Almost an Island
edgewater In Flight Uncanny Valley Red Plumes Degrees of Freedom The Widening Gyre Driptick Wind Farm Blue Traces Out of Hand Conveyor Slumber Elements sLowlife sLowlife [installation] Wakeup Call Detour Day Trip Thrum Beyond Our Reach Fits and Starts Jangle Dancing on a Wire House of the Dreamers In-between Flights of Fancy A Bao A Qu A Flash of Green Serenata Alliances Bagatelle |
Elements (2006)stereo, quad and 5.1 mixesHonorable Mention, Eastman Computer Music Center 25th Anniversary Electroacoustic Music Competition, 2006 Here are excerpts from the piece. Watch a medium-resolution version of the entire piece [QuickTime]. Elements is from “Blood Work,” a series of high-definition video art works by Jawshing Arthur Liou. The video depicts in abstract form the struggle of his young daughter with leukemia, presenting a metaphor for illness and recovery. The images comprise stop-motion animation of painted surfaces and tiny particle-generated renderings of the girl’s body. The sound evolves slowly and complements the images, striking a tone that is sometimes quietly disturbing, other times unabashedly transcendent. Much of the sound comes from ten seconds of vocal melody, performed by the Lebanese soprano, Reem Deeb. Performances:
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