

Persistence of Memory
When image and music discover one another.
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Inspired by the collaborative practice of composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham, composer Joan La Barbara and filmmaker Aleksandar Kostic created an event in which the film and music were conceived independently, allowing the two works to meet for the first time in performance.
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- visual arts
- avant-garde
- contemporary art
- non-narrative
- pratical effects
- experimental cinema
- experimental music
- experimental film
- sensory experience
- image and sound
- chance procedures
- composer collaboration
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- PremiereNRPersistence of Memory premiered on March 17, 2012, in Berlin, Germany, opening the MaerzMusik Festival program Cage and Consequences, celebrating the 100th anniversary of John Cage's birth.17 Mar 2012
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Persistence of Memory was released on 17 March 2012.
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