Quantum Preludes

An evening of film and live music, featuring the work of internationally acclaimed Mexican artist Tania Candiani with experimental musician and sound artist Rogelio Sosa and special guests. Since 2002, Candiani’s work has increasingly become sonorous and loud. In a career dedicated to exploring the scientific orbits of artistic life, Candiani has produced several key pieces that use sound and music to launch investigations of scientific questions and topics, such as resonance, artificial vocality, quantum physics, and animal acoustics. This event will be the first time that a selection of Candiani’s films will be performed on stage with a cast of live musicians and sound makers led by Candiani’s collaborator Sosa.

The free, family-friendly evening will include three sound pieces: Four Industries, an audio-visual exploration of industrial female labor, featuring vocalists Maria Elena Altany, Kathryn Shuman, Baran Ehsaei and Sharon Chohi Kim performing live; For the Animals, featuring live vocals by Josh Kun and experimental scores that construct an acoustic landscape for the bobcat, Mexican grey wolf, coyote, red fox, javelina, jaguar, kit fox and coati; and Preludio Cuántico, a sound action featuring an eight piece ensemble from the USC Thornton School of Music and vocals by Carmina Escobar that intertwines ancestral Indigenous cosmovisions with quantum physics.

Quantum Preludes is part of Quantum Vibrations, curated by USC Professor and Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication, Vice Provost for the Arts, and 2016 MacArthur Fellow Josh Kun as part of the celebrated region-wide Getty initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide.