Credits
Matthew Evan Taylor, composition and saxophone
Emi Ferguson, alto flute
Developed and produced by Metropolis Ensemble
Andrew Cyr, Founder/Artistic Director
Sam Kann, Videography
Christopher Botta, Editor
Juniper Creative LLC, Art
Commissioned and produced by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Live Arts
This program is made possible by the Adrienne Arsht Fund for Resilience through Art.
Matthew Evan Taylor: Postcards to The Met
Postcard 1: March 2021
Postcard 1 was filmed in Middlebury, Vermont, and Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, March 12–14, 2021.
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Program Notes
To Emi –
It all starts with a breath. And then that breath turns into a tone. And that tone contains multitudes.
That sound, both supremely understood through the study of physics, but still mysterious in the power it has to hold our attention, survives long past the time we heard it.
The low C bellowed by two colliding black holes has been reverberating longer than the Earth has existed.
And to think, an alto flute uses the same molecules…
Matthew Evan Taylor, March 24, 2021
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Our shared breath - hearing the sound of Matthew, surrounded by the rustles of birds and nature carrying his song for me to receive and respond to, allowed an all too short escape into another dimension where wind and harmonics - nature - bathes the senses. Despite not getting to spend time in person as we once did, this year has allowed me a new kind of intimate familiarity with Matthew’s work, having watched him document his process via video invitations on instagram this past year, exploring a multitude of instruments and mining the depths of their sounds and possibilities. A close second to getting to call and respond together in person, feeling each others vibration and air and becoming one composite sound. Thank you to Matthew, Andrew, Limor, and everyone involved for asking me to be a part of bringing Matthew’s music to life - it is a real honor.
Emi Ferguson, March 29, 2021
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