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| At first the Orbacles, two large fabricated steel balls, give no hint that they contain scrunched performers hidden inside! Then the balls come to life, rolling and scurrying like huge bugs, conversing in an Orbaclean language of |
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Composer Jason Staczek
relied heavily on the Shrimp Platter in his score for the film Keyhole by Guy Madden.
The Shrimp Platter is a giant glass and metal instrument made by Ela at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA and at Lelavision's Studio. The low frequency instruments is comprised of 25 harmonically balanced aluminum tubes that are amplified by a gradating set of glass resonators. Jason also assisted Ela in the developement of the instrument into an electrically countrolled acoustic instrument that can be played or programmed through sequencers. Jason arranged several compositions by Girdjieff for the Shrimp Platter and other instruments as part of Lelavision's performance Harvesting Light.
| Like superheroes the performers fly through the air, smashing out a thunderous score on drums and cymbals hanging in the air. |
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| This spinning tubular-bell sculpture explores the aural and visual possibilities of a whirling universe. |
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Standing behind this horizontal, wave-shaped harp, stroking rather than plucking the nearly invisible, 25-foot, rosined strings, Lelavision's performers use gesture and dance to produce polyrhythmic and sequenced patterns of music and movement. Canons and polyphonic harmonies arise from the dance as though the musical notes were inherent in the body rather than in the instrument. |
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| The Pandemonium is a rocking boat-scupture featuring a balloon-reed pump organ. |  |
| This HPV (human powered vehicle) is piloted by a performer who maneuvers its long truss-like frame around the stage while playing the musical wheels and long strings. He manipulates a second performer as if she were an object, lifting her, pushing her into various shapes, dropping her in a pile, and suspending her inverted in the air. |
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| Like a viola-X-volcano, this conical steel sculpture with vertical piano wire strings can be plucked or bowed. Like a dulcimer or steel drum, it sings when struck. Like a ride at the fair, it spins. Lelavision performers catch a lift on the Violcano while playing their groovy tunes on it. To their surprise, they are sucked into the crater, then erupted for a seismic finish. |
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| The Metalphor is a stringed instrument played by rolling a large stainless steel orb along the strings to bend the pitch, or by percussing its tounge-drum sides. Made from diamond plate and dished aluminum with 8 strings, the Metalphor shares commonalities with a steel guitar but has a distinctive timbre more akin to the Indian Rudra Vina. In performance it also serves as a percussive instrument and as a prop for acroballancing. |
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The Stamenphone is a 16 string harmonic sculpture played with a cello bow.
Born from the performances collaboration with research scientist Collaboration with David Lyn, the Warm Pond is a spinning stainless steel helix rising out of a small pool. The piece get's it's name from a quote by Charles Darwin referring to the possible origins of life on earth: "It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are present, which could ever have been present. But if (and Oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc., present, that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes..."
This chiming aerial aparatus rotates in two planes simultaneously. Two performers seem to float weightlessly as they hang onto the circular truss frame while percussing the
slit-tube chimes. The Lunatone is an exciting but ultimately soothing spectacle.
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Born from the performances collaboration with research scientist Collaboration with David Lyn, the Warm Pond is a spinning stainless steel helix rising out of a small pool. The piece get's it's name from a quote by Charles Darwin referring to the possible origins of life on earth: "It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are present, which could ever have been present. But if (and Oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc., present, that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes..." |
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Fishing cooler with weed eater wire.
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Spring steel sheet metal mounted on alumiunm rainsticks. Flapping the wings overhead animates these bird like puppets with thunderous sounds, while tipping them soothes the air with tinkling rain sounds. The Thunder Wings can also can be bowed and percussed with mallets. The sounds can be heard on the CD Long Period Events. |
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These long aluminum rods are stroked by rosin coated gloves to excite longitudinal vibrations. Providing a pure tone, the upper partials (also called harmonics) can be isolated by holding the rod at different nodal points. |
100 stones are suspended on music wire of varying lengths and attach to a wing-shaped sound box installed in the ceiling. THey are played by stroking the wires with rosin impregnated gloves to excite longitudinal vibrations. An arching bridge provides access to the high wires. Designed originally as a set for UMO Ensembles theatrical production "Body Inheritance" the Singing Stones are also featured in Lelavision's performance "Rhythm of the Landscape".
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| Bass endblown flute played with the toes to allow for extra length without the use of mechanical keys. The tone of the Toeflute is tasty like tofu. |  |
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 This five-wheeled vehicular sculpture has three wheels on the ground and two musical wheels that spin in the air making music. |
| Tin pan man and stainless steel drum woman pollinate fmusical flower sculptures with their own form of buzz pollination. This piece was developed as part of a collaboration with reproductive biologist Dr. Anna Edlund. |  |
Old telephone bells on the end of spring steel tines fly outward and produce a variety of evocotive shapes and sounds as the performer spins and skitters about.
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Long Period Events CD
If volcanos could make music, this would be it.
With guest tabla solo by Vishal Nagar. Produced by Tucker Martine
Tone Pond
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