nedjelja, 29. prosinca 2013.

Maile Colbert - Come Kingdom Come (2013)




"Eksperimentalna komorna opera" is the new black.


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There is something tender and naive to our perception of our effect upon the world around us. Of course, we do affect very much our immediate surroundings in time and space. But we can only speculate in our short time in existence how these effects play out, and what their roll in the grand tapestry of this world they play. We have a childlike perception to our relationship to the world and nature, as if we were still somehow the center of all that is good and destructive. We equate the end of the world to the end of our species; even within our own species we equate an extreme shift or change as End Tymes, rather then an evolutionary leap. We give our End Tyme such extremes…there is no middle ground. There is clarity of good and bad, those punished and those promoted, those not ready and those who saw the light. It reads like a fairy tale, “Come Kingdom Come” is an experimental opera concerning millennialism and apocalyptic thought and theory; an exploratory comparison of this past turn of the millennium to it’s prior. A geography in time and space is formed using various field recordings of the before, during, and after math of natural disasters and other phenomena; the seismic activity of an earthquake, the thunderous tsunami, VLF recordings of a sun storm hitting our magnetosphere, the quiet of Chernobyl, and endangered species of bird calling in the desert. The work is then shaped and molded to achieve a haunting tapestry of rapturous desire, a desperate and beautiful search of meaning, and a whirlwind ecstatic joy and fear.
The audio-visual performance begins in darkness with the sound of VLF recordings of the magnetosphere surrounding the seated audience. Slowly emerging one by one, then disappearing just as fast come textured images we cannot quite make out, almost like the impression of a bright light upon our closed eyelids. These images begin to slow their reveal and we see the beautiful photographic work of sound and visual artist Olivia Block. The technique of exposing the development process without a direct subject…strangely powerful in their minimalism, they slowly weave in and out of each other on three walls forming a triptych as the sound begins to build into the first act, performed live electronically in surround-sound by the artist. The performance bookends with bringing in a live-feed of the electromagnetic current of the space, mixing in duet with the VLF recordings from the beginning, bringing us to a full but changed circle.
Come Kingdom Come is an experimental opera concerning millennialism and apocalyptic thought and theory; an exploratory comparison of this past turn of the millennium to it’s prior. The opera uses The Book of Revelations as a score and launching point, mixing the poetry of Ian Colbert with medieval chant, sung with the sublime voice of classically trained soprano, Gabriela Crowe under the direction of Maile Colbert. The work was then shaped and molded by Maile towards a tapestry of rapturous desire, a desperate and beautiful search of meaning, and a whirlwind ecstatic joy and fear.
Come Kingdom Come is available in a custom 6-panel sleeve, and a glass-mastered CD.
For cd and digital purchase:http://www.thesingularwe.org/fs

For a little taste: Sound Cloud
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Maile Colbert's so-called “experimental opera”—“experimental chamber opera” might be more accurate—is a tad mystifying but no less pleasurable for being so. On content grounds, The New Testament's “Book of Revelation” acts as as a springboard for a work conceptually rooted in ideas about apocalypse and the recent millennium turn; musically, the score blends Ian Colbert's poetry with medieval chant and features the singing of the classically trained soprano Gabriela Crowe as well as guest contributions of unspecified design from Tellemake (tracks one, three, five, and six) and Jessica Constable and Rui Costa (track eight).
That Colbert, a media artist, writer, and educator who once lived in Los Angeles but now calls Lisbon, Portugal home, has created something unconventional—at least as far as traditional opera conventions are concerned—is readily apparent from the outset, with “Ouverture For That Day” eschewing the customary orchestral sounds for electronic textures one more associates with ambient-electronic soundscaping. Choral voices emerge quietly, their presence muted somewhat by a dense swirl of electroacoustic sounds and nature field recordings. The seven parts that follow likewise challenge expectations by in some ways falling in line with opera conventions—in Crowe's refined delivery, for example—but in other ways deviating boldly from them, particularly in the experimental sound design. Perhaps the boldest display of contrast occurs when “Act Three, Day From Arrival” merges programmed beat patterns and electronics with baroque string elements and church organ.

