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Title
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Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924) World Premiere
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Description
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Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924)
composed, produced and performed by Melissa Grey & David Morneau
University of Pennsylvania
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, & Manuscripts
Philadelphia, PA
20 October 2016
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…."
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Date Created
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161020
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Medium
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Digital Video
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Duration
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0:50:48
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Resolution
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1920x1080
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Creator
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Melissa Grey & David Morneau
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Publisher
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Flower Cat
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status
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Unlisted
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Rights
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All Rights Reserved
Photon Ecstasy