Above and beneath the surface
Conference: 20-22 Jan 2011 --
Presented by: TheoLipfert
Public: SEAMUS non-student member: $150
Frost School of Music, University of Miami
Miami -- USA
http://www.seamus2011.org

Film maker Theo Lipfert's Beneath the Surface (premiered in Vienna at KISS2010) has been selected for performance at SEAMUS in January 2011 in Miami. The film, featuring processed video taken from a camera that was thrown out into the ocean and gradually washed ashore by the waves, has a live-generated sound track consisting of crisply processed watery sounds recorded by the camera and randomly-selected, processed phrases of 13 year-olds recounting their vivid and sometimes disturbing dreams (beneath the surface in more ways than one!).

Shifting focus from beneath the surface to above the surface and on the rocks in San Francisco Bay, composer Brian Belet's 8-channel Sea Lions Mix has also been selected for performance SEAMUS 2011. Based on the processed cries of sea lions mixed with the voices of Belet's family, Sea Lions Mix is timbrally rich and sometimes comical.

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