TEDxUCLA 2012: Open
Pampas, a land without shadows: musical performance
About Gareth

About Lysy

Transcript
So my name’s Gareth Walsh and I actually cheated and brought my notes on stage with me. It’s a real privilege to be on this stage and to be involved with such interesting speakers.
Now I have to confess something: I actually don’t have anything that interesting to say. However, I do have an extremely interesting performance for you to see.
“Since ancient times, artists have longed to create with moving lights and music for the eye that is comparable to the effects of sound for the ear.” This is a quote by Dr. William Moritz, a leading historian in the field of expert — sorry, in the experimental field of visual music.
In his essay, “Towards an Aesthetics of Visual Music,” he goes on to ponder the questions: What are the visual equivalents of melody, harmony, rhythm, and counterpoint? Is light harder to manipulate than air?
The performance you’re about to witness seeks to explore some of these questions by combining the unique skills and artistry of two distinctly different artists and mediums. The visuals are created by myself, and in collaboration with a musical performance by Antonio Lysy and Young Ah Ha.
The Grammy Award-winning musical score, Pampas, was composed by Lalo Schifrin. He explained that in this composition he tried to convey the vastness of the plains between the south of Buenos Aires province and the Patagonia, which is called the Pampa. The distant horizon puts into perspective the solitude without shadows.