Siren

Two-channel video work that proposes an "operatic" rendering of W.H.Hudson's "Green Mansions," a strange tale about journeys in the jungle, mysterious voices, and metaphysical tongues. The sound track is entirely vocal, a collaborative effort by David Moss and Peter Rose, with Jessie Jane Lewis and Anya Rose, and the computer-animated text/libretto was generated on a MacIntosh computer. The work premiered as a two-channel performance at the New Music America Festival in 1988 in Miami, was performed in Paris in 1989, and was installed as a two-channel laser disc installation at the Phila. Museum of Art from April to July 1990. Viewable at: http://www.ubu.com/film/rose_siren.html

Author: 

Year: 

1990

Country: 

United States
Technical data

Original format: 

Installation

Colour: 

Colour

Sound: 

Sound

Length: 

14 minutes

Other info: 

Two-channel video installation

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