Art Remastered 2021: "What Stays Behind" by Andrew Rodriguez

This fall, Krannert Art Museum (KAM), Allerton Park & Retreat Center, and the School of Music at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have partnered to premiere What Stays Behind, a new site-specific composition by Andrew Rodriguez.

Rodriguez’s original score for strings and percussion interrogates how we experience the performance space through sound and movement. The piece will be performed by twelve students from the School of Music, who will be physically spaced in unique configurations throughout KAM’s East Gallery.

At each performance, audience members are invited to move throughout the space and in-between performers to participate in an immersive music and art experience.

Face coverings and tickets for this indoor event at Krannert Art Museum are required. Please be prepared to show your tickets at the door. For other performance locations, dates, and times, visit Art Remastered 2021.

About Andrew Rodriguez:

Andrew Rodriguez is a composer, producer, and guitarist originally from West-Central Texas and currently based in Champaign, Illinois. He utilizes his intimate history as a performer in the American punk/hardcore scene to formulate the core of his music. Rodriguez holds a Master of Music from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; he is an alum of the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music and a former Bouman Fellow for Kinds of Kings’ 2019-20 residency at National Sawdust.

About Art Remastered:

Since 2017, musicians in Urbana-Champaign have written and performed songs inspired by artworks on display at Krannert Art Museum as part of the annual Art Remastered program. Conceived and organized by Kamila Glowacki, Art Remastered transforms the art museum into a lab for musicians across various musical genres and backgrounds to expand their creative practice, a sanctuary for audience members to reflect and experience artworks through alternate perspectives and modalities, and a space for communities to gather and share in the experience of each performance.

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