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Rise Over Run (For Four Players)
live video score and sound performance
EA live at NISUS
Galeria Galou, NYC, June 30, 2005
more excerpts:
improv 1
improv 2
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EA is a photoelectroacoustic project instigated by Gill Arno, Gil Sanson, Ben Owen, Richard Garet, Andre Golcalves and Andy Graydon. While the interests and approaches of each member vary widely, everyone generally works within the idiom of computer-processed natural and instrumental sounds, and with the interrelation of the visual environment with the aural environment through slide, film and video projections.
Participation in the project is open and evolving, always incorporating new forms and dividing into smaller focused specialties. One facet of the group’s dynamic is to define smaller performance ensembles -- duos, trios, etc -- from within the larger group for specific pieces. In keeping with this evolving paradigm, the acronym EA does not refer to any fixed phrase.
EA works with improvisations as well as with rules-based compositions written by individual members. Performances alternate between large group improvs and practiced compositions drawn from the group’s repertoire, often played by smaller units of the group.
"Rise Over Run" is a composition by Graydon for live video and four sound players. Formal qualities of each image are connected directly to properties of the sounds that each performer may play: shot choice defines the sample to be played, luminance defines volume, vertical extension defines amount of filtering, etc. In this way, the image becomes both code structure which the players watch and respond to, and aesthetic complement to the sound work.
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