New Works – rounded with a sleep

The Anesthesia Quartet 2018 | 4 video and sound installations of 4 channels each

I recently expanded my studio space from one room to two, thereby giving me a 600 square foot room that can blacked out for shooting, as well as a brighter 700 square feet room, in which to edit and showcase projects in progress. When I installed a quartet of portrait orientation monitors on I could quickly develop and play four channel works, such as “Give Me a Second” and “Mythic Status”.

I was struck at how pleasing the quartet format was as a way to balance and disrupt sequential images as an impressionistic story. Almost unconsciously I started a quartet of quartets; imagining the four works in one room, facing inwards and surrounding the viewer, created to describe a soul’s salvation. Each work has a tenuous connection to the others – one is a cry for help, another is a lyrical shadow play, the next a choreographic palindrome, and the last a game of hide and seek.

https://youtu.be/XrvTJZbNMb4

NUMB | 2018 | 4 channel video and sound installation

Running down an idea by cruising through YouTube one day, Sanborn stumbled over a clip of a young woman playing a blistering guitar solo. The video was titled “Hot Chick Shreds” and the solo mentioned was David Gilmore’s classic second solo in “Comfortably Numb”. A combination of technique and deep passion, the passage is not easy to play, but the young woman tore it up.

This video lead to several more, all of young women displaying passion and outstanding fret work – a chorus of players all finding freedom in play. “There’s something here, but I don’t know what it is” thought Sanborn, and he downloaded the clips and arranged them, in sync, to celebrate how music dissolves boundaries, and provides us a release from our chains.

https://youtu.be/J9yWDglD7sQ