TAKING TRIPS TO AMERICA
- Music by Erik Friedlander
- Images by Lee & Maria Friedlander
- Films by Bill Morrison
Cellist Erik Friedlander draws on his experiences as a child traveling across the United States with his family during the 1960's and 70's to create Taking Trips To America, an engaging solo performance that brings together Erik's rich, Americana-inspired cello music, his own stories from now-distant road trips, images taken by his father, the photographer Lee Friedlander, and haunting road films contributed by film maker Bill Morrison (Decasia.).
Inspired by American roots music and Friedlander's own history as a young guitar player, the "Taking Trips" features a kind of back porch pizzicato and rich evocative bowed landscapes--a new kind of cello music. The mix of stories, images, music and films create a multi-dimensional performance that is both a celebration of the family camping trip, an archetype of American life, and a poignant memoir of a child making sense of the hundreds of hours and the hundreds of miles traveled each year.
- Show running time: 55"
- 50+ still images by Lee Friedlander
- 6 films from Bill Morrison
- Available for booking: 2010 (USA), 2011(Europe)
"Friendlander is an incredible cellist, his rapid fingerpicking and expressive sound perfectly accompanying videographer Bill Morrison's footage of clouds, flashing roadsides, and the endlessly unfolding highway.(Alison Hallet, The Portland Mercury)
