Night in the Garden of Love (Digital Seedbanks), 2023
Digital, seven algorithmically generated plants responding to a new music score, 01:56:00
Installation view, Night in the Garden of Love, Inspired by & featuring Yusef Lateef, WIELS, Brussels, 2023. Photography © We Document Art.
Installation view, Night in the Garden of Love, Inspired by & featuring Yusef Lateef, WIELS, Brussels, 2023. Photography © We Document Art.
Night in the Garden of Love (Digital Seedbanks) are seven algorithmically generated plants responding to a new musical score.
Each screen presents an algorithmically generated plant, reminiscent of the painted forms of the textile pieces. The seedbanks grow before our eyes, ebbing and flowing through a fluctuating passage of time inspired by Yusef Lateef’s autophysiopsychic musical method. In January 2023, Dawood recorded a new improvisation session following Lateef’s Autophysiopsychic approach with several of his former collaborators and students; this was composed and arranged by Adam Rudolph and Alexis Marcelo, additional composition by Ralph Miles Jones, and featuring Batya Sobel, Matt Waugh, Gwen Laster, Mia Theodoratus and Stephanie Griffin. The results are split between the different Seedbanks, creating individual soundtracks that overlap and intertwine to create a new musical composition.
Curated by Zoë Gray & Helena Kritis.
Produced by UBIK Productions. Co-commissioned by WIELS, Brussels and Aga Khan Museum, Toronto.
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Created and envisioned by: Shezad Dawood
Produced by: Miranda Sharp
Score composed and performed by: Adam Rudolph, Alexis Marcelo & Ralph Miles Jones
Arranged by: Adam Rudolph with Alexis Marcelo and Shezad Dawood
With additional performances by: Batya Sobel, Matt Waugh, Gwen Laster, Mia Theodoratus & Stephanie Griffin
Engineer: James Dellatacoma
Coders: GumGum Studio
Still from Night in the Garden of Love (Digital Seedbanks), 2023.