A classically trained composer and pianist, San Francisco-based Donald Swearingen's strong commitment to musical experimentation has sent him along numerous paths, from the garage band to the concert stage to computer networks. His work at the time of this concert concerned the use of movement and gesture as the source of media control in an expanded, computer assisted performance environment. 1923” reaches for impossible memories in transformed and reconstrued (not reconstructed) themes of television past. It took a ton of electricity strung high across the river to bring it all to life, and even the images bounce about beneath the waves of a furrowed brow. And still the water flows through long greedy reeds. |
