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Intelligent Life - The dreams of Albert Potter

from Smithsonian Treasures by Cities and Memory

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Piece based on Modern Music by Albert Potter from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (1933).

"The dreams of Albert Potter" is a composition based on a linoleum cut on paper from 1933 (from the Smithsonian American Art Museum) by Russian artist Albert Potter. Since the artwork deals with death, and was created during a time of extreme social crisis, I imagined a soundtrack to his dreams, inspiring art that he would later call Modern Music. The artists imagery juxtaposes the same issues that we are dealing with today: emergency unemployment, healthcare and ironically on the relation between the beggars and the prosperous riders who ignore them (shown in the woodcut). Such a social crisis weighs heavily on all artists, back then in 1933 as in today.

We call ourselves "Intelligent Life”. (Jeff Düngfelder: Computer & Electronics, Mike Brown: Contrabass & Josh Trinidad: Trumpet).

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from Smithsonian Treasures, released June 1, 2020

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Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, a global, collaborative sound art and field recording programme with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. It covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000+ sounds and more than 1,000 contributing artists.
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