A hallucinatory quality often permeates the work, in particular when Crowe's supplications intermix with other disembodied voices, choral and otherwise, within the haunted dronescapes “Act One, Begins,” “Act Four, Four Falling Branches,” and “Act Five, A Fluid Dawn.” As dreamlike is “Act Two, Two Vessels,” where murkiness is embraced to a marked degree. As compelling as Colbert's work is, it's Crowe's contribution to the recording that merits special mention. Without her presence, the work's oft-ponderous instrumental presentation would come across as emotionally cool and less involving; to cite one example, Crowe's anguished expression raises the emotional temperature of “Act One, Begins,” and her singing makes a critical difference elsewhere, too. Come Kingdom Come is an enigmatic work but a captivating tapestry nonetheless, and one Will Long should be proud to have appear on his Two Acorns label.  - textura


ARTWORK | SINGLE-CHANNEL VIDEO

Selected works

Where Under (2010)


“What was the first sound heard? It was the caress of the waters”
-R. Murray Schaffer
“The wise man delights in water.”
-Lao-tzu
Sadly inspired by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, “Where Under” asks us to take a different perspective of the importance of our clean water; as life forms born of water, evolved from water, and constructed primarily of water. Shot and recorded in Northern Portugal within the Rio Paiva, the cleanest river in Europe; the film is composed of an underwater ballet and sound composition provoking us to consider the importance of this underwater world.
Sound co-composition: Rui Costa
Underwater sound and video recordings: Andrea Parkins, Rui Costa, Maile Colbert
Production residency: Binaural/Nodar
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Ice Thaw Chorus (2008)


Commissioned for Klaus Nomi tribute show at Galleria Aus18 in Milano, Italy, 2008
Interview with Maile Colbert

Over the Eyes (2009)


Over the Eyes from Maile Colbert on Vimeo.

Created at Binaural art residency fall 2007, Nodar, Portugal
Interview with the artist Maile Colbert
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I'm Awake Now, Let's Get Lost (2007)


Music video created for the collaborative effort of the French band Nape and composer Tellemake, 2007
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Nows Important (2006)


Single channel video premiered at the Turn the Screws Festival in Los Angeles, 2006

Out (2003)


Out (2003) is an optically printed experimental film portraying Lady Macbeth’s nervous breakdown in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. As the actor paces nervously back and forth across the set, ringing his hands anxiously, his body splits, top leaving bottom. The image doubles, the speed quickens. Optical effects manipulate the image with the rhythm of anxiety. The structure climaxes, falling into an eerie calm. Using a technique called “weaving”, the image moves in and out of the darkness, until he is completely enveloped. The soundtrack is composed by the acclaimed Avante Garde jazz bassist, Mark Dresser, and electronic musician Davis Kendall.
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Butterflyweed (2002)


Single channel video work made in 2002, premiered at the Portland International Experimental and Documentary Film Festival. "I want to describe a feeling felt at the age of seven re-occurring, i have not found the words to yet describe.

Night Light Shake (2002)


Single channel video inspired by a poem by her brother, Ian Colbert, Night Light Shake premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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gama ray (2001)


Early work from 2001, premiered at the New York Video Festival.
Phantom limbs closely monitored.


artwork | performance, live video and sound

Selected works

Passageira Australis


iAir artist-in-residency at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with the interdisciplinary performance "Passageira australis", Melbourne, Australia

Come Kingdom Come


performances

May 2013
Sintoma Festival, Porto, Portugal
Activate the Medium, The Lab, San Francisco, 2012
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passageira em casa

still frames passageira

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Open Decallation (2012)


Video: Maile Colbert
Sound: Maile Colbert and Simon Whetham
Production: Granular and Opensound
A decal is a shadow of its former context, an object on its own, a trace of its former self. "Open Decallation" as well refers to recall and recollection. Its main sources are various text chats and messages composed between members of the Opensound group during the production process. Run like a salon to promote discussion in the midst of experiencing the audio/visual aspects of the work, "Open Decallation" acts as a living catalog of an event and its production. A special thank you for Granular and the fine folk at Opensound.

