Double Image
The Show
About the Show
In the fall of 2023, the Jaffrey Civic Center, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, featured a five week event: Double Image, Paintings, Video, and Original Music by Visual Artist Frankie Brackley Tolman and Composer-Filmmaker, L.A. Dierker.
Forty-Five of Frankie Brackley Tolman’s paintings were displayed over the three rooms of the upstairs Cunningham Gallery. Projected onto one wall of the gallery, L.A. Dierker’s two films, Forest Fantasy and streaming, scored with her original compositions, played continuously. Additionally, (via a smart phone with head phones/ear buds), a visitor could listen to Dierker’s compilation of earlier work, Monadnock Soundscape (the sounds of the Nelson NH woodlands).
Virtual Tour
Take a virtual tour of the Cunningham gallery below to view Frankie Brackley Tolman’s paintings (4 min.).
As you stroll through the rooms, you will hear the sounds of the Nelson woodlands, Dierker’s compilation of earlier recordings edited for the exhibit as Monadnock Soundscape. In the background you will also hear music from her two films playing continuously as they are projected onto a gallery wall.
Finishing your tour, at the dividing curtain/ sofa near the projector, settle in to watch the two films FOREST FANTASY and streaming (20 min.).
L.A. Dierker’s films, integrate with film and music, seven of Brackley Tolman’s paintings which are on display in the gallery.
Learn More
These website pages include: a virtual tour of the Double Image exhibit at the Jaffrey Civic Center, which shows Brackley Tolman’s paintings (4 min.) and Dierker’s two film productions, Forest Fantasy and streaming (20 min.); an appendix of text panels; notes and score excerpt of the music composition Forest Fantasy; and a link to audio of Monadnock Soundscape.
You can read a review of Double Image from Art New England here.
Visit the Collaborations page of my site for more information on the evolution of Double Image.
Photo: L.A. Dierker and Frankie Brackley Tolman. (Photo by Steven Lipofsky)
Explore the Work
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Sonata in G for Piano
Sonata in G was composed as a score for the film I created featuring the paintings and gardens of Frankie Brackley Tolman.
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4 Seasons for Solo Harp
A work that celebrates the New England seasons—an ever changing kaleidoscope.
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Forest Fantasy
This film and its music are inspired by the forest and flora of the New Hampshire woodlands.
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Streaming
In this piece the sound of a stream acts as a basso continuo and ties together the very disparate images of Frankie Brackley’s paintings.
Text Panels
Click on an image to view a text panel from the show
Monadnock Soundscape
Compiled and edited for the Jaffrey Civic Center show, Monadnock Soundscape is a ten-minute recording of archived work from 2003/2004 featuring the forest sounds of our region. The below image shows L.A. Dierker’s score for the piece. Birds and wind are constant and provide the backdrop for diverse sounds, like insects and peepers, common to the Monadnock region.
