DRON TALK SESSION V with Ivor Kallin - Sunday 3rd of March, from 3pm

Ivor Kallin plays a set of solo viola, plus improvised music from KMAT : Keisuke Matsui, guitar and objects, Paul Shearsmith, trumpet and fire extinguishers, Graham MacKeachan, bass and found objects.

Interspersed with an informal talk in the Gallery Cafe starring colour theorist Chris Gough, and Roy Osborne, artist and authority on colour theory in art and design, whose publications include  ‘Lights and Pigments’ (1980) and ‘Color Influencing Form’ (2004).
Featuring contributions from Jill Rock on the colour systems in her work in the DRON/Ultima Ratio show.

Also, on video, a classic of bogus synesthesia: Alexander Scriabin’s Prometheus, Poem of Fire Op. 60 (1910) – for piano, orchestra, and clavier à lumières  – a keyboard instrument with notes corresponding to colours in Scriabin’s synesthetic system.

Ivor Kallin inside The DRON, with KMAT - Paul Shearsmith, Keisuke Matsui & Graham Mackeachan