Wadada Leo Smith's Organic, Sons d'Hiver (2012)



Live capture of video projection created for Wadada Leo Smith's Organic at the Sons d'Hiver Festival in Paris, February 2012.
Wadada Leo Smith - composition, trumpet
Angelica Sanchez - piano
Brandon Ross - electric guitar
Lamar Smith - electric guitar
Michael Gregory - electric guitar
Okkyung Lee - cello
John Lindberg - double bass
Skuli Sverrisson - electric bass
Pheeroan Aklaff - drums
Jesse Gilbert - live visuals
Maile Colbert - live camera
Roulette, NYC 2011
Jazz em Agosto, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011

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Decalled Upon Performance reel


Documentation of the Decalled Upon intermedia performance
Part of Decalcomania, The Exchange Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom

where under

where under images form video

“What was the first sound heard? It was the caress of the waters”
-R. Murray Schaffer
“The wise man delights in water.”
-Lao-tzu
Sadly inspired by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, “Where Under” asks us to take a different perspective of the importance of our clean water; as life forms born of water, evolved from water, and constructed primarily of water. Shot and recorded in Northern Portugal within the Rio Paiva, the cleanest river in Europe; the film is composed of an underwater ballet and sound composition provoking us to consider the importance of this underwater world.
sound co-composition: Rui Costa
underwater sound and video recordings: Andrea Parkins, Rui Costa, Maile Colbert
production residency: Binaural/Nodar

Transit Project Reel


A project in collaboration with Maile Colbert and Paul Bradley

Premiered in 2008 at the Centro del Carmen (Valencia, Spain) for OBSERVATORI 08 – International Festival of Artistic Investigation

FOUR CHANNEL VIDEO PROJECTION
EIGHT CHANNEL SURROUND SOUND
20 MINUTES LIVE PERFORMANCE AND 45 MINUTES VIDEO PROJECTION

artwork | installation

Selected works

Xestobium rufovillosum (2013)


For the group show "Diorama of an Art Exhibition no.4"
Media: box, photo puzzle, field recording, headphones. audio device.
About: "To attract mates, these wood-borers create a tapping or ticking sound that can be heard in the rafters of old buildings on quiet summer nights. They are therefore associated with quiet, sleepless nights and are named for the vigil (watch) kept beside the dying or dead, and by extension the superstitious have seen the death watch as an omen of impending death."
"...within ye hear
No sound so loud as when on curtain'd bier
The death-watch tick is stifled."
- John Keats

DecallING CCC


Documentation of the Decalled CCC video and sound installation
Video: Maile Colbert
Sound: Maile Colbert and Simon Whetham
Curation: Paulo Mendes
Funding:Europeal Capital of Culture

Decalled Upon Installation Documentation


Documentation of the Decalled Upon video and sound installation
Part of Decalcomania, The Exchange Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Transit Project Reel


A project in collaboration with Maile Colbert and Paul Bradley
Premiered in 2008 at the Centro del Carmen (Valencia, Spain) for OBSERVATORI 08 – International Festival of Artistic Investigation
FOUR CHANNEL VIDEO PROJECTION
EIGHT CHANNEL SURROUND SOUND
20 MINUTES LIVE PERFORMANCE AND 45 MINUTES VIDEO PROJECTION

Over the Eyes Installation Documentation



Created at Binaural art residency fall 2007, Nodar, Portugal
Interview with the artist Maile Colbert

Station


STATION is a multi-sensory media environment constructed in collaboration with artists Jeff Cain, Maile Colbert, Nate Harrison, and Albert Ortega. STATION consists of 2 radio stations with receiving towers and computer controllers, 4 scrim projection screens and a loudspeaker array. Using Very Low Frequency radio receivers, audio data from the earth's magnetosphere (data responsible for the natural phenomenon known as the Northern Lights) is captured and fed through custom software developed to manipulate video content in realtime. The resulting audio is both sent out over the speakers and used to trigger the video engines, creating a space in a constant state of transformation due to the earth's naturally changing electrical conditions.


Come Kingdom Come

Two Acorns
Come Kingdom Come is an experimental opera concerning millennialism and apocalyptic thought and theory; an exploratory comparison of this past turn of the millennium to it’s prior. The opera uses The Book of Revelations as a score and launching point, mixing the poetry of Ian Colbert with medieval chant, sung with the sublime voice of classically trained soprano, Gabriela Crowe under the direction of Maile Colbert. The work was then shaped and molded by Maile towards a tapestry of rapturous desire, a desperate and beautiful search of meaning, and a whirlwind ecstatic joy and fear.
Come Kingdom Come is available in a custom 6-panel sleeve, and a glass-mastered CD.
For cd and digital purchase:http://www.thesingularwe.org/fs
For a little taste: Sound Cloud

 

Passageira da Água

Mixed down narrative soundtrack from "Passageira em Casa"
Sound Devices, Dublin, Ireland

Revival

"Revival" exhibit and album, soundtrack including my latest song "Helen's Hands".
Center For Contemporary Arts - Muñoz Waxman Front Gallery
March 9 – April 14, 2013
Collaborating with an array of musicians, Albuquerque-based artist Billy Joe Miller presents the second installment of a larger project that investigates the four seasons through sound and art. For Miller, spring is a time of urgent newness, raw beginnings, cycles, movement and wind. Through mixed media, a live concert and a special edition CD, Revival explores the many layers of vernal temperament.

