andrea Rossetti

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The subject of this musical work is the process of composing. Ari Benjamin Meyers finds a precise and poetic yet intuitively accessible representation of the work of a composer. Starting from a brief seed theme composed by Meyers, along with the various deconstructions of its motif (‘building blocks’) and the 15 so-called ‘meta-scores’ that Meyers has constructed from them, a composer/perfomer develops new musical translations every day. These in turn are interpreted and rehearsed daily...
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Ari Benjamin Meyers

Ari Benjamin Meyers was born in 1972 in New York. He lives and works in Berlin. Ari Benjamin Meyers’ work explores structures and processes that redefine the performative, social, and ephemeral nature...