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VOCALIZATIONS 1990 |
A PROJECTED
VIDEO ENVIRONMENT BY STEINA
WITH JOAN LA BARBARA |
| There is an integration of sound
and image in which the singing voice of Joan La
Barbara produces energetic permutations in a grid
of lines reminiscent of the musical staff of traditional
music notation, forming a window onto images of
a moving landscape. The rifts, chants, and scat
singing of La Barbara’s voice become a visual
dance in this electronic scape. |
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MARITA STURKEN |
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| D E S C R I P T I O N |
VOCALIZATIONS is a projected video
environment for four video and eight audio channel
presentation in a fifteen minute repeating program.
Each of the four video disk players provides one
video and two audio sources to four screens and
eight speakers. A synchronizer aligns the four
channels of video for synchronous playback. At
the end of each cycle the program automatically
returns and re-synchronizes for a repeat performance.
In creating VOCALIZATIONS, the singer Joan La
Barbara not only made sounds but virtually composed
the work in the style of real-time performance:
images of the Southwest desert landscapes were
intercut and combined by her voice pattern while
she observed incoming visuals. Later, Steina added
speed changes, directional variations, and additional
electronic voice processing to the final collage. |
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