Breathing PwRHm by Tina Pearson is a new development of a work commissioned by the Deep Listening® Foundation. An electronic work for live performance, it explores two facets of multi-user 3D environments: presence and intimacy between visceral, virtual and telepathic worlds; and the electric hum – the voice of the power grids that make it possible for us to connect in this way. Sonically, it explores the relationship of the Alternating Current (AC) of the North American (60 Hz) and European/Asian (50 Hz) electric systems through two sets of sine tones representing the harmonic series of the two ACs. The result is a slowed down world of just-intonation harmonies, beat frequencies, and microtone textures as the two systems meet inside a natural minor third. In performance, the remotely located performers’ individual breath rhythms determine the timing and pacing of tones they each play; the Europeans’ cue is their exhale, the North Americans’ cue is their inhale. Enhancing the breath theme, the lower sine tones have a duration approximating a slow human breath cycle. This breath-centred performance practice simultaneously focuses and extends the players’ attention while providing temporal structure and pacing for the piece. Globes held by the avatars are 'receivers' that emit differently coloured particles according to their particular AC instrument, and the pitch and volume of the specific sounds they each play in real time. Avatar animations, choreography, real time conducting, and the telematic symbiosis of the globally dispersed players create a kind of surreal entrainment inside the wired worlds that power our connectivity, and point to its precariousness - the electronic sounds pass through the ethernet with periodic glitches, computer malfunctions, latency and other technical and serendipitous factors that make the performance of the piece unpredictable.

Recorded from a performance broadcast simultaneously with Digital Shift (Independent Media Arts Alliance), Digital Arts Resource Centre (Ottawa), MediaNet (Victoria) and Manifestations 2020, Eindhoven, Netherlands, October 2020.
Video and audio recording by Dan Dan Kaunisviita and Jason Sonier.
Audio edits by Tina Pearson.

Performed by 

Miulew Takahe / Björn Eriksson, Sollefteå, Sweden

JORI Tokyo / Johannes Riedmann, Regensburg, Germany

Maxxo Klaar / Max D. Well, Regensburg, Germany

Paco Mariani / Chris Wittkowsky, Regensburg, Germany

Gumnosophistai / Leif Inge, Oslo, Norway

Cuirec d'Erc / Harald Muenz, Cologne, Germany

Frieda Korda / Frieda Kuterna, Antwerpen, Belgium

FredMadison / Gema FB Martín, Madrid, Spain

Zonzo Spyker / Viv Corringham, New York, USA/ London, UK

North Zipper / Norman Lowrey, Kingston, NY, USA

Humming Pera / Tina M. Pearson, Victoria, BC, Canada

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Tina Pearson - Breathing PwRHm

Torsten Müller - 5 string acoustic bass
Randy Raine-Reusch  - Balinese suling gambuh
An alternative mix for the Gambuh  track recorded for the Kamüra album on Zadiscs (see http://www.asza.com/CD-store/Kamura.shtml. This one without Henry on guitar. Randy and Torsten had performed this as a duo previously.

Gambuh Duo with Torsten Müller

Excerpt from Interdeterminancy by Paul Walde, performed by Experimental Music Unit: George Tzanetakis (bass clarinet), Tina Pearson (flute), Paul Walde (electric bass), recorded by Kirk McNally at the University of Victoria School of Music. Part of the Music for Mycologists project, LaSaM Music 2013.

Excerpt from Indeterminancy, Music for Mycologists

Short clip from live performance of James Tenney's In a Large Open Space March, 2011 at the Church of St. John the Divine, Victoria, BC.
LaSaM, Quatuor Bozzini and guests. Clemens Merkel, violin; Isabelle Bozzini, cello; Stephanie Bozzini, viola; Charles-Etienne Marchand, violin; Tina Pearson, glass, voice; Christopher Reiche, keyboards; Jamie Drouin, modular synth; Nick Fairbank, trombone; Alexei Paish, vibraphone, melodica; David Stratkauskas, organ; Andrea Young, voice.

In a Large Open Space (clip) Tenney

LaSaM (Victoria, BC, Canada) is an affiliation of composers and audio and media artists who investigate ways of engaging with sound. Its core ensemble creates and performs music from an approach grounded in acute listening, exploration of sonic phenomena and modes of improvisation. LaSaM also re-examines and presents the creations of iconic and visionary composers, musicians and media artists whose work is indelible. 

In a Large Open Space (clip) Tenney

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