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In today’s Nonesuch Ninety—the week’s Nonesuch news in less than 90 seconds—new @RobertPlantOfficial EP and video, @DylanMattingly13’s Nonesuch Selects, @SarahKirklandSnider and @DonnachaDennehy videos, the weekend’s live music, and a @Bill.Frisell album anniversary. #RobertPlant #DylanMattingly #SarahKirklandSnider #DonnachaDennehy #BillFrisell
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EYE OF MNEMOSYNE montage! Here is a visual montage from the full eight-movement multimedia orchestral work created with visual artist Deborah Johnson and commissioned by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for its centennial season (performed here by Metropolis Ensemble, conducted by Andrew Cyr.) This clip is from Mvt. I: Prelude. 👁️ EYE OF MNEMOSYNE is a work about American memory, culture, and innovation. It reimagines George Eastman’s advertising invention, the Kodak Girls, through Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory, tracing how Americans captured their lives through photography across eras of labor, leisure, family, nostalgia, war, and memory’s fragmentary nature. 👁️ Created for live performance at Eastman Theatre, where projection, architecture, and orchestra became part of the work. 🎬 About the Project: * Music: Sarah Kirkland Snider * Visual Libretto & Projection Design: Deborah Johnson (@candystations) * TouchDesigner Programming: Louise Lessél @louiselessel * Music Featured On: 2026 album FORWARD INTO LIGHT * Performed By: @metropolisensemble, conducted by Andrew Cyr * Produced By: Silas Brown @professorsilas * Label: @nonesuchrecords & @newamsterdamrecords 🔗 Link in bio to @nonesuchrecords’ YouTube channel to watch the whole EYE OF MNEMOSYNE video series
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Visual artist Deborah Johnson’s and my EYE OF MNEMOSYNE series continues with Movement VII: “EPHEMERA: FRAGMENTED MEMORY” 👁️After the First World War, memory itself becomes fragmented. We see empty homes, photographs, objects, ephemera, and women alone among the domestic remains of war. 👁️ The Kodak Girls are shown photographing objects and still lifes; Kodak’s never-published ‘Death Campaign’ acknowledged the darker function of photography: when someone is gone, an image can take on a different kind of meaning through the objects and memories that remain. 👁️ Here, their presence and influence begin to break apart—fractured by time, light, and chemistry—returning to their original material composition as silver halide crystals. 🎬 About the Project: EYE OF MNEMOSYNE is an eight-movement multimedia orchestral work about American memory, culture, and innovation commissioned by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for its centennial season. * Visual Libretto & Projection Design: Deborah Johnson (@candystations) * Music Featured On: My 2026 album FORWARD INTO LIGHT * Performed By: @metropolisensemble, conducted by Andrew Cyr * Produced By: Silas Brown * Label: @nonesuchrecords & @newamsterdamrecords 🔗 Link in bio to @nonesuchrecords’ YouTube channel to watch the whole EYE OF MNEMOSYNE video series
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How do we stop time and preserve memory? What do we choose, and why? 👁️ In the “Memento” chapter of EYE OF MNEMOSYNE, we see the Kodak Girls gradually shift from play and adventure toward preserving familial memory. Photography becomes a defense against time—a way to preserve precious moments. 👁️ The lens contracts. The girls move into doorways and windows, documenting their children and families. The photograph leaves the camera and enters the family album, where images are gathered, ordered, and preserved as a record of a life. 👁️ As cameras become part of the family unit, we begin to see men enter the frame forebodingly, as the Kodak Girls prepare to send them off to war. 🎬 About the Project: EYE OF MNEMOSYNE is a eight-movement multimedia orchestral work commissioned by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for its centennial season. * Visual Libretto & Projection Design: Deborah Johnson (@candystations) * Music Featured On: My 2026 album FORWARD INTO LIGHT * Performed By: @metropolisensemble, conducted by Andrew Cyr * Produced By: Silas Brown * Label: @nonesuchrecords & @newamsterdamrecords 🔗 Link in bio to @nonesuchrecords’ YouTube to watch the whole EYE OF MNEMOSYNE video series ✨
