Visual Music at the 13th Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology

http://www.conncoll.edu/CAT/sym2012/schedule.html

and http://vimeo.com/18551194

"...lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings..." is a film in 6 movements, based on related texts of E. E. Cummings that focus on themes of nature and the cycle of life. The sonic material, created by Mikel Kuehn mikelkuehn.com/, is derived from manipulated environmental sounds and the recitation of Cummings texts by soprano Deborah Norin-Kuehn. The images were created first (the idea was to create a life in 4 parts, followed by a "recollection" of that life, as if at the moment of death, in the 5th and final movement). The sonic material came later and added an in-between part, visually blank, thus bringing the total to 6 movements.

Film will be presented on March 1st, at 8:00 p.m., as part of a Multi-Media concert at Evans Hall.

Also, on March 2 at 1:30 p.m., composer Mikel Kuehn will give a talk on the geneis of this piece: “Forging Creative Pathways though Collaboration: Detheux and Kuehn’s ...lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings...”