Give: Transatlantic Collaboration Through Conversation

Abstract

Artistic collaborators Kate Ledger (pianist) and Ray Evanoff (composer) discuss their working process in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conversation provides the model and impetus for this process, an ongoing responsive exchange in which their individual artistic identi­ties co-evolve into forms neither could individually envision, in global cir­cumstances that have acutely disrupted the normal mechanisms providing such social interaction. Artistic values, musical specifics, metaphorical frameworks, and larger references are examined, as well as the role these various elements serve in their art’s realization and evolution. Their mod­el is an adaptive, personalized framework for making art responding to an environment where the conventional explanations for doing so have been undermined.

Keywords

• give
• covid-19 pandemic
• transatlantic collaboration
• pianist
• composer