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Title
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Photon Ecstasy
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Description
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Photon Ecstasy is a performance project that engages music, sound, and science fiction to address the hubris of certainty. Created by composer-performers Melissa Grey & David Morneau, it is a concert-length spatial performance for spoken word, trombone, and electronics—including the beeps of subverted video game systems, samples from the NASA Audio Collection, the randomness of the Benjolin modular synthesizer, the data sonification of star maps, and custom-built interactive wearable technology. It is based on Dan Rose’s The DNA-Photon Project, an artist book and twenty-five machine-sculptures, which ironically explores the certitude of industrialized capitalist countries, national security secrecy, and corporate overreach. New York Arts wrote that with repeated listenings "there’s more to be moved and impressed by, to learn from…."
The first installment, Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924), was commissioned by and premiered at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center in conjunction with the exhibition of Dan Rose’s artist books, Plaisirs Arbitraires | Arbitrary Pleasures (October 2016).
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Creator
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Melissa Grey & David Morneau
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Date Created
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250414
