Explore Otsego County through Sound and Image in Multimedia Presentation and Discussion
Ordinary Places: Exploring Otsego County through Sound and Image
Thursday, September 19, 2024 • 7:00pm
Fenimore Art Museum Auditorium
Free with suggested donation. Registration required, visit FenimoreArt.org.
COOPERSTOWN, NY — On September 19, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., Fenimore Art Museum offers a discussion with performers Duo Extempore (Nicole Brancato and Evan Jagels) who will lead a discussion highlighting their process of musical improvisation outside of traditional contexts and go inside techniques of using field recordings in dialogue with new music and film creation.
The talk will touch on past film projects which include “It’s Nice to be on the Island” (filmed and recorded on NYC’s Roosevelt Island), “The Search for Up” (filmed and recorded at Wright Observatory), and detail their current project on Otsego County. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Visit FenimoreArt.org to register today.
Duo Extempore interprets history, art, and space through music.
Pushing the boundaries for what a piano + bass can do together, they are exploring every shape of music, through film, technology, performance, and beyond. Their distinct programs, ranging from museum concerts on period instruments to indie music films to performances with amplified plants, “capture many moods through considerable charm and creativity” (Jonathan Maney, writer). Duo Extempore’s curated improvisations draw from classical and jazz virtuosity, and weave together storytelling, local history, architecture, and audience interaction. Evan and Nicole’s performance credits include Carnegie Hall (NYC), the Banff Centre of the Arts (Canada), Bellas Artes Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramírez (Mexico), the Blue Note (Germany), and the UniJazz Festival (Czech Republic).
About Fenimore Art Museum
Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.
