Molly Davies (videographer)
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Molly Davies is a videographer
or video artist. She has collaborated with John Cage
, David Tudor
, Takehisa Kosugi
, Lou Harrison
, Michael Nyman
, Alvin Curran
, Fred Frith
, Suzushi Hanayagi
, Sage Cowles, Polly Motley, Jackie Matisse
, and Anne Carson
.
Examples of her work include her collaboration with David Tudor and Jackie Matisse, Sea Tails
.
Videographer
Strictly speaking, a videographer is a person who works in the field of videography, video production — recording moving images and sound on video tape, disk, other electro-mechanical device. News broadcasting relies heavily on live television where videographers engage in electronic news...
or video artist. She has collaborated with John Cage
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
, David Tudor
David Tudor
David Eugene Tudor was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.- Biography :Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied piano with Irma Wolpe and composition with Stefan Wolpe and became known as one of the leading performers of avant garde piano music. He gave the...
, Takehisa Kosugi
Takehisa Kosugi
is a Japanese composer and violinist associated with the Fluxus movement.Kosugi studied musicology at the Tokyo University of the Arts and graduated in 1962....
, Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison
Lou Silver Harrison was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison...
, Michael Nyman
Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...
, Alvin Curran
Alvin Curran
Composer Alvin Curran , is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter. Curran's music often makes use of electronics and environmental found sounds....
, Fred Frith
Fred Frith
Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor.Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew...
, Suzushi Hanayagi
Suzushi Hanayagi
,born in Osaka, Japan, in 1928, is a Japanese dancer and choreographer. She found her way in the international art world through her mastery of more than three Japanese classical dance theater forms and experimental performance art forms...
, Sage Cowles, Polly Motley, Jackie Matisse
Jackie Matisse
Jackie Matisse is a French artist who is, "ever the kiteflying [creating] pioneer," "renowned for her kites." She also works in stereoscopy, supercomputing and virtual reality....
, and Anne Carson
Anne Carson
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....
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Examples of her work include her collaboration with David Tudor and Jackie Matisse, Sea Tails
Sea Tails
Sea Tails is a video installation created as a collaboration between video artist Molly Davies, French artist Jackie Matisse, and composer David Tudor....
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External links
- Kourlas, Gia (June 9, 2009). "Dance Review: Molly Davies: Celebrating the Process More Than the Product", NYTimes.com.
- "Indepth Arts News: 'Molly Davies: Retrospective of Video Installation Works'", AbsoluteArts.com.
- Stein, Joshua David (Wednesday, June 3,2009). "Pressed for Time: Molly Davies' Traditions, Inventions, Exchange", NYPress.com.
- "Molly Davies", vimeo.com.