Hold Your Breath – 2021 from victoria gibson on Vimeo.
The festival will be online this year due to pandemic restrictions and begins June 21, 2021. Find the complete program NYCEMF website home page with current program book. Hold Your Breath is listed as part of Concert 18.
I will post the video here after the premiere is complete.
Hold Your Breath Demo by Victoria Gibson using underwater sound and video contributed by Jude Abrams and Terry L Brown, Amphibiographer on Vimeo.
January 2019 release
Hold Your Breath
Imagine that slowly, sound and images fill your senses — your space is filling with liquid — you are underwater! Hold Your Breath and experience the wonder of the underwater world. Fish, seals, barnacles and other creatures fill the screen accompanied by original music.
Water is essential to life and human actions are degrading the environment at an alarming rate. It is our hope that by creating an immersive underwater environment, people will experience the fragile beauty in a emotional, visceral way. The project will give an intimate look at the underwater world that few of us ever see.
The Artists
Victoria Gibson, lead artist on the project, has collected video and audio recorded underwater from the archives of her friends at Otter Be Good Productions. The resulting curated video will be assembled into a work for live music with projection performance and streaming or download.
Victoria Gibson is an Integrated Media Artist blending sound + light + motion to create amazing art experiences. Creating magic using advanced techniques to spark curiosity and involve audiences with interactive gesture controls or other innovative technology. She makes complex and experimental works that emerge from the nexus of art and technology, but remain accessible and fun.
Victoria regularly collaborates with two residents of Powell River. Terry L. Brown and Jude Abrams, who will be acting as expert advisers. They scuba dive together and have formed a production company, Otter Be Good Productions, specializing in underwater photography and video. Learn more about their work on their site Otter Be Good Productions.
The resulting curated video will be assembled into a film and processed for use in live performance. Victoria will also compose and create the sound design and music. Some of Victoria’s digital visual art images may also be included and she will be adding effects and transitions. Her artistic treatment will add an element of human intervention to to the images and video of natural environments.
Concept
The work is planned to be about 20 minutes in length to showcase the wealth of beautiful videos available. The project will focus on the life forms in the water, particularly the fish, but will give an intimate look at the underwater world. The video showing our endangered ocean is provided by agreement with Otter Be Good Productions of Powell River BC.
Publishing and Presentation
Hold Your Breath is conceived as a journey from a fresh water stream to the ocean in four sections: 1. Fresh water stream waterfall to flowing water 2. Estuary where fresh meets salt water 3. Shallow ocean 4. Deeper ocean. The music for each section will be composed by Victoria Gibson to accompany the video exploration provided by Otter Be Good. The demo video contains excerpts from two musical movements 1 Moving Stream and 3 Salt Solution Sequence, but the video is taken from the entire selection for the film.
The first presentation method will be as a HD video release in stereo, with surround sound available for theatrical showings. This same material will be remastered for use in Victoria’s live show where she controls visual elements and performs her compositions with interactive projection and music. Each performance is different because she improvises the timing of prepared materials while playing electric guitar and singing into her computer.
Future plans include development of the material for digital dome or VR immersive environments.
Wed. April 7, 2021 Victoria Gibson interviews Terry L. Brown and Jude Abrams on her weekly online show. They talk about their collaboration on this project and the new Otter Be Good project, “Welcoming Whales”.
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