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Summer 2026 assemblage! Aspen, Orlando, Carmel Valley, Tanglewood, New Jersey, Romania, and rural Sardinia. Thank you to my incredible collaborators and co-conspirators, inspiring students, friends, family, animals that stopped traffic, hikes that slayed my glutes, and the dazzlingly dreamlike, iridescent schools of fish I couldn’t photograph, swimming with me in the clearest water I’ve ever seen. (Thanks for being my cover image, dear @nicomuhly! The kids vetoed the boat one😂)
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In less than a week, we set up an XR opera that took place across the streets of Brooklyn with @operaontap 🤯 We used a live cueing system that triggered audio + XR visuals across tablets and AR glasses throughout the performance. It was SO cool seeing these abstract characters we had designed over the previous weeks actually come to life in a live performance. Watching strange forms pop up to taunt and protect the opera singers as they moved through the city. Definitely one of those projects where every possible challenge comes up, and then things come together right at the last moment 🫠✨ #xr #opera #xreal #ar #MixedReality #VRDeveloper #ImmersiveArt #ImmersiveExperience #DigitalArt #Brooklyn #BehindTheScenes #bts
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Exciting news: Deborah Johnson’s performance visuals for EYE OF MNEMOSYNE from my @Nonesuchrecords + @newamrecords orchestral release, FORWARD INTO LIGHT, are out now as official videos! 🎊 Here’s a clip from Mvt. II Mnemonic: “Wheel of the Muses.” (Fans of my opera HILDEGARD might recognize a borrowed tune from the divine love trio…) This movement enters the world of the long-forgotten but highly influential Kodak Girls — luminous sparks heralding the advent of commercial photography, transforming memory into crystallized form. ‘Eye of Mnemosyne’ is a seven-movement multimedia orchestral work commissioned by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for its centennial season, with a visual libretto and projection design by Deborah Johnson @candystations. The album FORWARD INTO LIGHT was recorded by Metropolis Ensemble, conducted by Andrew Cyr, and produced by Silas Brown. Released on Nonesuch Records and New Amsterdam Records. Head over to @nonesuchrecords YouTube and watch the whole series! Music: Sarah Kirkland Snider @sarahkirklandsnider Orchestra: @metropolisensemble Visual design: Deborah Johnson TouchDesigner-generated particles: Louise Lessél @louiselesel Software: @touchdesigner 👁️👑⚙️
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On July 31, the Aspen Music Festival will present a semi-staged performance of my opera, HILDEGARD, featuring its extraordinary young professionals and the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, conducted by Tim Weiss. Aspen Music Festival co-commissioned the opera with Beth Morrison Projects, and I’m thrilled and so grateful to have the Festival bring the piece to life again here, now. Many thanks to Alan Fletcher, Patrick Chamberlain, Renée Fleming, Patrick Summers, Tim Weiss, and the rest of the Aspen Music Festival cast and crew. Thanks, too, to director Elkhanah Pulitzer, directorial assistant Zoe Lesser, and projection designer Deborah Johnson for bringing some elements of our LA/NYC production to bear in this new iteration. See you there! 💫 (This trailer features the live performance vocals of Raha Mirzadegan, Mikaela Bennett, and Blythe Gaissert (Angels, 1, 2, and 3), and the instrumentalists of NOVUS NY, conducted by Gabriel Crouch.) ✨
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“We believe in listen. We believe in wish. And to be worthy of their gift: this chance to look within ourselves and change how we have lived, to change how we have lived.” 🌍💚🌍 In honor of Earth Day, we evoke the multisensory experience of @sarahkirklandsnider ‘Mass for the Endangered’ featuring the visuals of Deborah Johnson / @Candystations when Phoenix Chorale took over the great hall of the Phoenix Art Museum to share this call to protect the fragile beauty of our planet. This is the last week to enjoy this performance in the LIVE From London Online Easter Festival. Tickets at the #linkinbio
