Frederick Publishing is pleased to announce the release of j.frede’s “Glass Music”, the entire score for the performance of the same name that was presented at The Berkeley Art Museum on May 6th 2011. Consisting of 28 hand painted photographs that were used by the performers as visual sheet music, each photograph has been recreated to match the lines of the originals. Following in the direction of many Avant-garde composers, Frede choose to use visual sheet music in an attempt to interpret the buildings interior architecture while staying with the experimental nature of both the medium and the structure itself.  Previously j.frede has photographed interior structures and converted the photographs to sound using software, the glass music score is a graduation of this practice.

Excerpt from Essay for The Berkeley Art Museum Blog

On May 6, 2011 I presented my Glass Music performance at the Berkeley Art Museum in the vast interior that is the museum’s main hall. Fourteen performers placed on five different levels of the museum, each performer with two water-filled wine glasses and visual sheet music created from the lines of the museum’s interior architecture. The mysterious angelic sound of the wine glasses singing moved through the space forward, backward, and above the audience. The clean crisp tones made their way around the space and seemed to breathe and flow in a non-directional manner, creating a thick aural cloud that dissipated and grew, seemingly by its own will. The museum’s normally difficult acoustics aided the performance, allowing the sound to reverberate softly and amplifying the natural sounds of the singing glasses.

This limited release consists of an archival photo box, the entire score of 28 hand painted photographs, an essay the artist wrote about the piece on request of The Berkeley Art Museum and a thumb drive containing audio recordings of the performance.

Contents: 28 Hand painted Photographs, Text, Audio Recordings.
Publisher: Frederick Publishing (August 2011)

Limited to 25 Copies

$50.00 (shipping included within the USA)

About The Artist:

j.frede is a photographer and writer living in Los Angeles. Creating an evergrowing body of work that can be seen at exhibitions and on his website, jfrede.com, Frede is also a contributing writer for The Citrus Report.