Friday Nights includes moments from the Archive and AGO Home Stage. Join us this Friday as we launch AGO Home Stage with a live performance by Memory Pearl.

For Memory Pearl’s Music for 7 Paintings, Moshe Fisher-Rozenberg traveled to art galleries throughout North America searching for paintings which would enrapture him.

Like the experience of being drawn into the worlds of those paintings, the seven tracks – each one directly referencing a single work by Joan Mitchell, Robert Ryman, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, or Jackson Pollock – on the album are love letters to the sympathetic vibration of one creative mind encountering another. They trace the way art inspires and generates art. Each resonates with the reconstructive energy that comes from translating the visual to the auditory.

For the inaugural Home Stage series, Fisher-Rozenberg will be performing two pieces from the album inspired by works in the AGO's collection: "Natural Answer" by Helen Frankenthaler and Franz Kline's "Cupola". The performance will be preceded by a Q&A with the artist and Kenneth Brummel, Associate Curator of Modern Art.

This event will be hosted by Bojana Stancic, Assistant Curator of Live Projects & Performance.

Moshe Fisher-Rozenberg brings a vast experience to bear on the paintings that inspire Music for 7 Paintings. While this may be his debut full length as a solo artist, he is a consummate collaborator (Alvvays, Fucked Up, U.S. Girls, Youth Lagoon, Man Forever) best known as the drummer and synthesist in Absolutely Free. Presently, he is completing graduate work in music therapy, while leading music therapy sessions at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Music for 7 Paintings releases May 15 via Idée Fixe Records. You can listen to the album here: 

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