A composer and scholar in residence at UC Berkeley Music Department and The Magnes Collection, Emmanuel Witzthum has created an audiovisual dialogue between his hometown, Jerusalem, and Berkeley by interweaving recorded sights and sounds. Dissolving Localities | Berkeley/Jerusalem extends his recent project, presented in Jerusalem and Paris. Artists were invited to “perform” the city of Jerusalem as a musical/visual instrument, interweaving recorded sights and sounds to create an expanded open-source multimedia montage.
Emmanuel Witzthum is a composer, violist, installation artist, and lecturer. He served as director of Ha-ma’abadah (The Lab) in Jerusalem, a venue for experimental theater, dance, and music, and as musical advisor to the Israel Festival, the premier festival for the arts in Israel. Emmanuel will be a Resident Fellow at the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley in the Spring of 2012. He will be hosted by the Department of Music and The Magnes. His residency is made possible in collaboration with the Schusterman Family Foundation’s Visiting Artist program.

Dissolving Localities -religion segment by emmanuelwitzthum

Made possible in collaboration with the Schusterman Family Foundation’s Visiting Artist Program. Presented in association with the 27th Jewish Music Festival