steve roden four words for four hands

steve roden four words for four hands (apples.mountains.over.frozen.), 2006 ink on clear 16mm leader 17 minutes, silent exhibitions: lines and spaces, susanne veilmetter LA projects, los angeles, ca, & day ring/night ring, henry art gallery seattle, 2006 in early 2005 i began a large body of work dealing with a 12 page classical music score which i had taken from my grandmother's house when i was a child. i began to translate the score with what little knowledge i have in terms of reading music (every good boy does fine, etc. ) with the intention of building paintings, drawings, sculptures from the information. at some point while working with the score i realized that the musical staff is just about the same size as 16 mm film. i then began tracing all of the notes in the 12 page score onto clear film stock using 7 different colored pens, one for each of the notes a - g. when i was finished, i took it to a film house for transfer to dvd and to change the projection speed and the first question they asked me was if my film was a positive or negative - so i asked them to make the transfer twice, thus the finished film is the sequence of notes run first as a positive and then as a negative. the length of each segment is around 8 minutes, the same time as it would take to play the score on a piano.		home bio exhibition & performance history images discography interviews press contact