Envelope Petals

Mastered by Taylor Deupree, and with remixes by Billy Gomberg, Yann Novak, and Maile Colbert, 'Envelope Petals' is the final completed Chubby Wolf album, now available for the first time exclusively digitally.
Available here
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FOR

An album of graceful crystalline hum by Maile Colbert, a multi-media artist based in Portugal. The music is inspired by experiences of loss, but this is not oppressive or dark music at all. Rather, Colbert‘s assured tones take inspiration from the process of grieving and emerge as bright, reflective electronic music.
A collaborative track with Chubby Wolf, aka sound artist Dani Long, is presented here as a loving tribute after Long’s untimely death. Pop/opera performance artist Klaus Nomi is remembered with a piece based on samples of his music. Colbert the film-maker dedicates a piece to Stan Brakhage, acknowledging the pioneering film-maker’s impact on her own visual artwork. Elsewhere on For, Colbert finds depth in collaboration and partnership with her husband, the sound artist Rui Costa. Using analog and digital synthesizers, field recordings of children in Tehran, voices, cello, pipe organ, VLF recordings of space-weather activity in the magnetosphere, hydrophonic recordings and more, For is a moving statement about family, community, and friendship.

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TrÊs Anos em Nodar/Three Years in Nodar

Published by Edições Nodar (Portugal)
Compilation retrospective of 20 sound works in 2 CDs, part of the catalogue printed publication with the same name.

resonant embers

edition sonoro / Twenty Hert (United Kingdom)
Compilation CD
Featuring Paul Bradley, Maile Colbert ("Day of Anger act five"; "A fluid dawn"), jgrzinich, Andrew Liles, Colin Potter and Ubeboet.

Mandorla (Mexico)

Autumn Net-Project Vol.4 / Coming Soon 2012
"Golden Chariot Bore Me Away"
Autumn Soundscapes / Mandorla Netlabel 010 / 2008
A Net-Compilation focused on Field Recordings/Soundscape Composition/Digi &
Electro-Acoustics, including tracks of: Dale Lloyd, Christopher McFall, Scott Taylor, Mario de Vega, Asher, Kim Cascone, Francisco Lopez, Tô, Manrico Montero, Marcel Türkowsky, Macumbista, Rui Costa, Maile Colbert ("Fall Leave Tumble Song"), Phil Thomson, Gabriel Hernandez, Dallas Simpson, Sebastien Roux, Akira Rabelais.
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Compost and Height (United Kingdom)

"Fall Leave Tumble Song"
The base of the song is a recording of a city park in Tehran at midnight, recorded by Vahid Sadjadi. Using Akira Rabelais's Argeïphontes Lyre program it is mutated, meshed, mixed with a recording I made of the Magnetosphere in Joshua Tree Desert at dawn...the dawn chorus. The rest was shaped and molded to follow and play with the lament of the children’s stretched swings and calls and midnight passes and they grow old.
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Meditations on Light

Monochrome Vision (Russia)

Reconstructions of Simon Whetham's composition 'Lightyears' by: Fourm, Richard Lainhart, Philippe Petit, mise_en_scene, Maile Colbert, Scanner, Christopher McFall, David Wells, Iris Garrelfs, Yann Novak, Lawrence English & John Kannenberg
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Sightseeing For The Blind

1000füssler (Germany)

RUI COSTA and FRIENDS: Marc Behrens, Gregory Büttner, Maile Colbert, Bill Jarboe, Pali Meursault

Störung V.3.0

Störung (Spain)
Compilation CD: Paul Bradle, Daniele Cortese + Crab Fisher, Asférico + Elufo, Thanos Chrysakis + Dario Bernal-Villegas, TCO, Maile Colbert, Federico Monti, LB^LC and Vitor Joaquim
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