Credits
Matthew Evan Taylor, composition and alto saxophone
Ayane Kozasa, viola and Paul Wiancko, cello
Developed and produced by Metropolis Ensemble
Andrew Cyr, Founder/Artistic Director
Sam Kann, Videography (Vermont)
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 3: May 2021
Postcard 3 was filmed in Weybridge, Vermont and Red Hook, Brooklyn April 24, 2021.
Program Notes
To Paul and Ayane –
It is easy to see the strategy of humans:
Build things that mimic nature in order to “conquer” nature
Our species continues to try to impose its will using alloys and electricity
But the rest of creation undermines us through water, wind, and fire
The reason that the cosmic joke works is its punchline:
We are as ephemeral as smoke from a newly extinguished candle.
And time marches on…
To Matthew –
Ephemeral, indeed.
Last night I dreamt of waking up –
eyes wide open and unshielded from
the blinding complexity of the system we were raiding;
mind awash with the panicked realization
that our own gossamer nest rested at its core.
I awoke craving a mountain,
but settled for a bagel.
Paul Wiancko
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Program note artwork created by Ayane Kozasa, May 20, 2021
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