Bruce Adolphe

Will talks to composer Bruce Adolphe about his life as a composer and musician and his numerous collaborations and multimedia projects. His 2009 work, Self Comes to Mind, is a meditation on neurology and neurochemistry, based on a poem by neuroscientist Antonio Damasio. He discusses his collaborative process with Damasio, the value of working with a poem written by a scientist--and a non-native speaker for whom English was his fourth language, no less--and how memory and notions thereof informed Self Comes to Mind. Selections of several of Adolphe's works are played, and Bruce provides insightful commentary on each, explaining his methods of interpreting and translating his sundry literary and visual inspirations to music. They also engage in one of Will's favorite pastimes: trashing Clement Greenberg (1 hour).

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