Without You at Tate Modern
‘It's a film of colour and surface and form, of painterly qualities and pastoral sounds, shot in industrial suburbia and sharply edited as a visual and aural dance for the senses. This is Len Lye for the twenty-first century, extending a modernist tradition of abstract animation that looks back to Walter Ruttmann and Oskar Fischinger...’
Illuminations blog/www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/6 December 2008/‘Big screen, little screen’ by John Wyver.
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In Seven Days LA/London
‘…Rosner has merely succumbed to the same temptation that many of us find increasingly hard to resist. Full of the life of our own times yet so rooted in the past that it feels like family…"In Seven Days" is a sort of ode to Disney Hall and the Southbank's Royal Festival Hall…We begin with dappled river current and can maybe imagine the creation of the seas and land, the sun and stars, life, us…Crazy fugues ricochet. The colors amaze. One listens and looks with delight for half an hour. People left the hall with smiles on their faces.’
Los Angeles Times/May 29 2008/‘Ades continues with his spellbinding ways’ by Mark Swed.
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‘…It was composer John White who once divided music into “obsessive moments” and “development noise”. The cleverness of Rosner, in accompanying Adès’s work is in finding something meaningfully to do with both. He begins with semi-abstract wave patterns, which may be the tide flowing past the Festival Hall, and adds blob-shapes that multiply and morph like the heavily inked “notes” from the busier pages of Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise…‘
Times Literary Supplement/16 May 2008/‘Big bang complements’ by John L. Walters.
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‘…the work, involving six large screens on which a dazzling fantasy of colour and semi-abstraction sustained itself for half an hour, could hardly be more alluring. The music was just as dazzling as the visuals, and was its own kind of novel imagery…One left the hall lost in a kaleidoscope of colour, touched by an exquisitely decorative experience.’
Sunday Times Culture Magazine/4 May 2008/’Ring them bells - but sparingly’ by Paul Driver.
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‘…Rosner’s imagery plays on six screens: bold geometrics in brilliant colours, monochrome glimgse of Hungerford Bridge and Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall frames to look like the sails and hulls of giant ships…what filmmaker and composer share is their complete confidence in playing with history.’
The Independent on Sunday/4 May 2008/’A romantic voice in an unromantic age’ by Anna Picard.
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Stravinsky/Debussy DVD
#1 Katia and Marielle Labèque, Stravinsky/Debussy (KML 1112/1113) "With fantastically intricate videos by Tal Rosner, the duo pianists light up Stravinsky's Concerto for Two Pianos and more."
2007's Top 10 Classical CD/Deceptively Simple blog/December 5 2007/Music and culture from Chicago music journalist Marc Geelhoed - classical music critic for Time Out Chicago.
Future of Sound at the British Library
‘He [Rosner] has a poetic way of capturing the rhythms of travel and matching them to music, especially the Stravinsky pieces. His creative use of editing, screens side-by-side splicing disjointed journeys together in time to the rhythm shows a great understanding of time and visual space…I find the black-on-light-blue contrasts of telephone poles and different train-side machinery growing out of themselves as if they were anchored in pools of still water utterly captivating. ‘
Pixelist blog/www.pixelist.info/13 November 2007/‘The Future of Sound at the British Library’ by Pixelpusher.
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