Exploring the Hidden Music: LASM

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Courtesy of LASM

"Heartbeat," the finale of Exploring the Hidden Music: LASM, blends art and science to create a unique performance unlike any other.

In the 1980s, multi-media artist Christopher Janney sought out to craft a more concrete connection between sound, movement, and art. The culminating project was a musical composition in which the central percussion is driven by a human heartbeat—a dancer's in fact, who is thus drawn through movements in response to the rhythm of their own body. As we enter American Heart Month, the Louisiana Art & Science Museum will stage this remarkable performance as the conclusion of Janney's upcoming immersive multi-media show, Exploring the Hidden Music: LASM. 

The production, specially curated by Janney for the residents of Baton Rouge, is inspired by Louisiana's musical roots, drawing on aspects of Zydeco, Southern Gospel, Southern blues, and shuffle-beat rhythms, combined with electronic instruments and sounds signature to Janney's unique style. True to fashion, the show will draw in every sense, incorporating stimulating light displays, dance, Baton Rouge's own vocalist Quiana Lynell, and trumpeter George Bell. 

The show serves as an exciting addendum to Janney's current LASM visual arts exhibition, Sound is An Invisible Color.

[Read more our interview with Janney here, and curator Elizabeth Weinsten's guide to the exhibition, here.]

All proceeds from Exploring the Hidden Music: LASM will be equally divided between the museum's new Art & Wellness Program and Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital's Arts in Medicine program. 

7 pm. $35; $15 for students and LASM members; $50 for access to post-concert reception on February 1 only. lasm.org.