Deutsch
 

Pixelstorm-Award 2011:
__ main
   __ submissions
   __ call
   __ jury

Pixelstorm-Award:
__ Main
__ about
__ best of pixelstorm-award
__ community (who is who)
__ guestbook

Archive:
__ 2009
__ 2008
__ 2007
__ 2005
__ 2004
__ 2003

__ contact
__ credits
__ press

Friends:
__ dock18
__ Pixelstorm
__ Claudia
__ Equipo
__ FAQ42
__ Hauser, Schwarz
__ Ted Davis
__ station21


   Deutsch

 
all entries back next
 



Shooting Star
Shooting Star is sound art by Scott F. Hall that depicts in multitrack stereo the age-old yet suddenly, technologically accelerated process of the convergence of Eastern and Western cultures in our time. The piece reveals the uneasy though ultimately harmonious blending of differing traditions in the context of the rapidly changing 21st century world. The piece is comprised of two primary elements in multiple, interwoven layers: 1) performance by Scott F. Hall on the dan bau, a rare acoustic-electric single-stringed musical instrument native to Vietnam and; 2) recitation by Classics scholar Eleni Manolaraki the poem BYRON by Kostas Kariotakis in the original Greek language in which it was written.
Link to this project

Author: Scott F. Hall, U.S.A., 23.09 22:58
http://www.myspace.com/sculturasanamaker
Scott F. Hall is an intermedia artist who in 1985 developed an original form and practice that he calls both "scultura sana" (sound sculpture) and "sonus animatio" (moving pictures in sound). Within his diverse creative paradigm ranging from sound art to music to instrument invention to sculpture, H ... etc. etc.
 
Discussion:
add your comment...