Kutiman at the Guggenheim
A week ago Kutiman performed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. YouTube invited him to play at the grand opening of YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video.
The lineup: OK Go, The LXD, Megan Washington, Jarbas Agnelli. And Kutiman.
Kutiman did a live mashup of Brahms' "Hungarian Dance #5" with a string quartet from Juilliard and players from the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Classical musicians accompanying webcam clips of strangers.
There was something in those next few moments, even though I was technically watching it on TV, when the reality of a string quartet performing Brahms live alongside Kutiman's webcam YouTube videospinning sank in. And I thought that this thing could just. not. happen. anywhere else BUT inside the heavily painted rotunda of the Guggenheim.