Cézanne's Doubt, based on the eponymous essay by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, was a collaboration with video artists Jim Campbell and Elliot Anderson, featuring Thomas Buckner (voice), Kent Clelland (audio processing), Ted Mook (cello), David Smeyers (clarinet), and Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet).
Cézanne's letters to his son Paul and Baudelaire's Une Charogne, a poem of particular influence on him, form the text; the visuals are generated live, of the musicians in performance, analogous to observations of Cézanne by Merleau-Ponty and James Lord in conversation with Giacometti.
Cézanne's Doubt had its premiere at Musikprotokoll-Graz 1996, which commissioned it, and was composed with the support of a National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowship 1995 and funding from Rockefeller Foundation. It had performances at Merkin Hall (NY), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Scottish Rites Theater (Oakland), and Princeton University; it is recorded on New World Records.
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