The backyard seemed twisted that night, as if viewed through an uneven pane; not quite sure where the ivy began and the trees ended, maybe it wasn’t real, maybe it was the scotch, maybe it was the glass of ice cubes left on the windowsill…
Inspired by a light fixture exhibit last fall, Fort Collins-based artist Matthew Sage made Music For Interior Shadows, his way of interpreting absent space through the distant extraction and rearrangement of old records. The result was an eerily replayable collection of ambient, era-bent material. It also framed an interesting relationship between Sage and the subtlety of objects, one that almost demanded further exploration. And fortunately, now comes another study, similar in tone, different in execution. Music For Cubist Guitar originated from watching a documentary on the 20th century art movement pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque known as Cubism. Sage was drawn to the idea of depicting subjects from a multitude of perspectives, by literally breaking the plane, and reforming its matter in a more abstract (and dynamic) context. The object became his own guitar-centric folk, which he then shattered and stretched across time, turning ordinary chords into serene, crystallized wavelengths of sound. The arresting sequence is streaming in its entirety below:
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Get it all in a zip over at Patient Sounds.
