Date completed: Fall 2024

Recording: 
April 19, 2025
Department of Music, University of California Santa Barbara

Mivos Quartet
Performer 1: Olivia De Prato, violin 
Performer 2: Adam Woodward, violin
Performer 3: Victor Lowrie Tafoya, viola
Performer 4: Nathan Watts, cello
Video and Multichannel Audio: Andrew A. Watts

A Strobe Fractures Obsidian Night was written for the October 2024 edition of the Novalis Festival in Osijek, Croatia. The video content of the work delves into the ecological theme of light pollution, inspired by the artistic innovation of Aleksandar Srnec's Lumino kinetic art and Croatia's proactive stance on ecological issues. The graphical material was generated through AI via Stable Diffusion, then crafted manually and algorithmically in Adobe Premiere Pro and Max/MSP. A Strobe Fractures Obsidian Night features an open instrumentation ensemble of four performers whose parts relate to four streams of fixed audio playback. Special thanks to Davor Branimir Vincze and Szilárd Benes for all of the help throughout. 

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