Sunday, April 13, 2014

Bjorn Copeland at Jack Hanley Gallery

Installation shot of Bjorn Copeland at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, September to October 2013

Bjorn Copeland at Jack Hanley Gallery
September 5 to October 06, 2013
A chorus from acclaimed Indie Rock band The New Pornographers that goes “It came out magical, out from blown speakers” is testimonial to moments when music is transcendent despite technical glitches. Simultaneity of broken equipment and sonic pleasure is one that Bjorn Copeland, of the musical collective Black Dice, must know intimately as it is one that he embodies perfectly in BD Mix, (all works 2013) a Yamaha amp oozing black polyurethane foam.Call it abject synesthesia, this is the perfect totem for his group’s embrace of the broken, distorted, noisy, chaotic, and experimental aspects of music-making....

Read the full review at Artcritical.com

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