The dreams of Albert Potter
May 24, 2020, 05:05 PM
Piece based on Albert Potter's Modern Music by Jeff Dungfelder.
""The dreams of Albert Potter" is a composition based on a linoleum cut on paper from 1933 (from the Smithsonian American Art Museum) by Russian artist Albert Potter. Since the artwork deals with death, and was created during a time of extreme social crisis, I imagined a soundtrack to his dreams, inspiring art that he would later call Modern Music. The artists imagery juxtaposes the same issues that we are dealing with today: emergency unemployment, healthcare and ironically on the relation between the beggars and the prosperous riders who ignore them (shown in the woodcut). Such a social crisis weighs heavily on all artists, back then in 1933 as in today.
"We call ourselves "Intelligent Life”. (Jeff Düngfelder: Computer & Electronics, Mike Brown: Contrabass & Josh Trinidad: Trumpet)."
Part of the Smithsonian Treasures project, a collection of new sound works inspired by items from the Smithsonian Museums’ collections - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/smithsonian
""The dreams of Albert Potter" is a composition based on a linoleum cut on paper from 1933 (from the Smithsonian American Art Museum) by Russian artist Albert Potter. Since the artwork deals with death, and was created during a time of extreme social crisis, I imagined a soundtrack to his dreams, inspiring art that he would later call Modern Music. The artists imagery juxtaposes the same issues that we are dealing with today: emergency unemployment, healthcare and ironically on the relation between the beggars and the prosperous riders who ignore them (shown in the woodcut). Such a social crisis weighs heavily on all artists, back then in 1933 as in today.
"We call ourselves "Intelligent Life”. (Jeff Düngfelder: Computer & Electronics, Mike Brown: Contrabass & Josh Trinidad: Trumpet)."
Part of the Smithsonian Treasures project, a collection of new sound works inspired by items from the Smithsonian Museums’ collections - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/smithsonian