Darkside

live music duo

interview by ANNABEL FERNANDES
portrait by CORALIE GIROUD

DARKSIDE PERFORMING LIVE AT THE CORONET THEATRE, LONDON, MARCH 2014, PHOTO BY JEREMY RICE

 

Nicolas Jaar formed Darkside with guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington, reinventing sampling and improvisation: the guitarist on stage adding blues and jazz voicing to Jaar’s space-age cloud music, composed live.

ANNABEL FERNANDES — You both have a connection to art. Nicolas’s father, Alfredo Jaar, is a well-known artist. You’ve performed at art events, including a five-hour set for MoMA PS1.
NICOLAS JAAR — I played a couple of art events recently. My father’s an artist, so I’ve always been in that world.

ANNABEL FERNANDES — Do you have any favorite artists?
DAVE HARRINGTON — Dan Flavin, Richard Serra — big late-20th-century Minimalism. Artists featured at the DIA:Beacon.
NICOLAS JAAR — When I was really young, my father would take us to the…