A two-screen, stereo-sound, video installation, featuring the Levin Brass Band and a community of hot air balloonists.
Co-produced with TelevisionSpaceman for Channel 6 TV1 – it was premiered as video/sound in NINEDRAGONHEADS-in-Sarajevo, Bosnia, February 2009.
Cimmerian Cerulean Orb was inspired by the image of our small planet as seen from the outer edges of the solar system, and the idea of its past (or potential future) existence without life. A variety of effects and extended techniques were used to represent some of the sounds of our elements – air, water, fire, earth, combined with certain electronic manipulations that signify the planet’s connection with the cosmos. A structure of sparsity with extended soft sections expresses the desolateness of the expanse, sometimes interupted with violent outbursts.
This work for trumpet and tape delay system was written in memory of the the composer’s father. It uses stereo delay to create an impression of space and distance.