Semiconductor, Brilliant Noise
Saturday April 25
11:00pm-12:30am
Immortal Noise
Immortal Noise returns us to here and now. Also called “silence” (no such thing!) it seeps through the quietest music, as pregnant gaps, and brings our attention to an intensive probing of its ever-expanding depths. Amped up it brings us an unknown edge to the dulcet tones of a glass orchestra. The lush ambient space is boarded and scraped into a form by its force.
In Brilliant Noise it frames the medium, bringing punctual reminders of the distance between the sun’s surface and ground we may have thought we had escaped from. The noise of NASA’s space studies is not out there, it’s here in our medium of exploration. Reclaiming a shimmering moment in which natural philosophic experimentation and the scientific empirical method was one and the same, Experiments and Observations on different Types of Air recreates an 18 Century false demonstration of the Aurora Borealis.
However the physical facts remain as we witness the formed liquid-gas dynamic suspension: Immortal Noise lives on dancing between multiple poles of fact-fiction, science-art, physical-virtual and past-present. Is the Signal clouded completely in Noise? In the obfuscation of the 3D fluid space folded into image (2D) and sound (1+1D), has it become totally other?
Jeffrey Allport | 2008 | 20:00mins | Solo Percussion Improvisation | Canada
Anju Singh, Wine Glass Orchestra | Performed by Her Jazz Noise Collective: Sarah Buchanan, Caitlin Gilroy, Sarah Charrouf, Amberleigh Forsyth, Rachael Wadham PrOphecy Sun, Sidria, Aja Rose Bond, Mel Mundell, Jenny Jones | 2008 | 20:00mins | Canada
Sara Gold and Fazail Lutfi, Experiments and Observations on different Types of Air | 2008 | 20:00mins | collaborative A/V performance and installation | Canada
Semiconductor, Brilliant Noise | 2006 | 9:38mins (looped) | 3 channel DVD projection | UK
program running time: 1:00:00