Other Minds Festivals ➔ Randy Weston, Ricardo Tacuchian, & Annea Lockwood, head and shoulders portrait, seated, facing slightly left, Woodside CA, (2002)
Still image
Identifier
IM.OM.FP.0008.019Dates
2002-03-01/2002-03-31 | createdWork Type
Photographic printImage Class
Group PhotographsImage Series
OM08: Fago B&W PrintsDescription
Randy Weston, Ricardo Tacuchian, & Annea Lockwood (l to r), during their retreat at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside CA, prior to their participation in the 8th Other Minds Music Festival, in March of 2002. Randy Weston is an American jazz pianist and composer who has been impressing audience’s around the world for over five decades with his virtuosic style of playing. Although trained as a classical pianist, Weston quickly gravitated to the bebop jazz clubs of the 1940s and 50s, and was soon sitting in with bands and eventually leading them. In the 1960s he began to incorporate African rhythms in his music a trend that he continued for the rest of his career. Ricardo Tacuchian, son of Armenian immigrants, was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1939. He is a celebrated composer, conductor, and scholar in his native Brazil and has received ample praise for his work throughout the United States, Europe, and South America. Tacuchian’s early work followed in the traditional, nationalistic footsteps of Brazilian classical music giant Hector Villa-Lobos, but in the seventies he began to adopt modernist leanings, concentrating on creating atmosphere and ambiance. For the last two decades, Tacuchian has been committed to what he calls "the overcoming of extremes," or the development of a post-modern synthesis of the traditional and experimental in which he values texture, density, timbre, and dynamic parameters within a contrasting context of precipitous rhythms, lyric expression, and a cosmopolitan and urban flavor. New Zealand born American composers Annea Lockwood perhaps first gained fame with her “Piano Transplants” (1969-72) in which defunct pianos were variously burned, drowned, and buried. During the 1960s she collaborated frequently with sound-poets, choreographers, and visual artists to create a wide assortment of works using both acoustic and electronic instruments as well as found objects like industrial glass works. During the 1970s and 80s she turned her attention to environmental sounds creating a number of soundscapes that followed rivers from their small mountain lake sources to their final city surrounded deltas. She has continued to work with a variety of instruments and technologies to create a large body of works that range from the quietly meditative to the cutting edge of avant-garde Intermedia art.Genres & Subjects
Group portraits--2000-2010Men
Women
Composers
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John Fago / Other MindsPhoto Credits
John FagoRelated Event
Other Minds Festival 8Related place
Woodside (Calif.) (was created at)Related Entities
Fago, JohnWeston, Randy
Tacuchian, Ricardo
Lockwood, Annea, 1939-
Other Minds Festival
Djerassi Resident Artists Program