Donald Swearingen, Hafez Modirzadeh, half length portrait, facing each other, 1997 (cropped image)

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Other Minds Programming ➔ Donald Swearingen and Hafez Modirzadeh, half length portrait, facing each other, (1997)

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Identifier
IM.OM.FP.0004.001
Dates
1997-11-01/1997-11-30 | created
Work Type
Photographic print
Image Class
Composer & Performer Portraits
Image Series
OM04: Fago B&W Prints
Description
Donald Swearingen and Hafez Modirzadeh (l to r) in discussion during the 4th Other Minds Music Festival in November of 1997. A classically trained composer and pianist, San Francisco-based Donald Swearingen's strong commitment to musical experimentation has sent him along numerous paths, from the garage band to the concert stage to computer networks. His work has concerned the use of movement and gesture as the source of media control in an expanded, computer assisted performance environment. Saxophonist and composer Hafez Modirzadeh invented the "chromodial" method which allows for a non-linear improvisational practice which is able to adapt and incorporate multiple systems of music, permitting a cross-cultural conversation between instruments, performers, and musical idioms. Both of these men were featured composers at OM 4.
Genres & Subjects
Group portraits--1990-2000
Men
Composers
Musicians
Pianists
Image Ownership
Other Minds
Photo Credits
John Fago
Related Event
Other Minds Festival 4
Related Entities
Fago, John
Swearingen, Donald
Modirzadeh, Hafez
Other Minds Festival