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Friday, September 14th
Jerome Cooper and Beth Cummins 
: SoundImages

Soundimages is a multimedia collaboration between visual artist Beth Cummins and percussionist Jerome Cooper.

Beth Cummins is a New York City-based photographer and videographer. She has had numerous photographic exhibitions, as well as providing writings and photographs for commercial publication. She began her artistic consanguinity with Jerome Cooper by fusing live performance with accompanying slide shows at The Alternative Museum, Experimental Intermedia and other similar venues. Their newest collaboration furthers their previous aural and visual synergy with the addition of video. This video is an extension of an on-going synthesis of music, portraits and nature studies, titled Human Nature; the driving impetus and theme being a search for unity of the elements of the arts, nature and human beings.

Jerome Cooper's fruitful musical legacy with the Revolutionary Ensemble and stints with Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor and others reads like a who's who in cutting-edge jazz. Nowadays Cooper's polyrhythmic drumming and multitasking persona are prime factors in his mesmerizing solos. Wonderful combinations of Indonesian gamelan, West African timbres, jazz kit and garage band electronics surprise and merge in a satisfying post-everything style.