If you have been astonished by the unearthly sympathy that exists between the music of Bill Frisell and Jim's drawings, and if you have nodded with solemn approval on observing Jim’s art on two of Frisell’s CDs (1996’s Gone, Just Like A Train; Bill Frisell with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones, 2001), and if you have been transported to the ecstatic realms by the book-and-CD-combo TROSPER, then you will certainly be gratified to learn that these twin sons of different mothers collaborated on an hour-long stage presentation titled MYSTERIO SYMPATICO, which opened the Seattle Summer Arts Festival in July 2002 at Meany Hall on the University of Washington Campus. It was also performed at St. Ann's Warehouse in New York and the Rendezous Jewelbox Theater in Seattle. It is rumored that it will be performed at Carnegie Hall in 2006; watch the news page for details
Frisell composed an original score which was performed live as sequences of Jim’s moody tone drawings were projected on a screen. The content of the music and images was derived from material generated in sessions in which the two artists worked together to develop themes and ideas.
Review of the show in the New York Times
The images below come from a sequence of objects and entities that have in common the elusive quality of spiritual caricature.
(Click on thumbnail image to open a new window with the full image.)
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