Mini DV film, Color, 42 min, 2008

Saxophone : Patrice Foudon, Jean-Michel Pirollet

Keyboards, electroacoustic : Philippe Madile

 

Three musicians, two on saxophone and one on electroacoustic keyboard, play onstage while images are screened. The shots are of New York in 1970 and 2003. Texts are superimposed over the images – ekphrastic descriptions of four paintings by James McNeill Whistler on display at the Frick Collection, located 1 East 70th Street, New York.