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Sound Migrations

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Meredith Bates invited Lief Hall and Josema Zamorano to co-create an improvisational music-video performance as the final part of her artist residency at Western Front. The collaboration converged, looking for a dialogue between aural, visual, and spatial experiences, reflecting on migrations and the living transformations that are part of it: sound becoming body movement, voice becoming ocean waves, music becoming awareness of space, wind becoming texture, the forest becoming cellular copulation, colour becoming mood, perception becoming the environment itself.

The audio is performed live on an octophonic surround sound system and consists of live acoustic and processed violin, which is also being fed through the octophonic speakers, field recordings by Meredith Bates, live acoustic and processed voice, and octophonic manipulation by Lief Hall. The concert happened 7 times for a live audience of 8 people at each iteration. No performance was identical.

The video-performance part, featured in the live performances, was created in dialogue with the moment by using a digital camera as instrument to "play" two photomontages that depict abstracted landscapes.The imagery, read via body movements and gestural modulations over the lens, was processed in camera to produce moving colour fields, and was live-fed to dual projections covering the east and west walls of the Grand Luxe Hall.

The audience (8 people for every 20min session) moved through lighted spots on the floor to perceive a diversity of aural-visual perspectives.

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released January 19, 2021
Sound Migrations at Western Front

Music-video improvisation performance, Coast Salish Territory, Oct 24-25 2020

Meredith Bates: direction, acoustic & processed violin

Lief Hall: voice, effects, octophonic modulation

Josema Zamorano: video performance

Ben Wilson: Live sound and post-production mixing

Chris Gestrin: post-production mastering

With thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council, the SOCAN Foundation, and Western Front.

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