Other Minds is excited to present Hypothetical Moments, a DVD of the collaborative works of Carol Law and Charles Amirkhanian, available on video for the first time. Some of the work included within will be familiar to followers of Amirkhanian’s work (Dog of Stravinsky, Mahogany Ballpark), but the vast majority of Hypothetical Moments has been entirely unavailable until now. Both video and audio have been lovingly restored and remastered, opening up a new pathway into the densely layered and referential world that the pair created over the decade covered by this collection.
Typically, Amirkhanian composed music that Law responded to in order to create the visual component of these works. Amirkhanian’s non-syntactic linguistic techniques fed into Law’s use of collage and juxtaposition via multiple slide and video projectors and hand-built dimmer consoles, all achieved before the advent of the personal computer.
This retrospective reveals the interlocking nature of Law & Amirkhanian’s collaborative approach, the visual and audible evolving in parallel into densely layered works. While Amirkhanian uses electronically processed, found, and manipulated text to generate his works, Law’s imagery references Hollywood starlets, pre-PC computer graphics, fortune cookie macrophotography, and even photos of the composer himself performing. Layers of reference, visual and textual puns, and absurdist juxtaposition coalesce into a creative world that is indebted to Dada, Surrealism, and Fluxus, yet entirely in a league of its own. Hypothetical Moments shines a new light on Amirkhanian’s work as a sound poet, expanding our notion of the genre into collage and performance art, and revealing for the first time Carol Law’s visual contributions to the duo’s live performance history.
Great Star Theater, San Francisco –
Compact Disc
Joëlle Léandre and Lauren Newton
$15 USD
The Light is Real –
Limited Edition LP
Thollem, Terry Riley, Nels Cline
$25 USD
The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar –
Limited Edition 12” 45 RPM Vinyl
Feldman/Wolff/Eisenberg
$25 USD
The Water Has Found its Crack –
Compact Disc
Joseph Bohigian
$15 USD
Jepson Prairie –
Compact Disc
Tom Bickley
$15 USD
Current –
Compact Disc
Samuel Adams
$15 USD
Tierceron –
Compact Disc
Senso di Voce and Henry Birdsey
$15 USD
Lockdown Fantasies –
Limited Edition Compact Disc
Neil Rolnick
$12 USD
Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin (1936) –
Limited Edition Compact Disc
Lou Harrison
$10 USD
Duet (Other Minds) 2021 –
Compact Disc
Anthony Braxton and James Fei
$15 USD
Inhale/Exhale –
Limited Edition LP
Chacon/Nakatani/Santistevan
$25 USD
Antarctica: Music from the Ice –
Compact Disc
Cheryl E. Leonard
$15 USD
Effigy –
Limited Edition Compact Disc
Brian Baumbusch
$15 USD
Time's Arrow –
Limited Edition Compact Disc
Christopher Luna-Mega
$15 USD
De Revolutionibus –
Limited Edition LP
Enzo Minarelli
$25 USD
Miatsoom –
Compact Disc
Charles Amirkhanian
$15 USD
Solar One –
Limited Edition Compact Disc
Charles Boone
$10 USD
The Music of Dary John Mizelle –
Limited Edition Compact Disc
Dary John Mizelle
$10 USD
Half-Dragged –
Limited Edition Cassette
Henry Birdsey
$10 USD
Landscape Sculpture with Fog Horns –
Compact Disc
Bill Fontana
$15 USD
Namely –
Compact Disc
Beth Anderson
$15 USD
Hyperchromatica –
Compact Disc
Kyle Gann
$23 USD
Composer-Critics of the New York Herald Tribune –
Compact Disc
Various Artists
$15 USD
Lexical Music –
Compact Disc
Charles Amirkhanian
$15 USD
A Sweeter Music –
Compact Disc
Sarah Cahill
$15 USD
Scenes from a New Music Séance –
Compact Disc
Kate Stenberg and Eva-Maria Zimmermann
$15 USD
Since When Has the Bright Moon Existed? –
Compact Disc
Kui Dong
$15 USD
First Life: The Rare Early Works –
Compact Disc
Marc Blitzstein
$15 USD
Ring of Fire: Music of the Pacific Rim –
Compact Disc
Del Sol String Quartet
$15 USD
Studies for Player Piano –
Compact Disc
Conlon Nancarrow
$35 USD
Hands Like Waves Unfold –
Compact Disc
Kui Dong
$15 USD
Solo for Voice 58: 18 Microtonal Ragas –
Compact Disc
Amelia Cuni
$15 USD
Songs of Ned Rorem –
Compact Disc
Ned Rorem
$15 USD
10 + 2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces –
Compact Disc
Various Artists
$15 USD
10 + 2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces –
Original Pressing Vinyl
Various Artists
$50 USD
Residue –
Compact Disc
Amy X Neuburg
$15 USD
Ego Scriptor Cantilenae –
Compact Disc
Ezra Pound
$15 USD
Antheil Plays Antheil: The Rare SPA Recordings and Private Audio Documents 1942-1958 –
Compact Disc
George Antheil
$15 USD
Lost Works, Last Works –
Compact Disc
Conlon Nancarrow
$15 USD
The Virtuoso Pianolist –
Compact Disc
Rex Lawson
$15 USD
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