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  009 You Would Do As Well...  

You Would Do As Well Never Moving From Here, an audiovisual performance for voice and laptop, is an investigation in perceptual detachment in an expanded time and space. The work’s central element is a single phrase sung by a group of vocalists, which is recorded and stretched to 60 times its original length. These grains of audio are then manipulated, resulting in sounds that are at times completely detached from the source recording. Each performance is improvised according to a pre-arranged structure, which is reinforced by projected imagery of a mountain expedition trapped in a blizzard.

The central phrase is taken from Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities. In the novel, the traveler Marco Polo speaks with the aging Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, describing each of the cities of the Khan’s kingdom. Kublai, vexed by Marco’s fantastic descriptions of impossible spaces, responds, “My gaze is that of a man meditating, lost in thought --- I admit it. But yours? You cross archipelagos, tundras, mountain ranges. You would do as well never moving from here.”

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-posted Thursday May 8, 2008-

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  050 Study on the Metaphysical Status of a Table  
  049 An Infinite Density Over Zero  
  048 Computational Landscape Series  
  047 Seismoglyph (Mitosis version)  
  046 Artbook Trilogy  
  045 Plasmatic FK  
  044 Bonsai-Gan  
  043 The Albers Variations  
  042 A Mess That Encodes  
  041 An Extended Bootleg  
  040 A Scattered Bootleg  
  039 TYWMC at FILE Festival São Paulo  
  038 TYWMC at Mapbox Locate  
  037 An Infinite Distance Between Two Points  
  036 The End of Information  
  035 Patti Smith Italy Tour  
  034 Strata Systems v02_NIJIMI  
  033 Killer Road  
  032 The Year We Make Contact  
  031 Bessarabia Ghost Tapes  
  030 Strata Systems v01_LOCI  
  029 Performance at The Icebox for Shaping a Signal  
  028 A Strong Hand That Nonetheless Gets You Nowhere  
  027 Apple Blossom Time  
  026 Loci_Convergence  
  025 Noisebed  
  024 Loci_Palimpsest  
  023 The Ornithologist Ghosthunter  
  022 Erosion/Evaporation (Scan Reina Sofia)  
  020 Haeinsa_Palimpsest  
  018 High and Low (Sightlines)  
  017 Dis/continuum  
  016 Cathedral Scan  
  015 Suomenlinna Ornithological Society  
  014 Loci_  
  012 Topoextension  
  011 ATS02: Solve  
  007 ATS01: Wisp  
  005 Moby the Mobile Projection Unit  
  004 Avalanche at Broad Street