Variations on Sonakinetography #3, by Channa Horwitz Pacific Standard Time Festival

This evening of performance will present five variations derived from Channa Horwitz’s iconic composition, “Sonakinetography #3″. Horwitz’s visual philosophy uses deductive logic drawn from a need to control time: one inch equals one beat or pulse in the time. From this, the artist has created, over the past 50 years, a unique language of compositions that depict rhythm and motion visually. These compositions, or “Sonakinetography”, have become a fertile ground for various types of interpretation, through music, dance and beyond. For one evening only, choreographer Ellen Davis, lighting director Brian Bostwick, percussionists Scott Higgins and Corey Fogel, and pianist Maria Moraru have collaborated with the artist to present an evening of dance and music exploring Horwitz’s “Sonakinetography #3″ across mediums and space at the Annenberg Community Beach House.

SCHEDULE

5:15-6:15pm Docents available at the Marion Davies Guest House to discuss the site
6:30-10pm: Performance Installation – no set entry time, and no seating

~6:30pm: Poem Opera for 8
~7pm: Variation on Sonakinetography #3 for Dance & Light show
~7:30pm: Variation on Sonakinetography #3 for percussion, performed by Corey Fogel and Scott Higgins
~7:45pm: Variation on Sonakinetography #3 for piano, performed by Maria Moraru
~8pm: Interlude with a brief archival video screening of Channa Horwitz’s work
~8:20pm: Poem Opera for 8
~8:50pm: Variation on Sonakinetography #3 for Dance & Light show
~9:10pm: Variation on Sonakinetography #3 for percussion, performed by Corey Fogel and Scott Higgins
~9:30pm: Variation on Sonakinetography #3 for piano, performed by Maria Moraru

The theory behind my work is that if structure plays out long enough, it will appear to be chance. It won‘t be chance, it will only appear to be chance. My life flows as all things in the universe flow, in a cyclical or circular manner. It is as in Lobachevskian geometry, the continuum meets itself in space. The beginning and ending are only one step away from each other. There is no beginning and ending … in the universe. To live for all time, is to live now. My life‘s duration is all time…

- Channa Horwitz

Please note that this is a performance installation and there will be no seating - observers are welcome to walk through the installation as it’s being performed. Seats will be available in an adjacent room for rest and contemplation. The performances repeat once and there is no set entrance time for guests.

Made possible with support from the California / International Art Foundation, the City of Santa Monica, the Skylark Foundation, and the Annenberg Community Beach House.

Channa Horwitz, “Variations on Sonakinetography #3,” 2012, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica. Video: Peter Kirby.

Event Images

Channa Horwitz, “Variations on Sonakinetography #3,” 2012, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica

Channa Horwitz, “Variations on Sonakinetography #3,” 2012, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica

Channa Horwitz, “Variations on Sonakinetography #3,” 2012, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica

Channa Horwitz, “Variations on Sonakinetography #3,” 2012, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica

Corey Fogel performing in Channa Horwitz, “Channa Horwitz, “Variations on Sonakinetography #3,” 2012, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica

Maria Moraru performing in Channa Horwitz, “Variations on Sonakinetography #3,” 2012, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica

Scott Higgins performing in Channa Horwitz, “Variations on Sonakinetography #3,” 2012, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica

Scott Higgins performing in Channa Horwitz, “Variations on Sonakinetography #3,” 2012, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica

Q&A with Channa Horwitz during “Variations on Sonakinetography #3,” 2012, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica

A Channa Horwitz performance, 1968

Channa Horwitz – Poem Opera

Channa Horwitz- Percussion

Variations on Sonakinetography #3, by Channa Horwitz