Disintegration Aesthetics (2024)
An installation, a solo cello performance, and a suite of ensemble pieces, Disintegration Aesthetics is a transmedia project that rethinks the margins of sensory dysfunction as a site of composition and situated improvisation. Drawing on personal experiences of living with Sensory Integration Disorder, Disintegration Aesthetics explores the generative relational potential of the repetitive gestures known as ‘stims’ in neurodivergent communitites.
Performed at Pyxis, Providence RI 11/21/24
Special Thanks to Andy Braddock and Dailen Williams.
Ensemble: Lisa Sokolov, Will Johnson, Melaine Ferdinand King, Kolya Shields, Kian Frolic, Simo Klein, Yaniv Kot, Florence Wallis, Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez, Brian Mertes, Eamon Mertes, Chloe Zimmerman, and Isabel Castellvi.
Installation
1) Audio controlled dimmer for 35mm Slide Projector, archival slides, and generative audio.
2) Overhead projector, transparent scroll of images generated by an instance of Stable Diffusion prompted with the text of Sappho's Fragment 31.
Performance
1) Acoustic solo cello
2) Solo cello with stereo effects processing
3) Cello with 'stereo bow' and Andy Braddock playing the stereo EQ
4) Bandwidth, for ensemble
5) Learning To Fly/Shaking Mediation/Harpo's Gonna Eat His Food, for ensemble
6) Hand2Hand, for ensemble
Shot by Julia C. Liu and Keith Heyward
Audio Recording and Mix by James Moses
Still Photographs by James May
Special Thanks to Andy Braddock and Dailen Williams.
Ensemble: Lisa Sokolov, Will Johnson, Melaine Ferdinand King, Kolya Shields, Kian Frolic, Simo Klein, Yaniv Kot, Florence Wallis, Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez, Brian Mertes, Eamon Mertes, Chloe Zimmerman, and Isabel Castellvi.
Installation
1) Audio controlled dimmer for 35mm Slide Projector, archival slides, and generative audio.
2) Overhead projector, transparent scroll of images generated by an instance of Stable Diffusion prompted with the text of Sappho's Fragment 31.
Performance
1) Acoustic solo cello
2) Solo cello with stereo effects processing
3) Cello with 'stereo bow' and Andy Braddock playing the stereo EQ
4) Bandwidth, for ensemble
5) Learning To Fly/Shaking Mediation/Harpo's Gonna Eat His Food, for ensemble
6) Hand2Hand, for ensemble
Shot by Julia C. Liu and Keith Heyward
Audio Recording and Mix by James Moses
Still Photographs by James May