Tag: David Rosenboom

RED is the Colour of Permission!

by shuehli on Aug.11, 2009, under General, Interview, Musings

REDCAT/CalArts Building

REDCAT/CalArts Theater CA

I visit the Roy and Edna Disney theater, an adjunct to CalArts in downtown LA at the corner of W. 2nd St. and S. Hope St.

As I wait to the cross at the traffic lights, I gaze upon the swirls of the architectural sails that remind me of the Sydney Opera House, but on a smaller scale.

REDCAT its acronym conjures synesthetic imagery. (#1)
Red is power, passion, prosperity, new life, the colour for stop …

Red is permission says Lauren Pratt, Associate Producer for Music (REDCAT/Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts) who meets me with Associate Director, George Lugg, for a Californian pow-wow.

Lauren: “Artists are given permission to work outside their realm of enquiry and try something they might not have tried before or thought was possible. They feel it is a truly experimental place for them.” To quote such an instance, Lou Reed in the Fall of 2008, worked with Ulrich Krieger to orchestrate a free Improv work in the noise realm entitled ‘Unclassified’. Reed and Krieger first met in 2002 for ‘Metal Machine Music’.

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