Matthew P. Ostrowski

Sep 15, 2024 | theartsection.com | Matthew P. Ostrowski

Hitchcock's 1948 film Rope is best known for having been filmed in only ten extended takes. This video, representing an excerpt from one channel of a ten-channel work, is a reprocessing of the ninth shot of the film. In the completed work, all ten shots will be shown simultaneously on ten monitors.

Sep 15, 2024 | theartsection.com | Matthew P. Ostrowski

Free improvisation, sometimes referred to as “spontaneous composition,” is a musical approach in which virtually all musical decisions are made in the time of performance. The pioneering guitarist Derek Bailey describes it in his 1980 book Improvisation: “It has no stylistic or idiomatic commitment. It has no prescribed idiomatic sound.

Sep 15, 2024 | theartsection.com | A Conversation |Matthew P. Ostrowski |Deanna Sirlin

Deanna Sirlin: You were performing as a duo in James Sienna’s little gallery Sometimes (works of art). How did that come about? David Watson: Peter Scott asked me to do a live event for the art show he was doing there, Pardon Our Disappearance. He was working with the kind of Utopian fantasy images that real estate developers use in our neighborhood (Greenpoint /Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York) to boost their developments. Especially awnings.