Seattle Modern Orchestra at Oxbow: An interactive sound-video installation & concert
$5 to $15 suggested donation
Oxbow's artists-in-residence James Borchers and Jérémy Jolley present a performance of their developing interactive sound and video installation, I am the shadow of the image of my person. Installation runs from May 4-June 3 in Oxbow's gallery space.
Performances will be every 30 minutes:
7:00 pm – Installation alone
7:30 pm – Performance 1 with installation
8:00 pm – Installation alone
8:30 pm – Performance 2 with installation
9:00 pm – Installation alone
9:30 pm – Performance 3 with installation
Through a large-scale interactive sound and video installation, artist-composers Borchers and Jolley explore the relationship between identity and representation in the age of digital artifice. Infrared sensors, multichannel speakers, and software generate an interactive experience featuring video projections of musicians from the Seattle Modern Orchestra.
As visitors move through the space, the images and sounds stratify, disintegrate, sync, and reconstruct. Visitors can enter a small dodecahedron-shaped room to immerse themselves in an audio-video collage of those same players. Through its presentation of altering human forms playing their instruments, the piece becomes part performance and part digital play, invoking both dialogic and meditative experience, and calling into question what we know to be authentic or real.