NOMINATION: Work of the Year - Electroacoustic / Sound Art
The Electroacoustic / Sound Art category is for works which utilise and manipulate digital and/or analogue sound as the primary medium. The work may be interdisciplinary (incorporating more than one media). It may include, but is not limited to; sonic art, electronics, interactive work, generative music, environmental sound, installations, soundscapes, electroacoustic music, and intermedia works.
A work is defined as a single complete musical composition, or expression. This includes music with movements or sub-works (i.e. song cycles), installations, and real-time compositions (improvised music).
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Nominee
Daniel Portelli
Title of the work
Dream Recorder
Performer
Alana Blackburn
Performance Date
19/11/2024
Venue
New England Regional Art Museum
Nominator Statement
'Dream Recorder' is an installation/multi-media work for contra-bass recorder, video and mirrors that explores dreams and consciousness research in a performance context. Composed and created by Daniel Portelli and performed by Alana Blackburn, this highly original hybrid performance/installation was premiered at the New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW on 19 November 2024 as part of the symposium Towards the Multimodal Sensorium.
This project is a multimodal composition intended to be performed in both a dream and a wakeful state. The wakeful installation/performance that people walk through is scattered with mirrors that fragment and intersect our perceptual field. The score, which can be performed either in a dream or wakeful state, uses a non-linear clock-like graphic notation. The clocks are enigmatic puzzles that challenges the performer to theorise musical procedures. It creates temporal distortions or lapses of disassociation where the duration of contemplation becomes a time-based parameter in the music. Analysis of the score in relation to the dream and waking performances can reveal insights into phenomenologically diverse/phenomenal experiences, questions of agency, multisensory empathy, and the modulatory affects of the auditory mirror neuron circuit.
Nominee
Daniel Portelli
Title of the work
Dream Recorder
Performer
Alana Blackburn
Performance Date
19/11/2024
Venue
New England Regional Art Museum
This project is a multimodal composition intended to be performed in both a dream and a wakeful state. The wakeful installation/performance that people walk through is scattered with mirrors that fragment and intersect our perceptual field. The score, which can be performed either in a dream or wakeful state, uses a non-linear clock-like graphic notation. The clocks are enigmatic puzzles that challenges the performer to theorise musical procedures. It creates temporal distortions or lapses of disassociation where the duration of contemplation becomes a time-based parameter in the music. Analysis of the score in relation to the dream and waking performances can reveal insights into phenomenologically diverse/phenomenal experiences, questions of agency, multisensory empathy, and the modulatory affects of the auditory mirror neuron circuit.