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Sonnet 56 / The Corneal Gates (Patricia Carragon)



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Sonnet 56 / The Corneal Gates (Patricia Carragon)
The last project I worked on with Seen Performance was to be a series of series of short works created through round-robin style collaboration that join in the social mingling at local house parties, challenging where we see performance.
The last project I worked on with Seen Performance was to be a series of series of short works created through round-robin style collaboration that join in the social mingling at local house parties, challenging where we see performance.
When the doors open, the show begins.
The stage is scattered with wooden dowels and pvc fittings, but "performers" are absent. Three FOH Ladies in pretty dresses talk of clothing and whimsically burst into tiny ensemble dances. They generate a friendly mood, guiding viewers to become a single entity. Before the starting ritual is done, the audience – now a group – has built the set: two human scale boxes out of modular sections (ingeniously designed by Shana McKay Burns to play with the viewer’s visual perception of physical boundary). The Group fulfills a moment of choreography as they play together to decipher the correct construction method, and bring a new level of attention to the “stage” where the “performers” belong.
This piece is the product of a collaboration with choreographer Esther Palmer . My work included the construction of a virtual soundscape as well as a musical score.
An intriguing thing about this project was the union of the real and the virtual, the use of an animated environment to extend a real space. The combined space was conceived as a whole, creating the illusion of a larger world in which the piece was set. [see the floor plan]
The soundscape helped unify the perception real and the virtual, while maintaining a distinction between them. To accomplish this, the actual soundscape of the studio housing the set informed the sounds used in the animation soundscape.
My Heart Waits For a Cure is another track that I collaborated on with my unce for his Jacquerie album. I contributed the ambient soundscape and some of the instrumental samples. Find it here.
Radio Shills is a track from my uncle's Jacquerie album for which I created some audio collage. I sampled voices of various talk radio pundits and the filtered and layered them to create effects appropriate for the song's subject and style. Find it here.
The ninth track from [LINK]The New Voice of Chromatic Disgruntlement[/LINK].
The eighth track from [LINK]The New Voice of Chromatic Disgruntlement[/LINK].
The sixth track from [LINK]The New Voice of Chromatic Disgruntlement[/LINK].