Korot

"All the synthesizers in the world can't compare to the richness of human speech as a sound source," says Mr. Reich, sitting on a sofa in the sleek stone-and-wood dwelling he shares here with his wife and sometime collaborator, video artist Beryl Korot.

An Orchestra of Distant Voices Barbara Jepson 2011

And in "The Cave" and "Three Tales," the video operas he conceived with Ms. Korot, "talking heads" rather than arias convey the narrative content.

An Orchestra of Distant Voices Barbara Jepson 2011

Korot sets fragmentary counterpoint against moments of textural and thematic homogeny, the pull of which is increased by the uniformity of the instrumentation.

PLG Young Artists – review 2011

In 1972 Korot conducted the first cablecast to the town of Saugerties, New York and in 1976 Schneider and Korot collaborated to produce Video Art: An Anthology published by Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich.

Beryl Korot. 2009

Korot says, “Three Tales is really about human beings and how we deal with the powers that are given to us.”

Beryl Korot. 2009

From 1998 to 2002 Korot and Reich produced Three Tales, their second collaboration, a documentary video opera in three acts which is in a sense a meditation on twentieth-century technology.

Beryl Korot. 2009

This is an elegant book containing interviews with Korot, Reich, and each interviewee, including the late Carl Sagan, his wife Ann Druyan, and Jesuit priest Daniel Berrigan.

Beryl Korot. 2009

Korot attended the University of Wisconsin for two years and then graduated from Queens College in 1967 with a B.A. in English literature as her major and art history as her minor.

Beryl Korot. 2009

Korot and Reich were married on May 30, 1976, in a traditional ceremony in Lower Manhattan conducted by Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald.

Beryl Korot. 2009

Five gray-toned weavings made by Korot herself hang in combination facing five video monitors.

Beryl Korot. 2009