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A moment for this excerpt from ‘Mass for the Endangered’ by @sarahkirklandsnider This timeless plea transforms into a call to protect the fragile beauty of our planet. Let this music be a moment of reflection. There are still a few days left to catch this multi-sensory performance feature as part of the LIVE From London Online Easter Festival. @voces8foundation Phoenix Chorale live performance of Sanctus / Benedictus - Mass for the Endangered - Sarah Kirkland Snider in the great hall of @phxart Phoenix Art Museum featuring the visuals of Deborah Johnson / @candystations Tickets at the #linkinbio
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👁️ Further celebrating the recent release of my new orchestral album FORWARD INTO LIGHT with this clip from Deborah Johnson’s film for our multimedia work ‘Eye of Mnemosyne,’ which explores memory, innovation, and culture as refracted through the lens of photography. VIII. Psyche (Epilogue): “Lens of Nostalgia” The narrative concludes by returning to the lens of Mnemosyne and the gift of memory. The Kodak Girls, as muses of the personal and collective past, return to their source, longing for a still more eternal way to preserve memory and history. Special shout to the amazing Chris Coletti (@trumpeterchris) on trumpet! Visual Art Credit: @candystations in collaboration with @louiselessel FORWARD INTO LIGHT, featuring Metropolis Ensemble and conducted by Andrew Cyr, produced by Grammy-winning engineer Silas Brown, is out now on @nonesuchrecords Nonesuch and @newamrecords. Link in bio for more info! ✨
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Bonnie ‘Prince” Billy: “Life is Scary (Horses)” Link to YouTube / full screen in bio Please watch large and loud over there Full credits at YouTube link Director: Braden King | @truckstop Co-Conspirator: Hillary Fyfe Spera | @hillaryspera Production Company: Truckstop // Cinematographer: Eric Lin | @holdtheframe Additional Cinematography: Blake Johnson | @slake856 Light Magick: Deborah Johnson | Candystations | @candystations Virtual Production: NYU Tandon @ The Yard | @nyutandon Thanks to the Integrated Design and Media Program at NYU Tandon School of Engineering | @idmnyu Luke DuBois - Director of Research, Integrated Design and Media | @rlukedubois Todd Bryant - Special Effects Supervisor | @todernst Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy Performance Video: Will Oldham | @wignifier Sally Timms Performance Video: Bloo Van Alst | @bluevanalst Editor: Laura Israel | @dontblinkrobertfrank Assistant Editor: Alex Riccio | @alexriccio17 Color by Company 3 | @company_3 Colorist: Tim Mascik | @timmasick Cameras and Lenses provided by Panavision | @panavisionofficial Additional camera body provided by Picture Theory Additional lenses provided by TCS | @tcsfilm Shot on Location at Middlegate Station, Fallon, NV and on Highway 50, America’s Loneliest Road #middlegatestation Thanks to Cheyenne and Travis Anderton, Derrick Chiaratti and Wyatt Clark for their generous hospitality. Special Thanks: Jason Goldman, Carly Hugo, Paul de Jong, Joseph Krings, Andy Lilien, Wes Morin, Will Oldham, Matt Parker, Mike Quinn, Scott Soens, Hillary Fyfe Spera and Chris Wiezorek. From No Quarter Records: “Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (@wignifier) – the persona / stage-name of musician Will Oldham - will release his new studio record, “We Are Together Again”, on Friday, March 6th, 2026. This song – which Oldham describes as a “spiritual cover” of the Sally Timms / Jon Langford composition “Horses” - features Timms, (#sallytimms) on the track and in the video. King also directed the video for Oldham’s 2004 cover of “Horses” (from the album Greatest Palace Music).” @noquarterrex @dominorecordco
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