Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924)

Title

Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924)

Composer

Melissa Grey & David Morneau

Date Created

2016

Instrumentation

benjolin synthesizer

Merlin Music Machine

Nintendo Game Boy

trombone

spoken word

programmed beats

Description

Photon Ecstasy is a performance project that engages music, sound, and interactive light. Created by composer-performers Melissa Grey & David Morneau, it is a concert-length spatial performance for trombone and live electronics—including custom-built interactive wearable technology, the beeps of subverted video game systems, the randomness of the Benjolin modular synthesizer, the data sonification of star maps, field recordings of pre-dawn coyote vocalisation, and samples from the NASA Audio Collection. Commissioned by University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Photon Ecstasy is an adaptation of The DNA-Photon Project, an artist book and twenty-five machine-sculptures by Dan Rose. New York Arts wrote that with repeated listenings "there’s more to be moved and impressed by, to learn from…."

Collaborator

Rachel Cheetham-Richard

Robert Kirkbride

Ezgi Ucar

Gregory M Beson

Publisher

greymorneau

Rights

All Rights Reserved

Is Part Of

Photon Ecstasy