THE AESTHETICS OF FAREWELLS


2017   |   PERFORMANCE   MODULAR SYNTHESIS

The Aesthetics of Farewells live performance features rockets leaving the earth without saying goodbye, a story about connection and detachment. 

Vintage stock-free footage of early and recent travel exploration was paired with modular sounds remixed and played live.


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2017
Metronomies of the Spirit event @ The Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science, and Technology (SBCAST).
Special thanks to: Mark Hirsch, Marko Peljhan, Rodger (Jieliang) Luo, Keith Higginbothman, Austin Bernales, SBCAST, the Prelinger Archives and the Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program at UCSB.


IMAGES: Performance documentation by Austin Bernales.



PHOTO: Kim Yasuda (2017)



PHOTO: Modular patch used during the live improvisation portion of the performance (2017).


RIGHT: Rehearsal captures, Santa Barbara, CA (2017).
LEFT: Promotional material featuring the event’s poster. Systemics Lab, CA. Photo by Rodger Luo (2017).






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