Utopia Disco
Utopia Suite Disco
Utopia Disco (aka Utopia Suite Disco) is a looping video installation with dance floor by Clive Holden with original music and surround soundscape by Oscar van Dillen (2.1 track duration 74 minutes, full track version double loop, twice 2.1: one loop 60, another 74 minutes).
2 channel mixdown:
See also:
- http://disco.utopiasuite.com
- http://z.utopiasuite.com
- http://you.utopiasuite.com
- http://cliveholden.com
A very different musical style was chosen than was used in the earlier parts of Utopia Suite, this time reflecting the disco-music of the 1970's, which I intertwined with odd world music rhythms and Indian melodic structures and instruments. Together with a soundscape using both electronics and tuned samples (an invention of my own: to tune samples to their musical context creates a new kind of “Varèsian consonance”).
The two audio loops include one with melodies, harmonies and soundscape, and the other with the rhythm and beats. Moreover, each of the audio loops includes a 2-channel output, resulting in 4-channel surround sound as well as an additional subwoofer track, for a total number of five audio channels.
This project applies the concept of different, simultaneously looping durations. The installation's four screens each have unique video loops, and the two audio loops are 60 and 74 minutes long each. These six simultaneous video + audio loops always present the materials in a new common context, with continuously re-mixing juxtapositions, thus continuously creating new meanings.
Latest Exhibition
- Exhibition March 28 to April 26, 2009, Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, ON.
- Artist's Lecture + Utopian Conversation: March 28, 7 pm, Thames Art Gallery.
- Opening reception + Big Disco Party: March 28, 8 pm, Thames Art Gallery.
- Artist's Lecture by Clive Holden, Y.O.U. Web Launch: May, 2009, Media City International Festival of Film & Video Art in Windsor, ON.
(see also Akimbo and the Y.O.U. online questionnaire)
(Part of the larger project Utopia Suite (2006-2012), in collaboration with Clive Holden: see also cyclopspress and www.cliveholden.com)
External links
- A full project description can be found on Clive Holden's website here.
- www.utopiasuite.com
