Chaos or Curvilinearity: Digital Architecture and Deformations
of the Africanist Grid in the Late Music of John Coltrane
Tuesday 12 April, 2016
7 - 9pm, $0/Rsvp
Columbia University, Dodge Hall
2960 Broadway
The talk draws the discourse of digital architecture to explore the later "free jazz" of John Coltrane, giving us a way of understanding the structures of this unconventional music with a language of spaces, shapes and surfaces, while remaining true to the Africanist heritage at the core of the music.