After Image is a solo piece for Double Bass, Percussions, and Computer. It is an electroacoustic improvisation that draws its source from purely acoustic input.

The piece deals with the concept of urban living, especially in these isolated times where everyone is forced to look deep into themselves and come to terms with independence and solidarity in a way never before experienced.

Stripped of fundamental elements such as human interaction and communication, one seeks to find a new way of perceiving chronological existence within a sudden hyper-focus on the chronoscopic geography of time.

Weaving every singular instance of sonic reinterpretation together, After Image provides an alternative process of spatial perception and introspection.

Drawing inspiration from Rene Descartes' Discourse on Method in such complex unexplored perceptions of space in time/time in space, there is an inevitable split between mind and body. After Image attempts to address this split on both a macro level of new language of our body and mind on the instrument in response to electroacoustic improvisation; and also on a micro level of the instrumental mind approaching electroacoustic manipulation as the new body. The converse of the micro split is also true.

But what then is an after image? Is it a copy without an original?

Questions arise - where is the original Image and was there really ever one? If there is one, is it just an echo of time and space? If it is, what is then an echo? Is it just simulacra, a blank trace after the image? Or is this blank trace the original Image? If NOT, what is the original Image? Is it still original after observation by ourselves?

The After Image of ourselves is haunted by the fictions of our memories. What seemed to have passed now return in new forms, promising new futures. The echo of memories being the only constant present.

On that note, what is considered true or false from this new split of body and mind? What is real and what is ideal? Is the process now the method, or vice versa? Or both, at the same time? Considering superpositions in every facet of existence, After Image suggests that one never knows until observation is made - before, during, and after the process.


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Prix Ars Submission [After Image]

Written for and recorded by Yarn/Wire in May 2021. Premiered at Penn Live Arts (formerly the Annenberg Center) on May 6, 2021. Mixed and mastered by James Diaz.

Prix Ars Submission [After Image]

Innerfro

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