I Dream Eye
“I Dream Eye," by Raylene Campbell--is an audio/video art performance commissioned by New Adventures in Sound Art for the SoundPlay 2004 Festival in Toronto --explores, documents and reflects dream in many levels and experiences of consciousness. "I Dream Eye" incorporates computer interactive performance technology (originally the Expanded Instrument System—E.I.S.), improvised accordion, and video installation. E.I.S. is computer interactive performance software developed by Pauline Oliveros over thirty years of research, experimentation, and collaboration. I made personal modifications to E.I.S. (programming by Stephan Moore) in 2004 that provided me with the ability for real-time processing and spacialization of live accordion/vocal improvisation, and for triggering audio files. Due to rapidly evolving (and deteriorating) technologies in recent years, I currently perform with Ableton Live, and will continue to work on adapting and incorporating elements of E.I.S. into my evolving performance system.
In creating this project it was important for me to establish a direct relationship between sound and image, and to create an immersive environment with the goal of providing the audience with an experience of a waking dream. My creative process led me to the creation of a small installation that was incorporated in the performance environment. This installation incorporates video that is projected into a metal bowl containing water that rests on a sub-woofer. The sound generated from the performance vibrates the water, thereby naturally distorting and diffusing the image. The content of the video was derived from an awareness and contemplation of how I exist in the world and my interactions with people in various situations. I created a list of different scenarios such as: “You’re walking down the street and you bump into your best friend. How do you respond?” “You’re walking down the street and you bump into a stranger whom you feel repulsed by. How do you respond?” I hired a few local actors and recorded their improvisation based on my list of scenarios. I have observed that the audience becomes quite fascinated by how the sound is able to distort the image so effectively, and that many people gathered around this small installation to observe the mechanics of the installation and to see the video directly projected into the vibrating water.
“I Dream Eye” involves the creative exploration of dream, the transitions and connections of moving from unconscious awareness into conscious awareness, and dreambody. In his book Memories, Dream, Reflections C.G. Jung wrote “The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.” The primary focus of this production is to create a dream experience based on the principles of attraction vs. opposition. The performance has emerged following six years of dream journaling and explorations of the dreambody in sound and movement.
Contact Raylene Campbell : freereed1@gmail.com
http://raylenecampbell.tumblr.com/
In creating this project it was important for me to establish a direct relationship between sound and image, and to create an immersive environment with the goal of providing the audience with an experience of a waking dream. My creative process led me to the creation of a small installation that was incorporated in the performance environment. This installation incorporates video that is projected into a metal bowl containing water that rests on a sub-woofer. The sound generated from the performance vibrates the water, thereby naturally distorting and diffusing the image. The content of the video was derived from an awareness and contemplation of how I exist in the world and my interactions with people in various situations. I created a list of different scenarios such as: “You’re walking down the street and you bump into your best friend. How do you respond?” “You’re walking down the street and you bump into a stranger whom you feel repulsed by. How do you respond?” I hired a few local actors and recorded their improvisation based on my list of scenarios. I have observed that the audience becomes quite fascinated by how the sound is able to distort the image so effectively, and that many people gathered around this small installation to observe the mechanics of the installation and to see the video directly projected into the vibrating water.
“I Dream Eye” involves the creative exploration of dream, the transitions and connections of moving from unconscious awareness into conscious awareness, and dreambody. In his book Memories, Dream, Reflections C.G. Jung wrote “The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.” The primary focus of this production is to create a dream experience based on the principles of attraction vs. opposition. The performance has emerged following six years of dream journaling and explorations of the dreambody in sound and movement.
Contact Raylene Campbell : freereed1@gmail.com
http://raylenecampbell.tumblr.com/
February 21, 2011
February 25, 2009
