Sound Migrations
In the Fall of 2020, I invited Lief Hall and Josema Zamorano to co-create an improvisational music-video performance as the final part of my artist residency at Western Front. The collaboration converged, looking for an immersive dialogue between aural, visual, and spatial experiences, reflecting on migration and the living transformations that are a 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.