| Fylkingen Presents: Adrian Knight | ||
 Adrian Knight performs the audiovisual piece “The Dividing Line”.
The audiovisual piece “The Dividing Line” uses four-channel audio playback along with four large video screens to create a dynamic and experiential space within a space. The completely synthesized audio is reminiscent of both rain and crackling fire. This is superimposed on ambiguious harmonies that perhaps suggest a distant choir humming.
The video component consists of shadows cast on a wall, flickering and changing. Each channel is an individual real time capture of this moving light. The four videos differ in their pacing and rhythm but share a similar atmospheric quality. The video and audio channels each run on an independent loop, creating an infinite counterpoint. Together, the sound and video create a unique hypnotic experience of extended duration. Because both the sound and the imagery are not immediately recognizable, but are instantly familiar, the experience is both meditative and jarring. There is a constantly slipping interplay between the real and the abstract. Adrian Knight is a composer of works for mixed ensembles of acoustic and electronic instruments. Between 2006 and 2009 he studied with among others Pär Lindgren and Jesper Nordin at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and is now pursuing a master’s degree in composition at Yale School of Music, studying with David Lang and Ezra Laderman. Since 2008, he operates “the smallest record label in the world”, Närproducerat. He is also a member of Fylkingen in Stockholm. Adrian cooperates with Laura Grey. Laura is an artist and graphic designer currently completing her MFA at the Yale University School of Art. She has worked for the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Sustainable Food Project, and Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts among other clients. Her art has been shown at the Yale School of Art Green Gallery, the Yale University Art Gallery Evening Performance Series (2009 and 2010), Area (Dartmouth College), Fox Optical (Bethlehem, PA) and 1926 Gallery (Chicago, IL). She studied painting and art history as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College (BA 2002), and also received a MALS from D! artmouth College (2007) studying the interaction of typography and narrative structure.
the interiors of me from adrian knight on Vimeo. http://adrian-knight.com
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