Category: Sound
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Mud Season
About: About Mud Season Mud Season is an audiovisual performance that incorporates hand-drawn animations, interactive video and sound. The work travels under the Spring moons as snow melts revealing what is hidden underneath. A celebration of growth, the performance includes a creature emerging from the mud, an explosion of rainbows and an expanding orb of…
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Notweed
About: About Notweed Japanese Knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) is an invasive species in Vermont. Notweed, Rural Noise Ensemble’s interactive sound installation, was a response to the violent language of localism, the semiotics of foreignness and invasion of containment, management, and eradication that quietly trains us to accept xenophobia and racism. The installation is an immersive soundscape,…
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Soundtrack for Mutable Spirals of Ascension
About Soundtrack for Mutable Spirals of Ascension is an audio composition created for an experimental dance for camera work, Mutable Spirals of Ascension. Directed by Jessica Gomula and choreographed by Pauline Jennings, the work follows two dancers as they navigate Shanghai’s bustling streets, urban forests and massive industrial sites in search of connections to wild.…
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THE ( ) BETWEEN
THE ( ) BETWEEN from Sean Clute on Vimeo. About THE ( ) BETWEEN THE (DATA) BETWEEN THE (NOISE) BETWEEN THE (WAVES) BETWEEN THE (MOMENT) BETWEEN THE (HORIZON) BETWEEN THE (WATER) BETWEEN THE (ANCHOR) BETWEEN THE (FERRY) BETWEEN THE (TIME) BETWEEN THE (SKIPPING) BETWEEN For many of us living in the Burlington area, Lake…
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GIHON (a performance)
GIHON (excerpt from simulacrum project) from Sean Clute on Vimeo. About GIHON is an audiovisual performance that combines field recordings of the Ghion River in rural Vermont, electromagnetic processing that reveals the playback mechanisms of the recordings, and live responsive video. GIHON investigates the creation of something new while returning to the old. As a…
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GIHON (an installation)
GIHON (an installation) from Sean Clute on Vimeo. About GIHON is a sound installation that combines field recordings of the Gihon River in rural Vermont. The sound is diffused through four speakers, as well as, into a bucket of river water. In essence, the electromagnetism of the recordings are transmitted through water and re-amplified from…
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Cutting Wood
Rural Noise Ensemble – Cutting Wood from Sean Clute on Vimeo. About The Rural Noise Ensemble incorporates the sound and energy of cutting wood in preparation for a cold Vermont winter. The sounds of the amplified firewood are modified by a computer and later mixed with additional homemade instruments, guitar and a sample of a…
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Listen
About The above images can be viewed using the embedded Flickr player. Info about each image can be seen by clicking “Show Info” in the top right of the player. Listen is an exhibit that documents custom-made electronic instruments which reveal inaudible electromagnetic and acoustic sounds. Photographs, circuits, and other artifacts on display become evidence…
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Veritable Vicissitudes (Dubai)
Veritable Vicissitudes (Dubai) from Sean Clute on Vimeo. About Veritable Vicissitudes, by Double Vision, is a multi-projection video and sound installation. Audience found themselves moving through a maze of hanging scrims outdoors on the campus of American University – Dubai. Willingly, or not, their own bodies become participants as light and shadows create overlays echoed…
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ANIMAL
About In the ANIMAL, conversion of awareness into action is instantaneous. To fight or flee, to strut or pause, to synchronize, camouflage or attack: these are not decisions, but immediate and visceral responses held deep in the muscles of the body of the animal. ANIMAL: Archaeologies of Instinct is a collaboration that places a choreographic exploration…
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Quotidian Mandala
Quotidian Mandala Trailer from jessica gomula on Vimeo. About This is the soundtrack for the dance film Quotidian Mandala. The work shows a solo dancer searching for enlightenment through cycles of repetition. Infused with strength, emotional intuition, and fierce intellect, she embraces her own demure fragility. She is at moments elusive; viewers just catch the…
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Hysteresis (excerpt)
Hysteresis (excerpt) from Sean Clute on Vimeo. About Hysteresis is 70 minutes of dance, sound, lights, and costumes informed by a residency at the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria. The work is a metaphor for the state of being alien or observing that which is alien to oneself. Free from traditional structures and narratives, Hysteresis evokes…
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Circles (excerpt)
Circles from Sean Clute on Vimeo. About Circles is an interactive performance created in collaboration with intermedia group DOUBLE VISION and the University of Arizona Schools of Music and Dance. During the event, dancers interacted with IR-sensors networked to computers running custom audio-video software. The mapping of the dancers’ movements therefore provided data to create…
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Feedback [1-5]
About This is an artifact from a number of sonic experiments with feedback I created in 2008. Feedback and harsh noise was in the forefront of my mind after living with fellow Mills College graduate David Holton. He would spend all day hunched over a Mackie mixer configuring aux send and receives to master the…
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Luminosity but sometimes Troll
About This is an experimental electronic composition created for the contemporary dance work 6 Phrases, 3 Rules by choreographer Pauline Jennings. As is true with much of Jennings’ choreography, the movement is abstract while the choreography is generated through human adherence and interpretation of set rules. Thus, I approached the music by first taking a…