Robert Pollock's Musical Analogues to Joseph Albers' Color Studies

The Village Trip, in three pre-festival events at Loft393 in Tribeca

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will explore Wolpe’s Interval Studies, performed on guitar and mandolin. There is a similar impulse behind Wolpe’s interval studies and Albers’ color studies, discussed HERE.

Precise analogies remain to be sought, considered and explored. Meanwhile, Robert Pollock’s musical analogues to Albers’ color studies are offered here. One might look for examples of these analogies in Wolpe’s work Pollock looks at Schoenberg, Wolpe’s teacher’s teacher.

Background

In the 90’s composer/pianist/producer Robert Pollock was still living in New Jersey where he worked closely with artist Robert Koenig, Director, successively of the Montclair Art Museum, the Noyes Museum and the Museum for African Art in Tenafly. Mr. Koenig became President of the Composers Guild of New Jersey, which was founded by Robert Pollock, who served as Artistic Director. Robert Koenig studied at Yale with Joseph Albers and shared all things Albers with Robert Pollock. These Analogues to Albers Color Studies are an artifact from the time that Pollock & Koenig spent working together.

No. 1

Pollock could have met Bulat Galeyev in Kazan when he performed at the Europe-Asia Festival, Rashid Kallimoulin, Director.

Lesson #3

Number 4 may be lost.

Lesson #5

#5, continues –

Lesson 5A

Looking for #6

Lesson #7

Lesson #9