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Credits

Matthew Evan Taylor, composition and saxophone

Victor Cacesse, percussion

Terry Sweeny, percussion

Developed and produced by Metropolis Ensemble

Andrew Cyr, Founder/Artistic Director

Christopher Botta, Editor

Videography: Sam Kann (Vermont), Christopher Botta (New York)

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 7: September 2021

Postcard 7 was filmed in Chesterfield, MA, July 11, 2021 and Sunset Park, September 20, 2021 and One Rivington / Candice Madey Gallery, New York, NY, July 23, 2021.

Program Notes

To Sandbox –

When you sit in silence and contemplation

The slightest variation becomes significant

Subtle and profound

Two pitches that can be identified as the same

Are suddenly worlds apart

The threshold between summer and fall/fall and winter/winter and spring/ spring and summer

Infinitesimally small

When looking up at the leaves on a tree against a blue sky

At what point do we cease perceiving green and then perceive blue

…and vice versa

Let’s keep staring and listening until we perceive the mountain ranges between atoms.

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