In Living Memory | Matthew Evan Taylor

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In Living Memory, Matthew Evan Taylor (Miami, FL)
Miami Goes Elsewhere. June 2016. Performance and installation: china marker + window painted musical scores on lexan.

Elsewhere's encouragement of patrons to touch and move objects on display cultivates a uniquely vibrant atmosphere in the “living museum.” In Living Memory applies these interactive collaborative principles to classical musical scoring, reading, and performing.

In Living Memory consists of four different musical scores installed in multiple locations throughout the museums 3 floors. Taylor's compositions are interpretations of place, available for alteration by museum visitors. The piece challenges traditions around notation as a secret language by including public participation regardless of musical knowledge. Musicians are also invited to perform the now layered and absurdist markings as they change over time, giving further sound and life to Elsewhere Museum.

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Matthew Evan Taylor
Matthew Evan Taylor

Matthew Evan Taylor is a composer, performer, and improviser. His music has been performed through the United States as well as Italy, France, and Russia. During his time at Elsewhere, Matthew will be exploring the connection between memory and music and the paradox of a concrete image representing an ephemeral sound, and vice versa.

Matthew Evan created In Living Memory during the Miami Goes Elsewhere residency.

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