Artist Talk + Musical Performance

During Gallery Walk on Friday, September 7, Malcolm Dalglish performed music that was curated to pair with the photographic work of Alice Hargrave at our new space, FAR Center for Contemporary Arts. The night included a moderated discussion with both artists. Alice Hargrave’s work, Paradise Wavering, will be on display in the gallery until September 29.

Please enjoy a few photos from the night. Read the musician’s statement below.

Whispers of the Living Light Statement

I’m intrigued with the way light plays in nature, darkness, night, underground, stone and soil, dappled understory of forest, mist, water, fireflies, starlight, first and last light of day, the mystery of birth and death. A major inspiration in my life is the writings of Wendell Berry. His poetry is full of references to the ​“living light” woven into seeds, flowers, trees, and all forms. Having spent much of my youth drawing and being outside, my joy is the visual patterns of light. Most of my hiking is brought to a ​“stop and gawk” by events of light that live in that moment, which is true of music, especially improvised music. My dulcimer is not just a vast dancing platform of strings. It’s a palette from which a story is found and told or a fabric of sound is woven. In addition to the folk vocabulary of sounds I’ve learned on this international instrument, I like to draw on nontraditional discovered sounds and voices. I record them and mix them into a studio produced, multi-tracked, sound scape, from which the process often continues to a performable piece. I am delighted to produce both those forms with this commission for FAR’s Pictura Gallery show of Alice Hargrave’s work.

- Malcolm Dalglish