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In Summer Rain
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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