From the Waters
Composed by Anne Hege
Performed by Sideband
Audio by Andres Villalta
Video by Harrison Owen and Stephen Taylor
Video editing by Stephen Taylor
Lighting by Christopher Gorzelnik
Recorded June 2012
Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, University
There is something inherently magical about the laptop orchestra. It has seemingly endless potential, and I imagine if anything were to bring a spirit back, this meshing of machine, man, woman, and sound would be it. For those of us who grew up thinking that a time machine was a beautiful DeLorean, or a space-like pod could merge man and fly, the hemispherical speaker of the laptop orchestra and the slim lines of the tether controller convince me that this is the vehicle for speaking with the beyond. My thanks to Maya Deren for her inspiring book Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti and Rebecca Fiebrink for her fabulous application "the Wekinator."
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