“the most interesting textures and timbres of music results from the composer’s inventiveness his music is deftly woven into the piece”
- Maria-Christina. Villasenor, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
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“Miller creates a richly eclectic postmodern soundtrack which lends immense power to the dramatic emotive shifts that makes Black Box such a potent sensory experience.”
- Alex Dodd, Business Day
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Refuse the Hour’ chamber opera explores the nature of time (2012)
The Refusal of Time 2012. William Kentridge's five-channel video and sound installation The Refusal of Time (2012) is a thirty-minute meditation on time and space, the complex legacies of colonialism and industry, and the artist's own intellectual life.
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William Kentridge’s and composers, Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisis exploration of Africa’s role in the First World War combines music, dance, film projections, mechanized sculptures and shadow play to illuminate the untold story of the millions of African porters and carriers who served—and in many cases died for— British, French and German battlefield forces.
William Kentridge’s monumental frieze Triumphs and Laments: A Project for Rome premiered with live theatrical performances with live shadow play and two musical processions, one an expression of triumph and the other of lament, choreographed by Kentridge, with original music by renowned South African composer Philip Miller.