LIVE EARTH
Dennis & Stephen Dracup
Musical live-looping soundscape performance by LiveEarth
An ambient, animated photographic record of our participation in ArteOpen collective artists' event and exhibition
Associazione Transmedia Arti Visive Italy 2001
Dennis & Stephen Dracup
Musical live-looping soundscape performance by LiveEarth
An ambient, animated photographic record of our participation in ArteOpen collective artists' event and exhibition
Associazione Transmedia Arti Visive Italy 2001
THE TIDE COMES IN
A sonic intervention within the river environment at Watermans Arts centre.
Commissioned by Der Blaue Kompressor 1991
A sonic intervention within the river environment at Watermans Arts centre.
Commissioned by Der Blaue Kompressor 1991
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EMPEDOCLES
Opera conceived and scored by Robert Robertson about the life of Empedocles, the early Greek philosopher, realised in audio-visual form by Dennis Dracup using Super8 ciné and Ektachrome slides. Presented as a real-time performance of recorded music, film and slide and Premiered at The Whitechapel Gallery, London1995.
"The Etesian winds blow relentlessly across the land..."
"Beneath the deep earth many fires burn and through what is open they rapidly erupt".
The end of Empedocles' life is portrayed with four deaths - by Earth, by Water, by Air, by Fire. In this scene -Earth, Empedocles is thrown from a chariot "...twisting gracefully through the air in a spectacular curve..." falling to earth, where he meets his demise".
"...Empedocles walks into the sea, he slips and dissapears...".
In this scene Empedocles' followers disperse and "...Empedocles alone remains where he is..It is dark and all is still...on waking the people notice that Empedocles has dissapeared...one of the servants points to where he saw a light in the sky..."
The ultimate bringer of death here is fire which threatens to take Empedocles as he "...climbs the lava on the final slopes of Etna leading to the fiery rim...and leaps into the glowing fusion..."
The end of Empedocles' life is portrayed with four deaths - by Earth, by Water, by Air, by Fire. The ultimate bringer of death here is fire which threatens to take Empedocles as he "...climbs the lava on the final slopes of Etna leading to the fiery rim...and leaps into the glowing fusion..."
http://ocatilloaudiovisual.weebly.com/
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Super 8 cine archive. 1989-1992.
Copenhagen Climate Change Conference submission entry. 1minutetosavetheworld. Video 2009
http://unfccc.int/meetings/copenhagen_dec_2009/meeting/6295.php