The Moon Shines Even Here (In-Process 2028)
"Mysticism is as universal a language as music."
-David A. Cooper, Three Gates to Meditation Practices: A Personal Journey into Sufism, Buddhism and Judaism
-David A. Cooper, Three Gates to Meditation Practices: A Personal Journey into Sufism, Buddhism and Judaism
The Moon Shines Even Here is a reflection on art making as a meditative and sacred act. The piece is a video installation and live performance that creates an immersive experience in non-ordinary time and space allowing for audiences to slow down and have the sounds and sights wash over them. Three plexiglass light boxes fill the space throughout the room while the performance takes place behind video projection on plexiglass.
Staring Michael Bell-Smith, Jeanne Liotta, Frances Grace Martel, Kenneth Tam, and JinJin Xu. Performed and created by Alexis Gideon.
The Moon Shines Even Here explores the human connection to the divine using practices including meditation, Kabbalah chanting, Light Language, Tantric painting, and improvisational music. The Moon Shines Even Here incorporates visual and sonic looping to represent a reaching out toward the divine infinite creating different moments of vibration resounding forever. These gestures also ponder quantum theories of moments lasting eternally. Different loop lengths ( based on the Fibonacci sequence which describes spirals in nature) are used for different instruments so that even though the parts are looped, the instruments are always in a different relationship with each other --creating infinite variations and generating a constantly evolving soundscape.
Staring Michael Bell-Smith, Jeanne Liotta, Frances Grace Martel, Kenneth Tam, and JinJin Xu. Performed and created by Alexis Gideon.
The Moon Shines Even Here explores the human connection to the divine using practices including meditation, Kabbalah chanting, Light Language, Tantric painting, and improvisational music. The Moon Shines Even Here incorporates visual and sonic looping to represent a reaching out toward the divine infinite creating different moments of vibration resounding forever. These gestures also ponder quantum theories of moments lasting eternally. Different loop lengths ( based on the Fibonacci sequence which describes spirals in nature) are used for different instruments so that even though the parts are looped, the instruments are always in a different relationship with each other --creating infinite variations and generating a constantly evolving soundscape.
