Don’t miss this final opportunity to experience – live and loud – one of the three new musical works commissioned for the exhibition Sol LeWitt: Affinities and Resonances.

The musical piece Distance therapy, composed by contemporary musicians Claire Rousay and E Fishpool, uses Sol LeWitt’s monumental Wall drawing #955, Loopy Doopy (red and purple) 2000 as an alternative form of musical notation, essentially a graphic score. Distance therapy floats and pulses, gentle and rhythmic. Much like the undulating lines of Loopy Doopy (red and purple), the sounds collide and collapse, almost falling in on each other as they reveal both familiar and new sonics.

Built from the natural and urban worlds, featuring field recordings, soft synths and glitchy beats, this creative collaboration between an American musician and an Aboriginal musician will be realised in a one-off free performance in the Kaldor Hall of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ historic building, now known as the South Building, in the same week that we open our newly expanded art museum campus.

This is the first time either artist has performed at the Art Gallery and the first time American musician Claire Rousay has performed in Sydney.

Sol LeWitt: Affinities and Resonances is a collaboration between Kaldor Public Art Projects and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.    

Stream a recording of Distance therapy at Longform Editions

Claire Rousay is based in Los Angeles, California. Her music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life – voicemails, haptics (feedback through touch), environmental recordings, stopwatches, whispers and conversations – exploding their significance.

E Fishpool is a Budawang artist based across Budawang and Walbanja Country. Their work maps processes of unlearning and (re)learning identity through sampling sound, dialect and field recordings.

Wednesday 7 December 2022

8pm

Duration 1 hour

Art Gallery of New South Wales

South Building

Ground level, Kaldor Hall