Compositions
Surround Diffusion
Audio Stems are available on request and new speaker configurations / audio arrangements can be composed.
Born Into Light (2019)
Premiere Available
Custom arrangement will be created for premiere.
Coming Out (2018)
Premiere at 2018 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival at the Abrons Art Centre Experimental Lab in Manhattan.
16 channel surround for circular array
8 above and 8 just below ear height of seated audience
Download the Coming Out pdf outline below
Download Coming Out – 16bit 44.1k wav click on the dots to the right of the player
Audio Stems are available on request and new speaker configurations / audio arrangements can be composed.
10/29/09
Arranged for 16 channel linear array – 6 above and 10 below arranged in a line
Premiere as part of 2019 Sonologues concert series, presented by Redshift Music Society at the Vancouver Public Library Atrium
Download 10/29/09 – 16bit 44.1k wav click on the dots to the right of the player
10/29/09 (2009)
10/29/09 originally composed in 5.1 channel surround for circular speaker array
Conduction
The Evolution is Being Televised was first performed as a spoken word poem composed for the Occupy movement in Vancouver and performed on the stage at the Vancouver Art Gallery several times during the Occupation. In 2018, Victoria arranged the work for improvising orchestra.
excavating desire/ fouilles pour le désire (2012) is a composition that provides a structure that encourages free improvisation over a programmed background of audio/visual loops.
Originally composed for telematic (internet based) ensemble, Play the Moment, Victoria arranged the work for live improvising orchestra in 2018. A workshop performance of the score by the New Orchestra Workshop (NOW), at the Western Front, did not include visuals, but future performances may.
Information about the internet performances and the work can be found here.
It’s the Same, but Different is a conduction for improvising orchestra performed at the Western Front by the NOW ensemble in 2010.
Composer Performances
Victoria Gibson plays electric guitar and sings through her computer while triggering audio and visual samples to create an integrated media composition.
Hold Your Breath
Work in progress 2019
Available in stereo and 8 channel surround audio with projected interactive visuals
Sound Seed: Tribute to Pauline Oliveros (2018)
Premiere at 2018 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival at the Abrons Art Centre Theatre in Manhattan.
Available in stereo and 8 channel surround audio with projected interactive visuals
Duration: 20 minutes
Installations
Share A Tweet (2014) is an interactive installation that encourages 2 players to enjoy interacting with video clips of birds. Players use infrared gesture control to affect the video by crossfading, changing the speed, or applying other fun effects.
Requires 2 projectors and a stereo audio system.
More information about the exhibit
Bandwidth: Interactive Installation (2011) is a tribute to the visual music of Canadian Norman McLaren. Three players are able to control an abstract shape avatar and dance it to music composed by Victoria Gibson. Players use infrared gesture control to move their shapes in time to the music. Each of the three screens contains one avatar shape and one computer controlled shape.
Requires 3 projectors and a stereo audio system.