Tang presents a "Double Drops Remix Party"
The public is invited to a celebration of student creativity on Thursday, Nov. 6, as campus DJs and “remixers” alter the soundscape of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, which is currently featuring the musical compositions of David Lang.
The event, titled the “Double Drops Remix Party,” will run 6 to 8 p.m., offering great music, free food, and good times. The Tang will be filled with recorded, remixed audio tracks of Lang’s pieces, as well as live remixes by student DJs such as juniors Noah Prebish and Will Hird.
Lang is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, co-founder of Bang on a Can, and a music professor at Yale, as well as this year’s Don and Judy McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar at Skidmore. He is a co-curator of the Tang exhibition I was a double, which includes both visual art and musical compositions. In developing the exhibition, Lang took statements by the artists, set them to music, and recorded singers performing those statements. The recordings are now playing in a continuous and random sequence in the Tang’s gallery.
Lang made his audio tracks available to Skidmore students for remixing. Using software such as Audacity, GarageBand, and Ableton, students are taking the compositions and setting them into entirely new musical contexts.
The remix party offers the public an opportunity to experience the Tang exhibition in a whole new way.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 518-580-8080 or visit the Tang website here.
