An Anatomical Study on Escape (February 2018)
Written for She Score's Concert Series:
An Anatomical Study on Escape is a musical question. What happens when we abstract our own voices?
The piece starts at the most disassembled and abstracted form of each performer’s voice and moves towards a vocal reality. The imagery in the video mirrors the musical process by starting out as an abstracted form of representation and moving into reality.
I worked with David Schwartz to create a full live-processed multimedia experience for the work. The processing is set to register each instrumentalist’s unique vocal range. This vocal range then controls the speed of each video.
See David’s watercolor imagery from part of the installation above.