Inspired by Lia Chavez's melodies.This piece is a slowly unfolding evolution of the inner melody Chavez perceived to be emanating from water during the 90-day fast of her True Light performance.

This piece plays on the evolution of the theme as meditation utilizing different techniques to distract and pull away from the central theme while ultimately settling in to the complete theme as a centering aspect of the music.

The presentation for Luminous Objects can be viewed at http://www.liachavez.com/news/2014/7/7/luminous-objects-video-release 

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LIA CHAVEZ: TUMULT

A PREVIEW

Presented by Simon Baker / Curated by TWO RAMS / 2 October 2014

Art and science are synthesized in Lia Chavez’s latest performance work, Tumult, an 8-hour meditation performance which features the premiere of a new technological system that Lia has developed in collaboration with the creative technologists of rehabstudio.

The musical piece, developed especially for tonight’s performance, is a collaboration of Lia and electronic composer Andrew Gaskins, using the ancient Solfeggio scale 528hz frequency which is associated with transformation and modified binaural beats, which have shown to calm the brainwave oscillations of the listener.

Hailed by Fast Company as “finally giving artists the ‘palette’ to externalize the inner workings of the mind,” this new technology translates Lia’s brainwave oscillations into stroboscopic pulsations, penetrating daggers of light, and prowling cloud systems. rehabstudio developed custom code that reads Lia’s brainwaves and, via bluetooth, transmits its signal to a strobe light. The technology controls the signal’s frequency and strength, so that when Lia is in a deep state of meditation, the strobe flashes brightly and intensively, and less so when she is in intermediate states.

As she has journeyed deeply into the fecund practice of utilizing meditation as a creative methodology, Lia has discovered the sustained cessation of mental fluctuations to be a key for opening the doorway to vivid visions of meteorological systems. In describing her creative process, she has stated, 

The deeper I go into a meditation, the more I am assaulted by violent visions of light. Journeying into deep interior space, I am able to observe astonishing storms of consciousness develop and diminish over a passage of time. In any given durational meditation, I am likely to experience concussive visions of dynamic inner storm systems, cataclysms of radiance, vortices and fractal patterns, gyrating fibers of electricity, clouds of short-lived photons, cascading firebolts, and embryonic stars.

By way of the biofeedback enabled through the performer’s ability to simultaneously perceive internal and external luminosities, this dynamic performance contributes an exciting new way to not only visualize, but to choreograph, flows of consciousness.

This special sneak peak performance coincides with an upcoming presentation at the Tate in late October, in which Lia will present her latest research, which investigates the neuroscience behind these fascinating manifestations of light within deep interior fields of vision. This data will be presented in support of her new theory of creative consciousness, which delineates congruencies between the mind, the world, and the cosmos.

TUMULT

A new sampling of the sonic colorism of Andrew Gaskins.  Culled from a recent live performance recalling a sense of Satie and Debussy.

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All of the sounds were created from one electric guitar chord and a few Flamenco guitar sounds. Treatment and sound design by Andrew Gaskins. This track is “Falling In”, the beginning of a dream.

Lawrence Russell writes: http://www.culturecourt.com/Audio/OL/DUNE.htm
"Dune" contains the haunting southwest border-country flamenco music Ottmar & his band Luna Negra are famous for. This isn't old school flamenco, here acoustic guitar mixes with electric, with gypsy accordion & electric bass, hand clapping, funky drum-boxing & percussion. No rain in this music, just poetic sunshine at midnight.

Some background on the music - from my Ottmar's diary:
http://www.ottmarliebert.com/diary/?p=6574

Twitter: @ottmarliebert
Twitter: @ AndrewGaskins

Released by: Spiral Subwave Records Int'l.
Release/catalogue number: 902016
Release date: Apr 24, 2012


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