Presence (redux) by Yann Novak
Presence was originally performed at an event curated by VOLUME at the Torrance Art Museum in June 2010. Throughout the event, multiple artists performed simultaneously in the space. This is when I first experienced the work of taisha paggett.
By the time I began to play, she was at the end of a three-hour durational movement piece. Seeing her perform across the room had a huge influence on how I performed the material I had prepared, and set up a pacing I continue to explore today. In hindsight, this was our first collaboration, but our first official collaboration was a few years later and led to many more over the next 10 years.
I was lucky enough to get to design the packaging for the original release of Presence –– the image I used for this reissue was the originally the planned cover for the first release, up until the last minute.
Unfortunately then, I folded under the fear that it was too figurative, and removed Taisha at the last minute. I am excited to get to feature her in this new version, since she has become such an important artist and friend to me.
Tracklist
| 1. | Presence | 48:00 |
Credits
Mastered by Lawrence English
License
All rights reserved.
Yann Novak is a Los Angeles–based artist, composer and technologist whose work draws from his unique perspective as a queer autodidact. Working critically with technology, Novak uses sound and light to explore questions of presence, agency, and technological influence, transforming these intangible materials into human-scaled encounters that blur the physical and the virtual.