HVAC is an iterative and ongoing series of recorded musical works with found and devised video by composer David Hertzberg. This is his first presentation with the gallery.
Conceived during the pandemic at a time when live musical events had come to a standstill, HVAC assumes a sui generis form that seeks to translate - through the immediacy of handheld recording and image-capture - something of the risk, fragility, and danger of live performance.
The first of its kind by the composer, this selection of works represents a window into a vast realm of sonic and pictorial mythopoeia, in which early moving images mingle with observed phenomena, and elusive musical thoughts act as a form of immersive mark-making in sound.
David Hertzberg is a composer from Los Angeles, known for his instrumental and site-specific operatic work. A Guggenheim Fellow, he studied at The Juilliard School and Curtis Institute.