Saturdays in January Kurt Ralske January 7, 8PM January 21, 8 PM & 10PM Michael Century, piano Kurt Ralske, video a performance of Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories (1979) January 14 & 28, 9PM Darkness (Not Darkness) with Toru Takemitsu's "In An Autumn Garden" and spoken word Triadic Memories for solo piano, presents the listener an opportunity to enter Morton Feldman's'musical universe: a place of quiet, space, repetition, evolution, and expanded time-sense. Feldman described parallels between his own off-centered, memory-twisting rhythms and the imperfectly repetitive motifs found in certain Turkish rugs. Kurt Ralske's video is based on time-distortions of images of these same Turkish carpets, highlighting these parallels and mirroring the piece's musical structure. Feldman recast musical time with the stasis of painting and textiles. Here, the static carpet images are rendered with Feldman's ineffable quietude and glacial evolution. "All we composers really have to work with is time and sound - and sometimes I'm not even sure about sound." -- Morton Feldman Kurt Ralske is a NYC-based video artist, composer, and programmer. Recipient of a Transmediale Intenational Media Art Award, he recently created the video installation permanently on view in the the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art. www.retnull.com Michael Century is a musician and professor in the Department of the Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. www.arts.rpi.edu/people/century/