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About Tippet Rise
angles and colors. The more we know of painting and photography (such as neo-realism, photo reality, and such), the more techniques we bring to our per- sonal paintings of the world’s complex synergies.
When I was at Columbia University during the
riots of 1968, I was the lone student on a faculty committee of scholars, sociologists, biographers, and musicologists who were trying to reinvent education, to formulate ways that learning could be made attractive to distracted students. Other colleges, such as Brown, devised curricula that students could assemble themselves. Columbia decided that classes should be interdisciplinary,
so that art could be taught alongside music and literature. Bringing stories to music fleshes it out.
A musician plays her own biography. She plays the stories the composer has planted in the music.
He understands the subliminal texts, the hidden narrations, and he conveys those through phrasing, voicing, silences, pauses, emphases. The more you know of what happened the week the piece was composed, the more you can re-create the mood of the composer. Music requires multiple disciplines to define it, just as writing is amplified by photos and painting profits from a soundtrack.
Increasingly in our culture we prefer videos to mere audios. We prefer stereo to mono, and surround sound to stereo. We will eventually demand virtual reality films and holographic computers, the way Beethoven always preferred the newer, more
sonorous pianos. We always adopt the sharpest and most colorful television screens, the most useful com- puter touchscreens. Art should present itself with as many dimensions as possible.
Thus sculptures show themselves most variously when embedded in the complexities of nature,
and music gains color when heard in a sculptural atmosphere. Our videos present a facsimile of performances, but they also try to add visual poetry to the narration. We will eventually add reality as a way of complementing the reality of our concerts. Poetry itself is a shortcut to the underlying meaning of a moment, of a life.
All these disciplines are metaphors of one processing the world. Master classes explain the music, and may in fact be more multidimensional ways of enjoying music. We hope that everyone will read our programs and also watch the videos after the concerts, so enjoyable moments can be fixed in their minds.
Google Institute uses surround videography
to capture more of a work of art. We should use whatever techniques magnify the artistic experience.
Tippet Rise is an adventure in multitasking, a collage of experiences that we hope will flesh out nature through art, and music through nature, reality through technology, as the leaves below are a metaphor through which we see ourselves.