Matthew Ritchie

Hypermusic: Ascension, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2010

MATTHEW RITCHIE
LISA RANDALL
HÈCTOR PARRA
Hypermusic: Ascension
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York
March 11, 2010

Performance presented in conjunction
with the exhibition:
Contemplating the Void: Interventions
in the Guggenheim Museum
February 12-April 28, 2010
 

  • MATTHEW RITCHIE
    LISA RANDALL
    HÈCTOR PARRA
    Hypermusic: Ascension
    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
    New York
    March 11, 2010

    Performance presented in conjunction
    with the exhibition:
    Contemplating the Void: Interventions
    in the Guggenheim Museum
    February 12-April 28, 2010
     

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Hypermusic: Ascension
Thursday, March 11, 6:30 and 8:30 pm

Harvard physicist Lisa Randall, Spanish composer Hèctor Parra, and artist Matthew Ritchie collaborate on a new site-specific monodrama in the rotunda, which inverts and renovates the genre of opera with an experimental score suggesting the expanding reality of a fifth dimension.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Contemplating The Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum on view February 12–April 28, 2010.

Aluminum, video, sound, live performance by Mary MacKenzie
Music by Hector Parra, libretto by Lisa Randall, ‘aura’ by Three as Four.
Video, set design & direction by Matthew Ritchie.