{"product_id":"david-grubbs-in-from-red-black-to-black-from-blue-black-to-black-cd-pre-order-out-11-6-26","title":"David Grubbs - In From Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black (CD) PRE-ORDER - Out 11\/6\/26","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a pre-order. It will ship on or around 11\/6\/26  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn From Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMcElheny\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers six extraordinary meditations. Four wall-hanging works incorporate embedded hand-blown vibrating glass discs that transduce and resonate sound signals. These \"singing paintings\" amplify musical works by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Grubbs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e that were especially commissioned for these pieces, as were all the sounds in the show. A combination floor-and wall-based sculptural installation stretches a red-sheathed cable around the interior of the space, transporting a heartbeat-like, non-repeating, non-metronomic signal from a Serge synthesizer to a drum-like cylindrical shell embedded with colored glass discs, the top of which transduces the sound by way of a white glass \"drum head.\" A major floor sculpture at the center of the exhibition is based on the Leslie speaker system best known from soul jazz organ groups; across intervals of silence the melody from a Baroque chorale alternates with the musical trainwrecks of progressively slowed-down harmony parts. Along with the sculpture's spinning, doppler-effect inducing horn element, like the paintings its surface is marked with painted color spectra. The sequence and proportion of these colors reflect McElheny's profound engagement with 19th century explorations of chromatic spectra, in particular the work of French chemist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel Eugène Chevreul\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The title of the show refers to McElheny's radical idea that the color black exists as an expanded infinite place at the beginning and end of the color spectrum. McElheny's vision puts black at the core of real color, as a full-fledged component of the visible electromagnetic spectrum. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, McElheny effectively decouples the spectral from the prismatic, so the selection, order, and proportionality of its elements is not predetermined. Spectrum as domain of conceptual invention and intervention, upending its rootedness in physics or optics. An aprismatic artifact of rigorous imagination. McElheny was inspired and challenged by the alternative methods investigated by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMilford Graves\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoe McPhee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. These musicians have taken as building blocks mutable rhythms and microtonality rather than regular time and the diatonic scale. Grubbs's sound source for the four paintings is a slide guitar, with which he patiently explores the timbral effects of microtonal variation. Seeking a connection between the musical and visual expression of this alterity, the exhibition gradually metamorphosed from the narrower concept of transduction into something more inclusive, a capacious sense of chromesthesia in which sound evokes color and thereby stimulates new vibratory realms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jackpot Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67217781817562,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/5705\/3402\/files\/CVSD130CD_PROD.jpg?v=1790370175","url":"https:\/\/jackpotrecords.com\/products\/david-grubbs-in-from-red-black-to-black-from-blue-black-to-black-cd-pre-order-out-11-6-26","provider":"Jackpot Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}