Collisions
Collisions is coded in ChucK for 6 channel sound. It utilizes a mix of field recordings and found sounds to create new environments surrounding the dancer and audience. Single notes and instrumental sounds begin to mix in, creating accidental collisions and melodies, as well confluences and contrasts with the dance as the sound moves throughout the space.
Stephanie Nerbak (Choreography)
Mor Mendel (Dance)
In Threes and Fours and Twos
This is the first section of In Threes and Fours and Twos, a 6 channel sound installation begun while at CalArts, which is based on the "Pillow Book" by Sei Shonagon. Originally written over a period of many years (roughly 986-1000 A.D.), the The Pillow Book covers the time Shonagon spent in the service of the Empress Sadako, though it is not arranged chronologically by any means. Instead, it consists of reflections, small memories, impressions, and most uniquely, over 150 lists. Together, these writings seek to communicate and create unique moments of experience, and though over 1000 years old, her work feels strikingly postmodern and still has an amazing amount of poetic resonance today.
Bio
The work of musician and linguist Dominick Boyle (1991) explores the fragmentation and recombination of place and memory through constructed soundscapes. Using his self-compiled collection of field recordings and interviews–memories collected around the word–as well as sounds from in and around the performance space, he aims to synthesize a sonic space surrounding the audience which fuses with the environment around them, augmenting rather than overtaking it. Using personally created software in the computer coding language ChucK, as well as violin, modular synthesizer and other effects he creates flexible spaces governed by his own input as well as chance.
Dominick holds an MA in Language and Communication from the University of Basel and a BA with a focus on Music from Sarah Lawrence College. He has also studied at the California Institute of the Arts. Performances in Switzerland include Snippet Festival (2022, 2020), Lust*Streifen Film Festival (2021), Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, Bonjour Baby and SideEffects pop-up gallery. Podcast editor for Asymptote Journal of world literature and translation (2017-2019). Cooperation with dance, theater and filmmakers in New York, and performances at venues such as Experimental Intermedia, Danspace Project, Hudson River Museum and the NYC Summer Streets festival. He has lived in Basel since 2016.
